The tragicall life and death of Muley Abdala Melek the late King of Barbarie With a proposition, or petition to all Christian princes, annexed therevnto: VVritten by a gentleman imployed into those parts. Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638. 1633 Approx. 50 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 16 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A02730 STC 12860 ESTC S116606 99851822 99851822 17114 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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With A PROPOSITION , OR PETITION TO ALL Christian Princes , annexed therevnto : VVritten by a Gentleman imployed into those parts . Printed at Delph , ANNO 1633. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS , AND HOPEFVLL young Prince CHARLES Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhyne , &c. MOST ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE , The great respect I receiued from your Highnes at Leyden two severall times after my comming out of Barbarie , and the great desire your Highnes expressed ( as becometh Princes ) to vnderstand , and be informed in foraigne afaires , and the State of other countries , hath encouraged me ( hauing novv againe been imployed into that countrie ) to present to your Highnes , for a Nevv-years-gift , this short relation , of the life , & death of the late King Muley Abdala Melek , as vvas related to me by vvaie of discourse onlie , at seuerall times , by those vvho for the most part vvere eye-vvitnesses : Oculati testes . VVhich also may serue your Highnes for matter of discourse , and further information likewise , to discerne betwixt a blessed Christian gouernment , vvhereunto God hath ordained you , and a cruell tyrannous Mahometan gouernment ( as is the Turkish , ) vnder vvhich those miserable mis-belieuers : yea and manie Christians likevvise there in most miserable slauerie , groane : the Lord deliuer them from it . And giue vs grace to make vse of it : both Prince . people , and acknovvledge our owne happines . Prince , vvho commaund ouer Christian , obedient , and dutifull subiects : and subiects vvho liue vnder so peaceable , and Christian a gouernement , bona si sua norit agricola , free from tyrannie , rebuel : as , and tumults , vvhereunto that countrie of Barbaric hath this long time been subiect . Such is the miserable state , and condition of tyrannie , and of tyrants , euen of Kings : as your Highnes may perceiue , by the sodaine , fearefull , and miserable end of this King : qualis vita sinis ita : his life vvas bloodie , and so it ended in blood , in his owne blood . And thereafter may your Highnes , and all other yong Princes , vvho haue so good tuitors , and ouerseërs to informe them learne : ( as that famous Buchanan tuitor to your grand Father King Iames of blessed memorie , in his epistle dedicatorie before his Tragaedie called Baptistes , admonisheth , vvorthie to be read ouer , and ouer , and remembred of all yong Princes , his vvords , as I remember , are these ) maturé odisse quod tibi semper est fugiendum . VVhich I pray God both your Highnes , and all other Princes may remember , and make vse of . Hoping your Highnes vvill accept of this small present out of a Barbarous countrie , for vvant of a better . vvhither I should haue returned , for the releasse of the remainder of my poore countrymen , in captiuitie vnder the new King Muley Elvvalid , vpon a new treatie . Hauing alreadie been a means to releasse aboue two hundreth and threescore from Sallie : and threescore mee as yet remaining vnder this king at Morocco , and Sallie , by them taken againe vpon a late breach : besides vvhat are dispersed vp and dovvne the countrie : all promised by that King to be releassed vpon his treatie . VVhither ( I say ) I should haue returned long before this time , longed , and long looked for by those poore captiues . For the captiue hasteneth to be loosed &c. as it is in the Prophet . But vvhether I shall returne at all : or those poore captiues be loosed , or releassed at all , is in Gods hands : vvho can make their verie enemies , and all those that haue caried them avvaie captiues , to pitie them : othervvise no hope at all . And so I leaue them to Gods mercie : and both them , & all others in like distresse , both there , and elsvvhere , to your Highnes , and all other Christian princes to commiscrate , according to a proposition , or petition , I haue hereunto annexed , highlie concerning them in honour to consider of : vvhich is also in Gods hands : For the hearts of Kings ( as Salomon saith ) are in Gods hands , he turneth thē vvhich vvaiesoeuer he pleaseth . In the meane time ( as my dutie is , hauing been imployed in these affaires ) I can but sollicit , and petition , though vvithout effect , in hope contrarie to hope : hauing hitherto receiued so small encouragement : but discouragements : and so goe on mourning still , and like to doe : finis vnius mali gradus futuri . One crosse after an other still readie to receiue me , VVhich I must beare patientlie , so commaunded , so resolued : To take vp the crosse of Christ , and follovv him vvhither soeuer he commaundeth , from one conntrie to an other , from one part of the vvorld to an other , and to the vvorlds end . Quem statues finem Rex magne laborum ? And so goe on mourning still , as I haue don these manie years . Hoc continuis agimus annis : a countinuall mourner euer since the death of prince Henry my maister , novv renewed by the death of your Royall Father , & that renovvmed King of Svveden , vvho died that verie day of the month prince Henry died , the 6. of Nouember : the date after the povvder plot , ominous . For both vvhich the vvhole church of Christ hath cause to mourne , and that continuallie , not onlie outvvardlie , but invvardlie euerie familie a part : as vvas that great mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon . For that good King Iosiah , continuallie , continuis annis euen to posteritie : to be continued ( I say ) as vvas that , for these two so good Kings , so sodainlie , & so vntimelie taken avvate . To mourne ( I say ) continuallie , and invvardlie for our sins , vvhich are the cause of these disasters : Verus luctus est occultus : that is the true mourning : so to condole , and mourne . And so let vs continue our mourning , and goe on mourning still : euerie familie a part , euerie true Christian a part , to beare a part , in this so great a mourning , vvith our deare mother the church : that comfortles Rachel , vvho vveepeth for her children , and vvill not be comforted because they are not . Yea , let the vvhole church of Christ renevve her vveeping , and mourning againe , till it Echo againe , not onlie the last vvords , vltima verba ( as it is in Seneca ) Sed totos reddat Troiae gemitus ) for her children first , and last taken from her , one after an other , because they are not . Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie , is not . King Iames , is not . Prince Henry ; is not And the other hopefull young prince Henry your brother , is not . Your Royall Father , the King of Bohemia , is not . The King of Svveden , is not . Hovv is the valiant man fallen that deliuered Israel ? Besides other vvorthies : the old prince of Orange , and others , they are not . Yea manie other poore Christian soules , of late slaine , massacred , perished , and lost , both vnder the Antichristian & Mahometan tyrannie , they are not . For vvhom the vvhole church of Christ hath cause to mourne : neuer more cause , neuer more seasonable . VVherunto now I betake myself , euen to praiers and teares the vveapons of Gods church : VVhich shall be the second part . And my Account hereafter mentioned , the third , and last : If God permit , and other obstacles hinder not . And so rest Your Highnes humble seruant , IOHN HARRISON . THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MVLEY ABDALA MELEK , the late King of Barbarie . IF Plutarch ( vvho did vvrite , and paralel the lives , and acts of the most famous men of those times ) vvere novv living , to vvrite and paralel on the contrarie the lives and acts of the most infamous men of the vvorld , I think he vvould haue much adoe to finde out a fit match , either auncient or moderne , vvherevnto to paralel the late King of Barbarie Muley Abdala Melek : yea rather I thinke he vvould leave him vnparalel'd . And so must I , only setting dovvne so much as in that short time I staid at Morocco ( vvhich vvas but tvvo monthes ) hath been related to me by vvay of discourse , by such both of our ovvne nation and others as vvere for the most part eye-vvitnesses , vvhich is scarce the hundreth part of his cruel acts , and mad-pranks he plaid in that short time of his raigne : vvhich vvas scarce foure yeares , mad-pranks I may call them , for so is he commonlie called the mad King. He vvas Son to Mulay Sidan by a negra , so by complexion a molato : The Mores in that respect vvhether of vviues or concubines making no difference of succession , but commonlie the eldest , though by a concubine , carieth the crovvne : and sometimes the yonger getteth the blessing from the elder : quo iure &c. capiat qui capere potest . He vvas extraordinarilie giuen to drinke vvine and strong drinke , vvhich added to his naturall disposition : ( vvhich needed not ) inclyned to crueltie euen from his infancie . Of a manlie stature : and of a most couragious disposition . A good horseman , vvith his launce & target ; vvould euer be the first man in the face of his enemies : vvho indeed durst neuer look him in the face , but presently faces about : his svvord making vvaie for him vvhich waie soeuer he vvent . Such vvas his resolusion , viam inveniam aut faciam . So that it may be doubted vvhether his courage , or crueltie vvere greater : and in these tvvo respects , I vvil be bold to saie ( as before ) not to be paraleld by any . As by these fevv passages , gessing at Hercules by his foote , may easelie appeare . And euen before he vvas King began to play his prize like , Hercules furens , his arme and svvord still in action , cutting and killing at his pleasure vpon euery slight occasion . At one time he killed one of his ovvne blood ( the blood royall ) onlie for tasting a litle of his svveet meates by stealth . Sweet meates must haue sowre sauce . An other ( the chieffest of the cast of the Shebanites allied vnto him by mariage of his Praedecessours into that cast ) hauing vvronged one of his servants , he taketh some fevv of his servants , not aboue ten at the most vvith him , goeth desperatlie among all the Shebanites to the ●ent of this man , being the valiantest amongst them all , challenged him of the vvrong : vvho slighted him ( being then not King ) mounted on horsebacke , discharged his pistoll at him but missed , whō presently this yong Prince drawing his sword slue hand to hād maugre al the Shebanits , & came of cleare An other time a Levantado or rebell ( one of their saints ) comming against his Father Muley Sidan vvith 3000. horse , like to surprize him on a sodaine , he vvith his drums , musik and ensignes , and not aboue fortie horse , vvent out against him , chardged so furiously , as put them , al to flight : pursued the victory , & ( as they say ) vvith his ovvne hand vvounded the Levantado that he dyed , his head after brought in , to Muley Sidan , hanged vp in the Alcasaua , and quarters likevvise on the vvals of Morocco , on the gates of the citie . Hauing be ore challenged his Father of neglect , and too much securitie : of vvhom not only his enemies , but euen his Father ( as they say ) stood in feare , yet his Father calling him Father . Such is the praeposterous maner of the Moores , to call their eldest Son Father , out of a reuerence ( as they say ) they giue to him being the first born , & to be ( as it seemeth ) Pater familias , Father of the familie for the time to come , other reason I can not giue of their praeposterous inversion of that relation , ( or rather confusion ) for the Father , to call his Son Father . Our Heauenly Father I am sure did not so , the King of Kings : Thou art my Son , &c. as it is in the Psalmes . Nor