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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a full and true relation, of the fortunate victory gained over the moors by the garrison of tangier, upon the . of october, . hacket, ja., major. p. s.n., [s.l. : ] caption title. imperfect: print show-through with loss of text. date of publication from internal evidence. signed at end: major ja. hacket. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng tangier (morocco) -- history -- siege, -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a full and true relation , of the fortunate victory gained over the moors by the garrison of tangier , upon the . of october , . upon the moors refusing to make a peace , according to the articles proposed by sir palms fairbourn our lieutenant governour , while he was alive , and their approaching their trenches within or yards of our new work at pauls-fort , and their bringing a piece of cannon within a hundred yards of the said fort : it was resolved in a council of war , colonel sackville presiding , to make a sally the . of this instant , at of the clock in the morning , upon the left hand of pauls-fort , with all the forces in the garrison , leaving only the ordinary guards in the town . the troops at their first drawing out upon the left hand of pauls-fort , were ranked in battalia in three lines . five battalions of foot , consisting of about men , each battalion with a battalion of sea-men , consisting of about . men , which have been a shoar , since the taking of pauls-fort , by order of admiral herbert . the six battalions of foot was drawn up on the right hand , and being sufficiently covered on that side by the fort , and the line of communication between the town and the fort , the three troops of english , and three troops of spanish horse , were drawn up on the left hand of the fort ; there was from every battalion of foot decatch'd fuzeliers , which were disposed into six several plottons upon the head of all the troops , with the company of granadeers of dumbartons regiment separated upon the right and left hand plottons , where it was judged the hottest action would be : and a company of granadeers of sea-men in the center with these plottons , with the number of horsemen from each troop to sustain these plottons of foot , who were to make the first attatcks upon the place of arms , within one hundred yards of pauls-fort , where the enemy had erected a battery , and advanced one piece of cannon ; and on the left hand toward the ruines of monmouth-fort , where the enemy had advanced several trenches , and made a place of arms. all the troops were very near form'd in battalia , as was designed , with a great silence , before the enemy took the allarum , which they took at first from their place at arms near monmouth-fort , upon the advancing of the first troop of english horse commanded by captain netby . the enemy from their place at arms , with hideous cry and noise , and fireing of small shot upon us , gave the allarum immediatly to their camp. the plotton of the battalion of guards , commanded by captain fortrey and lieutenant mackracken , with the half of the company of dumbartons granadeers , and the plotton of the first battalion of dumbartons regiment , commanded by captain julius lockhart , and lieutenant james stewart , with the other half of the company of granadeers , were ordered by colonel sackville to go and attack the place of arms , where the moors cannon was , which they did with great courage and resolution . the enemy being numerous in that place , stood firmly and defended themselves for a long time , till at last lieutenant mackracken , with his granadeers , advancing up very near to their trench , and bestowing the granades liberally amongst them , they began to be in confusion , and surpr●●ed at the execution the granadeers made amongst them ; whereupon , he with granadeers , leapt into their trench amongst them , and was immediatly followed by captain fortry , and captain lockhart and their parties , and lieutenant stewart , with the rest of the granadeers , where they all behaved themselves very valiantly , and beat the enemy from that place , and made themselves master of that piece of cannon of the enemies , that was there , with the loss of several granadeers and good souldiers , lieutenant mackracken of the granadeers , was wounded with his hand on the cannon ; captain lockhart shot through the thigh , lieutenant stewart through the leg. the plotton of the second battalion of dumbartons regiment , commanded by captain melvil and lieutenant gordoun , did attack the place of arms on the le●● hand near monmouths-fort , at the same time that the attack was on the battery on the right hand , where they had no less vigorous resistance than happy success : for the first battalion of dumbartouns regiment advanced to the trenches upon the right hand of that place of arms , the detatchment commanded by captain melvil , leapt forthwith into that place of arms amongst the moors , where they did very great execution ; and the moors seeing the first battalion advance with so much vigour , and still sustained by the second battalion of the said regiment commanded by captain douglass of spot , and the battalion of seamen commanded by major george barclay , they abandoned their two first trenches , and retired themselves behind the old line toward the sandy-hills , where they assembled together a considerable body of foot , and being there under covert from our shot , the old line made by the earl of teviot serving them for a breast-work , the major of dumbartouns regiment who commanded there , seeing his battalion so much exposed to the fire of that enemy , thought it absolutely necessar● to undertake to beat them from that line : whereupon he commanded his first battalion , which they did most resolutely , and made the enemy retire precipitantly , and in great disorder ; which captain melvils detatchment perceiving , a serjeant with fourteen or fifteen soldiers fell out upon them , where they were carrying off their colours , and pursued so hotly , that a foot colour was taken and brought in by a private soldier of dumbartouns regiment , which was the first colour was gained that day : which the enemy perceiving , from the sand-hill fort and from james fort they had advanced very briskly , and several of their horsemen began to enter within the lines ; but the commandant of the spanish horses advancing with his troop , made the moorish horse retire without the lines again . colonel sackville finding that dumbartons first battalion had , till then , sustained , with great courage , the heat of the action , did then order the second battalion of inchequins regiment , commanded by captain giles , to march up on the right hand near the ruines of the sandhill fort , where the moors were in great numbers , and made a very vigorous opposition : the said battalion of inchequins continued for some time in that post , with very great courage , and extreamly exposed to the enemies fire , and throwing of stones from the ruines of the fort ; they sustained great loss of officers and soldiers : and captain giles finding his souldiers to be weary of their post , he came and prayed major hacket to send a battalion to his relief ; whereupon major hacket ordered him to retire , and took his post with the battalions of dumbartouns regiment . the moors seeing inchequins battalion to retire , according to their custom upon such occasions , did then advance very resolutely , both horse and foot , and would have again entered the lines : but dumbartouns battalions gave soon a stop to their courage , and made them quickly run from the said hill-fort , from whence they had made the greatest resistance . the major perceiving that they retired from thence to james fort , which flanked his battalions on the right , and had annoyed them very much during the heat of the action , thought fit , without any further delay , to attack james's fort likewayes : there was a very great number of moors there , and several foot-collours planted . the officers and souldiers of the two battalions appeared to be mightily satisfied with the majors design of attacking that place ; whereupon they went on with an unanimous resolution , and within a very short space beat the moors from james's fort , and from all the lines on that hand : and the moors having no further place of refuge there , did make themselves to downright running towards their camps ; and dumbartouns souldiers pursuing them still , did find them drawing off a small piece of brass-cannon of four pound ball , which they beat the moors from , and it was brought in by lieutenant robert innes , adjutant to the second battalion . colonel sackville no sooner sees the moors running , and dumbartouns men still in pursute of them beyond the lines ; but he , upon the head of the spanish horse , did immediatly ride over the lines to pursue them more vigorously , and to bring off the foot , if any ambush had been laid for them . about the same time that dumbartouns batallions had passed the lines at james's fort , the battalion of seamen had likewayes past over the line near monmouths fort , the three troops of english horse that were commanded to sustain the seamen , passed the lines immediatly after them , and got to their head very quickly , where they pursued the moors first into their camp. near the camp , captain netby with his troop of english horse , took five foot-collours , and one of them with his own hand . at that same time , the major of dumbartouns regiment , coming up to colonel sackville , who did not know well what way the enemy had retired from james's fort , the major therefore , who had taken very good notice , and had pursued them in their retreat , did take colonel sackville with the commandant of the spanish horse , to a little valley towards the right of james's fort , from whence the spanish horse pursued them just into their camp ; and there was a collours taken by one of the commandants troop . captain langstoun was shot in the leg in the pursute . upon the english and spanish horses approaching their camp , they began to carry away their women with great precipitation . in the morning , when the garrison sallied out , four captains of the earl of dumbartouns regiment being then on guard in pauls fort , colonel sackville thought fit to command , out of the fort , captain lundie and captain home , with men of that guard , to sally out upon the right hand ; and at the same time that the plottons of foot with the granadeers , did attack the place of arms , they did attack the advanced trenches that was within twelve or fifteen yards of the fort , with very great courage and success . they were both dangerously wounded , with the loss of several good men . captain bows , commandant of the guards , advancing with his battalion towards the left hand of the place where the cannon was found , continued there all that day for a reserve till the cannon was carried off and the enemies trenches filled on both sides of the fort. major boynten stayed with his battalion near monmouth fort for a reserve . the admiral herbert had ordered all the long-boats belonging to his fleet , to be manned , and armed , and row out towards the enemies batte● that they had made use of nine piece of cannon to play upon the mole , and th● ships that lay near , which proved to be very advantagious to our design , by re●son it gave a jealousie to the enemy , and diverted a considerable part of their forces . master sheers ordered all his mole horses to be mounted with men , an● armes ; and captain mackenzie was commanded with them , and sixteen of 〈◊〉 own troop , to march out at the furrage-gate in the castle , and without th● spur before peterburrough tower , with a colours of each batalion of foot , with in the spur , and several drums from each battalion . captain mackenzie gave the allarum toward charles-fort , at the same tim● they attacked before pauls-fort . the horse that pursued the enemy to their camp , returned in good order with little or no loss . the battalions of dumbartons regiment continued to ke●● their post at james-fort , till about four of the clock in the afternoon . th● enemy , upon our retiring of our horses and foot within the old line , did advance again with colours into their old trenches , and behind the little sand-hi●● all round from james to monmouth-fort within pistol-shot . the battalion of seamen that was posted on the left hand of dumbartons battalions , continued like wise skirmishing with them till about four of the clock in the afternoon , and about that time major betman ingenier , who had been mightily employed and exposed all the day , having then ended his business , and all the enemies place of arms being thrown down , and their trenches filled up ; the signal was given from the fort to retire from the lines , which was observed , with very grea● order and conduct : and the moors who never had such a defeat from the garrison of tangier , did not offer to follow us upon our retiring , according to their former custome . there were five prisoners taken alive , four collours taken , two piece of cannon , many good arms , both fire-locks , and cymetars , and a great deal of rich plunder of cloaths , and silver and gold , which is a great sign of man● of their officers and best sort of people being killed : to the judgement of all that was in that action , they lost men. there was left within our lines a great many of their bodies , and about thirty-six of their heads cut off and brought in , whereof the sea-men had great store . the next day we gave back their bodies and heads to them to bury . this happy victory we obtained with the loss of a great many of our best officers and souldiers ; whereof i cannot give an exact account , save of the two battalions of dumbartouns regiment . 〈◊〉 render justice to every one , all the officers in general behaved themselves with great conduct and courage . and to do justice to the moors , they fought , most bravely for the space of two hours , and especially their horsemen did the hardest and boldest things tha● ever was seen done : but they were not numerous , for there was not seen above horsemen . the prisoners we took , confess they had not above foot , and horse commanded by the alcade of tituan . all the officers both scots and english , behaved themselves in this action , with a great deal of bravery and resolution ; and particularly lieutenant collonel talmash , who carries to his majesty the good news of this victory . this is a true relation of the action . sic subscribitur , major ja. hacket . finis . by the king, a proclamation declaring his majesties pleasure to settle and establish a free port at his city of tanger in africa england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing c estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the king, a proclamation declaring his majesties pleasure to settle and establish a free port at his city of tanger in africa england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, - . broadside. printed by john bill and christopher barker ..., london : . broadside divided into leaves. "given at our court whitehall, this sixteenth day of november, in the fourteenth year of our reign." reproduction of original in the huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng proclamations -- great britain. great britain -- history -- charles ii, - . tangier (morocco) - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion by the king. a proclamation declaring his majesties pleasure to settle and establish a free port at his city of tanger in africa . charles r. as we cannot but know that the welfare and prosperity of our good subjects depends very much upon the safety and improvement of trade , and have therefore made it a great part of our princely care and study to find out ways and means for the advancement and security of their general traffique and commerce ; so we cannot but hope that these our just ends and purposes ( which we had chiefly in our prospect ) will be very much promoted by gaining the city of tanger in africa as an accession unto our dominions . it being not unreasonable to believe , that by means of this our city of tanger a way may be opened to trades not yet used , and such as could not heretofore with any safety be at tempted : wherein if the success should not answer our desires , yet certainly many of those trades which are now frequented , will hereafter be carried on with much more ease and security to our merchants , when they shall have a good port in the entry of the mediterranean to befriend them● to the end therefore that all fit encouragement may be given to make use of the advantages of this port. we have thought fit to declare , and do hereby declare and publish our royal will and pleasure , that our city of tanger is and shall be port free to all merchants , as well foreigners as others , with their ships and vessels , except such ships and vessels which shall come from beyond the cape of good hope , commonly called capo de bon esperanza ; and except ships coming from any of our english plantations , for and during such time , and upon such terms , articles , and conditions as are herein after expressed , ( that is to say ) i. first it shall lawful for all our good subjects , and the subjects of any other nation in amity with vs ( except before excepted ) to come freely into our port at tanger , with their ships , vessels , and merchandizes , and to land the same , or any part thereof , and lay them up in such ware-houses or other places as they shall think fit . ii. all persons coming into our said port with any ships , or merchandizes , shall enter , or cause to be entred in the registry there to be kept for that purpose , all the goods , wares , merchandizes and commodities by them landed , and shall pay , or cause to be paid for every hundred pounds worth of goods so landed , according to the rates and values of merchandizes set down in the book of rates established in england , five shillings for the entry thereof , and no other duty or payment whatsoever . iii. if any person shall refuse or neglect to make entry of his goods so imported and landed , or shall not make entry without fraud or deceit ; the person so refusing or neglecting to make entry , or making short entry , shall lose and forfeit the ship or vessel , together with all the goods so imported , and be utterly uncapable of any of the priviledges or benefits herein before or after mentioned . iv. it shall be lawful for all persons to export or sell upon the place , the goods so imported , at his and their will and pleasure , without paying any further or other imposition or duty whatsoever . v. all persons exporting any goods from our said port and city of tanger , into any part of our kingdoms of england or ireland , shall be obliged to export the same in english shipping , and with english mariners . vi. this liberty and freedom of our port at tanger shall continue from the nine and twentieth day of september . for and during the full time and term of five years from thenceforth next coming ; in all which time there shall be no further or greater improvement of our customs within our said port. and we do also declare , that when those five years shall be elapsed , we shall not make any new or greater imposition upon the trade of that port , without first giving publick notice thereof after the expiration of five years , by the space of two years before any such new or greater imposition shall take effect . given at our court whitehall , this sixteenth day of november , in the fourteenth year of our reign . god save the king. london , printed by john bill and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty , . the present danger of tangier, or, an account of its being attempted by a great army of the moors by land, and under some apprehensions of the french at sea in a letter from cadiz dated the th of july (old stile) , to a friend in england. e. m. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the present danger of tangier, or, an account of its being attempted by a great army of the moors by land, and under some apprehensions of the french at sea in a letter from cadiz dated the th of july (old stile) , to a friend in england. e. m. p. s.n., [london? : ?] caption title. signed: e.m. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng tangier (morocco) -- history. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the present danger of tangier : or , an account of its being attempted by a great army of the moors by land , and under some apprehensions of the french at sea. in a letter from cadiz , dated the th of july ( old stile ) . to a friend in england . we are not a little afflicted to understand by the last news from england , of the distractions you labour under , by the disturbances occasioned by popish traitors , and the insurrection in scotland , which we trust by this time may be subdued and allayed , from those good encouragements your letter gave us to hope so . but in return , i have nothing to send you , but the like tidings of more disasters , and that is , of the great danger the town and garrison of tangier seems to be in at this time ; being , 't is credibly reported here , under a blockade , and in some distress , for there are many thousand moors lye against it , some say fifteen thousand , others more ; for indeed , they can bring down what multitudes they list , at an hours warning upon them ; but hitherto there have not passed many acts of hostility between them ; for they are now upon a treaty of sixty days ; which is said to be politickly proposed and held on foot by the town , in hopes that they may in that time receive some supplies of provision , ammunition , &c ▪ from england ; for they complain lamentably , that they are very ill furnisht in case of a siege . during this treaty , they converse freely with the moors , and some adventure to go amongst them , and return without damage ; but the sixty days are now near expiring , and we do not hear of any good accommodation that is like to be concluded , nor any extraordinary succours come to the garrison ; but on the contrary , since we came here , the moors have been assisted from some english , ( as 't is confidently related ) with barrels of powder , landed at tangier , and so from thence , clandestinely , and by roguery , sold at very dear rates , and conveyed to them . thus 't is too often the custom of our nation , to give away their swords to their enemies , and then fight with their teeth , and furnish our foes with means to cut our throats . what a cursed thing is this private self-interest ! how many brave kingdoms hath it destroyed ! whilst every one is much for himself , the devil fools us all . there are men in the world , that would sell their king , their countrey , their religion , their souls and all , to pope or turk , or any other chapman , for ready money . let the ship i sail in perish , provided out of the wrack i may get a pleasure-boat for my self . so a villain gets an estate , what cares he how many poor souls suffer by his fraud , treachery , or oppression ? i cannot think of these base dregs of mankind , that are betrayers of their countries safety , honour , wealth , and reputation , without just resentment , and some emotion of spirit . we all here are upon this news , in a great deal of pain and trouble , concerning tangiers circumstances ; for you know of what considerable importance 't is to our streights-trade ; and should it be lost , our merchants might in effect , take their leave of the mediterranean , especially if it should fall into some peoples hands . the french have now sail of gallies lying at gibraltar , on what designe we cannot learn ; which causes some apprehensions as if there might be some correspondence held by them with the moors , to the prejudice of the place beforementioned : but this is only a suspition amongst them who think it prudence to provide for the worst . we hope they may be sufficiently reliev'd in time , to put them in a condition able to dispel all these fears . yours to command , e. m. from on board the hopewel , abraham roavens master . directed to will. ellis , at the three pidgeons in creed-lane ; who received the same on wednesday the th of aug. . finis . by the king, a proclamation england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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his majesty for the prevention of all fears of that kind , hath thought fit by the advice of his privy council , and doth by this his royal proclamation publish and declare , that if any rupture or war shall at any time hereafter happen between his majesty and any other prince or state whatsoever , yet the goods or effects of the subjects of any such prince or state at tanger shall not be seized or liable to any seizure by reason of the same , until six moneths after such rupture shall be there published ; and that it shall and may be lawful for all persons concerned , without any fear or apprehension to continue their trade and estates at tanger , until six moneths after any rupture shall be so published as aforesaid . and his majesty doth hereby strictly charge and command his governour of the said city , and all other his officers and ministers whatsoever both civil and military for the time being , and all other his subjects , to take notice of this his royal pleasure , and without further direction to see the same duely observed . given at our court at whitehall , the thirteenth day of january , . in the six and twentieth year of our reign . god save the king . london , printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker . printers to the kings most excellent majesty . . a discription of tangier, the country and people adjoyning with an account of the person and government of gayland, the present usurper of the kingdome of fez, and a short narrative of the proceedings of the english in those parts : whereunto is added, the copy of a letter from the king of fez to the king of england, for assistance against his rebellious subjects, and another from grayland to his sacred majesty charles the second : with divers letters and passages worthy of note / translated from the spanish into english, and published by authority. