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The tragicall life and death of Muley Abdala Melek the late King of Barbarie With a proposition, or petition to all Christian princes, annexed therevnto: VVritten by a gentleman imployed into those parts.
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Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638.
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THE TRAGICALL LIFE AND DEATH OF MVLEY ABDALA MELEK the late King of Barbarie With A PROPOSITION OR PETITION TO ALL Christian Princes annexed therevnto VVritten by a Gentleman imployed into those parts Printed at Delph ANNO 1633. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS AND HOPEFVLL young Prince CHARLES Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhyne c. MOST ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE The great respect I receiued from your Highnes at Leyden two severall times after my comming out of Barbarie and the great desire your Highnes expressed as becometh Princes to vnderstand and be informed in foraigne afaires and the State of other countries hath encouraged me hauing novv againe been imployed into that countrie to present to your Highnes for a Nevv-years-gift this short relation of the life death of the late King Muley Abdala Melek as vvas related to me by vvaie of discourse onlie at seuerall times by those vvho for the most part vvere eye-vvitnesses Oculati testes VVhich also may serue your Highnes for matter of discourse and further information likewise to discerne betwixt a blessed Christian gouernment vvhereunto God hath ordained you and a cruell tyrannous Mahometan gouernment as is the Turkish vnder vvhich those miserable mis-belieuers yea and manie Christians likevvise there in most miserable slauerie groane the Lord deliuer them from it And giue vs grace to make vse of it both Prince people and acknovvledge our owne happines Prince vvho commaund ouer Christian obedient and dutifull subiects and subiects vvho liue vnder so peaceable and Christian a gouernement bona si sua norit agricola free from tyrannie rebuel as and tumults vvhereunto that countrie of Barbaric hath this long time been subiect Such is the miserable state and condition of tyrannie and of tyrants euen of Kings as your Highnes may perceiue by the sodaine fearefull and miserable end of this King qualis vita sinis ita his life vvas bloodie and so it ended in blood in his owne blood And thereafter may your Highnes and all other yong Princes vvho haue so good tuitors and ouerseërs to informe them learne as that famous Buchanan tuitor to your grand Father King Iames of blessed memorie in his epistle dedicatorie before his Tragaedie called Baptistes admonisheth vvorthie to be read ouer and ouer and remembred of all yong Princes his vvords as I remember are these maturé odisse quod tibi semper est fugiendum VVhich I pray God both your Highnes and all other Princes may remember and make vse of Hoping your Highnes vvill accept of this small present out of a Barbarous countrie for vvant of a better vvhither I should haue returned for the releasse of the remainder of my poore countrymen in captiuitie vnder the new King Muley Elvvalid vpon a new treatie Hauing alreadie been a means to releasse aboue two hundreth and threescore from Sallie and threescore mee as yet remaining vnder this king at Morocco and Sallie by them taken againe vpon a late breach besides vvhat are dispersed vp and dovvne the countrie all promised by that King to be releassed vpon his treatie VVhither I say I should haue returned long before this time longed and long looked for by those poore captiues For the captiue hasteneth to be loosed c. as it is in the Prophet But vvhether I shall returne at all or those poore captiues be loosed or releassed at all is in Gods hands vvho can make their verie enemies and all those that haue caried them avvaie captiues to pitie them othervvise no hope at all And so I leaue them to Gods mercie and both them all others in like distresse both there and elsvvhere to your Highnes and all other Christian princes to commiscrate according to a proposition or petition I haue hereunto annexed highlie concerning them in honour to consider of vvhich is also in Gods hands For the hearts of Kings as Salomon saith are in Gods hands he turneth thē vvhich vvaiesoeuer he pleaseth In the meane time as my dutie is hauing been imployed in these affaires I can but sollicit and petition though vvithout effect in hope contrarie to hope hauing hitherto receiued so small encouragement but discouragements and so goe on mourning still and like to doe finis vnius mali gradus futuri One crosse after an other still readie to receiue me VVhich I must beare patientlie so commaunded so resolued To take vp the crosse of Christ and follovv him vvhither soeuer he commaundeth from one conntrie to an other from one part of the vvorld to an other and to the vvorlds end Quem statues finem Rex magne laborum And so goe on mourning still as I haue don these manie years Hoc continuis agimus annis a countinuall mourner euer since the death of prince Henry my maister novv renewed by the death of your Royall Father that renovvmed King of Svveden vvho died that verie day of the month prince Henry died the 6. of Nouember the date after the povvder plot ominous For both vvhich the vvhole church of Christ hath cause to mourne and that continuallie not onlie outvvardlie but invvardlie euerie familie a part as vvas that great mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon For that good King Iosiah continuallie continuis annis euen to posteritie to be continued I say as vvas that for these two so good Kings so sodainlie so vntimelie taken avvate To mourne I say continuallie and invvardlie for our sins vvhich are the cause of these disasters Verus luctus est occultus that is the true mourning so to condole and mourne And so let vs continue our mourning and goe on mourning still euerie familie a part euerie true Christian a part to beare a part in this so great a mourning vvith our deare mother the church that comfortles Rachel vvho vveepeth for her children and vvill not be comforted because they are not Yea let the vvhole church of Christ renevve her vveeping and mourning againe till it Echo againe not onlie the last vvords vltima verba as it is in Seneca Sed totos reddat Troiae gemitus for her children first and last taken from her one after an other because they are not Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie is not King Iames is not Prince Henry is not And the other hopefull young prince Henry your brother is not Your Royall Father the King of Bohemia is not The King of Svveden is not Hovv is the valiant man fallen that deliuered Israel Besides other vvorthies the old prince of Orange and others they are not Yea manie other poore Christian soules of late slaine massacred perished and lost both vnder the Antichristian Mahometan tyrannie they are not For vvhom the vvhole church of Christ hath cause to mourne neuer more cause neuer more seasonable VVherunto now I betake myself euen to praiers and teares the vveapons of Gods church VVhich shall be the second part And my Account hereafter mentioned the third and last If God permit and other obstacles hinder not And
