The Chaousbashee (Çavuş başı) or cheife of the pursuivants

from The present state of the Ottoman Empire by Sir Paul Rycaut, 1667

Of the Chiauses. These having both offensive and defensive arms assigned them, may be reckoned in the number of the Militia, though their office being chiefly in relation to civil processes and laws, they may rather deserve the name of pursuivants or Serjeants ...