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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26378	West Barbary, or, A short narrative of the revolutions of the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco with an account of the present customs, sacred, civil, and domestick / by Lancelot Addison ...	Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.	1671 (1671)	Wing A532; ESTC R10903	81,185	250

Know whether in your Princely Wisdome You shall think fit to assist me with such Forces by Sea as shall be answerable to those I provide by Land which if You please to grant I doubt not but the Lord of Hosts will protect and assist those that fight in so glorious a Cause Nor ought You to think this strange that I who much reverence the Peace and accord of Nations should exhort to a Warr. Your great Prophet Christ Jesus was the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah as well as the Lord and Giver of Peace which may signifie unto You that he which is a lover and maintainer of Peace must alwaies appear with the terror of his sword and wading through Seas of Blood must arrive at tranquillity This made JAMES your Father of glorious memory so happily renowned amongst all Nations It was the Noble fame of your Princely Vertues which resounds to the utmost corners of the Earth that perswadeth me to invite You to partake of that blessing wherein I boast my selfe most happy I wish God may heap the riches of his Blessings on You increase your happiness with your days and hereafter perpetuate the greatness of your Name in all Ages The Traders into the Levant have reason to bewail that the condition of his Majesties affaires would not give him leave to entertain this motion which in all probability can never be revived with such promising circumstances as it might then have been enterprized for those Pyrats were then inconsiderable to what they are now for by the computation of their encrease in Shipping and Skill in Navigation if not timely subdued they in short time may bid defiance to the Christian in the Mid-land Seas And albeit the proposal was not embraced yet it loudly spoke Sidan a Prince of Generous Designs and Noble Ambitions and one who aimed at the Advance and Security of Trade the Common interest of the World Muley Sidan having reduced the affairs of State to a great degree of Quiet he finish'd both Life and Reign at once contrary to the example of the most of his Predecessors whereof few either Reigned to the natural length of their Life or were suffered to live beyond the violent shortness of their Reigne Upon his Death Muley Abdelmeleck his eldest Son enter'd upon the fruition of his Fathers Atchievements He was a person of much flegm and indifferency naturally fitted for a tame and peaceable Empire into which he was happily inaugurated but not long continued for in the second year of his reigne he was unnaturally assasined by his second Brother Luellud whose ambition broke all bonds of Nature and Politie to ascend a Throne But the infamous fratricide was presently thrown from his usurped greatness for having by a powerful example taught the nearest method to weare a Crown he was clandestinely Murder'd by his youngest Brother Muley Hamet Sheck before he had accomplish'd the period of twenty Months in his Kingdome And it is remarkable that Muley Shek pretended to no vengeance of his eldest Brothers death in that of his second but that he acted it only cut of an itch to obtain the Government seconded with a suspition of his own safety which could not be great while his Brother might justly fear him as a Rival for the Kingdome Muley Sheck being the last of the Brothers and thereby without any to competition him he studied to make both his Government and Person gratious to the people In which artifice he was so prosperous that no Sultan in Barbary had equal'd him in a confluence of happiness The Skie of his Reigne was for nineteen years serene and there were no prognosticks of alteration in his condition till Laella one of his Wives began to be exorbitant in her appetites and to meditate disloyalty to her Husband's Bed She is reported to have been a woman of a refined subtilty and learned in the most artful methods of stealeing her pleasures But at length she fell excessively enamour'd of her own kinsman one Cidi Kirum whom the King had adopted into his Grace and Conversation This Kirum was of a popular inclination and skilful in feeding the humours of the people He had been at Mecha in Devotion and of course received for that visitation the title of Hadge granted to all that have performed the Hage or Pilgrimage to their Prophets Tomb. By this and a great shew of exterior Religion he had with men of all capacities purchased a significant reputation And albeit he was a wel-wisher to an Innovation the common designe of their pretended Piety yet the present face of affaires look'd very disagreeable upon such an enterprise For the King so rul'd that all had cause to love and none to feare him and the courteousness of his personal behaviour had secured him a large share in the worst of his Subjects bosoms His custom being to punish and spare none who were convict offendors against their Law the known Rule both of their Religion and Politie And for the greater discouragement of all commotions the Zeriffian name was grown sacred with the Moors through its long continuance and they concluded its prosperity a Divine approbation of its Right Kirum no doubt was still as coveteous to enjoy the Crown as Laella his Bed whose amours at last grew to that height of impatience that nothing could quiet them but the embraces of her Paramour in a Regal State which she plotted with a feminine invention The death of the King her Husband was the only secure Recipe for her distemper but altogether of an unsafe accomplishment if enterprised by open violence Wherefore she is reported to have essayed his Death by Sorcery's in which wickedness Story tels us that the Mahumetan Women have alwaies been dexterous But not precisely to determine by what way Muley Hamet Sheck came to his Grave it is certain that his end was suddain and unexpected and that he shut up his life before he had seen the twentieth yeare of his Reign His decease was much lamented and the more because it came unsuspected The Government lineally descended upon his Son Muley Labèsh a child of three years old whom his dying Father bequeath'd to the protection of Kirum El Hadge and other Grandees of the Kingdome appointing them to administer the affaires of State in Labèsh's name till he was come to the age of eleven years In which time Kirum was so balanc'd with his fellow Regents that he durst not attempt the least alteration But such was the crafty conduct of his demeanor that he had made many of the Almocadens among the Alàrbs to be his creatures and ready at his Devotion and of whose assistance he might rely when he saw it convenient to time a Revolution which he deferr'd to the entrance of the second yeare of Labèsh's reigne being the thirteenth of his age At which time Kirum secretly retired from Court and was not heard of till he appear'd in the head of a numerous Army of Alàrbs whom he had

