Protokollregister über zweites Festessen organisiert für Damian Hugo von Virmont vor seiner Abreise, Istanbul, 11. April, 1720

Nemçe çāsārınıñ ṣulḥnāme ile gelen büyükilçisine defʿa-i ̱sānīyede żiyāfet olunduġı keyfiyyeti müşʿirdür. 2 Cemaziyülahir 1132 Fermān-ı Rabb-i müsteʿān her ānda bir gūne ẓuhūr ve nümāyān olmaḳ mahż-ı ḥikmet-i yezdān olmaġla biñ yüz otuz bir senesi Ramażān-ı Şerīfinde Roma İmparaṭorı ṭarafından ṣulḥnāme ile Āsitāneye gelen kebīr ilçiye nāmesi virildikden ṣoñra ʿavdetine ḳarīb biñ yüz otuz iki senesi Cemāẕīyeʾl-āḫirinüñ ikinci Cehārşenbe güni devletlü saʿādetlü ʿāṭıfetlü dāmād-ı fahriyārī vezīr-i aʿẓam-ı cihānbānī İbrāhīm Paşa ḥażretleri Kāġıdḫāne cānibinde Ṭaşlıca Burnı taʿbīr olunur maḥallde vezīr-i aʿẓam-ı sābıḳ Ḳara Muṣṭafa Paşa merḥūmuñ yalısında żiyāfet eylemekle ẕikr olunur. Yevm-i mezbūrdan bir gün muḳaddem çadır mehter başısı aġa gidüb yalı-yi mezbūrda ḥavuża ve deryāya nāẓır köşkü sūzenī maḳʿadlar ile ve aġır yasdıḳlar ile döşeyüb ve köşküñ ḳurbında olan odayı daḫı döşeyüb ve bāġçe içine bir çadır ve bir çerke ḳurılub ve bāġçe yolına ẕuḳāḳlar çaḳılub ve yalı-yı mezbūrda olan sāyir odalar ve köşkleri daḫı dāʾire-i ʿalīye içün döşeyüb ḥāżır ve müheyyā eylemişdi. Ve saʿādetlü ketḫüdā beg ḥażretleri daḫı bir gün muḳaddem gidüb mühimmāt-ı żiyāfeti ve sāʾir levāzımātı görmişlerdir. Ve żiyāfet güni ʿaleʾs-seḥer kürklü müteferriḳagān vezīr aġaları ferāce semūr kürkleriyle ve çāvuşān-ı dergāh-ı ʿālī ḳollarıyla yalı-yı mezbūra varub mevcūd bulunmışlar idi. Baʿdehū ṣāḥib devlet ve nişāncı paşa ḥażretleri teşrīf ve ḳaṣr-ı mezbūra ḳuʿūd eylemişlerdi. Ve köşküñ muḳābelesinde olan ḥavuż daʾiren-mā-dār şukūfe ve meyve ile zeyn olunmış-idi. Baʿdehū köşküñ ḥavuż semti muḳābelesinde olan bayıra dest-yār ḳonılub ṣāḥib devlet ve sāʾiri ḳurşun atmışlardur. Sāʿat bire varacaḳ vaḳitde semāḥatlü şeyḫüʾl-islām efendi ve saʿādetlü ḳapūdān paşa ḥażretleri teşrīf buyurdılar. Baʿdehū sāʿat ikiye ḳarīb ilçi-yi mezbūruñ ẓuhūru ḫaber virilmekle ḳaṣr-ı mezbūruñ ḫāricinde kenār-ı yalıda selām aġası ve çavuşlar kātibi ve çavuşlar emīni ve çavuşān-ı dergāh-ı ʿālī ṣaff-beste ve bunlaruñ nihāyetinde muḳābeleden yalı ḳapusına gelince vezīr aġaları ve yine ḳaṣr-ı mezbūruñ kenārında dīvār ṣırasıyla ḳapuya gelince kürklü müteferriḳagān ṣaff-beste ve yeñiçeri tüfengcileri daḫı vezīr aġalarınuñ verāsında ellerinde tüfengler ile ṣaff-keşīde olub müḥeyyā olduḳları ḫalālde ilçi-yi mezbūr defterdār efendinüñ yedi çifte ḳayıġı ile köşküñ altında olan iskeleye yanaşduḳda çavuşlar kātibi ve emīni ve bu ḥaḳīr varub ilçiyi alub ve köşke götirüb ṣadruñ öñinde olan ṣırmalı iskemleye oturdub bu es̠ nāda ṣāḥib devlet ve şeyḫüʾl-islām ve vüzerā-yı ʿiẓām içerü oṭada olmaġla bu ḥaḳīr varub ilçinüñ gelüb oturduġını saʿādetlü ṣāḥib devlet ḥażretlerine ḫaber virüb ṭaşra teşrīf eyledüklerinde ilçi ḳıyām idüb devletlü efendimüz reʾīs efendi ve çavuş paşa aġa ṭarafına selām-dāde olduḳda aşaġıdan selām aġası ṣavt-ı bülend ile selām alub ṣadra ḳuʿūd eyledüklerinde çāvuşān-ı dergāh-ı ʿālī alḳış eylediler. Bu es̠ nāda ṣāḥib devlet efendīmüz ḳırmızı ferāce çuḳaya ḳaplu semūr kürk giymişlerdi. Ve miyān-ı saʿādetlerine cevāhir ḳuşaḳ ve elmās ile muraṣṣaʿ ḫancer ṭaḳmışlardı ve ṣaġ ṣerçe parmaġına bir kebīr elmās ve bir zümrüd yüzük ṭaḳmışlardı ve ṣol ṣırça parmaġına daḫı Anāṭolı Ḥiṣārı semtinde vezīr-i sābıḳ ʿAmcazāde Ḥüseyin Paşa yalısında żiyāfet olundıġı gün ṭaḳındıġı yüzüğüñ muġāyiri bir kebīr elmās yüzük ṭaḳmışlardı ve ilçinüñ oturacaġı ṭarafda yaṣdıḳ üzerine cevāhir ḳabżalu bir pala ḳonub ve yine ilçi ṭarafında olan