With a brief _Account_ of the _Ground_, and _Occasion_ of the present _War_ between the _TURK_ and the _VENETIAN_. Together with the _Cause_ of the final _Extirpation_, _Destruction_ and _Exile_ of the _JEWS_ out of the EMPIRE of PERSIA. * * * * * In the _SAVOY_, Printed for _Henry Herringman_ at the Sign of the _Anchor_ in the Lower-Walk of the _New-Exchange_. 1669. [Illustration: Title decoration] To the READER. _The Great_ Scaliger _was wont commonly to say_, Omnis Historia bona, _that all_ History _was_ good; _meaning, that it was_ worthy _of_ notice, _so it were_ true, _and_ matter _of_ fact, _though the_ Subject _of it were never so_ trivial. This, _though but a_ Pamphlet _in bulke, is very_ considerable _for the_ Matters _it containes, and for that it endeavours to informe, and disabuse_ _the_ World _of a current_ Error, _which has mingled, and spread it selfe into divers grave_ Relations _that have been_ Printed, _and confidently published many Yeares without Suspition._ _How I came to be enlightned for these_ Pieces, _I have in part declar'd in my_ Dedicatory _Addresses; and if I forbear to publish the_ Name _of that Intelligent_ Stranger, _and that other_ Person, _from whom I received my_ Informations; _You are to know, that it is not out of fear of being detected of_ Imposture, _whil'st we declare against it, and which cannot serve any_ Interest _of the_ Relators; _but because, being_ Strangers, _or_ Itinerants, _and one of them upon his return into his_ _Native_ Country _(which may possibly engage them to passe by_ Malta, _and other_ Levantine _parts obnoxious to these_ Discourses) _it would appear but ingrateful in us to expose them to an_ Inconvenience. _Let it suffice to assure you, that they are_ Persons _of no mean_ Parts, Ingenuity _and_ Candor; _well acquainted with the_ Eastern Countreys _and_ Affaires, _and that have themselves been witnesses of most of these Transactions._