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

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