FOOTNOTES:

[1] My references are to the following editions:—

The Memoirs of Paul Rycaut, Esq., London, 1679; The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, by Sir Paul Ricaut, Sixth Edition, London, 1686; The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt., by the Honourable Roger North, Esq., London, 1744; Extracts from the Diaries of Dr. John Covel, 1670-1679 (in Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant), edited by J. Theodore Bent, The Hakluyt Society, London, 1893; Some Account of the Present Greek Church, by John Covel, D.D., Cambridge, 1722.

[2] Les Voyages du Marquis de Nointel (1670-1680), par Albert Vandal de l’Académie Française, Paris, 1900.

[3] Report on the Manuscripts of Allen George Finch, Esq., of Burley-on-the-Hill, edited by Mrs. Lomas for the Historical Manuscripts Commission, vol. i., London, 1913; Finch and Baines, by Archibald Malloch, Cambridge, 1917.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
A Diplomat in Spite of Himself[1]
CHAPTER II
Sir John’s Programme[24]
CHAPTER III
Life in Constantinople[33]
CHAPTER IV
The Men about the Ambassador[46]
CHAPTER V
Strenua Inertia[68]
CHAPTER VI
Sir John goes to Court[89]
CHAPTER VII
The Festivities[105]
CHAPTER VIII
Diplomacy—High and Otherwise[116]
CHAPTER IX
The Sublime Threshold[136]
CHAPTER X
Hopes deferred[147]
CHAPTER XI
From Purgatory to Pera[163]
CHAPTER XII
Halcyon Days[178]
CHAPTER XIII
The Stool of Repentance[196]
CHAPTER XIV
Kara Mustafa and the Aleppo Dollars[227]
CHAPTER XV
Interlude[246]
CHAPTER XVI
The Case of Mrs. Pentlow[266]
CHAPTER XVII
The Pilot at Rest[278]
CHAPTER XVIII
The Price of Parchment[290]
CHAPTER XIX
Sir John’s “Ticklish Condition”[301]
CHAPTER XX
A Lull in the Storm[322]
CHAPTER XXI
Release[339]
CONCLUSION[355]
APPENDICES[377]
INDEX[409]