text:  The Greek patriarch on suspicion of having endeavoured to engage the Vaivode of Wallachia in a plot for a general rising of the Christians was summoned to the Porte and forthwith bowstrung in the presence of Kiuprili; and in the course of a few weeks not fewer than 4000 of those who had been implicated in the previous disorders perished under the hands of the executioner: "for as in medicine " remarks a Turkish historian "it is necessary to employ remedies which are analogous to the disease so by bloodshed alone could the state be purified from these lawless shedders of blood!" These terrible severities broke the spirit of insubordination in the capital; and the irregularity of their pay which had been one of the chief grievances of the janissaries was remedied by the good order which Kiuprili had from the first introduced in the finances