direge elmās ile muraṣṣaʿ bir ḳılıç eviḫte olunub ve enderūn aġaları daḫı biʾl-cümle elvān reng cedīd ḫāre ve ḥilālī ḳaftānlar mülebbes ve mücevher ḫancerler ile müzeyyen idiler. Ḥāṣıl-ı kelām ṣāḥib devlet efendimüz ilçi-yi mezbūrı nevāzīşden ṣoñra maḳām-ı ʿālīlerine ḳuʿūd eylediler. Baʿdehū şeyḫüʾl-islām efendī ve ḳapūdān paşa ve nişāncı paşa ḥażretleri içerüden ṭaşra daʿvet buyurulub müşārün ileyhim ḥażerātı gelüb oturduḳları gibi germīyet ṣoḥbet içün muḳaddemā ilçinüñ maḳṣūdı olan işlerden iki māddenüñ kāġıdları ilçinüñ yedine virilüb baʿdehū ilçiye ve sāʾire ṭatlu ve ḳahve virilüb ḥattā ilçi benefşe ḥamīresi tenāvül eyledükden ṣoñra ṣāḥib devlet efendimüz muḥabbeten kendileri tenāvül eyledikleri cevāhir maʿcūnından daḫı virdürdiler baʿdehū ḳahveler içildükden ṣoñra ṭaʿām gelmekle vezīr-i aʿẓamuñ ṣāġ ṭarafında şeyḫüʾl-islām efendi ve ḳapūdān paşa ve nişāncı paşa ve ṣol ṭarafında yaṣdıḳ üzerinde yalñız ilçi-yi mezbūr oturmışdur. Baʿdeʾt-ṭaʿām deryā ṭarafında olan meydāna bir ṣıradan üç destī ḳonub Enderūn aġaları ve yeñiçeri tüfengcileri ḳurşun atmışlardur. Bu es̠nāda ṣāḥib devlet efendimüz birbiri ardınca sekiz defʿa nişānı vurub destīleri şikest itmişlerdür. Ḥattā devletlü efendimizüñ eñ ṣoñra āteşlerinde muḥżır aġa ṭāʾifesinden destī götüren çorbacı yeñiçerinüñ ḳurşun iki ayaġı arasından güz̠er idüb destīyi şikest itmişdür. Ḥaḳḳ bu ki bu vech ile nişān-zed olduḳlarına ḥāżır-ı cemʿiyyet olan müslimīn ve müşrikīn taḥsīn ve engüşt ber dehān olmışlardur. Baʿdehū sāde naḳḳāre ile iç aġaları atlu cirīdi ile oynamışlardur. Bugünde maḥall-i mezbūra nāẓır olan bayırda ve aşaġıda vāfir seyirciler cemʿ olmışlar idi. Ḥattā ṣābūncı başı aġa daḥı neferātıyla kendi ferāce semūr kürk ile yeñiçeri tüfengcilerinüñ öñinde durmış idi. Tüfeng atılduġı es̠ nāda aġalardan birisi seksen beş dirhem tüfengi ḳoldan nişāna atmaġıyla ilçi beg tüfeng-i mezbūru getürdüb ve eline alub yaṣdıḳ üzerine ḳoyub nişāna baḳdı. Ve mezkūr tüfengüñ ḳurşunından bir iki dānesin aldı. Baʿdehū tüfengüñ ṣāḥibi baʿdeʾt-temāşā yine nişāna ḳurşun attıġgı gibi ḥikmet-i ḫüdā żarb-ı tüfengden ser-nigūn ve elinden tüfengi düşüb ḳonaraḳ ṭabanı ḳırılmışdur. Bu gūne keyfiyyet ẓuhūrı naẓara ḥaml olunmışdur. Bālāda ẕikr olundıġı üzere baʿdeʾl-cirīd ḫānende ve sāzende kāmil altmış nefer mevcūd olmaġla köşküñ aşaġısında yalı iskelesi üzerinde oturub faṣl eylemişlerdür. Bu es̠ nāda kisveli pehlivānlar güreşdiler. Baʿdehū bir ādem başı üzerinde direk götürmek üzere üç defʿa murād eyledi. Lākin icrāsına muvaffaḳ olamadı. Baʿdehū şīşebāzlar baʿdehū maṭraḳçılar baʿdehū gürzbāzlar baʿdehū baġçevān ḳolı ve Aḥmed ḳolu muṭrıbları ḳaṣr-ı mezbūruñ muḳābelesinde oturub mez̠ kūr ḳullar başḳa başḳa raḳṣ oġ̇lanlarıyla kendilerine maḫṣūṣ olan luʿbların icrā eylediler. Bu es̠nāda ṣāḥib-i devlet efendimüz içerü oṭaya gidüb ferāce kürki çıkarub ḳırmızı çuḳa ḳontoş semūr kürk ile çıḳub oturmışlardur. Bu es̠nāda rüzgār bir miḳdār bürūdet üzere vezān olmaġla dizlerine zemīni teftī aġır ṣırma işleme yorgan vażʿ itmişler idi. Baʿdehū ḥoḳḳabāzlar baʿdehū ḳūḳlabāzlar köşküñ muḳābelesinde perde ḳurub ḳūḳla oynatdılar. Bu esnāda ṣāḥib devlet efendimüze nevm ̣ġalaba itmekle içerü oṭaya teşrīf ve yarım sāʿat miḳdārı ser-nihāde-i bālīn-i rāḥat olub bīdār-ı ḫābları vaḳt-i ʿaṣra müṣādafe itmekle ikindi ṭaʾāmı yine köşke döşetüb içerüden teşrīf buyurduḳlarında ḳırmızı çuḳa ḳonṭoş çılḳafa kürk giymişlerdi. Ḳūḳlabāzlardan ṣoñra ḫānende ve sāzende faṣla āgāz itmeleriyle ṭaʿām tenāvüli tekmīline deġin faṣl itmişlerdür. Bu vaḳtıñ ṭaʿāmında imām-ı evvel-i şehriyārī efendi daḫı