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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[ ], p. : port. printed for samuel speed ..., london : . reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng tangier (morocco) -- history. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - ali jakobson sampled and proofread - ali jakobson text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a guyland , alias gayland , the present vsurper of the kingdome of fez ▪ a description of tangier , the country and people adjoyning . with an account of the person and government of gayland , the present usurper of the kingdome of fez ; and a short narrative of the proceedings of the english in those parts . whereunto is added , the copy of a letter from the king of fez to the king of england , for assistance against his rebellious subjects ; and another from gayland to his sacred majesty charles the second . with divers letters and passages worthy of note , translated from the spanish into english , and published by authority . london , printed for samuel speed , at the rainbow in fleet-street , near the inner temple-gate . . of affrica and america , where an acre of ground is a barony , and a rood a dutchy , as yeilding that wealth with a few weeks pains , that cannot be 〈…〉 for 〈◊〉 ages industry . . because this place , and the country round about , is like to be that renowned scoene of action , which will render us considerable in this last age to the world . the french do intend to make themselves famous for seeking out a convenient footing in this country : no doubt but we shall be so , for keeping ours . it is a pleasure to go over his majesties dominions at home , in cambden , speed , &c. o what satisfaction is it then to go along with his acquists , and travel with his conquests abroad ! to see how carefully he provides for trade ; how providently he secures the sea ; how zealously he promotes our interest and honour . here you will see , first , the situation , improvement , strength and advantages of tangier , that hath within years cost millions of money , and the lives of one million of men . secondly , the nature of the country round about it . thirdly , the government of it ; together with its ancient kings before this late usurpation ; and their correspondence , embassies and letters to the kings of england . fourthly , the present usurpation by gayland : whereunto is added , a discourse of his person , government , revenue , discipline and policy . fifthly , the transactions between him and the earl of tiveot in barbary , and his sacred majesty in england ; where are the letters that passed between them concerning peace and accommodation . and sixthly , here is the humour and temper of those people with whom we have to do there ; together with their customes and manners . there have been whole volumes written of this place ; as , . that of hanno a ms. that was preserved for no less then years , and an hundred years ago printed by the noble stephanus . . that of alcazar , kept now in the tower of tetuan . and , . that of leo affricanus , written by him as he travelled that country in the hegeira , and in the year of our lord , and translated into english by mr. robert pary of cambridge , in the year . and , . that of abaf●i vel mammuled , whereof there are but two copies now in the world ; one is kept by the governour of morocco , and the other by the grand seignior ; it being death for any man to take a map of that country without their leave . but i have not observed so much satisfaction within so narrow a compass , so many particulars in so little a volume , in my life ; especially considering that the book is an outlandish one , and the author a spanyard ; then whom none go a greater way about , either to do what they say , or to say what they see . you are to take notice , that the geography and history are translated by one hand , and the letters by another ; but both very exactly compared with the original , and transmitted to the world upon the faith and honour of very ingenious persons . here is in the original an exact account of the whole kingdome , as to all the remarkable particulars in it : but we thought fit onely to take its general delineations , together with its chief ports and towns , and the places nearest tangier , as most peculiarly concerning us , whether as we possess that place , or trade that way . i will adde no more , but that i must needs think that we are very happy now adays , since printing is so much improved , that the meanest person need bestow no more pains then a few hours reading to take that view of the world which hath cost others many years travelling : and that my lord rutherford earl of tiveot communicated to a * friend of his a little before his going over the last time , his designe of either publishing a new description of that country , or translating this , or compleating leo affricanus . we can do no more then perform the second , wishing heartily that so knowing , so observing , and so publick-spirited a person had lived to have done the first . a description of tangier . tangier or tangis , is one of the greatest and the very antientest city in fez. great it s now ; thrice as great , say the most skilful surveyors it hath been ; so antient , that we find it was built by those canaanites fled from the face of josuah ; there being an inscription left , and two pillars , whereon it is engraven to this purpose ; nos fugimus a facie josuae praedonis filii nave : that is to say , we here are the inhabitants of the land of canaan , that fled before the face of josuah the son of nun. we have heard much of hercules his pillars , but here one of them is to be seen , on a hill within seven miles of the place , as the other is over against it in spain : for here hercules is reported to have slain the gyant anteus , that the oftner he fell , the oftner he rose again , and could never be conquered as long as he could touch his mother earth . so considerable is this place , that claudius and other brave romans , drew here many legions that they lost before the place ; which they at last gained , and gave a new name , viz. julia t●aducta ; yet in spite of that fa●e that devolved the world upon that great city , t is corner of it returned at once to its old liberty , and antient name , that it retains unto this day . when the romans could do no good , the ingenuous portuguez guessing there was a shorter cut that way than that which they knew formerly to the indies , and yet that that cut could not be securely passed without an interest and hold in that country ; vasquez gama attempts the expedition . and with so much success , that he found the streights of gibralta , but lived not either to instruct or encourage others to make use of , or improve his noble discovery . yet he found the continent large , the sea towns strong , the inhabitants numerous ; and breaking in to some sea ports , spoyled them until he came to the atlantique , where he dyed . none could second him but a prince , and henry duke of visco doth it as far as his estate or credit goeth ; he consults the experience of all the sea commanders , sends for the astronomers and navigators , peruseth all the cosmography that was then in the world ; he sets out , and is tossed along the waters , until he finds a promontory , or an head of land , hanging out to the sea ; this he called presently , the cape of good hope : yet he fails , at once the love and grief of that coast . jo. the d . seconds him , and under the conduct of degola . gets in to the princes island , takes angola , i mean the city so called , and with the assistance of bartholomew diaz gets in to quilon , mosambique , and melinde , with the king of the last whereof he made a league , and with his help and direction found port caliculo , and that way to the east-indies ; but he dyeth too , and his enterprize with him . a vasquez had the honour to begin this discovery , and a vasquez hath the honour likewise to compleat it . he therefore , almeda , and albu-quierque , finding their way clear to the indies , but not safe through the streights as long as those moors possessed the maritime forts , they destroy hamar , ruine bazre , take arzilla , and after much expence of bloud and treasure under alphonso the th . win tangier ; hard it was to win this town which was the very strength of fez. the mistress of the sea , the key of the inland-countrey , the sanctuary of all male-contents and enemies . sometimes we have , sometimes , sometimes an , yea sometimes before it ; besides the noblest voluntiers . once there the two kings of morocco and fez. the princes of ezhagger , asgarre , benj. jessen , alcazaer , nobles , well horsed gentry , all in gold and silver ; and that we may see the christians care was not less to keep , than the infidels were to regain it . sebastian king of portugall draws out foot , horse , to which stukely a prince at least in conceit , who had men given him to reduce ireland to the obedience of the pope , & the king of spain , and was created by his holyness to that purpose , no less than marquess of lempster , earl of weaford , lord rosse added his fortunes , and in one day all four princes , viz. sebastian , stukely , mahomet , and abdemelech , fell therewith no less than men . upon sebastians death , the spaniards had the place , with the kingdome of portugall , untill the revolt . when this city , with that kingdome , returned to its wonted obedience . tangier , say the inhabitants , was by seddei the son of had , compassed about with walls of brass , and the roofs of them covered with gold ; for the building whereof , he exacted great tributes of the cities of the world , believe it who can . it s distance from the streights of gibralter is miles , and from the city of fez. . it hath been alwayes a civill , famous , and well-peopled town , and very stately and sumptuously built , the field thereto belonging not very fertill , or apt for health ; howbeit not farr off are certain vallies continually watred with fountains , which furnish the said city with all sorts of fruits in abundance : without the city also grows certain vines albeit upon a sandy soil . the country was well inhabited untill such time as arzilla was surprised by the portugals ; for then the inhabitants being dismayed with rumors of wars , took up their bag and baggage and fled unto fez. whereupon the king of portugall his deputy at arzilla sent one of his captains thither , who kept it so long under the obedience of the king , till the king of fez. sent one of his kinsmen also to defend a region of great importance near unto the mountains of gum●ra , being enemy to the christians . twenty five years before the portugal king wan this city , he sent forth an armada against it , hoping that the city being destitute of aid , while the king of fez. was in wars against the rebels of mecnase , would soon yeild it self ; but contrary to the portugals expectation , the fessan king concluding a suddain truce with them of mecnase , sent his counseller with an army , who encountring the portugals , made a great slaughter of them , and among the rest slew their general , whom he caused to be carried in a case or sack unto new fez. and there to be set upon an high place where all men might behold him . afterward the king of portugal sent a new supply , who suddenly assailing the city in the night , were most of them slain , and the residue enforced to flee ; but that which the portugal king could not bring to pass with those two armadas , he atchieved at length ( as is aforesaid ) with small forces , and little disadvantage ▪ in my time mahomet king of fez. left no means unattempted for the recovery of this city ; but so great alwayes was the valour of the portugals , that he had ever ill success . these things were done in the hegeira . which was in the year of our lord . some miles from tangier was casor and ezzagor , in an open and pleasant place , over against the coast of granada , but surprized by the portugez ; and notwithstanding many attempts by the king of fez , what with money ( which is the first offer they alwayes make ) and what with men to recover it , it is utterly lost and ruin'd . within mile of tangier is tettuan , called so from tet teguin , or one eye , because of the one eyed woman that had the command over it , under the goths ; fourscore and fifteen years . it was desolate after the portugals first invasion , until it was rebuilt by almandaly , who fortified it with a wall and a ditch , from whence he cruelly molested septa , casor and tangier , upon the coasts whereof he made dayly incursions and inroads , putting all christians he took to work in his forts by day , and lye in sackcloath and fetters within the deepest dungeon in the night . some miles off is arzitta a fair town , between which and tangier if that correspondence could be kept which was designed by pedro navarro , the trade and government of that place would lye at our mercy , the portugals having shewed us an example how we might surprize their forts , as they did that of narangia , by a stratagem . take their isles , as they did getria with a fleet . demolish their cities , as they did bafra and homari . round about tangier are the wild but fruitful mountains chebal , rahina , beni-how , beni-chestev , whither the moors fled and seated themselves since the portugez took tangia or tangier , from whence they made such invasions even into those mountains , that the infidels were hardly able to live there ; till of late by the neglect of the portugez they have been able to build forts and strong holds in those high places , from whence they infest us at pleasure , having two advantages , whereof the first is their warlikeness , and the second their woods . . this place stands very convenient to secure and advance the indian commerce as far as those places where there are more riches than were ever yet discovered unto the world. . it commands the barbarians within , who could never look the portugez in the face til of late . . and all nations without , who must ask its leave to pass to and fro the streights , to the great treasury of the world : the authority of that town well managed , may make the masters of it arbitrators of the interest of europe . . it may be a free port , or a kind of a sound , to which all nations on this side the line may be glad to have addressed themselves . . it will be a great relief and security to our merchants in their long voyages to the indies . . in that place there may be bred as in a seminary , such souldiers and others as may be inured to the temper and way of that country , and therefore may be in a capacity to carry on our interest in those coasts as far as justice and honour will give way , yea & we may draw thence a regiment or two of veteranes , upon any occasion at home . no man knoweth but themselves , what advantage the hollanders enjoy , and the french promise themselves from one or two towns upon any of these coasts . the christians had another excellent harbour upon the mediterranian , called bedis , or velles de gumern , which ferdenand king of castile took , by shutting it up , with two forts that commanded it , and kept it two years , until it was betrayed by a false treacherous spaniard ( who slew the governour , because he had taken his wife from him ) into the moors possession , and all the christians were slain , not a man escaping , save only the spanish traytor , who , in regard of his treason , was greatly rewarded both by the governour of bedis , and also by the king of fez. anno . true , it is a wild kind of harbour , lying open to the sea , without any windings or high-land-shelter ; so that let the wind blow from what compass it will , the ships riding there are exposed to the sury of it ; and upon the dragging of an anchor , wracks do commonly follow upon the adjoyning strand ; but that is to be remedied by a moll , such as that in weymouth , of two furlongs compass ; that may be raised by the shoar , some twenty yards high , within which the ships may ride safe and quiet . the lawful government of this country by kings . the xeriff of fez , whose dominion reacheth from capo boiudor to tangier , n. s. and from the atlantique to the river melvia ; the fairest , fruitfullest , best inhabited , and most civil port of all africk ; and likewise the most trafickable , as well in reference to the passage that way to the indies , as to the commodities there afforded : hath continued his government from the year . to this day , after this manner . a subtle , learned and ambitious mahumetan , benumotto , . boasting his descent from mahomet , laid a design in numidia , where he lived , to possess mauritania , tingitania , while the moors and portuguez were at variance : to this end , he sent his three sons on pilgrimage to mella and medina , that returning thence with a great fame for their religion , the people might reverence them , as they did , when they went up and down as men ravished with contemplation , alwayes crying ala ! ala ! the cunning father sends them to the king of fez , where they had no sooner got into esteem , than they desired to display their banners against the christians . the kings brother smelt the design , and asked the xeriff ; if these holy men conquered the christians , who should conquer them ? but their pretended holiness carried it , first for a commission from the king , and then for a whole multitude of men , that followed the devout men , giving them a tenth of their estate for the cause : with these men they poysoned the king of morocco , set up xeriffo , and his son ; who , with the assistance of the christian renegadoes , over-ran the whole country ; whereof . amet , . . mahomet , . . abdalla , . . abdalla , . . mahomet the second , who was murthered , . . hamet abdalla , . . maly shecti , . . sidon , who rebelled against him , . . hamet abdall , . against whom a hermit stirred up the people . . misil tira , . who writ to king charles the first of glorious memory , for assistance against the rebells , to this purpose . a letter from the king of fez and morocco , to the king of england . when these letters are so happy as to come to thy renowned majesties pure hands , i wish the spirit of the righteous god may direct thy mind , to consider , that regal majesty is given men , to reward the good , and punish the bad : for we are the servants of the creator , to do good to the world , that it may bless us : for we are like those coelestial bodies , that have our reverence for our beneficence ; which i speak not as if i would instruct thee , whose mind is so clear , and whose apprehension is so quick , that thou art one of the great gods greatest viceroy that is in europe , there are a company of rebells and pirates , that molest thy people , and are too hard for me ; if thou wilt assist me , and right thy self against them , thou wilt be as glorious as the sun , and thy name shall perfume all ages , who shall sing thy virtue equal to thy power . thy god is a lyon of the tribe of juda , and a prince of peace ; one that seeks peace through war : thy father was a peace-maker , by his power , as well as his counsel . thy god increase thine happiness , and thy dayes . fez . hegerin : . myralla shin , . who was judged to death in that fatal year . . mahomet a●dalla , against whom aguiland , or gayland , hath managed a rebellion to this day , after this manner . first , finding the people under a very great discontent , because of the christian invasions on the one hand , and their own kings oppressions on the other ; particularly , . because there was an order , that every man that married a wife , should bring her to court , and there offer her virginity to the in●idells lust . . because there was a licence to drink wine , contrary to mahomet's law. , because the king being weak , was about to treat with the christians , about building of forts in those countries , contrary to the fundamentalls of their religion . he stirs up the puritan mahumetans , i mean the zealots of that way , whereof he was one himself , ( for as cromwel was a preacher , so is gayland a priest ) to go up and down , and propnesie of woes , lamentations , and desolation ; some of which zealots pretended a familiarity with mahomet , that is , as our good people canted it , communion with god. then it was taught , that the law was corrupted ; that mahomet would come and reform it . to this cry were added discourses of humane liberty and slavery . this was helped with a dearth . the alteration of some old customes . the advancement of unworthy persons , and the admission of strangers the same year . to help forward the design , jealousie is raised between the king and the nobility , who now . hold their meetings , settle their correspondence , ( and so many overthrown estates , as there were so many votes for troubles ) new revelations are broached , and while the kingdom is in a hurly burly , an invasion is continued . the king is left so dest●●ure , that he cannot help himself : these discontented forlornes offer him their service , his necessity accepts it ; they tye him up , and gain to themselves the military power . now one general is set up , and when he falls anon another ; gayland shewing not himself , but as an eminent souldier , without whom the kingdom could not subsist . he foments the former jealousies , prolongeth the war , frustrateth all treaties , until at last there were two parties in the army , one for peace , another for war. now was his time to gratifie the warriours , to caress the souldiers , to whom his valour and conduct had endeared him . here is the case in short , the army must stand by him , or be disbanded ; hereupon they choose him general , he modelleth them . at last they remonstrate , that the king must be laid aside , as who had betrayed his country to foreigners . yet he kept this close until he overcame the enemy , shut up the christians in their garrison ; and then he turned upon his own masters , cut off some of his senate for ill advising ; and at last shut him up , as at this hour , within a strong city . sure there was an evil star , this last age that looked upon the world ; that all men , of all religions , were unanimously disposed to innovate , reform , ( as we call it ) and disturb the world. a description of the person and government of gayland , the present vsurper of the kingdom of fez. this gayland , since his success , hath his pedigree derived from mahomet , as cromwel had his from the welch kings . his person looks handsomer than his condition ; his look is fat and plain , but his nature close and reserved . he is plump , yet melancholy ; valiant , yet sly ; boysterous , yet of few words ; watchful , and lustful ; careful , and intemperate ; a contradiction in nature . although he hath a sadness , and a heaviness by nature , that becometh a priest : yet he hath gained a complaizance by art , that becomes a prince . he hath two qualities that may do any thing ; . perfidiousness , and . cruelty . when he swears most solemnly , then you may be sure he lyeth ; so treacherous he is : and when fawns most basely , then you must look for mischief ; so bloody he is . you shall have him . times a day at his devotion , and as many with his concubines , whom he never toucheth after sixteen ; having his ministers of pleasure to annoint him , and his ladies to that purpose : so prodigions is their lust there , that they take pleasure in haughtiness , when they cannot be naught themselves . you may be preferred and poysoned there in a day : to speak cunningly , to act daringly , to have many strong relations , a great estate , or one handsome wife , is reason enough to send a man into another world . gaylands calling is a butcher , and a priest ; for they have all trades there . he is setling a new way of religion , which he calls , the antient one : his council are all trades-men , that understand business very well ; and his judges the like : his brethren are his favourites , who yet are gelded , and so not dangerous . he hath little or no strength at sea , only his tampering under-hand with them of tunis and tripoli . he hath divided the country among his followers , who must be true to him , or they will not be so to themselves ; the old and loyal possessors being transplanted . when he is courted to a peace , he saith , it is in uain for him to think of peace , until he hath made himself terrible . his ports are strong ; his speech alwayes dubious , and knowingly intangled . his interest obliging him to a reserve ; for he dares neither clearly own his thoughts , nor totally disclaim them ; the one way endangering his design , the other his person : so that the skill of his port lyeth in this , neither to be mistaken by his friends , nor understood