Dauid the King in that his patheticall expression of his Fatherly affection , far beyond theirs , yea beyond all expression : Absalon my Son , my Son. After his comming to be King some of the frends of the Leuantado hauing by stealth taken dovvne his quarters to bury them , he commanded a great number of the neighbours heads who dvvelt neere there aboutes to be cut of , executing many vvith his ovvne hands as he met them in the streets . And not long after immediatlie vpon the death of his Father , being nevvlie proclaimed King , his brother Muley Flvvallid ( this King ) comming against him vvith a great force , better affected of the comminaltie than the other , in respect of his crueltie : ( vvhich they greatlie feared , and not vvithout cause , as aftervvards they found ) Muley Abdala Melek giuing order first for his ordnance , to be dischardged , immediatlie after himself , being the first , man ( hauing but a fevv horse ) chardged so furiouslie , and so throughlie , as he rovvted them all ▪ vvhervpon his brother fled tovvards Sallie , but not long after vvas betrayed & brought back againe by Alkaid Hamuda dvvelling neare Azamore , vvhose horma or sanctuarie he tooke , invited and encouraged by him to some further attempt : but indeed betrayed , vvho after vsed him in a verie base & vnseemlie manner , stripping him , beating him , and carying him , chained vpon a horse to the King. VVherevpon the King ( they say ) vvhen he savv him relented , yea vvept , not vsing any extremitie , but rather out of his lion-like magnanimitie , contemning vvhat either he , or any other had don , or could doe against him . Yet did his brother liue in continuall feare , diuers times threatned by the King in his mad humor , sending to him to prepare himself , and to knovve vvhat kinde of death he vvould dye : but by mediation of his sisters and others still put of . At one time ( the King being at Saffia ) in his drunken humor , the sentence pronounced , and an Alkaid presentlie sent tovvards Morocco , vvhere his brother was then prisonner to execute it : but the next morning the King comme to himself , and by mediation ( as before ) reversed , and a messenger dispatched to countermaund the other , vvhom he ouertooke but at Tansift a riuer vvithin foure myles of Morocco , commanded vpon his life to ouertake him : the other making no great hast , othervvise it had been executed . One time at Saffia his Almahalla or campe ( vvherein his brother Muley Semyn vvas then ) comming to pitch neare thereaboutes , he in steed of a vvarning piece to remoue further of , shot a bullet amongst them . An other time ( as I heard ) in iest among the market folke : yet did no hurt but killed an asse . An other time in his Almahalla ( hauing been all the daie abroad drinking as he vsed ) and coming riding in late at night vpon the spur , as he passed by the ordnance , vvhereof the English had the chardge , he commaunded on the sodaine svvearing a great English oath , giue fire : vvhich they presentlie did , they durst doe no othervvise : so shot avvaie his ovvne vncle being in companie vvith him all to peeces , His yongest brother , yea and his ovvne yong sonne , sometimes vvould he hang vp by the legs , and beate them vvith his ovvne hands . No merveile then if he vvere cruell to others , being so vnnaturall to his owne flesh and blood . Euerie daie must see blood ( blood shed ) vvere it but of a hen , els not satisfied . Possessed ( as some of the Moores haue told me manie are , & that he vvas ) vvith a she deuill , frequent amongst them as ( it seemeth ) amongst the heathen in times past , vvhereof a heathen philosopher writeth a set treatise of Incubus and succubus . And the partie vvho told me this said , that one daie going a hawking hauing other Moores vvith him , one follovving a good distance in the high vvaie , on a sodaine stood still , and not long after they savv a smoake arise in the same place , vvhereat they vvondered , & vvent back , finding the man much amazed . Asking the reason , he said a vvoman met him there verie faire & in good attyre , vvho offered herself to be his wife , he ansvvered , he had one alreadie , she replyed he might take an other ( for so the Moores may by their lavv ) being verie importunate vvith him : at length looking dovvnevvards perceiued her clubbed feet , & vvhat she vvas , wherevpon he vvent back , and absolutly refused , and therevpon she vanished in that maner in a great snuffe . The man presently therevpon falling sick , and so continued a good vvhile . Hovv true this is I can not say , but vvas reported to me verie seriously , and for a certaintie . But of this I am sure that the deuill can transforme himself into an Angel of light : much more take vpon him the shape of a man , or a vvoman , as God permitteth to delude those that obey not the truth . And this likevvise I knovve to be true and certaine , that he is both a lyer ( the Father of lyes ) and a murderer from the beginning : euer a thirst , and neuer satisfied vvith blood . And therefore no merveile if this tyrant vvere so possessed as before , that euerie daie he must see blood els not satisfied . And if euery day , hovv much blood may be thought he shed in that time of his life & raigne . Sometimes he vvould cut of mens heads vvith his ovvne hands , and vvith his ovvne sharp svvord , saying , those vvhom he commaunded did not cut them of vvell , and at once : vvhich don vvould aske one of the Englishmen if it vvere not vvell done , he must say yea Muley . Yea six or seauen mens heads in one day . Once by euermuch drinking distempered in his bodie , hauing his armes and hands benummed , his Doctor persvvaded him to enter into a bath . After his bathing meeting vvith one of his concubines , drevv out his svvord and cut of her head , to trie the strength of his arme if it vvere sound againe . Also an other for going out of her bite or chamber to the next doore to one of her fellovves , for the Moores are iealous euen of their vvomen , and vvill not suffer them to companie together . Made one man stand still vvhile he