him out of Don Diego Savedra Taxardo in the 66th of his Empressas Politicas how that a Learned Age might have as little Valour as Devotion That all knowledge was superfluous which taught the People more than to Obey endure Travel and Conquer That great Discursists were apt to intrigue Affairs dispute the Princes Resolutions and stir up the People That it was the best Obedience which was rather Credulous then Inquisitive That the Ottoman Empire so much enrich'd with the Spoils and elevated with the Trophies of many Nations reckon it among their Happinesses not to have their Consultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophisms of Philosophical Persons and make Illiterature one of their chief Engines of Empire That the City may be taken while the Mathematician is delinea●●●g the Fortification That Nations Provinces Colonies have grown great by Industrious and not Poring Arts c. While I was thus reading to the attentive discerning Renegado he broke out into a sort of Exultation and call'd Muley Mahumed to witness that he thought Savedra the Author I read was a Moor or otherwise he could never have so punctually described the Humour and Sentiments of the Moors concerning Learning adding withal that if they who in their present Illiterature were so prone to Sedition that they would be much more so if they were heated with Bookish Speculations and had their Black humour chaf'd and quicken'd with Subtilizing Studies The next thing which may seem herein omitted is that which would have best pleased the Virtuosi an account of their Libraries for which I was once sollicited by a Letter from a Stranger in the Year 1664. who design'd an Vniversal Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Writers and their Books And though he possess'd me with great hopes of finding great store of Books in Barbary for his purpose yet upon Enquiry I met with nothing but Disappointment and that the Moors are so far from having excellent Libraries that they wonder to see any Book of Age or Volume in their own Language This I understood from Cidi Hamet Cogez formerly Alcayd of Alcazàr who when in Tanger coming to see the Publick Library that we had Founded there where I shewed him a MS. in his own Character concerning their Religion he kiss'd hugg'd laid it to his Brow upon the Crown of his Head lifted it up to Heaven and in every Circumstance appear'd therewith so much transported that I could scarce rescue it out of his Embraces The same MS. I shewed to a Talib who was one of Tafilets Emhérkin or Messengers of State sent to Compliment His Excellency the Lord Ambassador The Illustrious Lord H. Howard at Tanger who esteem'd it so great a Rarity that he sollicited the Ambassador to beg or buy it for him at any Rate This Manuscript is now in the Possession of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury His Grace It is the first part of the Mustadarif or as the Talib Expounded it The Clean Book It was compos'd by Alfachì Mahumed Ebn Ahmed Alchab and Copyed into that fair Letter wherein it is now extant by Ali Ebn Abd'aliráhman ebn Mahumed a Native of Suz who finished it in the second Moneth Giamadi Anno Hegirae 1005. But these Stories have betray'd me to an unintended length for which I hope to make some amends in what follows in which I have endeavour'd like a merciful Executioner not to protract your Pain A BRIEF NARRATION Of the late Revolutions in the KINGDOMES of Fez and Morocco THIS Narrative of the Revolutions of Barbary shall not be derived beyond the Annals of our own Memory For whose clearer introduction the contexture of affaires invites us to step back to the notorious change which hapned about the year 1508. Near which time the Marine Familie approaching to it s design'd period and determination it fortun'd that a certain Alfachi or Morish Priest in the Province of Dara began to grow into great reputation with the people by reason of his high pretentions to piety and fervent zeal for their Law illustrated by a stubborn rigidity of conversation and outward sanctity of life His first name was Mahumet Ben Amet but pretending to be descended from their Prophet he caused himself to be called Zeriffe A Title which the Kindred of that Impostor have appropriated to themselves and made the character of that whole Family The credit of his pretended Pedegree was another Engine wherewith he insinuated himself into the peoples likeing which together with his seeming severity made him of no vulgar esteem with a generation who from time to time have been fooled with such Mountebanks in Religion The great applause and approbation his person met with from the Moores kindled in him no less an Ambition then of making himself Lord of Mauritania Tingitana which must needs have proved a very Hypocondriacal designe had it not been assisted with a favourable conjuncture of affaires For the Mauritanian Princes had a long time weakned themselves with civil discords and the Portugals taking that advantageous occasion had farr advanced their Armes and arrived at a considerable puissance in Barbary and were still under a daylie success of new atchievements Besides the Moors desirous of Novelties and sensible of oppressions both from their own and forreign powers were sufficiently inclinable to adhere to any who appeared with probability to deliver them from their present Yoke This now Zeriffe who wanted neither Witt nor Ambition to conduct or enterprise an innovation found by the Starrs in whose Science his Legend makes him very skilful that the time was not yet suitable for so great an undertaking Religion was his pretence and nothing could have been so fit beside to advance him in the estimation of the many To facilitate his designs he sent his three Sons Abdel Abnet and Mahumet in Pilgrimage to Mecha and Medina to visit and worship the Sepulchre of their Great Prophet Much was the reverence and reputation of Holiness which they thereby ●●●●uired among the superstitious people who could hardly be kept from kissing their garments and adoreing them as Saints His admired sons failed not in their parts but acted as much Devotion as high contemplative looks deep sighes tragical gestures and other passionate Interjections of Holiness could express Alà Alà was their doleful note their sustenance the peoples Almes Their Father received them with content and joy and perceiving the favour and opinion of the people toward him to continue the same as at the first he resolved to make use thereof and thereupon sent Abnet and Mahumet to the Court of Fez where they were kindly received by the too credulous King who made the elder President of the famous Colledge Amadorac and the younger Tutor of his own Sons Advanced thus in favour at Court and Grace with the people by the Councel of their Father they desired leave of the King to display a Banner against the Christians induceing him to believe that they would easily draw the Portugal Moors to their party and by that means