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AWM.724.003
18-25 Feb 1724:21 (219)
Constantinople, October 2. . . A Capuchin Fryer at Tauris
writes word to another at Aleppo, that the Europeans at
Ispahan have had such a bad time on't under the usurpation
of Meriweis, that he thinks his brother may with a safe
conscience sing their REQUIEM, or rest for their souls; for,
he says, a Jew and an Indian, arriv'd directly from Ispahan,
bring into account, that Meriweis having arrested M Scofer,
Captain of a Dutch Company, he kill'd himself with opium
after three days imprisonment; and that Meriweis has also
cut off the heads of the French Consul and two captains, one
English, and the other Dutch. He adds, from the report of
others, that all the Europeans are massacred, except some
who fled to Bander-Abassi; and that the young Sop i of
Persia continues at Tauris raising men. He is the last of
the Royal Family, the usurper Meriweis having caus'd all his
brothers to be strangled.
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