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A17485	A true historicall discourse of Muley Hamets rising to the three kingdomes of Moruecos, Fes, and Sus The dis-vnion of the three kingdomes, by ciuill warre, kindled amongst his three ambitious sonnes, Muley Sheck, Muley Boferes, and Muley Sidan. The religion and police of the More, or barbarian. The aduentures of Sir Anthony Sherley, and diuers other English gentlemen, in those countries. With other nouelties.	Cottington, R.; Sherley, Anthony, Sir, 1565-1635?	1609 (1609)	STC 4300; ESTC S107368	47,807	84

Mor●…uecos hauing another taske to take in hand ere hée could settle himselfe quietly in his owne nest For the Kings house being Castle wise builded and seuered from the Citty with a defencible and a stronge wall lacking no kind of munition for the defence thereof had within it besides souldeirs of Morruecos three Thousand Fezees who were not at the last battaile but left there to guard the place for Abdela These presuming on their owne valour and strength of the place denyed to render it vppon any tearmes to Sidan though they were sollicited during the space of twoo dayes by all faire meanes therevnto Sidan bringing his Artillary to the walles yet delayed as loath to deface a building so strong costly and beautifull So that in the meane time a Captaine whose house ioyned to the wall by stealth with Fiue Hundred men scaled and wonne the top of the wall crying victory 〈◊〉 Muley Sidan which so amazed the souldiers within thinking the forces which were entered farre greater then they were without more adoe or offering to resist they tooke Sanctnary in the great Church belonging to the Kings house euery man with his Piece and furniture about him Muley Sidan vpon this sent Basha Seleman willing them to deliuer vp their Armes with promise they shuld be pardoned which presently they did yéelding and deliuering both swords and peeces Thus disarmed they séely soules came forth when presently after message came from the King to butcher and cut the throates of them'all which was executed A pittifull matter in my iudgement so many men yeelding vpon good composition after furie of battaile vpon cold blood to be made so pittifull a spectacle it was bootlosse for them to alledge either law or reason in defence of their liues such is the miserie slauerie of that people whose goods and liues lieth alwayes in the will of the King either to saue or destroy at his pleasure Some colour Sidan had for his tyrannie thinking these Fezees would neuer be woonne wholy to be his but vpon fit time and euerie little occasion reuolt from him Secondly he ment to requite Abdela lege Talionis for putting so many commaunders to death prizing euerie one of their liues worth thrée hundred common souldiers Cap. XIIII Sidan sendeth great preparationsagainst Abdela who af-after composition murdereth vorie neare three thousand Sidanians Sidans bloodie decree against the Shraceis for their offence NOw is Sidan setled in Morruecos but scarce secure for the chiefest men in the Citie wished an alteration because their King to get their money and wealth to maintaine his owne estate began to picke quarrels with them making some who began to speake and repine at his doings lose their heads Quoniam Ganis mortuus non latrat The common people whose naturall condition is alwayes to desire nouelties wished for a newe King feeling his oppression and the famine whereof many dyed grewe carelesse of peace thinking euerie change would bring a remedie when indeed it was like the incision of an vnskilful Surgion not ouring the maladie but making the wound wider gangrend and incurable Sidan purposing to purge this malecontented humour of the Comminaltie rat●…ed an armie of twelue thousand foote and sixe thousand horse determining to take Fes The chiefe men of commaund ouer thi●… armie were these Basha Mus●…efa Alkeyd Hamet Benbreham Alkeyd Ally Tahila Alkeyd Gago and Alkeyd Hadoe Tobib with diuers others Muley Sidan not going in person with this armie least in his absence Morruecos the seate of the Empire should reuolt Muley Sheck hearing these newes went to Allarocha there tooke a great Flemish Ship from the Marchant with all the goods in her therein shipping his tre asure determining to run away ichis Sonns Abdela should lose Fes Abdela omitted no time to gather new forces so that in small time hee thought himselfe sufficient to méete the Sidanians in open field and so hee did neare to Mickanes where the people on Sidans part missing their King in the field or any one of the bloo●… royall refused to fight and in stead of striking fell to parl●…y That if Abdola would pardon them they would yeeld and so they did yet most of