executed any of the Moores that they had tvvo or three heads meaning to cut of but one he left none vvishing as it seemeth like that Romane tyrant that all the Romanes had but one neck he vvould cut them all of at once So Muley Abdala Melek the Moores of vvhom he vvas Flagellum the onlie vvhip that euer vvas And as some thinke the best King for the Moores that euer vvas requiring not a blocke but AEsops storke to keepe them in subiection they othervvise prone to rebellion affecting alteration and innovation as their refran or proverb is Everie day a new cus-cus euerie day a nevv vvife and euerie day a nevv King And though he vvas thus cruell and tyrannous to the Moores and others yet did he favour much and respect the English to vvit the captiues both before and after he vvas King Making one of them once to ride behinde him but vvithall bidding him not sit too closse to him for filling him full of lyce Threatning sometimes but yet neuer giuing any of them so much as a blovve VVho in his fathers time were kept in chaines both by the neck and legs but he comming to be king releassed them and made them his gunners giuing them free leaue to goe vp and dovvne vvhere they vvould at their pleasure and doe almost vvhat they vvould and not a Moore that durst controll them but rather stood in avve of them Though their allovvance but short yet hauing that libertie they made the better shift And somtimes the king himself in a good humor vvould giue them money yea and sometimes in his mad humor Yet did he cause some English boyes perforce to turne Moores cutting them and making them capadoes or eunuches but aftervvards as they say repented saying he vvould neuer more force Englishmen to turne Moores for he found them better seruants to him being christians then Moores for that being christians they vvould stand by him and stay vvith him but being Moores run avvaie from him hauing more libertie and opportunitie And as he vvas as I may say contrarie to his nature thus favourable to the captiues so vvas he likevvise to the Merchants or others that came as hoare He being at Saffia one time standing vpon the vvals an English boate comming as hoare he called to one of the men to come to him vvho not knovving him to be the king al the while stood talking vnto him vvith his hatt on his head in Spanish after the King going into the castle called one of the English captiues to him asking him if his countriemen had no better maners bidding him gofetch the partie to him vvho being come the King vvould say nothing to him but only made him to attend there a good time and caused the English captiue vvhom he loued vvell to be committed to prison in the others steed and chaines to be put on him But the next day sent for him causing his svvord to be restored to him and so in a mad humor made him both vvith his svvord about his side and chaines about his legs to vvalke after him round about the vvals talking and iesting vvith him familiarlie as he vvas vvont and then after this chaines also vvere taken from him This onlie he did in iest to teach Englishmen good maners against an other time But to the Moores his iests vvere in good earnest a vvord and a blovve At the same place at Saffia he vvould take the vvomen a vvashing at the sea side vpon the sands set them vpon their heads cause vvater to be powred vvith reverence be it spoken into their vnseemly parts to see if it vvould come out at the mouth againe He mustered all the faire vvomen in Morocco vvhereof it seemeth he had a Catalogue causing them all at once on a sodaine to come forth into his great garden called Monsarat being a mile in length planted vvith Orange and lemmon trees and all kinde of fruits and there pitch their tents for 14. daies together praetending a pilgrimage vvith his vvomen to Gometta tovvards the hils of Atlas no man to come neare them no not their husbands but only their negras seruing maids himself onlie vvalking the round all these vvomen dailie and nightlie sitting and attending in their tent doores as he passed by to vievv them modestie mâ—y not repeat the rest At Gometta there is the monument of Siddie Blabbas one of their great saints and there a great stonne vpon vvhich the Moores vse to rub their bellies saying it cureth the chollicke and diuers other diseases Som Christians say this Siddie Blabbas vvas saint Augustine and that vpon this ston he preached both vvhich savour of superstition But Muley Abdala Melck had no such devotion for he vvent not there at all nor those vvomen neither almost famished and starved vvith hunger and cold for no man durst come neare them all that time to bring them any provision This vvas one of his tragicomicall parts One of the Englishmen vvhom he loued aboue the rest vvho had the chardge of one of his chieffe horses vvhich vvas verie vnrulie vvould bite any man that came neare him therfore alvvaies fast tyed vp the king comming into his rovva or stable spying some thing amisse about the horse vvould not strike the Englishman but commanded the horse to be let loose the Englishman to stand fast by him suffering the horse to bite him at his pleasure eueÌ„ the flesh froÌ„ his armes durst not stir till the king called to him An other time the same Englishman complayning to him that he had nothing to eate saue barlie the King caused the horse his Sabadera or bag in vvhich they vse to giue them provander to be hanged about the English mans necke full of barlie as they doe vpon their horses heads and so made him eate the barlie like a horse An other time the King hauing taken offence at some thing threatned to kill the Englishman and that vvithout delay an Alkaid vvilling to saue his life offered the King I knovve not how manie hundreth Duccats for him to buy him of the King VVhy thou foole said the King doest thou thinke I meane to kill him No I vvould not for so manie thousand Duccats but to the Moores as I said before his iests and threats vvere in good earnest One of his Negros vvhom he loued and called brother hauing offended him being in his Obadia that statelie pallace vvalking in his garden a little paradise in the middest vvhereof are diuers pleasant tankes or ponds he caused him to be cast into one of them forbidding any to come neare him to help him out againe at length hauing vvalked a turne or tvvo bade one goe pull him out vvho brought him vvord he vvas drovvned VVhat my brother drovvned said he Goe pull him out and burie him there vvas all the mourning An other he caused to eate his ovvne excrement asking hovv it relished Yea he himself cut a peece of the brawne of a mans