[377] Ak-bonar is ten miles north of Adrianople, in the Tondja.
[378] Two miles S.W. of Adrianople, on the Arda.
[379] Dr. Peter Heylyn, the theologian and historian, who died in 1662, was noted for his captious criticisms. He wrote a life of Archbishop Laud, which Mr. Pepys thus criticises:—“It is a shrewd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishops in general no great good, but hurt, it pleads so much for Popery.”
[380] Ilderim is Turkish for a thunderbolt.
[381] The Tondja.
[382] Michel, the celebrated Waivode of Moldavia, aroused great animosity against the Ottoman rule in the Danubian districts at the close of the sixteenth century. In 1598 he became reconciled to the Porte, and invested also with the Governorship of Wallachia; but he was assassinated in 1601.
[383] Ianboli is now a town of six thousand inhabitants, on the left bank of the Tondja, on the frontier of Roumelia.
[384] Pilau.
[385] I.e., Village of Bosnians, three miles south of Adrianople, on the Maritza.
[386] Capital of Eastern Roumelia.