by his enemies . by this middle course , he gaineth time to remove obstacles , and ripen occasions , which to improve and follow is his peculiar talent . he is a slave to his ambition , and knoweth no other measure of good and bad , but as things stand in this or that relation to his end . honour , faith , and conscience , weighing nothing in that country , further than they subserve to interest . he is one that will hazard very little , if either money or wiles may do his work . he hath his renegadoes , from whom he hath learned all his skill in fortifications and guns . gaylands revenue . he receiveth from his tributary vassals , the tenths and first-fruits of their corn and cattel . for the first-fruits , he taketh no more than one for twenty , and the whole being above twenty ; and demandeth no more than two , though it amount to an hundred . for every dayes tilth of ground , he hath a ducket and a quarter , and so much likewise for every house ; as also , he hath after the same rate of every person above fifteen years old , male or female , and when need requireth a greater summ . and to the end that the people may the more chearfully pay that which is imposed upon them , he alwayes demands half as much more as he is to receive . most true it is , that on the mountains there inhabit certain fierce and untamed people , who , by reason of the steep , craggy , and inexpugnable situation of their country , cannot be forced to tributes ; that which is gotten of them is the tenth of their corn and fruits ; only that they may be permitted to have recourse in the plains . besides these revenues , the king hath the tolls and customes of fez , and of other cities ; for at the entring of their goods , the natural citizen payeth two in the hundred , and the stranger ten . amongst many other things , he hath the revenues of mills , which yield him little less than half a royal of plate , for every hanega of corn that is ground in fez ; where ( as i told you ) there are four hundred mills . the moschea of caruven had fourscore thousand duckets of rent : the colledges and hospitalls of fez had also many thousands : all which the king hath at this present . and further , he is heir to all the alcaydes , and them that have pension of him ; and at their death he possesseth their horses , armour , garments , and all their goods . howbeit , if the deceased leave any sons apt for the service of the wars , he granteth them their fathers provision : but if they be but young , he bringeth up the male children to years of service , and the daughters till they be married . and therefore , that he may have interest in the goods of rich men , he bestoweth upon them some government , or charge , with provision : wherefore , for fear of confiscation after death , every one coveteth to hide his wealth , or to remove far from the court , and the kings sight : for which cause , the city of fez cometh far short of her antient glory . besides , his revenues have been augmented of late years by mighty summs of gold , which he fetcheth from tombuto and gago , in the land of negros ; which gold ( according to the report of fame ) may yearly amount to three millions of duckets . his forces , and military strength . he hath not any fortresses of great importance , but only upon the sea coast , as cabo de guer , larache , and tetuan : for as the turks and persians do , so he placeth the strength of his estate in armed men ; but especially in horse . and for this cause he standeth not much upon his artillery ; although he hath very great store ( which his predecessors took from the portugalls , and others ) in fez , morocco , tarodant , and in the aforesaid ports ; causing also more to be cast when need requireth ; for he wanteth not masters of europe in this science . he hath a house of munition in morocco , where they make ordinarily six and forty quintalls of powder every month ; as likewise calivers , and steel bowes . his forces are , first , of two thousand seven hundred horse , and two thousand harquibuziers . the second is , of a royal squadron of six thousand gentlemen , being all of noble parentage , and of great account . these men are mounted upon excellent horses , with furniture and armes ; for variety of colours , most beautiful ; and for riches of ornament , beyond measure estimable ; for every thing about them shineth with gold , silver , pearls , jewells , and whatsoever else may please the eye , or satisfie the curiosity of beholders . these men , besides all sorts of provision for their family , receive further in wages , from seventy to an hundred ounces of silver a man. the third sort of forces which he hath , consisteth of his timarioth : for he granteth to all his sons , and brothers , and other persons of account and authority among the people of africk , or to the princes of the arabians , the benefit of great lordships and tenures for sustentation of his cavalry ; and the archiades themselves till the fields , and afterwards reap rice , oyl , barley , butter , sheep , hens , and money , and distribute the same monthly to the souldiers , according to the several qualities of their persons . they also give them cloth , linnen , and silk to apparel themselves , armes of offence and defence , and horses , with which they serve in the wars , and if they dye , or be killed , they allow them other . every one of these leaders contendeth to bring his people into the field well ordered . besides this , they have between four and twenty and thirty ounces of silver wages every year . his fourth military forces are the arabians , who live continually in their avari , ( for so they call their habitations , each one of them consisting of an hundred or two hundred pavilions ) governed by divers alchiades , to the end they may be ready in time of need . these serve on horseback ; but they are rather to be accounted thieves , than true souldiers . his fifth kind of forces military , are somewhat like unto the trained souldiers of christian princes ; and among these , the inhabitants of cities and villages of the kingdom , and of the mountains are enrolled , whom the king makes very little account of , and very seldom puts armes into their hands , for fear of insurrections and rebellions , except in the wars against the christians , for then he cannot conveniently forbid them : for it being written in their law , that if a moor kill a christian , or is slain by him , he goeth directly into paradice : men , women , and those of every age and degree , run to the wars hand afore head , that at least they may there be slain , and by this means gain heaven . . men he brought against tituan . yet he cannot long continue a war ; yea , not above . months , because his forces living on that provision which he hath daily coming in , as well for sustenance , as for apparel ; and not being able to have all this conducted thither , where the war requireth , it followeth of necessity , that in short time they must return home for their maintenance . we want nothing but men , and those men nothing but the apprehension of that infinite treasure we might have in mandinga , aethiopia , congo , angola , pratua , toroa , monomolapa , &c. if we could but bring this man to terms . his men march not all in company , but the respective commanders set forth two hours one after another , every one having its ambuscado and stratagem , not in any strict order of rank and file . ye though their discipline is not exact , their order is so without confusion and violence . all the commanders have their wives and boyes attending them well guarded . their hoarse drums serve to deafen the ears , and confound the senses to any other clamour , with some brass dishes , and wind instruments , to noise the varnes , carried by fellows on horse-back , a little before every company ; whose horses are very swift , it being a shame there to lose a drum. . his weapon is bow and arrow , an iron pole , a shrene , a petronel , a harque-buz , scemiter ; all over armed like a porcupine . they eat and lye in one blanket , tying their horses bridle to their armes while they graze . when they come towards an enemy , they march very exactly and silently , not a man , upon pain of death , daring to break the order . when they are near an engagement , the horse encompass their foot in the rear , in form of a half-moon or crescent ; those horse have order not to meddle with the enemy , but only to drive and necessitate the foot upon them , till they have peirced through their batalia , if possible ; and if they chance to recoyl , to hold them to the slaughter , till they have wearied and dulled the enemies swords ; and then the reserve and they together fall in with fresh fury and vigour : and this serves for all advantages of military policy , to quicken his multitudes through despair to high and gallant services . he chooseth rather to tire out a town , than storm it ; then as soon as he hath raised his battery , and made a kind of breast-work , with some mounts in it , to over-look the place , he makes his approaches in spite of the bullet , and filleth up the trenches with bodies , if he cannot do it with other matter ; and when once a breach is made , it s either a souldiers death in honour , or a doggs in the camp , for any to retreat . their patience and resolution making up their defect of skill and art. gaylands court. he hath one chief counsellour , to whom he gives a third part of his revenue , of whom he hath taken a secret oath , to establish his son after him . to him he adds a secretary , a treasurer , a steward , the captain of his guard , and the governours of the respective cities under his command . next them are his deputies , or major generalls , who have their provinces on condition they have in readiness on any occasion . horse a man. after these are his collectors of tribute ; and next them the commanders of forts , to awe the country to the payment of that tribute . he hath likewise a troop of light horse , who have nothing but their diet , save what they can plunder ; and apparel once a year : whose horses are attended by christian slaves , in shackles , carried about on camells . to these we may adde his purveyors , his grooms of the stable , his granators , and their notaries . he keeps . horse ready to execute any of his offices , decrees , and expedite their service . he hath the keeper of his seal , who over-looks all others , and is as it were lord high controllor . he is attended alwayes in pubick with . horse and foot. his armies are led by ensign-bearers , who are alwayes such as understand best all passages , fords , &c. the cities are bound at their own charge to send the magicians to the wars . he hath one , like a master of ceremonies , that sitteth at his feast , ordering every man to sit down in order , and speak in his turn . his concubines are all white , but the women he will have children by must be black . he goeth very plain , and feareth nothing more than gathering of taxes , the burden whereof their law hath mittigated , and the people cannot endure . when he goeth abroad , there is notice given to all his relations , and servants , who attend at his gate or tent , and march thence according to the harbingers direction in order . . the standard . . the drums . . the master of the horse . . the pensioners and guards . . the officers of state. then the sword , the shield , and the cross-bow ; and at last gayland and his favourite , with the footmen ; one whereof , the first carrieth his stirrups , the other his partizan , the . the covering of his saddle , the . the halter for his horse , and the . his curious pantofle ; after him come his eunuchs , his harquebuziers , and light horse ; of all which he is the plainest man. when he lyeth in the field ( as all those kings do most part of the year , to keep their subjects quiet ) his tent is four square like a castle , in the midst of his noble-mens , that make a town , made of cloath , with glistering spheres a top , and then the souldiers made of goats-skins . in the midst of all are his kitchin and pantrey ; next these pavilions are the artificers , the merchants , and other followers tents : next them the stables , and round them the foot , about them the horse , and the light-horse of the outside . you would think his tent is inacessible , yet are they sometimes so careless and sleepy , that enemies have been known to come within a furlong of his royal pavilion . barbarism , with all its care , hath not the art to secure it self . gaylands policies . . he hath a standing army , enriched with the spoyles of the king and country ; that will be undone , if it returns either to a peace , or any thing that may threaten a restitution . . most of the officers of this army , are related to himself , by kindred , or alliance . . all the old nobility , are either cut off , or kept under . . all the grievances that the people have lain under these forty years , are ordered to be brought to him in tables , and he hath the honour to redress them . . every body hath access to him himself ; provided , that they come with no mantle , or sleeves , or with their breasts opened . . he keeps his revells and gamballs , wherewith he takes the country people three times a year , as running , hunting , &c. . he employeth so many rigid officers over the respective provinces , as may exasperate them , and then he offereth those exactors a sacrifice to the vulgar fury ; gaining thereby , together with their rigour , the reputation of mildness and moderation . . the army knoweth not one day where it must be the next ; so marching it up and down at once , to keep the country from rising , and his followers from settling to any combinatior or confaederacy . . besies that , they are of so many nations and interests , that they can hardly ever close to any particular design against his general one . . he hath an excellent way of droll , whereby he at once pleaseth and discovereth the common humour . . he layeth out as much money as he can in slaves and renegadoes , to whom he is beholding for all his skill and conduct . . he hath wrought upon the necessities of those about his master the king , that there is not any order passeth him , whereof he hath not advertisment , before ever it comes to be put in execution . . he hath got in likewise with the two last viziers , and him that now governeth , by money ; whereof none hath so little use as the turk , and yet none more covetous . . it is as usual as can be with him to send in his own very souldiers and ingineers with provision , in the habite of country fellows to the very walls of tangier to descry in what posture things stand , and where he may make his most successfull attempts . . to countenance his own usurpations , he hath appointed priests and souldiers to regulate both the religion and law of the place ; both which he intends to publish , with certain new interpretations delivered , as he pretends , to two holy priests at tituar , who are now under ground for two years , discoursing with mahomet , and shall get up after the two years end with two trumpets , to reform the world. lord ! that there can be no treason , even in africa without inspiration . . there is now a design set on foot to draw the poor country that hath been harassed with these late divisions , and are ready to embrace any settlement , rather than the late disorders , to press him to take upon himself the soveraignty , as the most likely means to heal the breaches ( that we may borrow our modern elegancies ) and lay aside the unhappy xeriff as the grand obstacle of the peace and settlement . ( goodly , goodly ! sure the phanatique spirit hath possesled them , and they that turn the world upside down are gone thither also . . he is upon setling a company , to traffick upon the same terms that the europeans do ; at whose charge he intends such a navy may be equipped , as may give law to the streights , with the grand seigniours leave . . he doth intend to bring in some ambitious christian prince , with whose interest he intends to check all other pretenders . . he cannot endure any man that speaks cunningly and subtlely ; insomuch , that it is the way of his creatures , to make their addresses in clear terms , when canting parts are treason against tyrants . . his special cronies are the zealous and enthusiastick ecclesiasticks , with whose grave countenances he gains a great reverence to all his proceedings . . he keeps up a constant faction in his camp between his chief officers , whereby they watch one another so closely , that they cannot do any thing to his prejudice , for fear of one anothers mutual inspection and observation . divide & impera is got now beyond italy . . he trains up the moors to so much discipline , that they shall march . together , with that order and silence , for forty mile , that they cannot be discovered ; yea , there is not a word spoken in the camp for two dayes together sometimes , except in his own tent : and what is more remarkable , . or . of them shall lodge themselves in the fernes , and among the rising grounds , so that you may ride through those very grounds , and not discover a man , nay , bear up your belief a little longer , while i tell you , that . of them shall hide themselves in the sand , so as that you may go over them , and not discover them . . he armes his choice men very well , that they may survive his encounters to a considerable skill , experience and considence ; which if his men were cut off in every occasion , fresh-water-souldiers are not capable of : and besides , being so armed , he ordereth them not to charge until they come within execution of the enemy , which they will do manfully , bearing up against his charges to his very face . the proceedings of the english at tangier , since they possessed it , and were opposed by the vsurper gayland . among the many great benefits we proposed to our selves by our alliance with portugal , this is not the least , that we might enjoy a secure and free trade in africa and america , those treasures of the universe : in order to which end , we had in the year . the antient city of tangier delivered to us ; a place where we might in our traffick that way , both refresh , and secure our selves , and give law to others : and no sooner was it delivered to us , than the right honourable the earl of peterborough , listed . foot , and . horse ; the last in southwark , the first in black-heath , to possess and secure it . his officers were , captain levet , captain mordant , captain blake , captain anesley , captain belletore , captain clerk , captain fairborn , captain colls , captain car , captain nerve , major johnson , and lieutenant collonel sir james snith . and as his lordship prepared himself for the government of it from hence , so the right honourable the earl of sandwich , went thither october in the same year ; where he found strong fortifications , many fair gardens , and so well situated , that no ship can pass in or out of the streights , but ships as ride there may see and speak with them ; and that the portuguez were very civil to the english , and made great expressions of their welcome : and thereupon , in december following , the aforesaid honourable lord addressed himself for his charge , i mean the command of tangier , which we found situated strongly on the side of a hill , having one gate only to the water side , and land-ward four gates , one within the other ; and a great many good brass canons were mounted on the walls of it ; and in the middle of it we saw a fountain of water , that continually runneth with a very full stream , that conveyeth it self under the town . december . . the english and irish forces were embarqued in several vessels , according to my lord rutherfords order , from dunkirk to tangier ; never any souldiers were shipped to foreign service more willingly , never any carried more resolutely ; the number . old souldiers ; the commanders , col. fitz-gerard , col. farrel , sir robert horley , l. c : kingwell , major fiernes , captain summers , captain flord , captain herbert , captain emerson , captain brooks : no sooner was my lord upon the place , than he setled a very fair correspondence with the portuguez and moors there , upon the old portugal terms , until he could be able to procure himself better ; so that we had the accommodations of that place upon as good conditions as we could wish : in the mean time our works went on , our souldiers were inured to the country , we were better acquainted with the humour and interest of the people ; and in a word , had exacter observation of our advantages , in order to a further settlement . april . . the moors had a design of drawing upon tangier , whereof his excellency having intelligence by the arabian spies he employed to that purpose , drew up a regiment of foot , and a troop of horse ; but being not willing to spend any of his own men upon the barbarians , he sent out some moors who had heretofore revolted , and come in , and have been many wayes useful and serviceable to us ; who accordingly being horsed , encountred with a party of the enemy , in the sight of the town , and wounded the shots son , one of the principal persons of the country , of which wounds he is since dead , and his loss is much lamented by the infidels . in revenge whereof , as we conjecture , five dayes after a considerable party came within our trench , and one of their chief captains was killed by our artillery . these little braveries prejudice them more than they can annoy us , who can look on until the country is harassed and ruined with poverty , hunger and sickness . the moors will be necessitated in all probability ere long to a better complyance with tangier ; already many of them did run over to us with horses and cattel ; so that fresh provisions were no varieties ; and upon the whole matter our condition was much another thing than it was when we first setled there ; health , plenty , trade , security , and good government , having put us into a very setled condition ; and his excellency the lord peterborough , having so well and happily setled all the concernments , to the honour and advantage of his majesty , then ready , by his majesties grace and favour , to return into england , and put the city into his successors hands , having payed off all arrears , and filled up all stores and ammunitions . and as an argument of our prosperity , we had very good correspondenee with algier , together with a resolution to continue in amity with us ; they of sallee likewise desire a good understanding with us : tangier rendring england much more considerable to algier , than it would be , were this garrison in other hands . the works were strengthned by the same noble lord ; the garrison enlarged ; the quarters were disposed ; the rate of victualls was setled ; the guards were ordered , and . mile round clearly gained . but the earl of tiveot arriving , there began a little stone redoubt , which we perfected without any opposition from the enemy , also we made entrenchments and lines of communication from place to place , insomuch that a great deal of ground was left free to us , to feed our cattel in safety . thursday the th . of june we began another redoubt on the top of the hill , which overlooketh the town to the very ports thereof ; at the same time we made retrenchments beyond the hill that we might not be surprised , nor our works molested . gayland hearing of the consequence of this redoubt , and of our dayly retrenching , assembled his army consisting of horse , and foot , and encamps within a league of the town : two fugitives one after another brought us news that he resolved to attaque our works . upon sunday morning we divided our retrenchments into three posts : whereof col. fitz-gerard and his regiment , was to maintain that near the sea on the east : col. norwood , with half the governours regiments the middle post , wherein lay the new great redoubt : l. c. knightley , with the other half of the said regiment , where the little redoubts were on the right hand : col. bridges with the horse in the middest of all , to give succour as need should require , and repell the enemy if they entred our works : col. alsop the town major still visiting the posts ; the outmost lines of all for favouring the work-men being divided into three posts , commanded one by a lieutenant and men , another by an ensign and men , and the third by a serjeant and . we made a six pounder gun to be carried to the outmost line at the serjeants post , and gave order that after all , the garrison should be in readiness , and at the shooting of the said gun , should take arms ; which was accordingly executed at a clock at night ; and after the gun was brought off , all those outer lines were sown with chaustraps , cultrips or stories , whereof we brought over . and the avenues with sowgards or hollis , wherein was put powder as in a mine , and loaden above with stones , granadoes and swedes feathers were put into those farther posts . sunday the precisely at twelve a clock in the day , whenall the officers were retired to dinner , the ordinary guards in the retrenchments , appeared in an instant gaylands forces , who had long attaqued our outmost lines , ( the lieutenant , ensign and serjeants posts ) with three regiments of red and white colours , black colours , & one of a sort of violet colour , seconded by a regiment of horse . our souldiers surprised and amazed , abandoned their posts , and left the powder in the sowguards , with some granadoes , to the enemy , who pursued with incredible