them ranne away except three thousand Morruekyns who presuming vpon Abdelas gentle nature stayd with him hoping kind entertainment into his pay in stead wherof Muley Abdela commaunded all their throats to bee cut graunting them onely this fauour first to bee stripped for fowling their cloathes Thus we may see mercilesse Sidan butcher poore soules at Morruecos pittilesse Abdela murder these vnfortunate slaues at Mickanes both verefying the old prouerbe Quicquid delirant Rog●…s plectu●…tur Achiui In this battaile were taken betwixt thirtie and fortie English men who serued Muley Sidan as Canoniers yet not any of that companie which serued Abdela at Morruecos when he lost the Citie and field but other voluntaries part of these fledde with the bodie of the armie backe is Morruecos part were taken whome Abdela spared as well in regarde of former seruices the Nation had done him as also for the presen●… vse her was to employ them in This expedition of Sidans comming to so vnlooked a disaster made him send forth his Commanders with diuers companies to the Alarbies for fresh supplie of men and treasure amongst which as chiefe was dispéeded Basha Seleman maister of the old Kings horse for Tastlet there to gouerne the countrey carrying with him some fifteene hundred shot of which sixe hundred were Shracies people of the King of Chaus or Coucoes country who hath alwayes warrs with Algers or Argiers These Shraceis were borne in the mountaines of Atlas being of a fierce and bloodie nature not respecting the Turkes might or gouernment no more then the Montaniers of Mo●…ecos will acknowledge the soueraintie of the Barbarian Some twelue hundred of these had Sidan in his pay halfe part whereof he kept at Monuecos the other was sent with S●…leman These amongst themselues sell into a mutenie neither for want of pay or ill vsage but in desire to doe a mischiefe by force cut off the Bashas head carrying it with them as a Trophie of their victorie and a fit present to winne Abd●…las sauour who was then at Fes whither they went for intertainment S dan here with moued made proclamation that for three Moneths what Shracee soeuer souldier or any other were to bee found in Mor●…uecos or else where in his D●…minions should be put to the sworde and to haue it better and more fully executed it was proclaimed that the man●…eller should haue the goodes of the Shrac●… so killed Many rich men of this Nation or kindred res●…ant in Mor●…uecos felt the furie of the sworde for the follie and foule fault of their tribe such as coul●… get packing ran away others of the better sort their friends hid them in their houses vntill Sidan scared with 〈◊〉 of Abdelas comming towards him proclaimed generall pardon for the remainder left aliue and free passage

amongst them that Christ shall come againe and at his comming all shall be one and gathered into one Shéepfold Their false Prophet Mahomet whom they call Rosulla that is the Messenger of God was but a Larbee as they were but God gaue vnto him power and vnderstanding to make an end of the Law which the Iewes would not suffer Christ to doe and most blasphemously alledge that place in the sixteenth of saint Iohns Gospel to be meant of Mahomet Expedit vobis vt ego vadam si enim non abiero paracletus non veniet advos si autem abiero mittam ●…um advos Images they disallow either in churches or priuate oratories holding this principle None can forgiue sinnes but God onely Other booke of Religion then their Alcoran none may vse neither anie explains by writing the meaning of any place therein be he neuer so learned Therefore if any doubt he must goe to the Priest called Talby and of him be resolued Smal learning maketh a Talby which is onely to learne the Alcoran without booke and it is thus learned First he bath written him a lesson vpon a boord like vnto a horn-booke when he hath learned that Memoriter then is it wiped out and a new written which beeing learned without booke●… is againe wiped out so a third so a fourth vntill he hath learned it all and then hee may be made a Talby Circumcision they vse and a kinde of Baptisme but at their owne houses not in the Churches because women vsed about the Lauature may not enter the Sinagogue first because of their often vncleannesse secondly for their offence because Eue incited Adam to 〈◊〉 the like custom for their women is amongst the Iewes therefore the Moore when a sonne or daughter is borne the eight vay after their birth the parents send for a Talby and some old men and women where after a fewe prayers said the women wash the childe all ouer with water and so giue the name making a banket according to the mans abilitie but it may be the child shall not bee circumcised