dāḫil olmışlar idi. Baʿdeʾt-ṭaʿām tekrār şerbet ve buḥūr virildikden ṣoñra şeyḫüʾl-islām efendi ḥareket eylemekle ḳaṣr-ı mezbūr iskeleye ġāyet ḳarīb iken ṣāḥib devlet efendimüz ikrāmen iskeleye piyāde gitmesünler diyü ḥavuż kenārından ata bindürilüb ber-ḳāʿide ketḫüdā beg ve çavuşbaşı aġa ve sāʾiri öñince iskeleye götürmişler idi. Baʿdehū ilçi bege gülpenbe ferāce çuḳaya ḳaplu semūr kürk ilbās ve üzerine meʾmūr ḳapucı Meḥmed Aġāya ve yeñiçeri ḥāṣekīsine ve çorbacıya ve dīvān tercümānına ve kendi iki nefer tercümānına ḫilʿatler ilbās ve on beş yigirmi nefer begzādegānına daḫı telli boyamalar virilmişdir. Ve ilçi beye siyāh çuḳa üzerine ṣırma işleme kesmeli ve sīm rikābla mīnākārī raḫt ile müzeyyen bir ṭoru ṭay at ve bir ḳır ṭay at yılkı-zer virilmişdür. Mezkūr atlar ṭay olmaḳ üzere virildügi ilçi begüñ ṭāy ata ziyāde raġbeti olduġından velīyüʾl-niʿam efendimiz maḥẓūẓīyeti içün böylece kerem buyurmışlardur. Baʿdehū ilçi beg hedīye olan ata bindürilüb iskeleye gönderilmişdür. Baʿdehū kenār-ı ḥavużda olan meyve ve şukūfe biʾl-cümle ilçi begiñ ḫānesine gönderilmişdir. The Austrian secretary C. Driesch summarized this banquet in his travelogue. Driesch was not impressed by the festivities and recorded negative observations. He was nauseated by the persons around him who ate the food with their hands. He found the Ottoman entertainments banal and unsophisticated. He described the comedy play of boy dancers as sodomitical . Baʿdehū mehterḫāne çalmaġla bu es̠ nāda ṣāḥib-i devlet efendīmüz ḥażretleri bu ḥaḳīre ve mehter başı aġaya ḥilʿatler iḥsān buyurmışlardur. Mehterḫāneden ṣoñra ḫānende ve sāzendeden baʿżıları intiḫāb olunub ḳaṣr-ı mezbūruñ dehlīzinde bir faṣl itdürilüb ve ḫānende başı Burnaz Ḥasan Çelebi’ye daḫı ḫilʿat iḥsān buyurmışlardur. Ve sāʾirine daḫı sikke-i ḥasene inʿām buyurmışlardur. Ve devletlü efendimizüñ bugünde ʿiṭā ve iḥsān eyledügi altunuñ ḥadd ve ḥesābı nā-maʿlūmdur. Ve żiyāfet-i mezbūrede mevcūd görilen ricāl daḫı bunlardur ki ẕikr olunur: defterdār efendi, Defter Emīni-yi sābıḳ El-ḥāc ʿAbduʾl-ḳādir Efendi ve tersāne emīni efendi ve maṭbaḫ-ı ʿāmire emīni efendi ve atlu muḳābelecisi ʿAbdullāh beg ve sipāhīler aġası ve Ḫazīne Muḥāsebecisi Dürrī efendi ve Arpa Emīni Süleymān Efendi ve Silāḥdār Aġası sābıḳ Boşnaḳ Meḥmed Aġa ve ḥaremeyn muḥāsebecisi ve maliye teẕkirecisi ve bāşbāḳī ḳulı aġa ve ḥaremeyn muḳāṭaʿacısı efendi.

Informs about the circumstances of the second banquet organized for the grand ambassadaor of the Austrian emperor who came with a peace settlement. 11 April 1720. As a reflection of the fact that the decrees of God the benefactor are evident and they manifest themselves in one way or another at all times is the pure wisdom of God, the grand ambassador, who had come from the Roman Emperor to Istanbul in the blessed (month of) Ramadan of the year one-thousand one-hundred and thirty-one (July 18 – August 16, 1719) with a peace settlement, was given his sultanic letter. Then, shortly before his departure, his highness, the prosperous, kind, honorable son-in-law of the sultan, the keeper of the world, grand vizier İbrahim Pasha, organized a banquet on the second Wednesday of the month of Cemāẕīyeʾl-āḫir in the year one-thousand one-hundred and thirty-one at the waterfront mansion of the deceased former Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha, which is located next to Kağıdhane in the area known as the Cape of Taşlıca. What follows is a report of that event. A day before the banquet, the chief of the sultan’s tent pitchers went to the said waterfront