vigour the souldiers towards the town . mean time the great body of foot attaqued the great redoubt , and shewed more than ordinary resolution in standing firm before our granadoes and fire . in the fort was commander , by his turn , major ridgert with some forty men ; and to his succour came lieutenant-col . chun voluntier , and captain giles a lieutenant in the governours regiment , and several others reformed officers : which major & officers defended themselves most gallantly , killing about of the moors . the chaustraps that were sown about all the lines , and the redoubt in particular , were of wonderful use and effect : for the bare-footed moors , when they were pricked in the feet by them , sitting down to pick them out , were pricked behind . many both of foot and horse were so hurt . mean time , the colonel and lieutenant-colonels , with the officers , commanded in case of alarm to maintain the three posts ; as also col. bridges with his horse marched out , repulsed most gallantly the enemy , took in all their posts again ; and in the end the enemy retired in great hast and disorder . they lost , as near as we can conjecture by taking off the dead , ( for they never leave any bodies behind them , if possible ) above in all , being left within our lines , which they could not carry off , and several others in the fields ; colonel norwood with all imaginable gallantry going to the outer point before the redoubt , and captain needham with him . the said captain did kill a moor for his part , and for his pains was shot himself thorow the arm in the flesh only . we lost killed in the field , and twenty hurt with horse : and we suppose we had more of our men hurt from our inner line and walls , than by the enemy . it is reported by the portuguez and jews , that he had never lost so many men at any time . they are men of order and resolution , and have most excellent fire-arms and lances . i had forgot to tell you , that when the horse charged us , he that did command them was cloathed in crimson velvet ; who being killed , they went all off immediately : which maketh us suspect he was of eminent quality . after this encounter , an express was sent to complement gayland ; who returned the answer inclosed by one of his own domesticks , who confesseth that our crows feet or chaustraps did their foot great harm , and that they have lost many men . the earl of tiveots letter to gayland . written in spanish . the king my master having honoured me with the command of this place , i did not look for less courtesie than your excellencie used with my predecessor , giving me the welcome : but on the contrary , your excellencie stole from me the hour of eating , in which visits are usually received . notwithstanding what is passed , if your excellencie doth incline to a better correspondence , be it in peace or war , you shall not find me less disposed or provided , though it be at the same hour . valuing my self upon the laws of souldiery , i shall bury the dead bodies you left behind you : but if your excellencie desire to bury them your self , after you manner , you may send for them . god keep your excellencie the many years that i desire . tangier , june . gaylands letter to the earl of tiveot . written in spanish . signed above in arabick letters . i received your excellencies of the currant , in which you seem to complain , that i did not bid you welcome : whereas on the contrary it belongs to me to do so ; persons of your quality being accustomed in these parts to give notice of their arrival , and not to dispose of any thing , as your excellency hath done in my lands . notwithstanding , i gave order to my subjects , that , the occasion presenting it self , they should give good quarter to your excellencies , as they did with the centinel which they took the other day , whom i charged them to use well . as to the correspondence , it is well known how punctal i am in it ; of which you may be informed . i did not expect less from your excellencies courtesie , than you have used to the dead ; for which i am insinitely obliged to you . god keep your excellency many years , as i desire . postscript . if your excellency please to send any person or persons from you , you may do it ; and this shall secure him , which goes with my servant . the earl of tiveots reply . i received your excellencies of the currant , the same evening by the hands of your servant , who carries this back to you . to which i answer , that if there hath been any omission on my part , as to the accustomed civility of th●se countries , it was a sin of ignorance , for which your excellency hath sufficiently chastised . i am beholden to you for the good quarter which your excellency commanded to be given to the souldiers your men took the other day : if my good fortune gives me the same occasion , i will pay it with interest . as to what concerns the peace and good correspondence between the king my master and your excellency , there only wants a good disposition on your part , as it hath been treated formerly with my predecessor : to which if your excellency enclines , signifying it to me , i will send persons to effect it on my behalf . god k●●p your excellency many and happy years . from tangier , june . . notwithstanding these complements , gayland attempted a new work of ours with . men : but the most vigilant and excellent governour had so warily supplyed the defects of that place , by planting great gun to annoy the assailants ; that , though the assault was very sharp , the enemy was beaten off , and that with the loss of . men ; which entertainment they liked so ill , that the army was drawn off : and thereupon the said governour , as happy to improve advantages , as resolute to gain them , sent a letter to gayland , to let him know , that his master , the king of great britain , as he wanted neither resolution nor ability to manage his just right in that garrison : so he was so great a friend to peace , that he would be ready to entertain a better correspondency with his excellency : which seconded with the defeat , ( then only you oblige the unworthy , when you can awe them ) prevailed so much upon the usurper , that he sent messengers for a treaty , which had so fair a progress , that both parties came to an agreement . indeed so ill was gaylands success , so great our progress in fortifications ; such convenience we had for fresh air , and fresh victualls , that we were in a plight ( if it had been thought fit to have sent sir john lawson , to do as much by sea , as we could do by land ; to shut up the havens and towns of sallee and tituan , and batter a●sella to the ground . every day put us in a better state , both of freedom and security , having by our late treaty gained a six months peace , which did exceedingly conduce to our settlement . at our first arrival , a flux troubled us , but within six months our temper agreed exceedingly well with the temper of the climate . august . . the vigilancy , courage and conduct of the earl of tiveot , moved gayland ( in his own expression ) to require a peace ; which , although concluded but for six months , was by him desired for seven years : after which time the english forts are finished , and this advice waited upon his excellence , who was then embarquing for englond . at that time , the design of the mould , intended for the safety and advantage of shipping , was in a good forwardness of persection , the passage of the stone being out out of the rocks , & way made for a gun-powder blow , & undermining . there was a new key made , yards foundation laid , & yards raised above water ; & well they might for no place in the world afforded either better materialls , or those more conveniently disposed for the perfecting of such a work , which the moors call , and others shall find , the key of the world : indeed , they that understand the world , and themselves very well , look upon this place with great hopes of the reputation and advantage it may one day bring to the english nation . august . . the moors kept their peace made with the english very punctually , whom they treated , when they went down into their countries ( which is rich , and well inhabited ) with great civility . the earl of tiveot was much esteemed for his valour , and well beloved for his candour and humanity ; insomuch , as the very moors term him a good man. ( and indeed , he was a person of exact honour and integrity ) the place was healthy , and the situation pleasant , and provisions of sorts in such abundance , that a man can scarce live cheaper any where . but about this time we began our mould , and found it very hard to blow up the rocks under water , to make way for our boats and engines , which otherwise cannot bring stone , but with difficulty , at the top of high water : but in a month , way was made for our engines to weigh our stones , and in six weeks time we laid . yards of foundation , and raised that two yards high : it should seem we are better at this work than any other , this being better work than any in the streight . but that we might not only secure our selves , but oblige our neighbours ; we sent supplyes , with a great deal of hazard , to the saint & falle ; a favour he acknowledged so great , that he hath promised , when ever it is in his power , he will not be backward in requital . and now gayland complements his sacred majesty in spanish , to this purpose . a letter from gayland to his sacred majesty charles the second , king of england . sacred royal majesty , having been advertis'd by his excellency the earl of tiveot , of his sudden occasion to visit these parts ; i could not forbear this address in respect of the peace , and good intelligence we have lately affected in your majesties name . and having found his excellency a cavalier of great valour and honour , and of so noble a mind ; i could not choose but desire to correspond with him by my letters , to signifie my inclination of complyance in all things that concern the service of your majesty ; and which formerly i have forborn to do , for want of so fit a juncture to enable me . i hope from the divine savour , that this peace will be attended with many considerable augmentations in order to your majesties service , the effecting of which good work being iustly attributed ( with no small prais●s ) to the prudence of his excellency ; i beseech your maiesty to command him speedily back , that we may perfect all things with him so greatly to be loved and esteemed . if in any parts of our dominions there is any thing that offers it self for your majesties service , the signification of your commands shall be esteemed the greatest favour that can be expressed . god keep your maiesty , and give you all manner of felicity . and the governour of morocco to the king of portugal , thus . the copy of a letter from the king of tetuan , governour of morocco to the king of portugal sancta crux , june . . high and mighty , don alfonso , king of roman christians and of portugal , thanks be to god that we are obliged to give account , and none is free from that duty , and therefore we give him the prayse unto him due , and this praise is for the dayly favour we receive from him . by order of the servant of our lord god on high , to whom i submit all my affairs , who is called abdelazir mahomet , grand-son of aly ; this our writing in the name of god our lord. to your majesty the king of portugal , catholique d. alfonso , whom god bless , and after that we give thanks to god for having made us moors , and participate unto your majesty , how much we esteem the favour which you have done to my servants , who arrived in a little english vessel safe in the haven of sancta crux , together with the good news which i received from the king maly mahomet , to whom your majesty was generously pleased to give his liberty , and i for my part , cannot but he very thankfull , and doe offer my self and my subjects with all that which from this kingdom may be necessary , to your majesty without any fail : and your majesty , whom god bless , may out of hand make tryal thereof . and i do give my word , and so this letter goes signed by my hand and seal , and from hence forward will celebrate the peace between me and your majesty with these undernamed conditions which are . that all the portugal nation , and their contractions , may go , and come , enter , and come out feeely , into , or from any of my havens , by sea or land , with all security ; and in case they meet in the sea with the turk , or any other shipping , of whatsoever nation it be , coming out of any of my sea-port towns , they shall receive no damage . and also if any of your majesties vessels chance to have bad weather at their fishing , they may retire into this haven : wherein , ( although they meet with any shipping , either turks , or spaniards , or any nation whatsoever enemies to your majesty ) you majesties shipping or men shall be in no danger ; and as for the wheat and horses which shall be necessary for your majesty , all shall be punctually and with speed given to your majesty , whereof your majesty may make present tryal , sending ships , goods , money , and vessels , for the wheat and horses , and one that understands our language , whom your majesty may send in the company of maly mahomet who is there , to whom your majesty was generally pleased to give his liberty , for at his arrival here , he is to be king of morocco , where they expect him each hour , and the kingdom has no other heir by maly mahomet , and i engage for him , that he will perform his word in whatsoever he promiseth to your majesty , wherein he shall not fail as in duty bound , and is natural to him to do it : so waiting for maly mahomet , and for all your majesties orders , which i shall alwayes observe , and 〈◊〉 as your majestics loving subject and servant to god , who may bless your majesty , give you long life , and happy , and defend you from your enemies . your majesties friend , cide abdelazi , son of mahomet , grand-son of aly. hereupon we had free trade with the moors , they daily bringing their camels , laden with hides and skins , which is their chief commodity ; and in return they get money , and other provision : this place being the great market for those things that come from algier to tituan , and from thence hither ; especially when a square of . yards towards a molle was brought a yard above the water mark : that new experiment of maste-floates promoting our design exceedingly . indeed , so forward were we in february , that gayland began to be jealous of us , and therefore there are several debates between him and his excellency , the earl of tiveot , whether a war or peace . free he would have us to the fortification of those redoubts nearest the town ; but as for those further off , as the hollanders answer the ambassadors that come to them , saying , it may be so , we will consider : so said he , he would take . dayes time to think of it . and they have a saying amongst them , the meaning whereof i understand not ; . dayes make a wise man. but from debate it comes to action ; the moor comes on with horse and foot to hinder the enlargement of our quarters , as it concerned him , but was beaten off ; and , what is a shame in that country , left one of his horse colours behind him : neither is he more in earnest than we , for we banish all the jewes out of town , and go on a pace with the works , without any further attempt or interruption ; only when the lord governour declared , he could entertain no peace , without some more liberty allowed , and secured in the country : gayland advised with his mushrome grandees , his lords of the other house ; and after mature deliberation , he sent word by two of his principal officers , and his secretary , which was to this effect ; that , having consulted all his savois and rabbies upon the point , it appeared , that they were bound by a law not to suffer christians to fortifie in africa ; but if his excellency accepted of quarters , as in the portuguez time , they were willing to give them . to which my lord replyed ; that , he must either have peace with those terms aforesaid , or war without them . and the very next week his lordship commenced a new redoubt upon the utmost liue ; against which work , what stratagems ! what ambuscadoes ! what surprizes ! while we were so confident , that one writes to england thus . we expected gaylands whole army any time these seven dayes ; if he stayes but two dayes longer , he must come to our terms , and suffer this place to be comfortable to the garrison , and the inhabitants : or , which is more , let him come when he will , we question not , but we shall maintain our ground in spite of his heart : we have good lines to defend ; and better men certainly are not in the world : to which must be added ; that we have a governour , under whose conduct ( with gods ordinary providence ) we can fear nothing . but ah ! humane confidence ! he was an excellent man , but a man still ; for the next news you heard , was ; that the earl of tiveot , designing to cut wayes and passages in an adjoyning wood , that was as great annoyance to tangier , as it was a shelter to the moors ; and having in vain sent out scouts , who were suffered to graze their horses in the midst of the enemies , who lay undiscovered , behind those rising grounds , in fernes , and thick grass ; fell into an ambuscado of the whole infidel army , where he sold his life at a dear rate ; a life indeed invaluable but that there are many such lives comprehended in his sacred majesties large and universal care ; which hath that influence even upon this distant place ; that , notwithstanding gaylands attempts upon it several times since that miscarriage , not only secures , but advanceth it to as much reputation as ever it enjoyed since it was in the christians hands . how many millions would the french give for such a place ? who are now to seek for a footing in those coasts . the soyl is proper for any grain , or trees , and asketh nothing but dressing to be admirable . there is no need of carrying provision thither , as to other plantations , for the support of the colonies ; the abundance of things there being so great , that the country produceth enough for its self , and to spare . the waters are excellent ; the fruits delicious , and and without hyperbole ; the place may be improved into a paradice : over and above this , there are golden mines , in such plenty , that in great falls of rain , and ravages of water , the veins of gold discovered themselves , all along the coast , and upon the mountains . the inhabitants are of a disposition tractable enough , & with good words , are ready and willing to be employed in any service ; being a people humble , and obedient , and of a very good humour . the country is shared among divers petty pretenders , who are still making warr one upon the other ; and from whose disagreement we might easily take a rise to an absolute establishment of our selves among them . beyond this place the trading lyeth open without difficulty into india ; and more commodiously yet to the country of aethiopia , where commerce is scarce understood , and where are the richest gold mines upon the face of the earth . in a word , there is not any where a fitter place for a general magazine of all commodities to be brought from those parts into europe , than is this place ; from whence we may carry the business of commerce and discovery further than any have yet done before us . besides that , the place is of so gentle a climate , that what cloaths serve us here in the spring , may serve us there all the year ; and having within its self whatsoever may honestly , by way of commerce , serve either to the pleasure , plenty , or necessities of humane life . adde to this , that lying in a middle way , it secures us from the danger and loss o● long and tedious voyages backwards and forwards , which we were tired with before this acquists ; which is as good a breathing place as can be , with all conveniences about us , to refresh our men , and follow our course at pleasure : wheras others meet no relief between india & home commonly at . months voyage ; for want of which , they are so miserably harassed with the journey , that a long time it takes them to recover it . and over and above all this , when others are come as far as tangier , they dare not pass the channel without our leave , which they may be made either to fight , or pay for . again , this openeth an honest way of livelyhood to those english men , whose necessities have debauched them to unable and shifting wayes of living ; this relieveth the poor , that must either begg or starve ; employeth those whose languishing industry is as good as lost , because not exercised : and brings back that sincere and quiet way of dealing , which is now lost among a lazy sort of men , that have nothing to do but to be troublesome . what natural impressions and motions the air of africa is subject unto , and what effects ensue thereupon . throughout the greatest part of barbary stormy and cold weather begin commonly about the midst of october . in december and january the cold groweth somewhat more sharp in all places , howbeit this hapneth in the morning only , and that very gently and remisly . in february the weather is somewhat mitigated , but very unconstant . in march the north and west winds usually blow , which adorns the trees with blossoms . in april cherries are commonly ripe , and all fruits attain to their proper form and shape . in the midst of may they gather their figs ; and in mid - june their grapes are ripe in many places : in which month and july their pears , sweet quinces , and their damascens attain unto sufficient ripeness . their figs of autumn may be gathered in august , howbeit they never have so great plenty of figs and peaches as in september . by the midst of august they usually dry their grapes in the sun , whereof they make reisons , which if they cannot finish in september , by reason of unseasonable weather , of their grapes as then ungathered they use to make wine and must . in the midst of october they take in their hay , and gather their pomegranets and quinces . in november they gather their olives , beating them off their boughs with certain long poles , by reason of the tallness of their trees , which no ladder can reach . they have three months in the spring always temperate . they begin their spring on the fifteenth day of february , accounting the eighteenth of may the end thereof , all which time they have most pleasant weather , but if from the five and twentieth of april , to the fifth of may , they have no rain fall , they take it as a sign of ill luck , which wa●er they call naisau , that is , water blessed of god , and some store it up in vessels , most religiously keeping it as an holy thing . their summer lasteth till the sixteenth of august , all which time they have most hot and clear weather ; except perhaps some showers of rain fall in july and august , which do so infect the air ; the great plagues and pestilent fevers fall thereupon , which are almost always mortal . their autum they reckon from the of august to the of november , having commonly in the months of august and september not such extream heats as before . howbeit all the time between the of august and the of september is called by them , the furnace of the whole year ; for it brings figgs , quinces , and such kind of fruit to their full maturity . from the of november begin their winter ; and as soon as winter cometh they begin to till the ground , which lyeth in the plains ; but in the mountains they go to plough in october . the people here are most certainly perswaded , that every year containeth extreme not dayes , beginning upon the twelfth of june : and again , so many dayes extreme cold , beginning from the twelfth of december . their equinoxies are upon the of march , and the of september : and their solstice on the of june , and the of december : these rules they most stri●ctly observe ( though they know not a letter in the book ) in husbandry , and navigation ; which together with the houses of the planets , are the first lessons they teach their children ; as also the great book in volumes , called , the book of husbandry . they reckon trine by the moon ; and allow nights to the year , viz. nights in each of the first six months , and in each of the last six . they are undone if it rains not dayes in the year , viz. the six first of april , and the six last of september . they live till threescore , as lustily as we do at thirty , and then they droop suddenly , scarce any of them exceeding seventy ; the failing of their teeth and eyes fore-running their deaths ; the reason whereof may be their excessive inclination to venery , for which purpose they tolerate hundreds of stews in fez : they being so impudent , that they will continue in the very act of uncleanness , though twenty should come and see them , therefore they are ●ald at commonly ; and many of them dye of the french pox : a disease that came thither with the jewes that were banished castile ; with whose wives the moors lay , and were infected : a disease , they say , that if you go but into numidia , the very air of the place cures you of : as the armenian earth doth of the plague here . the qualities of these people , good and bad. they are religious to a superstition , so far , the day they pray ( and they are very often at their churches or masques ) they spit , nor touch their privy parts . their dexterity and skill in mathematiques and mechaniques