Volume 1

A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill.

Aaron Hill

Date:: 1709

Credit: A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$mii ■ li nfn Tf - ~ v.-«s.»Mag»*«v. -f- . . .J—1— Paleftine, and the Whole Ottoman Empire. THE remaining Twenty have a certain Yearly Income, appointed them out of the Annual Revenues due from their Provinces to the Coffers of the SHltmt, Which tho’ inconfiderable in it felf, is conftantly multiplied into Fifteen or Twenty times its quantity, by the griping Arts and avari- tious Practices whereby thefe Arbitrary Governouts opprefs their People The fixed Allowances which they may juftiy Claim are thel'e which follow. s Bey ler bey of Anatolia has a Yearly Salary of (y---*-*-—- V • —*3000 The refpedh’ve 2500 Salaries ofthe Arch - Dukes 4000 of Turkey. Sin* a f--- 3000 E1 YtLWl - 29^1 Pafcha-— -*—-——<— —4050 Chi l dir-——- —4010 0 Chertt^ul—--- 2090 Tfale p~—*-*-■— -- * ■ _, 3000 Mirifh-—'• . 275° JC ibrOs-------. 2000 1500 1 erboz,an-~—-—.__ 2400 K nr ^--—■— -— - 232© tn“ - . s 2500 R/k.t—----e—- —19^0 ■ • 0 ft uineeh— •••■ ■ ■ »»-— 1000 5654 Bofna---Laiad i.r—_ ■^■2192 -1608. THESE aie the certain Salaries fettled by the Grand Senior on the ieveral Beyler beys above-mention’d, but as I hinted before, *are feldom the twentieth Part of the Profits into which they improve their Frii- ployments. * - ■ - r. , 1 HE Provinces contain d in thefe Twenty Two Arch-Dukedoms are at leaft Two Hundred and Sixty Four, every one of which, as I faid be¬ fore, has a Lord Provincial over it, whofe Profits may be computed about ndlt as much as thofe of the Beylerbeys their Superiour GoVernours * The Bey5 and\ Agay pdTeffing fmaller Salaries in a juft Proportion to the Infe- iority Oi their Offices. The Bajhatvs are all entitled to Revenues agree¬ able to their Fpwer, and both the one and the other are alike un¬ bounded. . . Y the prodigious Sums of Money amafs’d this Way, Which any Cu- nous Reader may nearly compute by the Account a bo ve-rftentiOri’d, and which, in comparifon with the Suit an1s Revenues, are as fo many fmall Canals to the unfatliom’d Ocean ; you may guefs at the fu'rprizing G'rari* aeor and inexhaufted Ridles of \h§. Ottoman Emperours, Which fhall be particularly Treated of in a more proper Place; I fhall now proceed to moun the Reader in what manner the Turks Adminifter their Tuftice, and how tne Forms of law are practis’d by that People. t^ie °Pinior? „°f Tacitus that thofe Governments have m( Laws who have leaft Policy, arid the ftrenuous Support Which the Turk Empire receives from few but ri.ceffary Maxims, does in a great meafu luftihe the Truth of his Aftertion ; for they have no confounding Volum oi one Lawyers Observations upon the Remarks of another, no COXiE upc yutt] A Maxim Tacitus. of$