For readers who want to place events in proper perspective, I have included a brief listing of the heads of state during the period covered in 'Let Me Help'.
Whilst in Great Britain, the Tudor Age was building the beginnings of Empire, for the moment, the real powers of the world lay much further east.
English Monarchs.
17.7.1553 - 17.11.1558
Queen Mary
17.11.1558 - 24.03.1603 Queen Elizabeth I
24.03.1604 - 27.03.1625 King James I
-Tower of London, Traitors Gate
Ottoman Sultans.
1512
- 1520 Selim I (Yaviz/the grim)
1520 - 1566 Suleyman The Magnificent
1566 - 1574 Selim II
1574 - 1595 Murat III
1593 - 1603 Mehmet III
1603 - 1617 Ahmed I
1623 - 1639 Murad IV
Iranian Shahs. (The Safavid Dynasty)
1501
- 1524 Shah Ismail I
1524 - 1576 Shah Tahmasp I
1576 - 1578 Ismail II
1578 - 1587 Mahommad Mirza
1587 - 1629 Shah Abbas
1629 - 1639 Safi I
Steppe Rulers.
The Shaibanids
(Samarqand)
1500 - 1510 Muhammad Shaibani
1510 - 1530 Kochkunji
1530 - 1533 Abu Said
1533 - 1539 Ubaid Allah I
1540 - 1551 Abd al-Latif
1551 - 1555 Nuruz Ahmad
1555 - 1560 Pir Muhammad I
1560 - 1583 Iskandar
-The Registan in Samarkand
The Shaibanids (Bukhara)
1583 - 1598 Abd Allah II
1598 - 1599 Abd al-Mumin
The Janids
1599 - 1605 Baqi Muhammad
1605 - 1608 Wali Muhammad
1608 - 1640 Imam Quli
Khiva
1546 - 1558 Dost
1558 - 1602 Hajji Muhammad I
1602 - 1623 Arab Muhammad I
1623 - 1643 Isfandiyar
-Khiva
Papal Line.
St. Pius V (1566-72)
Gregory XIII (1572-85)
Sixtus V (1585-90)
Urban VII (1590)
Gregory XIV (1590-91)
Innocent IX (1591)
Clement VIII (1592-1605)
Leo XI (1605)
Paul V (1605-21)
Gregory XV (1621-23)
Urban VIII (1623
Greek Orthodox
Metrophanes III 1565-1572,
1579-1580
Jeremias II Tranos 1572-1579, 1580-1584, 1587-1595
Pachomius II 1584-1585
Theoleptus II 1585-1586
Matthew II 1596, 1598-1602, 1603
Gabriel I 1596
Theophanes I
Karykes 1597
Neophytus II 1602-1603, 1607-1612
Raphael II 1603-1607
Timotheus 1612-1620
Cyril I Lucaris 1612, 1620-1623, 1623-1630, 1630-1633, 1633-1634, 1634-1635,
1637-1638
Greg IV 1623
Anthimus 1623