threvv stones at his face , threatning if he offered to stir or moue he vvould cut of his head . So likevvise abroad in the fields , ofttimes vvould cause some one of his seruants to lie dovvne grovelling , & sit vpon him in steed of a stoole a vvhole night together drinking : and the man durst not for his life stir . And some to stand by him vvhole daies and nights vvithout moouing hand or foote , othervvise vvould haue cut of their heads . VVould cause men to be drubbed , or beaten almost to death in his presence , vvhich vvas but a common & gentle correction , fiue or six hundreth blovves at once , and after they must kisse the ground , & giue him thanks . To whom in this particular , & others likevvise , I may paralel a great Lord in this part of the vvorld : vvho ( hauing slaine an other in a privat duell , and , vpon iust occasion offered , taxed by one to vvhom he had don vvrong , disgracing , & disabling him , and that in an open assemblie , & displacing him too : and therefore had the partie reason there also to right himself , and reply , par pari referre , and disable him likevvise for shedding of blood , vvhich by the Lavv of God is murder ) caused the partie to be committed to prison ( closse prisoner at the first ) and there kept , and fed vvith the bread of affliction , till in the end he vvas forced : ( his imprisonment , and punishment both of bodie and purse , besides the disgrace , no sufficient satisfaction ) to kisse the ground , that is , make an humble submission , and subscribe that he had offended , and abused his Lordship vvith opprobrious , and vnciuill language &c. that is to say , that the Lavv of God is an opprobrious & vnciuill language , vvhich saith : He that smiteth an other vvith an instrument of yron , that he dy is a murderer &c. vvhich submission he novv vtterly disclaimeth , as most blasphaemous against God & his Lavv , & don of infirmity , and by dares of imprisonment , hauing no meanes at all to maintaine himself any longer in prison , but there to starve : praying God to forgiue him , and them likevvise vvho imposed it . To vvhom ( euen to that great God ) that great Lord ought rather to make submission , for violating his holie Lavv , as David did , ( a King and vvas not ashamed . ) I haue sinned &c. yea and after fell to the ground , and kissed the ground vvith manie teares . Therefore is he a saint in heauen : and Muley Abdala Melek , and all such bloodie tyrants , & murderers ( vvithout repentance ) deuills in hell . For Topheth is praepared of old euen for Kings , and Lords too if they repent not : For vvith God there is no respect of persons . Nor vvas vvith this King Muley Abdala Melek , in the cruell course of his tyrannie : vvherevnto all , both great and small , vvere subject . Yea he vvould , cause some to be beaten on the soles of their feet , and after make them run vp , and dovvne among the stones , and thornes . And so also vsed some that vvere lame , & hurt , pulling of there shooes , & making them run barefooted in such places : or els vvould cut of their heads . Did cause one of his Alkaids ( his chieffe falconer ) to be drubbed and beaten , manie hundreth blovves on the buttocks ( as himself told me ) and after forced him to ride in that painfull maner after him a havvking . Also the same Alkaid told me , that the girth of his sadle being broken , and he allighted : an other Alkaid comming to help him , and holding his stirrop , the King called that Alkaid to him , and caused him to be drubbed for holding his stirrop , and not long after the like occasion falling out againe , caused the same Alkaid to be drubbed againe , for not holding his stirrop . He run a mans thigh thorovv vvith his launce to the saddle , and after because he vvas not able to ride after him a pace , giue him tvvo or three hundreth blovves . VVould vvith his sword cut and flash men for his pleasure , and after himself giue them plaisters to cure them . VVould cast men to the lions to be devoured , an other of his torments . To one among the rest he promised that if he vvould fight vvith them , and could escape he should be perdoned : vvhich he did manfullie ( as I vvas told ) beating them from him either vvith stones or som such meanes clearing himself , yet af●er vvas put to death Some he caused to be rastrar'd , or dragged by the feete at the horse heeles , their back and head against the stones : as he did the Hacam of Morocco ( the chieffe officer of that citie ) round about his Almahalla or camp till he died . Others iointed , their fingers , and toes first cut of by euerie jointe , armes and legs , & so head and all . An other hanged vp by the priuie members , one caused to sit vpon him to vveigh him dovvne : and vet the man liuing . Another ( a hole digged in the ground ) set in the earth vp to the head , as Schollers in some places use to shoote at the cock at Shrouetyde : so did he cause the captiues vvith their peeces to shoote at this poore mans head . They all missing , he himself came neere vvith his ovvne peece and shot him , calling him a deuill because they all missed him . He cut of a Moores head ( a church man , or Sexton ) for crying on the church tovver or steeple , and cursing all that did drinke vvine , forbidden by their lavve . An other also for crying and singing more then vsuall . For the Moores haue noe bels , but in steed thereof , these cryers to call them to their devotions : in the name of God , one God , the great God , and his Prophet Mahomet , the Messenger of God. Some say this mad King did once threaten that he vvould haue one of the Friars , French or Spanish , to sing masse before him : vvhich I thinke vvould haue pleased him little better . He caused a French captiue to turne Moore , and be cut , that is made an eunuch , onlie for extolling the King of France to be one of the greatest Monarches of the vvorld . An other , vvho kept his horse , neuer vvithout slashes and vvounds . An other Frenchmans doublet vvith a paire of sizers did he cut all ouer in slashes vvith his ovvne hands , saying , he vvas novv a right French Cavallero , like to the rest . If in his drunken humor abroad in the fields ( as he vvas seldome sober ) he did fall from his horse , all his Alkaid● and seruants must doe the like , and lie dovvne , and doe as he did . Much like the catching of the dotterill : and not offer to rise or get on horseback till he did , nor to hold his stirrop , or come neare him all the vvhile , if they did he vvould giue them blovves . One of his Alkaids , for some such like offence , caused he to sit 24. houres on he top of his tent in the Almahalla ( as it vvere on the pillorie ) for all men to gaze vpon . And novv and then vvould he giue them a pill called Shishai ( the effect vvhereof is to make men merie drunke ) to make himself sport . But indeed his onlie sport vvas in cutting of mens heads , and ( as before ) in shedding , and seeing of blood . No one day escaped but one or other sacrificed in most bloodie manner to this vnsatiable deuill : and she deuill together , if that opinion of the Moores be true , as before . On a time the Christian captiues , at Saffia the port town , had laid a plot to breake the prison , and escape by sea in a boate , but in the acting thereof vvere discouered , all taken and beaten in most pitifull maner to make them confesse the Authors , most of them Spaniards , and French : the chieffe plotter a Spaniard ( as it seemeth ) of some account , called Don Pedro , vvho vvas sent for to the King ( then in his Almahalla ) vvho therevpon called all the English , and others to kneele before him , setting the Spaniard also right before him . Then said to the English , youe see this mis beliuer that vvould haue run avvaie , if any of youe be like minded , run sure , and cleare avvaie : othervvise , if youe be taken see here your doome . Then caused he first the Spaniards eares to be cut of one after an other : then his nose : then his lippes one after an other : then his mouth , on both sides slit vp to the eares : then his fingers disiointed one from an other : vvhich don the King fell a laughing , ha , ha , ha . Then said the Spaniard to him ( hauing all this while looked him in the face & indured it verie manfullie ) novv Tyrant doe thy vvorst . vvherevpon presentlie he cut of his head . So dyed this valiant champion , euen in death triumphing ouer his tyrannicall tormentors . An other time a Moore being brought before him for some misdemeanor fearing death , said vnto him : Muley , I haue liued all the daies of my life hitherto a Christian , if thou vvilt novv pardon me , I vvill turne true Moore againe . His meaning vvas that he had liued a vvicked , and levvd life , as many Christians haue don , and doe , both in that and other countries , I speake it to their shame , vvhereby the name of Christ , & his religion is scandalized , and blasphaemed : but yet , notvvithstanding that his confession , that he had liued a Christian , and profession to turne Moore againe , ( that is to say , ) to lead a godly life , vvas executed . For vvith this King there vvas no respect of persons , or religions , or occasions great or small . Sins veniall , or mortall all one , that is to say mortall , Occasions ? nay oft times vvithout any occasion at all but onlie as he met vvith any by accident , in his drunken and deuilish humor , vvould try ( as before vpon his ovvne vvomen ) the strength of his arme , and goodnes of his svvord and chiefflie vpon his ovvne nation vvithout respect of persons : he had no minions , or favorits at all : one good propertie in him . VVhat shall I say . But ( as an Alkaid telling me of these and other his mad and tragicall acts exclaimed ) a deuill , a deuill . His Alcasava , or court the verie picture of hell : vvhich made the greater and better forte to flee away into the mountaines , or stand vpon their guard a far of : like those vvylie foxes in AEsop seeing all foote steps going forvvard into the lions den , but fevv or none retrorsum , back againe . And those that did , hovvling , and crying , vveeping , and vvayling sighing , and vvringing their hands , either for themselues , or their friends . This vvas the dailie , and dolefull musick both vvithin and vvithout : the verie gates of hell . Friends ? nay rather fiends , daylie tormenting one an other . For so vvould he commaund his Alkaids , and servants to drub one an other at his pleasure , & cut of one an others heads too . He vvould commonlie say in a iesting maner , that it seemed to him whensoeuer he executed any of the Moores , that they had tvvo or three heads : meaning to cut of but one , he left none : vvishing ( as it seemeth ) like that Romane tyrant , that all the Romanes had but one neck , he vvould cut them all of at once : So Muley Abdala Melek , the Moores , of vvhom he vvas Flagellum , the onlie vvhip that euer vvas . And ( as some thinke ) the best King for the Moores that euer vvas : requiring not a blocke , but AEsops storke to keepe them in subiection , they othervvise prone to rebellion , affecting alteration , and innovation : as their refran or proverb is : Everie day a new cus-cus , euerie day a nevv vvife , and euerie day a nevv King. And though he vvas thus cruell and tyrannous to the Moores , and others , yet did he favour much and respect the English , to vvit the captiues , both before and after he vvas King. Making one of them once to ride behinde him , but vvithall bidding him not sit too closse to him for filling him full of lyce . Threatning sometimes , but yet neuer giuing any of them so much as a blovve . VVho in his fathers time were kept in chaines both by the neck and legs , but he comming to be king releassed them , and made them , his gunners , giuing them free leaue to goe vp and dovvne vvhere they vvould at their pleasure , and doe almost vvhat they vvould : and not a Moore that durst controll them , but rather stood in avve of them . Though their allovvance but short , yet , hauing that libertie , they made the better shift . And somtimes the king himself in a good humor vvould giue them money : yea , and sometimes in his mad humor . Yet did he cause some English boyes