is extraordinary : very faithful they are , but cunning , no people so lustful , and none so jealous ; familiarity with one of their wives is death . give place to thy elders , is a great rule amongst them . when ever they discourse of love , the youth are to withdraw . but with these vertues , they have their vices too , being very needy and covetous ; very proud and wrathful ; very implacable and revengeful . so clownish they are , that they will scarce hear you : yet so credulous , that they will believe you , say what you will. abounding so much with choler , they speak alwayes angry and loud ; and you will never walk the streets , but you will meet with a squabble . desperate they are in their undertakings : careless they are of their time ; which they spend in hunting , or war , or theft . thus have i described as well their vices as their virtues ; though i am indebted to this country for my birth , and most part of my education . now to deliver somewhat concerning the estates of these christians : they are called by some cofti , or coptitae , and by others , christians from the girdle upward : for albeit they be baptized , as we are , yet do they circumcise themselves like to the jews : so as a man may say , their christianity comes no lower than the girdle-stead . but that which is worse , they have for years followed the heresie of eutiches , which alloweth but of one nature in christ : by which heresie they also separate and dismember themselves , from the union of the church of europe . the occasion of this separation and schism , was the ephesine council , assembled by dioscorus in defence of eutiches , who was now condemned by the calcedon council by six hundred and thirty fathers congregated together , by the authority of leo the first . for the cofti fearing , that to attribute two natures unto christ , might be all one , as if they had assigned him two hypostases or persons , to avoid the heresie of the nestoreans , they became eutichians . they say their divine service in the chaldean , oftentimes repeating alleluja . they read the gospel first in chaldean , and then in arabick . when the priest sayeth pax vobis , the youngest among them layeth his hand upon all the people that are present . after consecration , they give a simple piece of bread to the standers by : a ceremony used also in greece . they exercise their function in the church of saint mark , amidst the ruines of alexandria , and in that of suez , upon the red sea : they obey the patriarck of alexandria , and affirm themselves to be of the faith of prete ianni , in our dayes two popes have attemptted to reduce them to the union of the romish church , pius the fourth , and gregory the thirteenth ; whose letter they received with reverence , laying them upon their heads before they opened them . a description of the kingdome of fez . the world we know is divided into four parts ; asia , europe , affrica and america : the place under present consideration lieth in affrica . affrica is bounded on the east by the red sea , and the famous bay of arabia ; on the west , with the atlantick sea , which divides it from america ; on the north it is parted by the mediterranean from europe ; and on the south with the ethiopian sea , from that place which geographers call terra australis incognita ; altogether bounded by the sea , but that there is an isthmus , or a neck of land , ( of threescore , faith dr. heylin ; threescore and nine , saith leo affricanus ; but fifty and four , saith munster ; and seventy four miles , saith atlas ) between it and asia : over which neck cleopatra would have drawn her ships when her dear anthony was defeated , and adventured her self to an unknown coast to escape caesar's success and fortune , had not her minions company invited her to her own egypt , to put a period to that rant and frolick wherewith fate and fortune played with , and exercised that age of the world. the form of affrica , saith leo , is a pyramide reversed ; the basis whereof , which reacheth from tangier , and the streight of gibraltar , to the foresaid isthmus , and is in length italian miles ; the cone narrow , but miles in length ; that is to say , in plain english , that part of the world is miles abroad towards us , and runs up narrower and narrower miles the further it goeth from us . asia is less then america , affrica then asia , europe then affrica ; that course cloth hath good measure . touching the temper of the air , which depends most an end upon the position and aspect of the heaven ; we guess that since the aequator , ( i mean that line that is supposed to divide the heavens into two equal parts ) crosseth over the middle of this country , therefore it was , by those of old , ( that had no more geography then they drew up by aim in their studies , and concluded from some of their own uncertain speculations and conjectural principles ) judged to lie under the most torrid zone , and so for the most part unhabitable : whereas a few more years experience , travel and observation , hath manifested most part of this country habitable and temperate ; the cool of the nights allaying the heat of the days : for there the mists , dews , and showres of the one , refresh the scorches and parches of the other ; as indeed that vicissitude of sun and moon was designed by the almighty , ( who disposed all things in number , weight and measure , according to the eternal counsel of his will ) to keep this world in an equal temper , not overheated with the fever of the torrid , nor overcooled with the ague of the frigid zone . the best description extant of this coast that the ancients had , was that great souldier and exact observator hannoes journal , a great while locked in his punick tongue , until that great restorer of learning at once bestowed upon it the pains of a translation into the greek tongue , and the charge of an impression at basil , . affrica is divided into , . egypt , . numidia , . lybia , . terra nigritorum , . ethiopia , superiour and inferiour ; with the islands adjoyning to these respective parts . the subject of this discourse lieth in barbary . barbary lieth eastward towards cyrenaica ; westward , toward the atlantick sea ; northward , upon the mediterranean , towards the streights of gibraltar , and the atlantick ; and southward , towards atlas , spain and numidia . it is called barbary but lately by the saracens , either , as the more ancient authors will have it , from the word barbar , which among those people signifieth murmur or grumbling , because the language of that place is like the condition of it , discontented : or from bar , ( as our modern writers assert it ) a desart in that * language , intimating the desolateness of the place before their replenishing or peopling of it . it is in length from the atlantick to the streights , fifteen hundred miles ; and in breadth from mount atlas to the mediterranean , an hundred in the inland countries ; but outwardly towards the streights , three hundred . this barbary is divided into four parts by most geographers ; but it is well known by those that travel to consist of six parts , viz. cus or chus , hea , hascora , duccala , morocco and fez. the first , is a long piece of barren ground , of one hundred and almost eighty italian miles . the second coasts along as may miles upon the atlantick to the very mouth of the streights : it 's sixty german miles long , and fifty english miles broad ; mountainous , but well inhabited ; hilly , but plentiful with all manner of necessaries ; the highest places there , being as well peopled as our valleys here . the third is large , but wild and mountainous ; useless rather from its inhabitants carelessness , then its own nature . the fourth is eminent for nothing but that great temple or mosche made all of vvhale-bones . the fifth , morocco , the inhabitants whereof are called moores from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which in the greek signisieth black or obscure , and denotes either their complexion , which is tawny , and inclining to black ; or their condition , as who are bafe in their original , and not very honourable in their present state . morocco hath on the east of it maloa ; on the vvest from tremison , the atlantick ocean ; on the south , atlas ; and on the north , fez. it hath its chief denomination from the chief city of it , morocco : it hath large cities well inhabited & as well fortified ; whereof one contained anno , ( when there went out an enrolment from the xeriff or chief governour to tax every family by the poll ) families , mosches or churches : on the tower of the chiefest whereof , or the mother-church , as they call it , there was a globe that weighed pound in gold , and was valued at duckats . the country is like ireland , rich and fertile , and wants onely skilful and laborious inhabitants , that may improve it to that rich advantage it is capable of ; that country coming up , as all travellers aver , to our saviours proportion of increase , some times and places thirty fold , some fifty , some sixty , and some and hundred . the air is much after the temper of england , but that there is a south-wind that ever and anon blows and brings along with it an extraordinary and a very hurtful heat , like that at scanderoon , did not an eastern blast bring with it four times a year , ( viz. about the middle of july , the latter end of august , the beginning of march , and most part of may , as extraordinary cold that balanceth the former excess to a temper exceeding pleasant and healthful ; insomuch as it was observed by mr. tevillian , ( that traveiled morocco anno . when king charles the first of glorious memory , upon the humble request of the king of fez , sent ships to assist him in the conquest of the pyrates of sala , who were too hard for him ; and to his great grief , poor man , infested all europe and asia that were concerned in the eastern trade ) that never any english , vvelch , or scotch , that were cast upon those coasts , died before they were an hundred years old : nor any french or irish that lived there a twelve-month for some years together , until art helped nature ; and they understanding the temperature of the climate , and their own constitution , were taught those rules and prescriptions that corrected the first , and assisted the second . of the eleven mountains of barbary , four are fallen to the share of this part of it ; . thanebes , . gous , . phocra , . usaletto : from which spring up those pleasant and wholesome streams , that run like so many veins of blood , turning and winding through this uneven ground , dispensing their refreshments and verdure on all sides , with equal kindness to men , to beasts , to the grass and corn. but morocco and fez are as it were all one , as well in the state and condition of the countrey , as in the government . come we then at last to fez , wherein lieth tangier , the place we have in our eye . fez hath on the south of it morocco , which is no other then the other half of it : on the north , the mediterranean ; on the east , malon and tremeson ; on the west , the atlantick . it is thought by that excellent surveyor maurus , to be as big as toledo , that is almost twice as big as england , and something over . the ground is very uneven and unequal ; no hills higher then its mountains , no wilderness wider and looser then its deserts ; no parks more woody than its forrests ; no valleys more pleasant and profitable than its champaigns , which what they want in length and breadth , they gain in depth ; as if nature had heaped one acre upon two , in the matchless fertility thereof : our age , barren of belief , affords not faith so easily to the story , as this land afforded food to their ten hundred thousand men , anno , when an hundred thousand fell at the famous battel before tangier . the soil of the countrey of armagh in ireland is so rank of it self , that if any compost or artificial improvement be added unto it , it turns barren ( saith my ingenious author ) out of fullenness and indignation , that men should suspect the native fruitfulness thereof ; and fat upon fat is false heraldry in husbandry : an english man once dunged two acres of this countrey towards gosel , and it 's barren to this day , and called by the inhabitants in the punick , erapi vosci dos ; gods curse upon europe . ships , when sailing , are generally conceived to have one moyety of them invisible under water ; and some countreys in like manner are counted to have their wealth equally within the earth , and without it : but the proportion holds not exactly in fez , whose visible wealth far transcendeth her concealed substance . and yet we finde some minerals therein of considerable use and value : as , . brass and iron , so plentifully , that though they have not the blessing of asher , thy shooes shall be iron and brass , yet have they so competent a store of it , that she is no gentlewoman there , that hath not her twenty great iron rings about her . . salt , without which no meat is savoury to man , no sacrifice acceptable to god : abimelech sowed sechem and abdamelech gasel with salt. there are two sorts of salt ; . fossilis , digged ; . coctilis , boyled : both here plentifully , the first about hea , the last about heahem , and in lakes near fez , where they set no salt on their tables , but every one takes a little in his hand . . glass ; whereof the best in the world ( saith the great historian of nature ) is found on the river belus , and the next to that , ( saith solinus ) in hevalous , or as they call it now , hebal . . marble ; the great ornament of their cities and temples . . precious stones in abundance , no doubt near arzilla , as we may guess by those few found there by chance , by vasquez in his second expedition . . curious medicinal waters , arising from the sulphurious spring of mount anaba . . for gold and silver : though to avoid the invasions of other nations , they say with st. peter , silver and gold have i none ; yet no doubt if the european industry possessed the place of the affrican sloth , it would finde the indies in its way thither : for fez the chief city of this region hath its name from that gold that is supposed to lie a breeding in the very bowels of it : but the upper fruitfulness of the soyl makes them the more negligent in digging into the bowels thereof ; as those need not play beneath board , who have all the game in their own hands : for this countrey hath plenty , . of oyl-olive ; so called , to difference it from seed or train-oyl : hereof there are three kindes , or rather degrees : whereof , . the coursest makes lamps , which they burn in their mosques , temples and great palaces , day and night : . a middle sort for fineness , used for meat or rather sallad , with their cold herbs , and colder pap : . the finest , compounded with spices , for ointment for kings , priests and ladies , at their more solemn occasions of pomp and state , of piety and devotion , and of pleasure and entertainment . three carrects of oyl was one of the designed presents to the renowned king charles the first , , by abdalla , that were lost in the mediterranean , where oyl it self sunk . . honey : this is their sugar , as salt is their pepper ; whence it was called by the ancients terra melliflua : the canaanites here ( for you shall hear anon how they fled hither from the face of joshua ) as well as in their own countrey , enjoying a land that flowed with honey : the gentile part whereof use honey after the persian manner in their sacrifices ; which grotius saith is the reason why honey was forbidden in the jewish oblations . and to this honey belongeth wax , wherewith they dress their leather , the best here , if you will believe valtolin , that famous shooe-maker and traveller , whose shooes were surely made of running leather . . fruits . the biggest and most plentiful that ever i read of : as , . dates : whereof there is this tradition amongst them , that a date-tree over-shadowed an olive-tree , and that olive-tree a fig-tree , and that fig-tree a pomegranate , and that pomegranate a vine . . almonds . . nuts . . figs. . pomegranates . . pears . . spices . . cherries . . plums and apples . of which they made their most considerable presents , whereof good store were sent at several times to the earles of peterburrough and tiveot , from that excellent rebel gayland , who wants nothing of a compleat man , as cromwel did not , but that he hath not common honesty . . barley : it was the humility of christ , it is the necessity of the fezians , to eat barley-loaves . . vines : so good , that notwithstanding the strict laws of mahomet , to which they are most subject , the inhabitants cannot but request their king to allow , and the king cannot but grant them a liberty to drink wine ; especially at ezhaggen , some fifteen leagues off of tangier ; where it 's a part of the city-charter , that they may drinke vvine on mundays , tuesdays , thursdays and sundays . yet as great as good ; so that what is prophesied of judah , may be true here , that they may binde their foals to the vine , and their asses colts to the choice vine , though vines with us are tied to other trees for their support ; and that a grape there in many places is as big as a plum with us . . wood : so that round tangier the countrey seemed formerly a continued grove of sweet firs , shady palms , strong oaks , close cypress , &c. and where trees are wanting , there grass and ferns look like thick coppices , so high , that a whole army may be lodged horse and foot in a field , and not discerned ; as they did to our sorrow , in the late action on the third of may , . these are their vegetables : their beasts are , . goats : whose flesh is good meat , as their skins make good leather , and their fleeces good chamlets . . their diet is so plain , that they have very few cattle for meat , but many for shew and service ; as . lyons , so tame , that they will gather stones up and down the streets in fez , and hurt none ; and his highness prince rupert hath one of my lord rutherford's bestowing , that will lie upon his bed as quietly as any lamb. . elephants . . dragons . . leopards . . horses , the handsomest , the strongest and swiftest in the world : a barbary horse , is a proverb . i had almost forgot that balm or balsome , whereof the first plants , josephus saith , ( antiq. l. . ) the queen of sheba brought from this place to judea . this balsome is two-fold : . xylo-balsamum , the parent , being the shrub out of which it proceeded . . opo-balsamum , being the daughter , which trickled like tears from the former : useful , . for the healthful , making a most odoriferous and pleasant perfume : . for the sick , being soveraign and medicinal : . for the dead , being an admirable preservative against corruption . to balm i adde what is more necessary , as well as more common , i mean water : they think we northern people are drowned with a dropsie ; and we suspect they of the south are on fire with a feavour : this is a land like judea , ( as it is described deut. . . ) a land of brooks of waters , of fountains and depths , that spring out of valleys and hills : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , saith strabo , a well-watered countrey . object . but you will say , our englishmen talk of mountains and hills . answ . such fruitful hills as make the land insensibly larger in extent , though no whit less in increase : some cattle , as goats , some fruits , as vines , thrive never better than on these mountains , or on the side of these hills : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , grassie and fair fruitful hills ; which as they afford a plentiful prospect , so they conduce much to make the cities impregnable that are built among them . object . they talk of desarts too . answ . indeed the word desart sounds hideously in an english ear , and frights our fancies with the apparitions of a place full of dismal shades , salvage beasts , and doleful desolation ; whereas among these people it imports no more than a woody retiredness from publick habitation ; most of them in extent not exceeding our great parks in england , and more alluring with the pleasure of privacy , than affrighting with the sadnesse of solitariness . sect . ii. touching the inhabitants of this place , we are to understand , that when the isles of the gentiles were divided among the sons of noah , this coast fell to the lot of mizraim and phut , the sons of cham , who first inhabited it upon the dispersion ; but thinly , until upon joshua's approach , the canaanites fled hither from the face of joshua , and built tangier , as will appear more particularly in the description of that place . of those canaanites there were seven people , whereof six came hither : as , . the hittites , those sons of anak , so formidable to their foes , that some conceive them named from hittah , to scare or frighten , such the terrible impressions of them upon their enemies ! . the gergashites , whom the hierusalem-talmud makes to dwell near cinnereth , on the east of jordan , whence they stole ( faith my author ) into egypt . . the canaanites , particularly so called , that dwelt by the sea and coast of jordan . . the cadmonites , or easterlings . . the amorites . . the arvadites . these men possessed the place until the phoenicians and most remote punicks dispossessed them ; and they , until the saracens turned them out of doors . . here are placed the cynocephali , that have heads like dogs , snouts like swine , and ears like horses . . here are the sciapodes ; that have such a broad foot , and but one , that they cover their heads from the heat of the sun , and the violence of the showrs , by lifting this up over them . . here are the gumnosophantes that go naked , and fear nothing more then a cloathed man ; being ignorant of the use of weapons , and one being able without a miracle to chase of them . . here are the blemmiae , men that walk as st. dyonis did from paris to rheimes , without heads , having their eyes and mouths in their breasts . . here are the egipans , that have onely the bodies of men , sometimes made up of the necks and heads of horses , mules , asses , &c. and , . that this part of affrica may have its share in that saying , semper aliquid affrica portat novi , affrica is always teeming with some new monster . the other day not far from tangier , was to be seen a child with an eagles bill , claws , and feathers too , which was understood to bode some alteration in that government : whereupon the king and his friends bestirred themselves against gayland , and he gathered up all his forces against us ; breaking the league with us , and upon no terms admitting the forts we designed in those parts to enlarge our quarters . but the people that we converse with , are as other men , save that they are of a duskish complexion , and something inclining to black . their stature tall and slender , having much of the arabians in them . their nature subtle , sly , close , and reaching . their disposition active for war and horsemanship , otherwise there is not an idler people under the cope of heaven : the simplest of them shall dwell with you a twelve-month , and you know no more of his minde then the first day you saw him ; and he shall give as exact an account of your actions , inclinations and designes , as any man living . they are very proud and ambitious ; and shall do more for an obeysance , then they will sometimes for a town ; and buy a feather for their cap at a higher rate , then they will a suit of cloaths to their backs . they are as light as the feathers they wear , and as unconstant as their interest ; never trusted by the spaniard or portugez , but when they had swords in their hands . neither are they more wily themselves , then jealous of others ; especially in the case of their women , whose feature is comely , whose skin is delicately soft , whose complexion is blackish , and the darker the more amiable ; whose ornaments are sumptuous onely to please their husbands , and keep at home ; it being death to stir abroad without leave , and a keeper . distrust is the nature there of every particular man , and the policy of all ; whereby they keep strangers from that acquaintance with their advantages and disadvantages , which otherwise they might have . no peace is to be had with them without an hostage , no kindness without a security ; it being a saying amongst them , as some think , received by tradition from their ancestors the canaanites , remember ai , and distrust . hence they pretend it is one of the laws of mahomet , ( as they alledged it to the earl of tiveot ) that they should not suffer either the christians or the europeans to build any forts in their country . so cautious and wary are they , that you can hardly wrong them ; and so implacable if you do , that they will never forgive you . remember this ( said gayland's brother of a little brush given them ) two years hence : as much as to say , we will never forget or forgive . they are too ignoble to be masters of that honourable quality of passing by offences . and as they are themselves irreconcileable , ( it 's the heathens character , and it is a true one ; without understanding , covenant-breakers , without natural affection , implacable , unmerciful ) so they judge others too : if once the moore offendeth , he will never trust you ; once angry , he thinks , and ever so : his own unkindness makes him as much your enemy out of caution , as yours can make him out of passion . a stately gate is that which they observe most in themselves , and that which they take most notice of , and tender most respect to in others . the moore loves and fears a man ; therefore the tallest and most personable men were employed to treat with that barbarian , who was more guided with his eyes then his ears ; with what he saw , then what he heard ; in a word , appearances then reasons . and yet so much reason are they masters of , that ( though their shifts , tricks and unconstancy argue them men of a little reach , those being onely the little ways and escapes of men that have not a solid wisdome to look round about them , and carry on things handsomely ) they say when pressed to an affair of a sudden , stay a little , we must think what we shall do next year . though their gate seem majestick when they strut and walk , yet none more low and despicable when they sit , even in greatest state : for when our general and governour was to meet gayland and his nobility , we found them all upon the ground upon their carpets , sitting cross-legged like taylors . their garments are as sumptuous as their gate majestick : for though the poorer sort wear raw hides , i mean goatskins , leather , hair-cloth , sack-cloth , and other course vestinents ; yet we seldome meet them out of their fine linen , their silk , their scarlet , and their cloth of gold. of all colours , they , as the jews , delight in white , as the emblem of purity , cheerfulness , knowledge and victory . no work are they more taken with , then with washing : but their most solemn colour is black , and their most royal and noble one is blew ; the true and natural dying whereof , is lost in all the world but in that place . their scarlet and crimson is worn by the nobility ; and their purple , which is but the gaudiness of red , allayed with the gravity of blew , is with them as with us , royal. next their skin they wear linen ( as most cleanly , soft and wholsome , but dyed in violet ) loose , and at night lie in the same . next this , their coat , which comes down to their feet , as modest and grave ; and about that a girdle , which is also their purse . fringe is a great ornament among their priests . over this a mantle , which is among the poorer sort their coat by day , and by night their coverlet . as soon as they are born , they are coated ; and when striplings , the coat is party-coloured ; when men , the coat becomes a cloak ; when in the field , he hath a coat of maile tucked on with a military girdle , his bow and arrow , his sword , his buckler , his pike , and of late his gun too ; to all this the ancients adde his staff : all their turbants or mithraes of : pleyted linen or callico , in the manner of a pyramide on their heads , and their sandals on their feet , which had soles , but no upper leather , save onely the ligaments whereby they were tied to the instep and cross of the feet . hence their frequent washings in those parts , not onely to cool them , but chiefly to clear them from the gravel , and cleanse them from the dirt , which those casements of their sandals let in : but for fear of foul weather , they have their shooes carried after them , as the jews had ; whence the expression , whose shooes i am not worthy to bear . their women are veiled , and as i told you kept in , but nobly apparelled with garments wrought with needle-work , or very curiously woven ; adorned with their ear-rings , bracelets , frontlets , mufflers : and if they chance to go abroad , oh how they stretch out their necks ! how they walk and mince as they go ! how they paint their eyes and eye-brows , and gild their nails ! thus are they attired ; a man would now know how they are disposed . very idle i told you they are ; and what usually follows upon that , very quarrelsome : nothing more usual among them then deadly feuds ; against ● ; one tribe as it were against another ; which nothing can compose but a forreign enemy , against whom their very hatred unites them more effectually then their love could do among themselves . yet i must say this for them , though they are the worst enemies , yet they are very good friends , i. e. very civil : for let a stranger travel amongst them , and come into town , they will throw dice who shall entertain him . if the pilgrim saith be will to his inne , thither they flock to him with their gifts and their presents : if he is not provided , then say they , this mans house is yours . their reason for it they will give you ; abraham entertained strangers , and thereby angels unawares : we are so journers as all our fathers were . you would ask , what is their religion ? what is their language ? i answer : for their religion in the uttermost parts of it , it 's heathenish ; and all that we ever observed them do , was crossing their foreheads , kissing their hands , bowing their heads to the sun , and once a year offering a kid , once a month meeting at their groves : for these heathens think it not fit to circumscribe any thing that hath the name of a god within any compass , but that heaven they say he dwells in . but most of them are turks ; and though that countrey hath been most famous of old for the studies of mathematicks and philosophy , those great philosophers , avicenna , averroes ; those ingenious poets , terrence , apuleias ; those holy fathers , cyprian , tertullian , lactantius , victor , fulgentius ; and as famous for the excellent library in fez , wherein there were volumes of history , of philosophy , of astronomy , geography , and other mathematicks , that were more worth then all the libraries in the world , which that tyrant , made up of ignorance and fury , maleche shegge , destroyed all but two books ; whereof the one was an ancient book of the mysteries of mahomets religion and government , and the other the state of europe : yet now is it but the seat of barbarism , and the habitation of gross ignorance in every thing but , as you may read more anon , in mechanicks . the bishop of dunkelden thanked god he knew not a letter either in the old testament or the new , but that he had his proless and ladies psalter by heart . the very priest here pretendeth to no more skill then so much chyrurgery as may serve him to circumcise a childe , and so much divinity as may serve him to read his alcoran or testament . it was dangerous to understand greek , and heresie to profess hebrew in this land some two hundred years ago : it may cost a man his life there to be wise above the age ; for that they call conjuring against the king. but cities are the maps of countries , and metropolis of kingdomes : as therefore he who would look into the nature of england , had best take a survey of london ; so he that would be satisfied about this kingdome , needs no more but look into fez and tituan , whose descriptions follow . of the cities fez and tituan . of the innes and mills of fez. the innes of this city are three stories high , and contain an hundred and twenty or more chambers a piece , and are almost unparallelled for greatness of buildings . herein also are mills in four hundred places at least ; every mill standeth in a large room , upon some strong pillar or post , like unto our horse-mills . a description of the occupations , the shops , and the market . each trade and occupation hath a peculiar place allotted thereto ; the principal whereof , are next unto the great temple . then follow the butchers shambles ; next , the course-cloath-market ; afterwards , the shops of them that scowre armours ; next unto them , the fishmongers ; then follow them that make hard reed-coops , and cages for fowles . then the shops of them that sell liquid sope , the shops of them that sell meal , albeit they are diversly dispersed throughout the whole city . next are seed-grain-sellers ; next to them , are the ten shops that sell straw ; then the markers , where thred and hemp use to be sold . next to the smoaky place in the west part , ( which stretcheth from the temple to that gate that leadeth unto mecnase ) their habitations directly stand that make leather-tankards to draw water out of wells . unto these adjoyn such as make wicker vessels ; next to them are the taylors shops ; then the leather-shield-makers ; then the twenty shops of the laundresses or washers . next unto them are those that make trees for sadles , who dwell likewise in great number eastward , right in the way by the colledge founded by king abuhinam . next unto them are those that work stirrops , spurs and bridles . from thence you may go into the streets of sadlers ; then follow the long shops of them that make pikes and launces : all the which shops begin at the great temple . next standeth a rock or mound , having two walks thereupon ; the one whereof leadeth to the east-gate , and the other to one of the kings palaces . the station or burse of merchants . this burse being walled round about , hath twelve gates , and before every gate an iron chain ; which burse is divided into twelve several wards or parts : two whereof are allotted unto such shooe-makers as make shooes onely for noblemen and gentlemen : two also to silk-merchants or haberdashers that sell ribbons , garters , scarffs , and such other like ornaments . then follow those that make womens girdles of course vvool. next unto these , are such as sell vvoollen and linen-cloth brought out of europe . then may you come to them that sell mats , matresses , cushions , and other things made of leather . next adjoyneth the customers office. next of all dwell the taylors , then the linen-drapers , who are accounted the richest merchants in all fez. next are vvoollen garments to be sold . last of all is that place where they sell wrought shirts , towels , and other embroydered works ; as also , where carpets , beds and blankets are to be sold . the aforesaid burse or station of merchants was in times past called caesaria , according to the name of that renowned conquerour julius caesar : the reason whereof some affirm to be , because all the cities of barbary in those days were first subject to the romans , and then to the goths . next unto the said burse , on the north-side , in a straight lane , stand an hundred and fifty grocers and apothecaries shops , which are fortified on both sides with strong gates . the physitians houses adjoyn for the most part unto the apothecaries . then the artificers that make combs of box and other wood. eastward of the apothecaries dwell the needle-makers . then follow those that turn ivory . unto them adjoyn such as sell meal , sope and brooms ; whereof some are dispersed in other places of the city . amongst the cotten-merchants are certain that sell ornaments for tents and beds . next of all stand the fowlers . then come you to the shops of those that sell cords and ropes of hemp ; and then to such as make high cork-slippers for noblemen and gentlemen to walk the streets in when it is fowl weather . unto these adjoyn the ten shops of spanish moores , which make cross-bows ; as also those that make brooms of a certain wild palm-tree . next unto them are smiths that make nayls , and coopers that make certain great vessels in form of a bucket , having corn-measures to sell also . then follow wool-chapmen ; then langols or wyth-makers . next of all are the braziers ; then such as make weights and measures ; and those likewise that make instruments to card wool or flax. at length you descend into a long street , where men of divers occupations dwell together ; and here the west part of the city endeth , which in times past was a city by its self , and was built after the city on the west-side of the river . a description of the second part of fez. the second part of fez is situated eastward , and is beautified with most stately palaces , temples , houses and colledges ; albeit there are not so many trades and occupations as in the part before described , yet are there many , especially of the meaner sort ; but notwithstanding here are thirty shops of grocers : here also are more then six hundred clear fountains , walled round about , and most charily kept ; every one of which is severally conveyed by certain pipes unto each house , temple , colledge and hospital . the south part of east - fez is almost half destitute of inhabitants ; howbeit the gardens abound with fruits and flowers of all sorts . westward , that is , toward the kings palace , standeth a castle built by a king of the lutune family , resembling in bigness a whole town ; within this castle stands a noble temple and a certain great prison for captives , supported with many pillars . by this castle runneth a certain river very commodious for the governour . of the magistrates , the administration of justice , and of the apparel used in fez. in fez there are four sorts of magistrates ; one of the canon law , the other of the civil law , the third of marriages and divorcements , the next an advocate to whom they appeal . a malefactor they proceed against by leading him naked about the streets with an iron chain about his neck , after he hath received an hundred or two hundred stripes before the governour , a sergeant going along and declaring his faults ; and at length is carried into prison back again . sometimes many prisoners are thus chained together , for each of which the governour receiveth one duckat , and one fourth part ; and likewise he demands certain duties at their first enterance into the goal : and amongst his other living , he gathereth out of a mountain seven thousand duckats of yearly revenues , so that ( when occasion serveth ) he is to finde the king of fez three hundred horses , and to give them their pay . the canon-lawyers live according to mahomet's law , onely by their reading of lectures and priesthood . in this city are four sergeants , who receive for stipend some fee of every malefactor that they lead about in chains . that one onely that gathereth customs and tributes about the city , dayly payeth to the kings use thirty duckats . very strict are they that nothing comes into the city by any means , before some tribute be paid ; which is paid double of him that is caught in a deceit . the set order or proportion of their duckats is to pay two duckats for the worth of a hundred ; for onyx-stones one fourth part ; but for wood , corn , oxen and hens , they give nothing at all : though at the entrance into the city they pay nothing for rams , yet at the shambles they give two liardos a piece , and to the governour of the shambles one : which governour with his two men , is careful to see that the bread be weight ; if not , the baker is led about with contempt , and beaten with cudgels . decently and civilly attired they are , wearing in the spring-time garments made of outlandish cloth ; over which shirts , they wear a narrow and half-sleev'd cassock or jacket , whereupon they wear a certain wide garment close before on the brest . they wear thin caps covered with a certain skarff , which being twice wreathed about their head , hangeth by a knot . they wear neither hose nor breeches ; but in the spring-time when they ride a journey , they put on boots . the poorer sort have onely a cassock , with a mantle over that , and a course cap ; the doctors and gentlemen in a wide-sleev'd garment ; the common sort in a kind of a course white cloth : and so all according to their state and ability . the inhabitants of fez eat thrice a day , but nastily and filthily ; their tables low and dirty , their fingers their spoons and knives , the ground their seats : they never drink before they have done eating , and then a good draught of cold water . the manner of solemnizing marriages . the bride and bridegroom go together to church , accompanied with their parents and kinsfolks , and two witnesses of the covenants and dowry ; which being done , the present guests are invited to two banquets ; the one on the bridegroom's cost , the other upon the bride's fathers , who though he promiseth but thirty duckats onely for a dowry , yet will he sometimes bestow every way two or three hundred duckats besides , which is accounted a point of liberality . the bridegroom causeth his bride to be carried home in a cage eight square , accompanied with his parents and kinsfolks , with musick and torches , the bridegrooms kinsfolk going before , and the bride following after , and going unto the great market-place ; and passing by the temple , his father-in-law takes his leave of the bridegroom : the father , brother , uncle of the bride lead her unto the chamber-door , and there deliver her with one consent unto the mother of the bridegroom , who as soon as she is entered , toucheth her foot with his ; and forthwith they depart unto a several room by themselves , where she is deflowred , and the purity of her virginity afore that time , is declared with a napkin stained in blood , carried in hand about , which if she be not found , the marriage is frustrated , and she with great disgrace turned home to her parents . but at a compleat marriage there are three banquets ; the one for men , the other for women , the third seven days after for all her friends . furthermore , at the bridegrooms fathers there are two feasts ; the one the night before , which is spent in musick and dancing ; the other the day after , at her brave dressing by a company of women . these and many more ceremonies do they use at a maids marriage , but a widows is concluded with less a do . they make also great feasts and jollities at the circumcision of their males , which is upon the seventh day after their birth ; but at the birth of a daughter , they shew not so much alacrity . of their rites observed upon festival days , and their manner of mourning for their dead . upon christmas they eat sallet of divers herbs , and seethed pulse . upon new-years-day the children go with masks and vizards on their faces , to the houses of gentlemen & merchants , singing carols and songs , having fruits given them . on st. john baptist's they make great fires of straw . when their children's teeth begin to grow , they make another feast called dentilla . and in many things they imitate rome and other places . the women at the death of their friends assemble together in a company of their own sex , and put on most vile sackcloth and ashes , and sing a funeral-song to the commendation of the party deceased , and at the end of every verse , utter hideous outcries and lamentations ; all which continue seven days , at the end of which , they cease mourning forty days , and then begin to torment themselves in like manner for three days together ; which obsequies are observed by the baser sort of people , but the better sort behave themselves more modestly : at this time all the widow's friends come to comfort her , and send divers kindes of meats unto her : for in the mourning house they may dress no meat at all , till the dead be carried forth : and the woman that loseth her husband , father or brother , never goeth forth with the funeral . a description of the grammar-schools in fez. there are almost two hundred schools in fez , every one of which is in fashion like a great hall. the school-masters teach their children to write our or a certain great table : every day they expound a sentence of the alcoran , and firmly commit it to memory ; which they do right well in the space of seven years : then read they unto their scholars some part of orthography , which , and the other parts of grammar , is more exactly taught in the colledges , then in these trivial schools . their school-masters have a very small stipend ; but when their boys have learned some part of the alcoran , they present certain gifts unto their master , according to each ones ability . so soon as any boy hath perfectly learned the whole alcoran , his father inviteth all his sons school-fellows to a great banquet ; and his son in costly apparel rides through the street upon a gallant horse ; all which , the governour of the royal citadel is bound to lend him : the rest of his school-fellows being mounted likewise on horse-back , accompany him to the banquetting-house , singing divers songs to the praise of god and mahomet : then are they brought to a most sumptuous banquet , whereat all the kinsfolks of the aforesaid boys father are usually present , every one of whom bestoweth upon the school-master some small gift , and the boys father gives him a new suit of apparel . the said scholars likewise use to celebrate a feast upon the birth-day of mahomet , and then their fathers are bound to send each one of them a torch unto the school , which every boy carrieth in his hand ; which being lighted betimes in the morning , burn till sun-rise ; in the mean while , certain singers resound the praises of mahomet ; and as soon as the sun is up , all their solemnity ceaseth . the school-masters sell the remnant of the wax upon the torches for an hundred duckats , and sometimes for more . they are free-schools , in which , as also in the colledges , they have two days of recreation every week . of the fortune-tellers , the conjurers , inchanters and juglers in fez. some of them use geomantical figures , others pour a little oyl into water , and there shew several shapes , of whom they ask such questions as the party would be satisfied in . a third sort are women that lie with devils , which pretend to speak within them : these lie with one another , yea , and with other young women , until some wiser than some beat the devil out with a cudgel . another kind are the conjurers that make circles , and turn out devils by the magick rule called zairagia : first , they draw many lesser circles within the compass of a greater : in the first they make a cross , in the four corners of it they set down the four quarters of the world , and at the end of each cross the poles , and about the circumference they paint the four elements ; then they divide the same circle into four parts , and every one of those four parts into seven , each part being distinguished by great arabian characters , every element contaming twenty eight characters : in the third circle they set down the seven planets , in the fourth the twelve signs , in the fifth the twelve latine names of the month , in the sixth the twenty eight hours of the moon , in the seventh the three hundred sixty five days of the year , and about the middle thereof , the four winds : then take they one onely character or letter of the question asked , multiplying the same by all the particulars aforementioned , and the sum total they divide after a certain manner , placing it in some room according to the quality of the character , and as the element requireth wherein the said character is found , without a figure : all which being done , they mark that figure which seemeth to agree with the aforesaid number or sum produced , wherewith they proceed as they did with the former , till they have found twenty eight characters , whereof they make a word that resolveth the question demanded ; this word or speech they make a verse of , which is an infallible answer to the question propounded . these circles i have seen at king abulunan's colledge at fez , where i saw likewise these cabalists imprisoned by the mahometan inquisitors , who allow not that art , as derogatory to the great god that knoweth secrets . besides these juglers , there are here a sect of people who say they are sent from heaven to beget an holy seed in the earth ; under which pretence they abuse the fairest women in the countrey , even tiring themselves with lust , endeavouring to lie with half a dozen or half a score a piece in a night ; saying they carry about them the ninety nine virtues that are contained in the name of god. another sect there is , that pretend they are sent of god to dig for gold : for which purpose they ransack ditches , graves , kennels : right gold-finders ! here are a third sort that deal in sulphur and alchymy , who dispute every week in a great temple , how they may turn all things to gold ; of whom the learned geber and mugainbi have given the world an account . in the summer you shall have towns full of charmers , with their scroles , their drums , their pipes , their apes and their citterns . at the same time you may observe their gentlemen strut and keep their distance from the commonalty , and their doctors and judges keeping as far from them . from eleven of clock to three you will not meet with a man in his shorts ; they are all run to taverns and b●wdy-houses . in every town there is a lazer-house , the governour whereof is to take care of all the lepers in the town . their burying-places are certain fields bought for that purpose , where they lay over every grave two stones , one at the head , and another at the feet of the party deceased ; their kings being buried in palaces . hereabout are gardens of ten or twenty miles in length , through which they derive small veins of the river , from some of which they carry away cart-loads twice a year . here no mahometan is suffered to be a goldsmith or a coyner ; for they say , that is an employment good enough for a jew . of their beasts . . the first is the elephant , plentiful in the land of the negroes , and taken by the inhabitants thus : they make a round hedge of boughs and rafts , leaving a space round on the one side of them , and likewise a door standing upon the plain ground , which may be lift up with ropes , wherewith they can easily stop the said open place or passage : the elephant coming to take his rest under the shady boughs , entreth the hedge or inclosure , where the hunters by drawing the said rope , and fastening the door , imprison him . . the second is girapha , headed like a camel , eared