mansion and had the pool and the pavilion facing the sea furnished with seats and heavy cushions. He also had the room next to the pavilion furnished and set up a large tent in the garden as well as a makeshift tent. Markers were pounded around the passage to the garden and a variety of rooms inside the mansion and its pavilions were furnished and made ready for the court members. His highness the prosperous chief steward also went a day before and took care of the supplies of the banquet and other requirements. At dawn on the day of the banquet, the court officials, with their furs on them, the aghas of viziers, with their sable furs on ceremonial cloaks, and the palace ushers, with their units, arrived at the mansion and were present there. Then, his highness the grand vizier and the chancellor, honoring [those in attendance] with their presence, sat at the pavilion. The pool, located across from the pavilion, was adorned all around with flowers and fruits. Then, a target was erected on the slope situated across the area where the pool was located and the grand vizier and others shot [at the target]. Shortly before it was one o’clock, his highness the generous chief müfti and the prosperous admiral honored [the gathering] with their presence. After that, shortly before two o’clock, the arrival of the ambassador was reported [to the meeting]. Therefore, outside the aforementioned pavilion by the mansion, the master of ceremonies, the secretary and the intendant of the palace ushers and palace ushers themselves stood in line. Beyond them, from across where they were standing to the gate of the mansion, there were the aghas of the viziers and the court officials with their furs were standing on the side of the pavilion along the wall stretching till the door. The janissary musketeers stood in line with their muskets in their hands behind the aghas of the viziers. As they were all standing disposed in order, the ambassador came by the chief treasurer’s caique powered by seven pairs of oars that docked at the pier. Then, the secretary and the intendant of the palace ushers and this humble servant received the ambassador and brought him to the pavilion and had him sitting on [a] stool worked with gold and silver embroideries. At that moment, the grand vizier, the chief müfti, and the viziers of the imperial council were inside the inner room. This humble servant entered there and reported to the grand vizier the arrival and sitting down of the ambassador. When the grand vizier honored the outside area with his presence, the ambassador stood up and saluted in the direction of the grand vizier, the chief of the scribes, and the agha of palace ushers. The master of ceremonies responded to the salutation with a loud voice. The grand vizier sat on his post, upon which the palace ushers applauded. Our lord the grand vizier was wearing a sable fur claok lined with red broadcloth. On his fortunate waist, there was a jeweled sash and a dagger adorned with diamonds. He had put on his right little finger a large diamond ring and a large emerald ring, while he had on his left little finger a large diamond ring similar to the one he had put on the day of the banquet at the mansion of the former grand vizier Amcazade Hüseyin Pasha in the Anadolu Fortress quarter. And, on the side of the grand vizier, where the ambassador would sit, a machete with a jeweled grip had been placed on a cushion. Moreover, on the column located on the side of the ambassador, a sword adorned with diamonds had been