perforce to turne Moores , cutting them , and making them capadoes , or eunuches : but aftervvards ( as they say ) repented , saying : he vvould neuer more force Englishmen to turne Moores , for he found them better seruants to him being christians , then Moores : for that being christians they vvould stand by him , and stay vvith him : but being Moores run avvaie from him , hauing more libertie and opportunitie . And as he vvas ( as I may say contrarie to his nature ) thus favourable to the captiues , so vvas he likevvise to the Merchants , or others that came as hoare . He being at Saffia one time standing vpon the vvals , an English boate comming as hoare , he called to one of the men to come to him : vvho , not knovving him to be the king , al the while stood talking vnto him vvith his hatt on his head in Spanish , after the King going into the castle , called one of the English captiues to him , asking him if his countriemen had no better maners ? bidding him gofetch the partie to him , vvho being come , the King vvould say nothing to him , but only made him to attend there a good time , and caused the English captiue vvhom he loued vvell , to be committed to prison in the others steed , and chaines to be put on him . But the next day sent for him , causing his svvord to be restored to him , and so , in a mad humor , made him , both vvith his svvord about his side , and chaines about his legs , to vvalke after him round about the vvals , talking , and iesting vvith him familiarlie as he vvas vvont : and then after this chaines also vvere taken from him . This onlie he did in iest , to teach Englishmen good maners against an other time . But to the Moores his iests vvere in good earnest , a vvord and a blovve . At the same place at Saffia , he vvould take the vvomen , a vvashing at the sea side vpon the sands , set them vpon their heads , & cause vvater to be powred ( vvith reverence be it spoken ) into their vnseemly parts , to see if it vvould come out at the mouth againe . He mustered all the faire vvomen in Morocco : ( vvhereof it seemeth he had a Catalogue ) causing them all at once , & on a sodaine to come forth into his great garden , called Monsarat : ( being a mile in length , planted vvith Orange , and lemmon trees , and all kinde of fruits ) and there pitch their tents for 14. daies together : praetending a pilgrimage vvith his vvomen to Gometta , tovvards the hils of Atlas , no man to come neare them ( no not their husbands ) but only their negras , & seruing maids : himself onlie vvalking the round , all these vvomen dailie and nightlie sitting , and attending in their tent doores as he passed by to vievv them : modestie m●y not repeat the rest . At Gometta there is the monument of Siddie Blabbas one of their great saints , and there a great stonne , vpon vvhich the Moores vse to rub their bellies , saying it cureth the chollicke and diuers other diseases . Som Christians say this Siddie Blabbas vvas saint Augustine , and that vpon this ston he preached : both vvhich savour of superstition . But Muley Abdala Melck had no such devotion , for he vvent not there at all , nor those vvomen neither , almost famished and starved vvith hunger , and cold : for no man durst come neare them all that time to bring them any provision . This vvas one of his tragicomicall parts . One of the Englishmen vvhom he loued aboue the rest , vvho had the chardge of one of his chieffe horses , vvhich vvas verie vnrulie , & vvould bite any man that came neare him , therfore alvvaies fast tyed vp : the king comming into his rovva , or stable , & spying some thing amisse about the horse , vvould not strike the Englishman , but commanded the horse to be let loose , & the Englishman to stand fast by him , suffering the horse to bite him at his pleasure , euē the flesh frō his armes : durst not stir till the king called to him . An other time , the same Englishman complayning to him , that he had nothing to eate saue barlie , the King caused the horse his Sabadera or bag in vvhich they vse to giue them provander , to be hanged about the English mans necke full of barlie : ( as they doe vpon their horses heads ) and so made him eate the barlie like a horse . An other time the King , hauing taken offence at some thing , threatned to kill the Englishman , and that vvithout delay : an Alkaid , vvilling to saue his life , offered the King I knovve not how manie hundreth Duccats for him , to buy him of the King. VVhy thou foole ( said the King ) doest thou thinke I meane to kill him ? No , I vvould not for so manie thousand Duccats : but to the Moores ( as I said before ) his iests , and threats vvere in good earnest . One of his Negros vvhom he loued , and called brother , hauing offended him , being in his Obadia , that statelie pallace , vvalking in his garden , a little paradise , in the middest vvhereof are diuers pleasant tankes or ponds , he caused him to be cast into one of them , forbidding any to come neare him to help him out againe : at length , hauing vvalked a turne or tvvo , bade one goe pull him out : vvho brought him vvord he vvas drovvned . VVhat my brother drovvned , said he ? Goe pull him out , and burie him : there vvas all the mourning . An other he caused to eate his ovvne excrement : asking hovv it relished . Yea he himself cut a peece of the brawne of a mans arme vvhom he had killed , broyled it on the coales , and did eate it . The King of Gagoes son , not ouer a day or tvvo before the Kings death ( some say the same day ) drinking together , because he vvas not able to pledge him so much as he drunk , being all aqua vitae ( for so must euerie one doe as he did , and drinke as he did ) caused the vvhole bole full of aqua vitae to be giuen him backvvard like a glister , till it reversed in their faces againe that gaue it . Hauing not long before made him to stand tvvo daies , and tvvo nights in the vvater . And before throvvne dovvne an other of the sons from the vvals of Saffia , and broke his thigh . Vnder a colour of going a hawking , vvould lie vvhole daies , and nights abroad in the