FOOTNOTES:

[245] “To my dayly comfort I was the last of all the Christian Ministers that submitted.”—Finch to Coventry, March 1-11, 1679-80.

[246] “I am fully perswaded that in the Turkes’ judgment, nay, that of the Visir himselfe, I am a gainer every way.”—The Same to the Same, Sept 2-12, 1678.

[247] Present State, p. 168.

[248] Baines to Conway, June 1-11, 1677, S.P. Turkey, 19.

[249] Life of Dudley North, pp. 124-5. Oddly enough, Sir John himself tells a similar anecdote at the expense of the Polish Ambassador: Finch to Coventry, Nov. 29, S.V. 1677. If we could but see ourselves as we see others!

[250] Vandal’s Nointel, p. 227.

[251] Owing to a gap in the Ambassador’s correspondence and to the absence from the scene of our candid Treasurer, much of what follows rests on the authority of North’s second-hand reports (see Life of Dudley North, pp. 90-92) and of a Narrative which the Levant Company submitted to the King (Register, S.P. Levant Company, 145), both sources in sad need of critical scrutiny.

[252] A parallel case, between an Englishman and a Greek of Smyrna, had just elicited such a protest. See Finch to Coventry, March 1-11, 1679-80.

[253] Finch to Coventry, Aug. 4-14, Aug. 29/Sept. 8, 1676.

[254] Finch to Sir Leoline Jenkins, Aug. 21-31, 1680, S.P. Turkey, 19.

[255] Ibid.

[256] Ibid. Cp. Life of Dudley North, p. 100.

[257] Finch to Jenkins, loc. cit.; the Same to Sunderland, Nov. 6-16, 1680, S.P. Turkey, 19.

[258] Finch to Jenkins, Aug. 21-31; the Same to Sunderland, Nov. 6-16.