Note 8, p. 53.—Falakah.
Falakah properly means the wooden block in which the feet of the culprit who receives the bastinado are confined.
Note 9, p. 54.—Sheikh-ul-Islám or Muftí.
Sultán Mohammed II. was the first who gave precedence to the Muftí or head of the law over the two Kází-asker, or military judges of Rúmeilí and Anadolí.
Note 10, p. 110.—Sultán Ahmed.
Sultán Ahmed was the fourteenth and not the sixteenth of the Ottoman Sultáns. There are no means of accounting for this mistake, as Suleimán Kánúní is the tenth Sultán by the unanimous consent of all historians.
Note 11, p. 123.—Abáza’s speech.
This speech is remarkable as it attributes all the rebellions which shook the Ottoman empire after the death of Sultan Othmán II. to the mutinous spirit of the Janissaries, who, until the beginning of the present reign, baffled all the attempts of the Sultáns who attempted to subdue them.
Note 12, p. 126.—Confession of faith.
“There is no God but God, and Mohammed is his prophet.” Abáza himself performed all the preliminaries for his execution, in the hope of preventing it by the appearance of resignation.