like an ox , and footed like a horse . . their camels and dromedaries , their strength , treasure and pleasure : wherefore if you ask how rich a man is ? they will say , he hath so many camels : they are watred but once in five days , and can go without water or provender fifteen . when they are tired they will not go for beating , but with singing such songs as they are pleased with . the swiftest of them will carry you an hundred miles a day , and the slowest but eight . they teach them to dance thus : they take a young camel , and put him for half an hour together into a place like a bath-stove prepared for the same purpose , the floor whereof is hot with fire : then play they without upon a drum ; whereat the camel , not so much in regard of the noyse , as of the hot pavement that offendeth his feet , lifteth up one leg after another in the manner of a dance ; and having been accustomed to this exercise for the space of a year and ten moneths , they then present him to the publick view of the people ; whenas hearing the noyse of a drum , and remembring the time when he trod upon the hot floor , he presently falleth a dancing and leaping : and so use being turned into a kinde of nature , he perpetually observeth the same custome . . the fourth is the barbary-horse , brought up in the wild desert , and broken by arabians since ishmael's time . the tryal of these horses is the overtaking of a beast called lant or ostrich ; which if he can do , he is worth duckats . used they are for hunting , fed with camels milk , and never rid while in pasture . . the next sort of beasts is , . the white ox , called dant or lant , of whose skin they make sheilds . . adimaim , like a ram in every thing but his long asses cars , of whose wool they make coverlets , as of their milk butter and cheese ; whose tayls , as do the barbary rams , weigh some ten , some twenty pound apiece : all the fat of them is in their tayl . . the lyon , who the hotter the country is , the fiercer ; especially towards spring-time , and their time of coupling , when nothing is spared by them but a woman that sheweth her privy-parts ; at the sight whereof they cry , cast their eyes to the ground , and depart . . the spotted leopard , that never killeth any thing but when toyled by hunters into an extreamity : whosoever lets a leopard escape his toyl , must feast all the hunters of that province . . the dabuh , that is brought out of his den with singing . . the civer-cat , whose excrement , which is nothing but their sweat , they gather thus thrice a day : they keep the young ones with milk , bran , and flesh in cages and grates ; and first they drive them up and down the grate till they sweat , and then they take the said sweat from under their flanks , their shoulders , their necks and their tayls : which excrement of sweat is onely called civet . . the apes and coneys run up and down in companies , one of them always watching the husbandmans coming . . the crocodile that goeth on four legs like a lizzard , not above a cubit and an half high ; its tayl is full of knots ; it lurks about the banks of a river , craftily laying wait for men and beasts that come the same way ; about whom suddainly it winds its tayl , draweth them into the water , and devoureth them . in eating they move the upper jaw onely , their nether jaw being joyned unto their breast-bone . i saw them running and gaping on the banks-side , and little birds flying in and out of their mouths ; which sometimes they would catch when they had eaten up the worms in their jaws , but that a little prick upon the birds head so galleth them that they must let it go . . the hydra , against whose poyson there is no remedy but the cutting off the infected part . . the dab , a creature like a lizzard that cannot endure water , and revived when dead by fire . . the guoral , whose head and tayl they say is poyson , and whose body they eat as good meat . . the camelion , like a lizzard , save that it hath a mouses tayl , nourished with air , roasted in sun-beams ; at which it gapes , and changeth its colour with its place . . the silly ostrich that seedeth on iron , and forgetteth her great egges of eleven or twelve pounds apiece in the sand . . the locusts , that fly in such swarms that they intercept the sun-beams . . the monster begot between the male-eagle and the she-wolf , that hath a serpents tayl and skin , a wolfs feet , a dragons beake and wing , that lives years they say . fruits . as for their fruits , besides what we formerly mentioned , they have , . euphorbium , an herb like the wild thistle , upon the branches whereof grow fruits like cucumbers , or upon each ; which when ripe , are pricked for their slimy juyces , which the people put in bladders , and dry . . maus , or musa , growing on a small tree , which beareth large leaves of a cubit long , big as a cucumber , sweet as a musmillion : they 〈◊〉 it was the fruit forbidden our first parents in paradise , because the leaves are fit to cover the nakedness . . terfez , a root like mushroom , growing in hot grounds , but of a cooling vertue , as lushious as sugar ; and being boyled in water and milk , is a great dainty in sela. . the ettalche , an high and thorny tree , bearing leaves like the juniper , and sweating a gum like mastick : the onely remedy there against the french pox. . the root tauzorghent , an inch whereof perfumes a house three years , and is sold in one place for half a duckat , and in another for duckats . . the root addad , that kills a man in an hour with the smell of it : a present the good women send sometimes to their beloved husbands . . the root turnag , which they take to strengthen men : upon which if a maid make water , she looseth her virginity ; yea , and swelleth too , they say . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a -e * to sir g. r. notes for div a -e this tow a likewise is good port. notes for div a -e * viz. the punick . lev. . . vid. critic . sacra , in loc . a discourse touching tanger in a letter to a person of quality. sheeres, henry, sir, d. . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing s estc r 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 . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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which to this day render me so little master of my resolutions , that the few minutes i borrow , like broken slumbers , scarce afford me leave to reflect seriously on any other subject . be pleas'd therefore to take this short account only , as an earnest of what you may farther expect ; when with more freedom of thought i shall be enabled to send you a present of the same kind , better worth your acceptance . tanger , according to remotest accounts , i find to have been a colony of the romans ; which conquering people did from thence lead their armies , by which they subdu'd all that part of africa . they call'd a great province by that name ; and thought it so well worth their labour , that they planted , peopled , and built it to the magnitude of the greatest cities ; as we find by the fragments of their structures , where ever we have occasion to break ground in the fields ; and by the noble aquaeducts ; some whereof to this day supply the town with water , said to be the best in the world. but by the declension of that monarchy , it shrunk by degrees to the dimension it now bears . it was here the moors form'd , and from hence prosecuted , their great design of conquering spain : the advantageous situation whereof , is thought to have not only incouraged those infidels to the attempt ; but lent them such aids , as mainly conduc'd to their success . at length , about the year , while the princes of barbary were at war amongst themselves , this , with other towns upon the coast , fell into the hands of the portuguez , &c. upon his majesty's marriage with our present queen , tanger was given in part of her dowry : a capitulation much oppos'd by the spanish ministers , and gave that government so much apprehension , that , upon his majesty's sending so great a garrison as he did upon our first possessing it , ( jealous what design there might be ) withdrew a great part of their army from the frontiers of portugal , and quarter'd them along the coast of andaluzia , to have an eye upon our motions : by which state contrivance as is thought of the portuguez , they got the respite of one whole campaign from the incursions of the spaniard . this i the rather mention to excite our own value for tanger , which barely our possession of , gives other princes so much caution . this sufficing for the historical part of tanger , to the time of his majesty's possessing it . i will now proceed , with the brevity of a letter , to treat upon the four following heads , viz. upon the service tanger has already rendred the crown . what service it may render it , if improv'd . the mischief it may do us , if possess'd by any other powerful prince . some general observations touching trade . tanger is , as i have observ'd , so advantageously situated , that it surveys the greatest thorough-fare of commerce in the world ; having in one view almost the whole sea comprehended between the four capes of travalgar , gibraltar , spartel , and ceuta ; those on the european , these on the african shore : so that no ship or vessel can pass in or out of the mediterranean , unobserv'd from thence . it comes therefore to pass , by means of this narrow gap or inlet , that men of war , pirats and corsairs of all nations , covet to ply and cruiz in and about that station , where they are sure to speak with all ships that pass . here it was , that a squadron of the dutch on two several occasions , during that war , lay in wait for our new-found-land-fleet , who had no recourse for safety but to tanger , where they were protected and secur'd , till the danger was over : the greatest part whereof had otherwise demonstrably fallen into the enemy's hands . it was on this station that sir thomas allen , during the first dutch war , incounter'd their smyrna fleet ; and here , in the last war with algier , a whole squadron of turks fell into our hands at once , and were all destroy'd : and both then , & since by sir iohn narbrough , there has been by a manifold degree more mischief done to that enemy on this station , than in all the ocean besides : and we have frequent examples of single ships being chased into this port for shelter . to this port , upon the breaking out of the last dutch war , was sent us advice of a squadron of their merchant ships , that were bound from malaga homeward , but ill guarded , with an exact account when they were to depart : which squadron we incounter'd ; and had the affair been more fortunately manag'd , they had all fallen into our hands ; though , as it was , the greatest part were destroy'd and taken . to this place , on divers occasions both by sea and land , we have received notice from salli , and other places on the coast , of proper seasons whereby to attack that enemy , and have often succeeded in our attempts upon those intimations : and i think i may with good assurance aver , that by the advantage of this place , we have destroy'd more of those pirates , than all nations besides put together , who have been industrious to their power to prejudice them ; especially the french , dutch , and portuguez . and yet , farther to shew you how this place has been already useful , let it be remember'd , that during the plague in england , when it was penal in the highest degree in spain , to hold the least commerce with us ; notwithstanding the hazard they ran , the spaniards themselves came over by stealth , and by degrees did here supply their wants , without paying custom either here or there ; this place being the general magazine to all the coast along . what quantities of french commodities were lodg'd here , during their war with spain , and were by little and little in spanish vessels fetch'd over , and put on board their gallions when they were ready to receive them , without ever landing them ? with what ease and expedition did sir iohn narbrough , the last year , carreen and refit the ships under his command within the mole ; where we had neither hulk , nor any sort of provision for that service ? when i often heard him say , with great satisfaction , that he would undertake to refit a squadron in half the time , and with half the charge , that it could be done any where else out of england : and i think i do not give him more than his due , if i presume to say , he is as qualified for credit in that particular , as any man whatever of his profession . how many merchants ships in peril by distress of weather have been reliev'd and preserv'd by the assistance they have receiv'd from hence ? i could also insist on the damages done on the french from this place , during our war with them . nor have the advantages been small arising from considerable quantities of english merchandise , manufactures , &c , dispos'd of hence into barbary ; but , having an eye to may promise of writing you only a letter , i shall in a word , as to this first head , only say , that tanger may be justly reckon'd to have gon far towards the recompencing to the government , the charge his majesty has been at , in its preservation and improvement . and if while in its infancy , when there could be no just regulation of the charge , nor the place fram'd and cultivated fully up to the uses and ends of the government , we can demonstrably make such a calculation ; what may be hop'd from it , when besides the large retrenchment it has already admitted in its charge to the king , we shall be able to demonstrate so many farther extraordinary services it is capable of rendring the crown , as i doubt not to prove in the following section . which is to shew wherein , and to what degree , tanger is applicable to the ends and uses of the government . i think i may challenge mankind to point me out , in the whole globe of the earth , a spot of ground so improvable of the honour and interest of the english nation , as tanger . what is it has rendered england so formidable , so rich , and so renown'd a kingdom ; but the strength of our navyes , and universality of our commerce ? for our fleeces might grow till they rot , and our mines remain in the bowels of their mother ; and our people rust into the barbarity of their ancestors , and our nation become a prey to every aspiring monarch ; did not this mighty machin set all heads , and hands a-work , quicken our understandings , and polish our manners , and from an object otherwise of pity , or contempt , render us the greatest pattern in the world , of the power of industry , the fountain of all the blessings we enjoy : and because there are many various wheels and motions therein , why should not tanger be esteem'd among the principal of those movements , which keep this vast engin going ? first , in respect of spain , in case of a war with that people ; he who knows any thing , is not ignorant that the dammages we sustain by such a war , are more through the embargo of a free and open commerce with them , so useful and profitable to this nation , that it becomes a doubt , whether it be not of more account than one half of the trade we have with all europe besides ; i say , the mischief in such case will be more , by a suspention of our commerce , than any great damage can arrive us by their hostilities : if so , then i undertake to say , that tanger is able in a good degree , if not totally , to answer this great objection . for , by virtue of our vicinity with spain , especially the five principal ports of sevil , cadiz , st. lucar , port st. mary's , and malaga ; and by the convenience of a good harbor here , which by the success of the mole is now well nigh effected ; our nation there , in case of a war , may remove , and settle their factories here : which , both for the safety of their persons as well as estates , they need not be invited to do ; having to my certain knowledge , sundry times been upon the point of taking that resolution like one man , by some jealousies they have had of mis-understandings likely to ensue , betwixt us and that people : and affairs being once so settled , the spaniards themselves , as their occasions press them , will take care to be supply'd from hence ; as in the instance i have given during the plague of england . by this means , our estates run no hazard of seizure or confiscation . we shall be able to put off our commodities at better rates ; and the king of spain wholly depriv'd of his customs : tanger it self becomes a proportionable gainer by the bargain , and his majesties subjects rest under the protection of their own country laws and government , and in the liberty of the exercise of their own religion . thus , as on the one hand tanger renders a war with spain , less burthensome to us , by so preserving the commerce unbroken ; so by its advantagious situation , and improvement to a good port , it would prove so great a thorn in their sides , by the incessant hostilities we should commit upon them , ( for it is not two hours sail from tanger to the coast of spain ) the hazard and obstruction of their west-india trade , the ruining their commerce one with another all along the coast of andaluzia , which would certainly ensue ; and the sundry other damages by the help of tanger , too long to ennumerate , or not at present occuring to my observation : all this , i say , put together , seems to me to yield matter sufficient to furnish us with the highest sentiments of estimation for tanger , though no other consideration were put into the scale . for if this whole theory , or postulata be true , ( as a good deal is prov'd by matter of fact , and the rest not to be disproved , but as time must try ; ) then i may undertake to say , that the nation seems by tanger to have gain'd this great point , which is , that if heretofore the reasons touching the importance of preserving our commerce with spain have for the most been found superiour to the motives ( though great ) which that people may , by their affronts and injuries , have given his majesty of resentment ; those arguments , i say , are by means of tanger removed , and his majesty in a better state of demanding satisfaction , or doing himself right ; or the spaniard hereby become conscious of the disadvantage , deter'd from those provocations . and that they are apprehensive of the benefits thus accruing by our possession of tanger , is every day visible from the pains they take to discourage its prosperity , by obstructing by all ways possible our supplies of whatever kind from thence ; especially of materials for carrying on the mole , &c. whereof they are in great fear : so that , if positive arguments in our favour were less cogent , the bare opinion they have of the use may be made of tanger in their prejudice , ought to beget in any reasonable man , who loves , and has any regard to the honour and welfare of his country , proportionable wishes for its incouragement . but , leaving spain , let us proceed to observe what may be of remark touching tanger , with respect to france . the french commerce with spain , and their interest in the spanish gallions and flota , has been universally concluded equivalent to half the nations of europe beside ; and they have more business in , and about this station , and frequent the streights mouth with more shipping of one sort or another , than any two nations in christendom : from whence our ships riding at anchor , may weigh , or slip , and speak with all that pass in or out . now what an awe will tanger bear on such a people ; and what greater blessing can a maritime nation , as england is , so justly jealous of their honour and authority abroad , ask of god almighty , than to be possessors of a place productive of so many eminent services , a place capable of yielding so many good offices to our selves , and friends , and so much annoyance to its most powerful enemy ? this i mean , who in our age has succeeded so far in its designs of rivaling us , in the darling priviledge and prerogative of our dominion upon the sea ; and how far it behoves us to cherish the means that providence affords , and nature seems to mark out for our improvment , towards the attaining of so important an end , let every honest englishman judge . and from france , let us proceed to holland . during the first dutch war , tanger was in its infancy , the mole of little benefit , nor were the ministers then so much enlighten'd in its usefulness ; insomuch , that during that war , the hollander ( especially towards the latter end of the war ) did with a small squadron on ships , scour the whole mediterranean : and what with that , and the preferrence they then found in the spanish ports , they gain'd much upon us in those parts . but in the last war it was quite otherwise ; for upon the damage we did their malaga fleet , from tanger , as i have already observed , and the care then taken to have ships upon that station , it is observable they scarce had any trade within the mediterranean after , during the war : for the dutch are a frugal and wise people ; and when the charge of their convoys grow in any degree burthensom , they chuse rather to suspend their trade , than prosecute it with any extraordinary expence or hazard ; especially that of the mediterranean . now if tanger can produce such effects in our favour , in case of a war with holland , as it has done , and may yet do in a much greater degree ; and if it can be in the like manner of use to the dutch , in case of a war betwixt them and spain , as it has been to france , during that war ; then let us allow it an additional share in our praise and estimation , and cherish it in proportion to these farther benefits : and now for algier . algier is a den of sturdy thieves , form'd into a body ; by which , after a tumultuary sort , they govern ; having the grand signior for their protector , who supplies them with native turks for their souldiery , which is the greatest part of their militia : and they in acknowledgement , lend him their ships when his affairs require it . they are grown a rich and powerful people ; and by a long practice of piracy become good seamen ; and when prest by our men of war , as of late we have experimented , they fight and defend themselves like brave men , inferiour i am perswaded to no people whatever . they have no commerce , and so without any taste of the benefits of peace , whence their life becomes a continual practice of robbery ; and like beasts of the desart , only forbear to worry , where by fear , not honesty , they are deter'd ; and yet when hunger pinches , and a good morsel lyes in their way , they will venture hard for their prey ; as may appear by the occasions given by them for this , and the last wars . the algierines , i say , having no merchant ships , nor any trade of their own with other nations , know nothing of the motives christian princes generally have of war and peace ; so that their polity and rule is , whom and how they may rob and plunder , with greatest impunity . therefore with some nations they will have no peace at all ; because they can dispoil them without hazard . with others , ( as our selves ) they will sometimes listen to proposals of peace ; but not as long as they can re-imburse themselves upon our merchant-men , what they suffer by our men of war. now 't is worth ones while to consider how this wild beast may be tam'd , so pernicous to the trade of the kingdom ; and how far tanger may lend a helping hand in the bringing it to pass . i have already given you an account of the advantage we have of situation , and how improvable towards the obtaining dominion in and about these seas ; and of the damage the ships of algier have already receiv'd on this station , by the help of tanger . the algerines , above all others , when at peace with us , do infest these seas ; this station being seldom without some or other of them , cruizing in sight of the port : where they frequently come to an anchor , and water , and supply themselves with necessaries , sell their prizes , and reap great benefits by the place . they have it also in their instructions from the government , to call here , and observe how the mole advances , and the place thrives ; and i have been told by the captains themselves , who protest , that nothing gives them so much dread , as the apprehension they have of the use we may make of tanger against them . insomuch , that when the gally arriv'd that was presented his majesty , the algerines look'd upon themselves as half undone ; as the captain of the mary-gold , the last turks prize , who was taken off of tanger this war , assur'd me . our gally frigats likewise gave them great awe , as they still do ; being a sort of vessels which by the help of tanger , may be much improv'd to their annoyance . and if his majesty would please farther to order the building of vessels of war proper and peculiar to this service and these seas , he would quickly see the good effect it would produce , in bringing that people to know themselves : for though some of our english vessels sail as well as the algerines , when clean ; yet such are yet but a few , and we must also sail a good deal better than they to do our business upon them . nor is it less demonstrable to me than a problem in geometry , ( however it may seem not so much our present subject ) that we may build ships that shall in a manifold degree out-sail our best sailors : these ships need but be few , and of little charge , and should be always