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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70800	The present state of the empire of Morocco with a faithful account of the manners, religion, and government of that people / by Monsieur de St. Olon.	Pidou de Saint-Olon, Monsieur (François), 1646-1720.; Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2159; ESTC R24510	66,725	261

I shall have occasion to mention hereafter had built there for himself but of which the King has made himself Master as he commonly does of whatsoever his Subjects have that he likes or thinks to be convenient for him This young Prince has already three Wives and a Daughter of the Alcayde Ali is intended to be his fourth A Moorish woman walking in the Town A Black of the King of Moroccos Guard A Marabout or Talbe Most of the King 's other Children are brought up with so much neglect and so much unlike the Sons of a great Prince that there are but few mean Actions of which they are not capable above all in what relates to Debauchery and getting Money They often go to visit the Jews to find some strong Drink or to pilfer something for they are as thievish and ravenous as Kites and don 't in the least come short of the most dexterous Lacedaemonians of old in that Art if they meet a Slave they search him and take whatever he has from him for which reason they and their Visits are not less shun'd in Private Houses than those of Gypsies in a Country Market I had a trial of this in a Visit I was plagu'd with by one of 'em only some twelve or thirteen Years old His only Salute and Complement was to lay his Hands on whatever seem'd worth his Temptation Neither can I better compare his coming in and his going out than to that of a Monkey who would skip you at once on some Basket of Fruit he had spy'd in a Room and having laid hold on what he could catch would run out as nimbly as he came however I came off with the loss of a pair of Pistols and some Boxes of Sweet-Meats But this serv'd to teach me to beware of the no less dexterous Hands of his Brothers whom I always took care to receive no where but in the Yard or at the Gate of the Palace where I was lodg'd As these Children grow in Years the King makes 'em Alcaydes or Governors of several Parts of his Dominions And after the death of the Father he who is the most in Favour and has the strongest Party overcomes and kills the rest to secure the Empire to himself then puts his Favorites or his own Children into their Places That Son who is with the King at his death is generally in a Capacity of enslaving the rest because he is Master of the Arms and sometimes of the Treasure when he can discover it The present Emperour highly approves of this Maxim as the means whereby their Children become Warriors in hopes of obtaining the Empire over their Brothers but this daily occasions War betwixt 'em and divides their Dominions with as much Ease as the Conquerors re-united 'em with Difficulty These Children at nine or ten Years of Age will mount the highest mettl'd Horses ride them full speed without Saddles Boots or Spurs and sit 'em all the while with the greatest security 'T is the Custom among the Moors to ride their Horses very young thus without a Saddle as well for the sake of the Horses as of the Riders for there the Horses are back'd and wrought after the first Grass I endeavour'd in vain to inform my self exactly of the Emperour of Morocco's Revenues I found it was altogether as impossible to reckon 'em up as to fix the Caprice of his Humour in raising the Taxes and his insatiable greediness of Gold and Silver The Tenth of all his Subjects Goods is the most common Assessment as well as the Yearly Tax upon all the Jews of six Crowns for every Male form fifteen Years old and upwards but he lays such frequent Impositions upon them and the rest of his Subjects or to use their Expression such extraordinary Garams assessing sometimes one Town and sometimes another without any Pretence or Reason but his mere Will that it is very difficult to know or fix the whole Product which however is very considerable tho' he has not any Crown-Lands 'T is certain he causes all the Gold and Silver he receives by it to be melted down and buried for the Taxes are seldom paid but in Quintals or hundred weights of Gold and Silver that he kills all those whom he employs about the laying up of those Treasures that by these means he may become as much Master of his own Secret as of his Wealth for which reason he often causes it to be melted himself and hides it without making any one privy to it and this made me call this Treasure invisible and unprofitable when I spoke of it in the Article of the Town of Morocco It is computed he may have thus by him to the value of Fifty Millions of Livres which were a fine Treasure and a rich Mine for an Invader to search if he cou'd discover and approach it He get's a great deal out of his Alcaydes to whom he allows the Revenues of their Governments but in return he obliges 'em to make him Yearly Presents at the Great Easter which is that when they sacrifice the Lamb and these often amount to more than their Revenue Whence it happens that they are as Absolute there as the King himself and exercise their Authority with perfect Tyranny It may be said That these Alcaydes govern all the Kingdom under the Emperor's Authority for there is no Parliament no Court of Justice no particular Council nor Minister He himself is alone the Author Expounder and Sovereign Judge of his Laws which except those of his Prophet have no other Foundation or Limits than his Will Nor have they any weight or effect but through the extreme Cruelty which he himself is impower'd to exercise right or wrong against those who may be more properly call'd the Victims of his Fury or Cruelty than of his Justice which does not deserve that Name but in respect of Robbers and Murtherers whom he has undertaken to punish executing them himself And indeed he has proceeded against them with such Care and Success that he has clear'd the High-ways which were all pester'd with 'em before this ought to be accounted as one of the most remarkable and most advantageous things he has done during his Reign the Care which he has taken being so great and his Orders so exactly observ'd in causing those who live near the Places where the Crime is committed to be punish'd with Death or a Fine that at this time a Man may travel through all his Territories with as much Boldness and Security as formerly he did with Fear and Danger His Authority which appears and is indeed so Despotic has nevertheless one Superior to it to which it is subordinate which is the Mufty's and his Officers whom the King has not the Power of Deposing tho' he has that of making 'em He as well as others submits to the Decrees of this Jurisdiction and neither can disclaim it nor withdraw himself from it if the least of his Subjects has a mind to