Note 130 — Chapter VIII · DIPLOMACY—HIGH AND OTHERWISE

Finch to Coventry, Sept. 9, 1675. Rycaut, who always reflects the conventional view, would have agreed with Kindsberg: “It is certainly a good Maxime for an Ambassador in this Countrey, not to be over-studious in procuring a familiar friendship with Turks,” Present State, p. 170. This maxim arose from the belief that “a Turk is not capable of real friendship towards a Christian.”