fields a drinking : And before his death manie daies , & nights together . God hauing bereaued him of his vnderstāding as he did Nebuchadnezer , and driuen him from men to dwell vvith the beasts of the field . Yea he himself not long before , hauing driuen avvaie from him all his most trustie servants , ( saue one or tvvo ) committed to prison : And vvithall a vvatchfull dog vvhich he loued , & fed vvith his ovvne hand , for some small offence he tooke , likevvise committed to prison vvith them : commaunding he should but haue so much bread , and vvater a daie . All these his vvatchmen at once sequestred from him , and the other so ouer toyled , & vvearied vvith vvatching day & night : ( perhaps also vvearie of him as vvere others : ) all seemed to conspire his death . Plotted ( as it seemeth ) before by some of the Elchies , or renegadoes , vvhom the King had threatned the next time he came to his house in Morocco to cut , and make Eunuches , to the number of two hundreth : vvhereof they vvere sore affraid . And therefore one among the rest ( a Frenchman as is reported ) vvatched his opportunitie vvhen the King came back to his tent at night ( hauing been all the day abroad a drinking ) and vvith a peece chardged vvith tvvo chained bullets , shot him in by the fundament , and privie members into the bodie , as he vvas lying along in his tent . A iust iudgement of God , in respect of that glister of aqua vitae he gaue to the King of Gagoes Son : & threatning likevvise the elchies as before . As also in respect of that abhominable impudent and filthie act he did at Saffia to those poore vvomen . But chiefly ( vvhich God in the end vvill punish vpon those Mahometans , both Turks and Moores ) in causing poore Christians ( boyes and others ) to be circumcised perforce , yea cut , and made eunuches . A iust iudgement of God ( I say ) of all those Tyrants , both Turkes , Moores , and others , to be trembled at : and so I leaue him . Immediatly after his death his younger brother Muley Elvvallid vvas saluted King : being at that time a prisoner in the Alcasaua , the Kings house in Morocco , expecting dailie nothing els but death . VVherevpon some of his frends ( as at such a time , and in such a case all are frends , & happie he that can be the first ; and svviftest Messenger ) running in all hast to the prison doore , and crying out aloud to him to come forth : he thinking it had been to execution , to be put to death : lingering , & excusing himself , that he vvould but take leaue of his vvife , and make himself readie ( vvhich he did only to die ) they calling , and crying more and more , at length he came forth , and so vvas pregoned , and proclaimed King of a prisoner ( I say ) on a sodaine become a King. Of a far more soft nature , & disposition than his brother : yet cruell and Tyrannous to poore Christians , and to the English , vvhom of late he hath most Barbarously entreated some of them . Eight at once taken , and circumcised perforce : beaten , vvounded , and one mans head almost cut of , to make them turne Moores , and forsake their faith . The rest fearefull , dailie expecting the like measure : as by letters latelie vvritten from the Merchants there may appeare : vvhich I reserue , vvith other passages , to a further account , leauing them to his mercie , vvhich indeed is crueltie : For the mercies of the vvicked are cruelties : and him and them to God to iudge betwixt them , which in time might haue been preuented , by a seasonable dispatch long since expected : the losse of so manie poore Christian soules , as necessarie I dare say as some other dispatches : if the bodies , and soules of Christians be esteemed of any value novv a daies : as they are in Gods sight right precious : precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints . And novv vvill I addresse my selfe ( vvith this Proposition : and petition herevnto annexed ) to Christian Princes , to condole , and commiserate the distressed , or rather desperate estate of these most miserable , or rather more than miserable , creatures , if more may be : not only the English , but all other nations , vvho this long time haue indured a most miserable , and intollerable slauerie vnder these infidels , both Turks , and Moores , and are like to doe more and more if not prevented : VVhich I pray God at length they may take into their Christian consideration . AMEN . A PROPOSITION , AND PETITION TO ALL CHRISTIAN Princes , and States , Professours , and Defenders of the true Christian faith , against all Antichristian povvers and principallities : As vvell the Pope , and his adherents , as the Turk , & his Vassals , the Mahometans : both the one , & the other , novv in these last daies , to be vtterly destroyed : and the Kingdome of Iesus Christ to be erected neuer to be destroyed : but to indure , and triumph euen to the end of the VVorld , according to Daniels Prophecie 2. 44. And our Sauiours likevvise : Mat. 24. 14. This Gospel of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the vvorld , for a vvitnes vnto all nations , and then shall the end come . MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCES , Hauing been heretofore diuers times imployed into Barbarie , for the redeeming of poore Christians out of Slauerie , and other affaires : and hauing been an eye-vvitnes of those great miseries , or rather indignities , don to those poore Christians in those Countries by that Barbarous people : indignities ( I say ) not to be vttered , not to be expressed , but rather vailed ouer : as did that painter the sorovvfull , and mournefull , or rather more than mournefull countenance of that heathen Prince for his daughter , adiudged to be sacrificed to that heathen Goddesse , or rather Idoll : by no painters pensill to be expressed . More than mournefull ( I say ) maiora lachrymis : so manie poore Christians dailie taken by those infidels , Turks and Moores , and caried captiues into those cruell lions dens , as sheepe appointed for the slaughter : bought and sold in the merket , as beasts , and not men : and devoured by those