kept in these seas , both in war and peace . for'tis the occasion makes the thief ; and a coast or place unguarded is neglected : what signifie the strongest walls unmann'd ; or all the advantages of nature , if industry be wanting in their application ? tanger well manag'd , may be rendred the greatest scourge to the algierines in the world : and may afford them the best effects of friendship . for if in time of war we can force them from this so beloved station , and attack them or their prizes bound in or out ; and in time of peace ( which we cannot refuse them ) they can be admitted to make use of tanger , and the port , as their occasions require ; they may perform their voyages in half the time , and with half the trouble of returning home , to refit and victual . for these foxes prey remote from their holes : and for one prize they take in the mediterranean , take ten in the wide ocean . so that in their return homewards , if they can dispose of their purchase at better rates here , than they can have there , and can refit again cheaper ; what should discourage their embracing the advantage , which will be great to them , and proportionably so to us , by the sale of their purchase amongst us , & c ? but , says an honest man , and a good christian , this would be a scandal to christendom . to which i reply , it is not thought so by the most christian king ; nor must we think so , if we consider them a government , qualified to treat with christian princes , as we do : for do not we enter into articles of peace with them , which are formally agreed to , and mutually ratified ? if so , how can we refuse them any thing , to which friendship may give them a title ? now , if what i have observ'd , touching the government of algier , bear any weight ; then this must follow , that , upon conviction of the premises , they will always esteem peace with england more eligible than war , and no temptation whatsoever ( as heretofore ) can be believ'd will supersede arguments of so much force as those we have noted . if so , then upon this single bottom , separate from any the foregoing remarks , we may build reason sufficient to fortifie my position , for the cherishing and incouraging of this important place by all means possible . for if tanger shall appear so materially instrumental in preserving a perpetual peace with algier ; then hence alone the expense of keeping it is abundantly defray'd to the government . for the charge of one algier war , abstracted from the consideration of the spoils they commit upon our commerce during such war ; i say , the money expended for carrying on , and supporting of one such a war , being put into bank , would at per cent. produce more than the annual charge of maintaining the place . if so , how may we then reckon of tanger , consider'd conjunctive of all the foregoing calculations of benefit that have been produc'd in its favour ? then , as for salli ; salli is a government depending on the emperour of fez and morocco . they have but small ships ; the bar before the port not affording depth for vessels of above or foot draught of water . all the winter they lie still . for after the south-west winds have blown , there comes in so great a swell of a sea upon the bar , that it is not passable : so that this is a summer enemy , and a very poor one too , if we would be perswaded to have an eye to them , as we ought . for i 'll undertake , with three or four small frigats , such as the drake , lark , &c. which on occasion of neap tides , when they ( i mean the sally-men ) have not water to go in and out , should clean and re-victual at tanger , and so return upon that station ; those inconsiderable rogues would by such care be soon reduc'd to nothing : and yet , when left to their liberty , they do a great deal of mischief to small merchant-men . the benefit arising by thus awing those people ( besides that to our small craft ) will be , that it will in two or three year bring the greatest part of trade of barbary to tanger ; as by reason of the plague has been already made good : for while the infection of those countries kept people from trading thither , all , or the greatest part of their commerce , was by tanger : and a war diligently manag'd by those small frigats , may produce the same effect . besides , it will teach them to value our friendship , and help us to a better understanding with them at tanger , and in all likelihood gain us a point of great advantage : which is , to treat and conclude a peace with them upon equal terms . for , to buy a peace ( as hath been the practice hitherto ) is so mean and dishonourable , and gives them so much contempt for our friendship , that it is not to be supported . now if these ends are to be obtain'd , ( as i am truly convinc'd they may ) it will be wholly owing to tanger . which having said , i proceed to my third and last head . if tanger be a jewel of so many extraordinary virtues , and so peculiar to the use and service of the english nation , 't were a great deal of pity it should adorn any prince's crown , but his who wears it : for , it is but inverting the argument , and the artillery is travers'd upon our selves , and all these cordials become so many corrosives . for though the bare loss , or want of these benefits , to a nation of our circumstances , would be misfortune enough ; yet , when out of this privation of good ( which is a consequential damage ) shall be propagated so many more and greater positive evils to us , than its possession promises of service ( for such will be the consequence , if tanger ( which god forbid ) should come into the possession of the french ) with what care and tenderness ought the government to cherish it , and labour to secure it and the nation , against such a hazard ? the trade of england into the mediterranean , is equal , if not exceeding all other nations put together . can any thing then challenge a greater share in our esteem , than the means which insure this mighty benefit to us ? shall princes war one upon another for the sake of a paltry town , upon the pass of a simple river ; and shall not we think it worth our while to preserve a place of this importance : so productive of good on the one hand , or evil on the other ? a place so improveable of the ambitious purposes of the french , that were it in their hands , it would wound us in so many tender places , that as we should be always groaning under the weight , so we should never wipe off the imputation such a loss would fasten upon us . we are just now alarm'd with the news of tanger's being to be sold to the french. but we have a wise prince , learned beyond his predecessors in the interests and advantages of navigation and commerce , and a great promoter thereof : nor is his royal highness , who has signaliz'd himself so much , to the nations and his own glory , by his singular applications to the like study , so ill possess'd of the value of this place , to concur in any deliberations of that kind . so that i reckon this rumor but among the other libels against the government . how clamorous was our nation upon the disposing of dunkirk to the french , though the charge of keeping it was scarce supportable ; and in case of a war with that people hardlytenable ? though the use of it was only in some degree privative of benefit to an enemy in case of war , but of no positive profit to us in time of peace ; and yet whensoever a privateer or two sailing out of that port , shal annoy us but never so little in time of war , the complaint is renewed , and that proceeding censur'd a fresh : how would that minister then be absolved with the people , who should advise the parting with tanger ; where our little finger would be more felt , than our loyns here ? but i have heard grave men say , tanger is a great charge to the nation . 't is a charge , 't is true ; but i shew what it has already done towards the defraying it ; and to what an abundant degree it will hereafter come to discount the expence . a first rate ship , in time of war , is as great a charge to the king , as tanger is : and yet , did ever any body complain that our ships were a burthen , or our fleets too numerous , when there was occasion for their service ? does not tanger live principally upon the growth and product of england ; and the money , for the most part , circulate among our selves ? is the king's treasure mis-employ'd there ? don't we see every day the place improve ; the mole in a good forwardness ? which expence too will soon be at an end . are there not many useful provisions made , for the encourageing of shipping and commerce ? and are we not sensible of it , by the increase and improvement thereof ? for i remember the time , when a boat from spain would draw down half the town to the water-side ; whereas now a squadron of ships scarce excites that curiosity . legorn , now a famous port , and scale of trade , was in this duke of florence's grandfather's time a poor fisher town . maturity is the child of time ; and though god almighty may blast the best form'd purposes ; yet nothing , humanly speaking , can prevent our fruition of the great benefits i have enumerated , if we but apply the means ; which in a few words are these . to prosecute vigorously the works of the mole ; which in two or three years , may render it a noble and safe port. to fortifie the town to the landward ; which work should go hand in hand with the mole ; lest when it shall appear worth a conquest , our weakness should betray us . to have a garrison consisting of two thousand foot , in two regiments , and three hundred horse ; to be well and duly paid , and to be recruited once in three or four years , by draughts out of the guards : by which means we should always have a strong , orderly , and well-disciplin'd souldiery ; and not vagabonds , and raw , miserable , shiftless wretches , such as rais'd men for the most part prove ; whereof scarce the one half survive their seasoning . the punctuality of relieving the garrison ( as has been of late resolv'd ) will also keep them in heart , chearful in their duty , and not put them upon such desperate courses , as many of them in melancholly drunken fits have taken , by running to the moors ; where , to the scandal of our religion , they either turn renegades , or remain in perpetual slavery . the health of the garrison will also by this practice be preserv'd ; for the souldiers diet being salt meat , disposes them in two or three years to inveterate ill habits of body , obstructions , scurvies , fluxes , &c. whereof by reason of returning to the same diet again , when a little mended by the care of the physician , they relapse ; and nothing but removing them to a better can recover them . by this course i say , tanger would be the desirablest place for a souldier in the world , where they neither feel hunger , or cold , nor excess of heat ; the duty easie , unless now and then , when the garrison is thin of men : where an industrious man can never want work , and is no where better rewarded : in brief , 't is a place that , instead of a sepulcher as some call it , will by this method become a nursery of brave men ; where , if they dye in the field , as some now and then do , they have their reward in heaven : if they survive to see their country ; they will be cherish'd and consider'd at home , as men of honour and merit , who have drawn their swords , and serv'd their king and country , against the enemies of our religion , and of god himself . the use of horse is of so great importance , to the safety and tranquility of the place , that i take it for granted we shall never be free from the insults of the moors , till our horse shall be augmented to the aforesaid number . the strength of all the christian garrisons upon this coast , principally consists in horse : which example alone might suffice for our instruction ; for we are but of yesterday ; and their practice the result of some ages of experience , which is the best guide . this town was once preserv'd , or rather recover'd , by the bravery and opportune service of the horse ; for the castle being surpris'd in the night by the enemies privately getting in over a low and defective part of the wall , the horse taking the alarm in the town , mounted , and before they could get possession of the draw-bridge , got in , attack'd , and defeated them ; who had otherwise demonstrably remain'd with victory . i am bold also to say , and it is the opinion of others who were upon the place , that had our horse , the day the earl of tiviot was lost , perform'd their duty ; that great man , and the major part of those with him , had escap'd the fatal slaughter . with such a strength of horse as this i propose ; we shall not be only able to perform with ease what is yet wanting for the fortifying and securing the ground we have gain'd ; but deprive the enemy of the profit they make by the tillage and pasture of the country round about us : for they will be necessitated either to keep an army constantly in the field , which we know they cannot ; to lose the benefit and fruits of one of the sertilest spots of ground in the world : or allot us such conditions , as shall render us in a safe , easie , and plentiful estate ; which i take assurance to affirm we shall , in such case , easily obtain . as the benefits we shall reap by such a number of horse , prudently manag'd , will be very great ; so the hardships we shall suffer without them will be insuperable : for the ground about tanger being uneven , broken , and proper for ambushes ; our foot will never be able to do any thing to the purpose , but in conjunction of a proportionable number of horse , to discover and clear the ground , relieve and succour them when press'd , and secure their retreat when out-number'd and forc'd to retire . our fortifications also ; relieving our forts , and many other eminent services , will be but very imperfectly perform'd without the assistance of a good body of horse . the fruits of this care and charge will be reap'd , in the benefits resulting by the trade and commerce it will beget and establish here ; for upon a secure prospect of safety to goods and merchandise , both by sea and land , and exemption from publick charges and duties , and a general concurrence of all circumstances of ease and expedition in importing and exporting of goods , will in time render tanger the general magazine of all the merchandise from the levant appointed for the trade of the spanish indies , as it will of our northern commodities of greatest value : for the exorbitant , or rather insupportable duties upon goods in spain , puts all people upon by-ways , and secret hazardous practices , in the shipping and disposing of their commodities ; and while tanger can yield so good incouragement , considered with the benefits of its vicinity with spain , all people will covet to lodge their estates there , where the whole charge ( besides their being out of the reach of danger of seizure ) of register money , which is our quarter per cent. there collected ; commission ; porterage ; freight to cadiz , &c will not amount to the charge of half freight , guard-money , national duties , and ware-house room for two months . but there occurs one great and dangerous impediment to the establishing this benefit at tanger ; and that is the disputes that may arise , betwixt the english consuls in the spanish ports , and such as shall so transport goods from tanger , upon which they may expect a benefit : but this must be forbidden by all means possible , by the strictest significations of his majesties pleasure in that behalf to his respective consuls upon the coast ; for there are so many inconveniencies accompanying such a permission , as would quite destroy all hopes of success in this affair : and indeed 't is to be fear'd this very objection , or rather imposition , has already administred no small discouragement . but as the interest of private men must submit and give place to publick utility ; so in case it appear that this proceeding shall in any considerable degree affect the consuls in the respective profits and emoluments of their office , it may be recompenc'd to them some other way : but i do humbly propose it , as fundamental and irrevocable , that no consul whatsoever of the english nation , be permitted to exact or demand a peny for any goods exported from tanger , to any of the spanish ports ; but that a bare certificate from the government there , of such goods shipt either in english or forreign vessels , shall serve as an ample acquitment , and intitle them to exemption from all scrutinies and demands of the consuls of any kind whatsoever . it is also humbly propos'd , that all ships and vessels of war , as shall by appointment attend the garrison and port of tanger , may have special leave and permission from the lord high admiral of england , to receive on board , and transport such goods to cadiz , or any where in the neighborhood , as the merchants shall have occasion to imbark ; but not unless such ship or vessel be bound to such and such a place for his majesty's service : by this means , merchandise will go safer and cheaper , obtain quicker dispatch ; and the trader consequently another good incouragement to prosecute this way of commerce . it is farther humbly propos'd , that all convoys outward bound which touch not at cadiz , as the turky ships , &c. may have order to call at tanger ; as also all such as are homeward bound : which being once become an established practice ; people , as well foreigners , and others , will lodge their money there , to be imbark'd for turkey , &c. and from the levant , merchants will load their commodities design'd for cadiz , or the spanish indies , in english bottoms , to be deposited in tanger , from whence they may require them as their affairs shall govern : by which means our shipping also will be much incourag'd . this i urge not but with submission to the sence of the turky company , who are the fittest judges how far such a practice may influence their trade . and thus much touching trade in general , with respect to tanger . there is no position , as i have observ'd , that bears more of the evidence of a demonstration , than that of the reduceableness , and extirpation ( by the help of tanger ) of the piracy of salli , and all the coast of barbary : which , besides the main benefit of relieving the general commerce , will bring as a consequence the greatest part of that trade to tanger . for those small frigats as shall be employ'd against salli , ( with whom it is presum'd we are never to have a peace , upon no consideration whatsoever ) shall have it in their instructions ( as the french proceeded during their war with tunis ) to obstruct all commerce with that people , but by way of tanger ; which may be done without any great offence , by compelling such as they find trading upon the coast to go to tanger , there to unload , in order to the searching after contra band goods ; where , if they are found guilty , as most traders thither are , the forfeiture of their goods , and the trouble that in such case will be given them , will be sure to deter them from a second attempt : if they are innocent , the vexation of being carry'd out of their way , their detention at tanger , the incident charge , expence of time , hazard , and one incumbrance or another , will incline them either to forbear trading with barbary at all , or by way of tanger ; where they will not fail of incouragement ; for by thus obstructing the trade of salli , the moors pinch'd through the want of our commodities , will make their next recourse to tanger , where finding good reception and dispatch , the commodities of the country which were wont to be carry'd to salli , having no vent there , will fail ; and the stream of commerce of course be diverted hither : and when once the road is beaten , it will not be easily broken . this too , as it brings the moors to seek us , will consequently draw such as were wont to trade to salli , to tanger . but it must be the care of the goverment here , to discourage to the utmost the residence of english factories any where upon the coast , but at tanger : by which means mens persons and estates are secure against the insolence and caprice of that barbarous people ; who , upon trivial and unjust pretences , make seizure of all ; whereof we have recent instances , the effect whereof we yet feel , and we at tanger often become as it were hostages , and compell'd ( neither to the praise of our honour , or politicks ) to make such concessions as are both dangerous and scandalous , and all out of a tenderness to a stubborn , opinionative people , who like some animals , rather than make a step out of their own way , will go over a house . and here i may not omit to observe , that , as generous a people as we are , there are yet among us a sort of men of the most degenerate abandon'd principles , who continue that sordid , or rather impious practice of supplying these infidels with powder , guns , and all sorts of warlike stores , even while we are in actual war with them both by sea and land ; against not only the law of nations , but even humanity it self : which guilty , scandalous , and unchristian proceeding i trust to see punish'd , as it deserves ; and if our laws prove defective , in that particular , our legislators may be humbly mov'd to find expedients in this behalf . the next useful consideration towards the improvement of the place , is to incourage , by all means possible , the magistracy and civil government ; and this will invite people of substance to settle and abide here : the reputation of our justice and probity , will be a means of supplying us with a greater number of able and honest citizens ; and those will support the honour of our courts , and maintain the dignity of a corporation . this is very essential to the establishment of new beginners , as we are ; and , of all points , the hardest to compass . in the next place , it is my humble opinion , that his majesty might be prevail'd with to let leases to the inhabitants , for such a term of years as might incourage them to rebuild their dwellings , which are much decay'd , and will fall to the ground , unless some such provision be made to prevent it : and this , in time , will also much increase the publick revenue . i do farthermore humbly observe , that the want of a positive decision , touching the freedom of the port , has occasion'd much contention and inconvenience amongst us ; and great hurt to the place : for unless it be understood to be a free port , as legorn , marsellea , &c. which places ought to be our rule and example in that particular ; we shall be rather a trap and a snare to people , than an incouragement and protection . for many an honest man's misfortunes have reduc'd him to poverty ; and when invited hither , by a notion of that freedom and liberty which other ports , bearing that title , yield to such as put themselves under their protection , in hopes of a peaceable application to the repairing their broken fortunes , they shall be here vext and molested with suits & imprisonments ; people will shun us , as an infected place : and that great benefit which other ports of this sort reap , and is so essential to the growth and prosperity of this , is forfeited . i would not here be understood to make tanger a den of thieves , where barataria , and other infamous practices of ill men , should have incouragement ; but humbly propose only , that our superiours would please to inform themselves , wherein those ports which are call'd free differ from others , and what those exemptions and priviledges are which give them that name ; and from thence form and establish such a constitution , as may for ever put us out of pain : for this constructive , or rather equivocal freedom , as i may call it , which we have hitherto been under , can never turn the place to account . i might farther multiply instances , wherein , in time , by the wisdom and favour of authority , and the care and industry of the people , this place may be render'd productive of sundry profitable improvements , touching trade , manufactures , fisheries of tunny , anchovas , &c. which in the end would support the government : but i here put an end to your trouble , summing up all in this short animadversion . that tanger , like the usefullest elements , as it may be made an admirable servant ; so it may be render'd a severe master . 't is an outwork of the nation , which you know is a principal strength of a fortress ; 't is a safe port , a magazine , a scale of trade , and a community of brave and loyal men , where there is no appearance of faction against either church or state. 't is a place improveable to the utmost degree of the interest and honour of the english nation , of vexation and damage to our enemies , and service to our friends ; and consequently of influencing our treaties and alliances , with the most powerful of our neighbours . i have often heard the earl of sandwich observe all this , and more of tanger ; with whom it had so superlative an esteem , that he was wont to say , if it could be wall'd and fortifi'd with brass , it would repay the charge : and i doubt not , if our misfortunes or sins do not prevent it , but posterity , in the annals of our history , shall read the acquisition and improvement of tanger among the felicities of his majesty's reign ; whom god almighty prosper , and send us a happy meeting : which is the constant prayer of honoured sir , tanger octob. . . your most humble and faithful servant . finis .