[9] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1667-68, pp. 258-9.
[10] Malloch’s Finch and Baines, p. 59.
[11] Finch to Arlington, Dec. 23, 1672, S.P. Turkey, 19.
[12] Rycaut’s Present State, p. 404.
[13] Winchilsea to Secretary Nicholas, March 18-28, 1660-61, June 12, 1661, S.P. Turkey, 17.
[14] Instructions for Sir John Finch, Cl. 6. See [Appendix I].
[15] Sir Thomas Baines, May 25, 1674, S.P. Turkey, 19.
[16] See [Appendix III].
[17] Register, 1668-1710, p. 22; S.P. Levant Company, 145.
[18] Winchilsea to Nicholas, March 4, 1660-61, Nov. 11-21, 1661, S.P. Turkey, 17; Rycaut’s Memoirs, p. 68; J. von Hammer’s Histoire de l’Empire Ottoman, vol. xi. p. 111. Winchilsea mentions only the “six thousand Bashaws and great men,” whom Mohammed put to death “partly by his own hands and by his commands.” Rycaut gives the total of the Vizir’s victims as “thirty-six thousand persons.” Hammer, though he does not consider this statement excessive, is content with an estimate of “trente mille personnes,” or an average of 500 executions a month—figures which, even if reduced by a nought, would still appear respectable.