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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29712	Barbarian cruelty being a true history of the distressed condition of the Christian captives under the tyranny of Mully Ishmael, Emperor of Morocco, and King of Fez and Macqueness in Barbary : in which is likewise given a particular account of his late wars with the Algerines, the manner of his pirates taking the Christians and others, his breach of faith with Christian princes, a description of his castles and guards, and the places where he keeps his women, his slaves and negroes : with a particular relation of the dangerous escape of the author and two English men more from thence, after a miserable slavery of ten years / by Francis Brooks.	Brooks, Francis.	1693 (1693)	Wing B4973; ESTC R2320	34,364	144

would let him have the Christians to build the Jews Town he would give him as much Money as the Captain had agreed with him for the Emperor bid him come again in the Morning Then the Shack or Chief of the Jews went immediately home to his House and got a Present ready and sent it in to the Emperor's Wife that she might follicite the Emperor for him which having received she sent word back by the Eunuchs that she would endeavour to prevail with him which she did And the next Morning he spoke again with the Emperor who immediately sent out his Negroes to drive back the Christians which were hurried again to their Works in a cruel manner The Moors of his City Macqueness seeing that cursed the Jews for doing it But the Captain could in no wise prevail with this grievous Tyrant the Emperor notwithstanding the Captain had done what in him lay to have got the Christians away who said he would not part with them till the Town was finished So they went to work with great Chops and Baskets to carry Earth in and the Negroes were set over them to keep them at it from Morning to Night When the Town was finished he put in his Negroes but the Curse of the Jews fell upon their own Governour his Mischief returned on his own Head as will shortly be shewn In the mean time the poor Christians were grievously hurried and punished by those Hellish Negroes at the Command of this wicked and inhuman Tyrant the Emperor and had scarce time to take any Nourishment or eat any of their bad Bread that was allowed them but with a great many Threats Stripes and Blows by the Negroes bidding them turn Moors In which condition they prayed to God to preserve them in their Faith in which through his Assistance they remained constant Sometime after Captain Nicholson being gone from thence the Emperor laid Siege against a City called Tarradant in the South-part of that Dominion being kept by a King whose Name was Mully Hammet and having been there a considerable time he sent to the Chief of the Jews to bring him up some Goods which he wanted from Macqueness When he had gotten Mules and carried them to the place where Emperor was in Camp the Vice-Roy's Son being there with the Emperor went to the said Shack or Chief of the Jews and desired him to assist him with some Money and his Father would repay him when he viz. the Chief of the Jews should return to Macqueness He told him his Father owed him already several thousand Ducats and would not pay him any for as yet he could get none from him and said moreover if he should die and perish he would not lend him a penny Of which Passages he acquainted his Father writing a Letter thereof to Macqueness Afterwards the Chief of the Jews went to Macqueness to the Vice-Roy called Coid Birry and told him he had acquainted the Emperor of the Care he had in his Absence of his Castle and Business he taking little notice of him but returning him Thanks for his Kindness he went away But Coyd Birry the Governour being so called in the Emperor's Absence ordered one of his chief Negroes in a little time after to go and take such a Horse which he described to him and go to the place where the Country-People kept their Market to see if he could find the said Chief of the Jews and if he saw him take little notice of him but if he had an opportunity watch as he went home to his House and kill him The Negro did as he was ordered and espying the Shack or Chief of the Jews going home to his House in a Road which lay through a parcel of Olive-Trees the Negro came to him pretending Kindness to him being glad to see him c. and riding by his side along on Horseback spied his opportunity very diligently so spurred his Horse over him rode upon him and trode out his Brains Word thereof was quickly carried to the Vice-Roy that the Chief of the Jews was killed at which he seemed to be sorry that the People might take no notice thereof and acquainted the Emperor therewith and had made search but knew not who had done it The Emperor sent him word back that if he did not find out who did it he would cut off his Head and ordered the said Vice-Roy to put the Governour of the Jews Son to be the Chief in his stead but the old Jew was soon forgoten by the Emperor When the Emperor had laid Siege some Years against Tarradant and