Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1887

to Persia in the enterprising days of the great Queen Elizabeth the former of whom took service under the first 'Abbas and the latter of whom went as the Shah's ambassador to the Court of James the First; in the account of Father Krusinski the Procurator to the Jesuits who was at Isfahan for twenty years from Shah Husain to Ashraf (1705 to 1723 A. D.) ; in the tracts of Chardin Tavernier de [...] himself if on the one side ho was the representative of a family of saints was on the other the descendant of a race of warriors for his grandmother was the sister of Irian llasant the above-mentioned chief of the Aq Kuyunli Turkmans and his mother a daughter of that famous leader. [...] Allowances must at the same time be made for the unsettled state of the kingdom and the customs of the country which even to this day make the sovereign the director of all executions. [...] The Qipchaq Tatars harried the shores of the Caspian ; and the Dutch seized the island of Kishmah in the Persian Gulf. [...] The discrepancy in the dates is explained by Marsden (Nuisiamuta Orientalia p. 473) by the suppostion that the date on the obverse is that of the actual issue of the coin while the date on the reverse is that of the accession.