of two three or eight yeares after according as the father doth thinke good for then he maketh great bankets and vsually to saue cost hath a child marryed or some of his kindred vpon that day They haue foure principall feasts The Easter which is calld Rumedan preceding this feast is their Lent about the constitution of which their Prophet finding it hard to fast fortie dayes together abated them tenne so they fast but thirtie yet is it verie hard for after day breaketh they take no manerof suste●…ance in the world not so much as a sup of water before night that the stars doe appeare so strict are they when their Lent falleth high in the yeare which it must needes doe because their yeare is shorter than ours by ten dayes reckoning by the Moone not by the Moneth as many grow faint with fasting and my Authour saith he hath seene diuers layd before the Church doore readie to giue vp the ghost for drought and some haue died holding it no question something meritorious to die in seeking to fulfill their Law And once the same Gentleman trauailing to Morruecos with certaine Moores in his companie in their time of Lent one of the Moores being thirstie with heate and trauaile went to a Conduit in the streetes of Moruecos to drink a little water but the people so wondered at him and reuiled the poore slaue crying out hee knew not God for breaking in publique their Lawe though it doth admit one may breake the fast for great necessitie a day or two in his trauaile so hee take vpon his conscience to fast as many dayes as hee hath missed before the next Rumedan come againe that the poore slaue seeing himselfe condemned of his owne people and dishonoured before the Christian trauailers in a desperate minde which may be counted zeale killed himselfe with his owne dagger The Iewes in that Countrey obserue a Lent in remembrance of their fortie yeares iourney in the Wildernesse but diuide the forty dayes of this their Lent equally into euery moneth some Their second feast called Lidlaber celebrated about our Whitsontide is kept in remembrance of Abrahams obedience in sacrificing his sonne Isaac therefore the Moore be he poore or rich for himselfe and for euerie sonne he hath will buy a shéepe against the day when euery one must kill his shéepe with his owne hands And the King both the like slaying one with his owne hand turning the head into the East The Iewes in their Church or Synagogue thrée or foure times when they are at praiers ●…o blow a shéepes horne in remembrance of this feast but not euery one bloweth it only the greatest Raby or high Priest for solémnitie sake doth it Their third feast is like to our Michaelmasse called Lashour which the Iewes kéepe as the feast of Tabernacles The Moore celebrateth it after his Inning of Corne and fruits The King maketh vse of this positiue Law strengthning it with his authoritie as also with the habite and cloake of Religion and conscience thereby to make his subiect pay the tenths due to bee payed at that time of all his corne and cattle both young and old with greater alacritie All which commeth vnto the Kings coffers Like wise at this time the common people should pay the tenth of their money to the poore and Church something indéed they giue but if the King bée payed y● oftentimes is winked at their Church hauing no command to compell y● laitie to pay their due for the temporall sword since Augustines time who as many 〈◊〉 report hath preached in Morruecos and not ●…arre from thence lieth buried hath beaten downe the key of the Prelacie the beautie of which being taken from them no doubt is the greatest cause of their barbarisme and slauerie There fourth ●…east is their Candlemasse day called Lidshemaw when euery one must haue a Candle for him selfe and for euery sonne in his house The King that day hath candles carried to him thorow the Citie some like Maypoles other like Castles sixe or eight men carrying one of them they are so great and heauie made so ●…ne with deuises as some are in making sixe moneths That night the king doth heare all his law read and the like is done in all other Churches Likewise vpon their good Fryday in Lent the law is re●… ouer and the Talby which can not read it ouer in one night is held as insufficient for his place and function Many of their learned men sit vp all that night because many of the denotest Moores will watch the ●…ight thorow to heare their law not in remembrance of our Sauiour Christ is this méeting but rather to supp●…e the sparkes of Christianitie in the mindes of their owne people and darken the remembrance of his most bitter death and passion The manner of going to prayer THey go to seruice ●…xe times in twentie foure hours washing themselues