[232] This at least is what was permitted to De Castagnères, Abbé de Châteauneuf, who informed Louis XIV. that he had been admitted into the Seraglio with his sword. But it was very short, and did not attract attention. [233] Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, _Mémoires et Documents_, I. [234] Instructions given to M. de Ferriol, ambassador:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 33. [235] This is the testimony which the Jesuits themselves have borne in several accounts; Father Monnier, _Mémoires des Missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus_, vol. iii. pp. 46-52; Father Fleuriau, _État présent de l’Arménie_, Paris, 1694. 12mo. [236] _Lettres sur la Turquie_, by M. A. Ubicini, part 2, p. 252, Paris, Dumaine. [237] Father Monnier, work already mentioned. [238] Hammer, _Histoire de l’Empire Ottoman_. Ubicini, _Lettres sur la Turquie_. Archives of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, _Mémoires et Documents_, 37. [239] One day a stranger presented himself before the Grand Vizier, Raghib-Pasha, saying that Mahomet had appeared to him to invite him to turn Mussulman, and that he had come on purpose from Dantzic to be converted. “Here is a strange rascal,” said the Grand Vizier. “Mahomet has appeared to an infidel, when for more than seventy years I have been exact in the five prayers, and he has never done me such an honour!” And the stranger did not become a Mussulman. “I have heard it said several times by doctors of Mahometan law that, according to their religion, it was not permitted to them to protect one party against another in the dispute which sprang up between the Catholics and the heretics, because, as they said, they were both equally bad.” Manuscript _Mémoire_ of 1771 on matters of religion:--Archives of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 37. [240] _Relazione di quanto ha trattato il Vescovo di Sidonia nella sua Missione in Oriente, data alla Santità di N.S. Sisto V., alli 19 Aprile, 1587._ [241] See M. Dulaurier’s excellent work: _Histoire, Dogmes, Traditions et Liturgie de l’Église Arménienne Orientale_, Paris, Durand libraire, 1859. This book combats the generally received opinion that the Armenians have embraced monophysism, such as has been taught by Eutyches and his adherents, who recognized only the divine nature in Christ. Not only, in truth, have the Armenians always condemned Eutyches, whom their church excommunicates, but also they profess, like the Greek and Latin churches, the dogma of the two natures, the two wills, and the two operations in Jesus Christ. [242] Borée, _l’Arménie_, p. 54; Serpos, _Compendio storico sulla Nazione Armena_, p. 204, Venice, 1786; M. Ubicini, _Lettres sur la Turquie_, part 2, p. 254. [243] Unpublished letter from Ferriol to Father Fleuriau, of November 4, 1701:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 37.