hung. The aghas of the inner court were all wearing caftans with colorful moiré patterns and crescent designs and they were accessorized with jeweled daggers. To summarize, our lord the grand vizier sat on his exalted post after displaying courtesy to the ambassador. Then, the chief müfti, the chief müfti> admiral pasha, and the chancellor pasha were invited from inside to the outside. As they came and sat down two papers about two [separate] matters that had been requested by the ambassador were handed to him so that a cordial conversation could take place. After that the ambassador was served sweets and coffee. The ambassador also ate violet dough (benefşe ḥamīresi). After that, our lord the grand vizier, out of friendship, had precious and costly opiates (cevāhir maʿcūnu) that he himself ate presented also to the ambassador. After coffee was drunk, the meal arrived. On the right side of the grand vizier sat the chief müfti, the admiral, and the chancellor and on his left the ambassador sat by himself on a cushion. After the meal, jugs were placed [as targets] in a line on the arena by the sea. The aghas of the inner court and the janissary muskeeters shot bullets [at the targets]. At that moment, our lord the grand vizier hit the target eight times consecutively and broke the jars. Moreover, in the last shooting of our most exalted lord, the bullet hit the jar, going through between the two legs of the janissary captain who was a member of the grand vizier’s guard and was carrying jugs. Thus, all the Muslims and non-Muslims present applauded and put their fingers to their mouths at [the way] he hit the target. Putting fingers into mouth was an expression of astonishment, similar to biting one’s nails. There are depictions of this expression in miniatures. After that, the aghas of the inner court played the game of javelins on horses as a single kettle-drum was beaten. That day, too, a large number of onlookers had gathered on the slopes overseeing the location of the banquet as well as on the lower side [of our location]. Even the master of soap makers (ṣābūncıbaşı aġa), who had a sable fur on a ceremonial cloak on him, stood with his men in front of the janissary musketeers. As muskets were being fired, one of the aghas shot with a musket of eighty-five dirhams aiming on his arm. The ambassador had the musket brought to him, took it in his hand, put it on a cushion, and then aimed it. Then he took a few of the bullets of the musket. After the ambassador took a look at the musket, the owner of it again aimed at the target and shot. As soon as he shot at the target, by the wisdom of God, due to the recoiling of the musket, he lost his balance and dropped the musket, breaking its stock. This kind of an occurrence was ascribed to the evil eye. As mentioned above, following the game of javelins, vocalists and musicians – all together sixty persons – sat on the mansion’s pier below the pavilion and performed. Then the wrestlers wearing leather trousers wrestled. Then, a performer wanted to carry a stick on his head and attempted it three times. However, he could not succeed. Next, performers of cups and bowls(şīşebāzlar), sword masters (maṭraḳçılar), maze fighters (gürzbāzlar), then the gardeners and the singers of the Ahmed branch of entertainers sat across the pavilion and these men, along with other boy dancers, performed the peculiar games. In the meantime, our lord the grand vizier entered the inner room, took off the ceremonial cloak, put on a sable fur on red broadcloth ḳontoş (a