blooddie monsters : vvhose soules lie vnder the Altar , daily sacrificed to those heathen deuills , crying : Hovv long , o Lord holie and true , doest thou not iudge , and auenge our blood on them that dvvell on the earth ? Yea beaten , and tormented euen to death , to make them forsake their faith : as not only men , but children also haue been forced , ( and are daily ) taken perforce ( I say ) and circumcised , yea made Eunuches , and so disabled at once , both from being men , and Christian men , & othervvise most shamefullie abused by those filthy sodomites , not to be vttered . Quis Italia fando &c. temperet a lachrymis ? Indignities ( I say ) maiora lachrymis , don , not onlie to those poore Christians , but euen to Christ Iesus himself , and his vvhole Church , and so to be apprehended , vvithout any Nationall difference : vvhose members vve all are , and ought to haue a fellovv-feeling of one an others miseries , or els vve are no Christians at all , nor vvorthy that name . I say , hauing been an eye-vvitnes of those great miseries , and indignities don to the poore members of Iesus Christ , ( and consequently to himselfe : ) as a poore member of his bodie , I could not but be sensible thereof . And present the bodies , and soules of those poore members of Christ ( like that Leuite in the booke of Iudges ) dismembred , cut in peeces , and quartered , to the eyes likevvise of all the tribes of Israel : that is to say , the vvhole church of Christ , both Prince and people , of vvhat nation soeuer , all members of that his mysticall bodie , & all alyke interest therein : obliged , like the Israelites , to ioyne together as one man , to right , and revenge , euen vvith the hazard of their liues , & estates , these so great injuries , and indignities : consider of it , take aduice , and speake your mindes . Open thy mouth for the dumme in the cause of all those that are appointed to destruction . Those poore sheepe appointed for the slaughter : the slaughter both of bodie , & soule bought vvith so deare a price , vvhose blood els vvill be required : required ( I say ) at the hands of all those , to vvhom God hath giuen power , & meanes , ( For to vvhom much is giuen of him much shall be required ) but vvant hearts , and mindes to right , and redresse it : speak your mindes . Consider of it ( noble Princes and States ) by your Embassadors one vvith an other , both for the present hovv to relieue all those poore soules that are in miserie , both vnder the Turks and Moores : and hovv to prevent the miseries of others for the time to come , like to be taken by their ships at sea more and more , and made slaues , that is to say more than miserable : if not preuented . VVhich a fevv good ships , ( had Christian Princes considered of it all this time , and been so minded ( that is to say of one minde hinc illae lachrymae ) might haue prevented : and may yet for the time to come . To youe I speak ( most noble Princes and States ) that are of one minde : consider of it take aduice , & speak your minds . And in youe to the whole church of Christ : let it be a freevvill offering , both of Prince and people to Christ Iesus , tovvards this so Christian , honourable , and charitable a vvorke . A seacond redemption of his poore distressed members , out of the hands of those infidels , verie easie to be tamed , and subdued : & vvith no great chardges to any , out of a voluntarie contribution of manie . And ( if I vvere vvorthie to advise , and this my proposition , and petition to take effect ) this free vvill offering , or contribution , to be deposited in the hands of the Lords the States Generall of the vnited Prouinces , and the Prince of Orange : vvho haue so great store of ships , and can most convenientlie manage such affaires by sea : and are so noble , and so honourable , as no doubt they vvould advance it to the vtmost . That so this sacred seruice , being managed by one vndertaking State , consisting of so manie vvise States-men , and prudent Senators , may by Gods blessing receiue better successe , than those expeditions in former times , frustrated by the dissention of diuers Princes vndertakers : as in the Turkish history may appeare . The greatnes of vvhich Monarchie novv dravveth to a period : ( as that of Rome , ) magnitudine laboranssua : both the one , and the other , ( as I said before ) novv in these last daies to be finallie destroyed : and the Kingdome of Iesus Christ to be erected , neuer to be d●stroyed , &c. I speak not these things of my self , neither doe I now come from my self , but haue the holy Prophets , Apostles , and Disciples of my Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus for my vvarant . And in his name onlie , and no other , euen from the King of Kings doe I novv come : ( I magnifie my imployment ) more than an Embassadour , and yet vvithall a petitioner , to treat , and entreat in the behalfe of his poore afflicted members , vvho are not able , buth vvith prayers , and teares , to treat , or entreat for themselues . Open thy mouth for the dumme in the cause of all those that are appointed to destruction . There is my commission : there is my vvarrant . And I must in dutie , and vvill , stand vpon it , it standing so highlie vpon the King my maisters honour , the King of Kings : expecting novv hovv I shall be receiued : the successe vvhereof I refer to him . And so conclude vvith prayers , & teares the vveapons of Gods church : Quid enim nisi vota supersunt . Praying God to put into the hearts of Christian princes , vvith one mind to fulfill his vvil : for the finall destruction , both of that Antichristian , & this Mahometan tyrannie : and the finall establishment of his aeternall Monarchie neuer to be destroyed . AMEN , AMEN . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A02730-e70 Isa. 51. 14 P● 46 The 6. Stilo 〈◊〉 in The 1● Stilo novo . Zec. 12 12. ●2 . 18. Isa. 51. Notes for div A02730-e840 A cast is a tribe or kinred . Cus-cus a dish of meat in great request with them . Gago frō whence al their gold cometh conquered by his praedecessors .