Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Author of The Present State of the Ottoman Empire….
Rycaut, Paul (1628–1700), traveller and author. He was secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople and then consul to the Levant Company at Smyrna. His essay on The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches (1679) remains an important source of information.
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Sir Paul Rycaut FRS (23 December 1629 London - 16 November 1700 Hamburg) was a British diplomat and historian, and authority on the Ottoman Empire