richly embroidered robe worn by Crimean Tatars), and came out and sat. At that moment, as the wind blew a bit cool, the grand vizier spread a warm quilt on his knees worked on its surface with heavy gold and silver threads. Then, jugglers performed, followed by puppeteers who set up a curtain across the pavilion and performed a puppet show. Meanwhile, our lord the grand vizier was overwhelmed by sleep and entered the inner room to sleep. For half an hour, he rested putting his head on a pillow. As his awakening from sleep coincided with the mid-afternoon time, the mid-afternoon meal was laid out at the pavilion. When the grand vizier came from inside and honored the room by his presence, he was wearing a çılkafa (a fur made of pieces from the back of the neck of wolves or foxes) on a red broadcloth ḳontoş. After the puppeteers, vocalists and musicians began their musical performance and performed until the end of the meal. The sultan’s private senior imam also joined the mid-afternoon meal. After the meal, sherbet and frankinsence were served. Then, as the chief müfti was leaving, although the pavilion was close to the pier, our lord the grand vizier, as a favor, told him not to walk to the pier, upon which the chief müfti was mounted on a horse by the pool and, as per custom, the chief steward, the agha of the palace ushers and others preceded the chief müfti when they brought him to the pier. After that, the ambassador was presented with a sable fur on a rose-pink broadcloth ceremonial cloak. Also, the gatekeeper Mehmed Agha, who was commissioned to accompany the ambassador, the janissary and the janissary captain, the imperial council interpreter, and the ambassador’s two interpreters were dressed in kaftan. Fifteen to twenty members of the ambassador’s inner circle were presented with colored and embroidered kerchiefs. The ambassador was presented with a chestnut yearling(?) adorned with a horse blanket made of black broadcloth worked with silver and gold threads, silver stirrups, and a tack worked with enamels. He was also presented with a grey yearling colt. That these young horses were given was because the ambassador had a strong liking for young horses. Thus, our lord the benefactor acted so kindly for his [the ambassador’s] rejoicement. Then, the ambassador mounted on the horse presented to him and was sent to the pier. After that, all of the flowers and fruits around the pool were sent to the residence of the ambassador. Afterwards, as the military band was playing, our lord the grand vizier granted kaftans to this humble servant and the agha of the military band. After the military band performance, some of the vocalists and musicians were selected and performed at the hall of the pavilion. The chief vocalist, Burnaz Hasan Çelebi, was granted a kaftan. The other (vocalists and musicians) were granted gold coins. The amount and limit of the gold our fortunate lord presented and granted today is unknown. Here are the men who were present at the banquet: the chief treasurer, the former superintendent of the cadastral register, Abdu’l-kadir efendi, the superintendent of the shipyard, the superintendent of the imperial kitchens, mounted treasury officer (atlu muḳābelecisi) Abdullah Bey, the agha of the palace cavalry, treasury accountant, Dürrī efendi, superintendent of grains, Süleyman efendi, former agha of the sword keepers Boşnak Mehmed Agha, the accountant of the sacred cities, the secretary of the treasury, the tax inspector agha, and the tax farmer of the sacred cities.