could not take it he returned home to Macqueness After he had been at home a certain time he went against that City with about 70000 Horse and Foot and declared that if any Christians knew what belonged to mining he would set them to work and if they took the Town they should have their Liberty so four English Men undertook the Work the Moors digged and they gave Directions The Mines being finished and 30 Barrels of English Powder rowled into the Mine and a Train laid the Christian that fired it was blown up and a Breach was made in the Castle-Wall but they could not enter their Enemies fired so thick upon thm killing a great many of Mully Ishmaell the Emperor's Men. They mined again under the Burges or small Forts after Powder was put in and a Train laid he that gave fire to it had his Arm struck off the Burg was blown up with the People thein And the Emperor Mully Ishmaell coming to view the Breach and being told by the People the Christian had lost his Arm he ordered his chiefest Doctor to take care and heal him for in case he did not see to him carefully he should lose his Head Mully Hammet got up his People to the Breach and kept out the Emperor and his Forces that they could not enter Afterwards Mully Hammet went out of his Castle with a small Guard and meeting with some of the Emperor's Scouts one of them knowing Mully Hammet cock'd his Piece and shot him to death Then Mully Hammet's Guard fought with Mully Ishmael's Scouts and there were several killed on both sides Some of Mully Hammet's Guards retired into the Castle and acquainted the chiefest of them that were in the Castle that their King was killed presently they proclaimed Mulle Rann being the chiefest of the Governours in Mully Hammet's time to be their King Which News being carried to the Emperor by his Scouts he enquired who had killed Mully Hammet they told him one of the Scouts which he sent presently for by a Messenger and bid him acquaint him that he should have a good Reward for killing him he being brought before the Emperor expecting a great Reward for so doing after he had examin'd him he rewarded him with calling of him Dog and said he should die for killing Mully Hammet and immediately caused him to be made fast to a Mule's Tail and so had him dragged

forty English-men Subjects of our Gracious King in this sore Captivity This Emperor as I have been informed touching his Birth or Descent was begotten of a Negro Woman by a white Man one of the noblest of their Quality in that time and is a Mollatto by his Colour but when he 's in a Passion he looks just as he is as black as an Infernal Imp which his Natives take notice of and can tell when he 's angry For his Apparel he wears a fine Holland Shirt with Sleeves so large that will make any ordinary Man a pair of Drawers besides a large pair of Drawers of the same with Breeches over them and next to his Shirt a Garment of as fine Stuff as can be had made of the fashion of a Wastcoat without Sleeves and over that a Coat of as fine Cloth as can be bought made almost of our fashion he wears over that a sort of Garment which they call a Shilham or Barnoose but we may call it a short Cloak being wrought all over with Silver and Gold with a Cap to go over his Head having at the top of it a great Bob with a Fringe and at the bottom a great Fringe all round it on the lower part from his Breast it is open and the upper part made fast and over that in cold Weather he wears a Cloak with a Cap to put over his Head upon his Head he wears sometimes a Turbet as they call it made of Silk and when it is hot Weather he wears a Garment made of a sort of Stuff like fine Crape and a Hat and on his Legs he wears fine red Boots but different from our Fashion he 's oftner on Horse-back than on Foot his Guard which are of different Stature wear some of them Shoes and have over their Shirts and Drawers only Cloaks with Caps some light coloured and some dark sometimes he has an hundred following him and at other times fifty and sometimes more he having thirty thousand Negroes of his own Slaves Every one of his black Guard have a Piece and he has three or four Launces carried after him and several Pieces ready charged to kill with at his Pleasure either the Christians or his own Natives When he falls out with his Guard he strips and takes their Clothes from them and puts them in Irons and sets them to work He seldom returns home after his going out in a Morning without killing one or other before he returns by running of them through with his Launce shooting them or dragging them at a Mule's Tail either Men or Women seldom repenting for what he has done Mahomet their great Prophet possessing them with a Belief that if he kills any one he merits Heaven by so doing but if any Person should kill him he cannot avoid going to Hell He has Water carried after him by a Boy which he drinks to make the People believe he drinks nothing else and likewise hath short Sticks carried after him daily to beat the poor Slaves at his Pleasure which is hourly to vex and punish them delighting in nothing more He was first made a Coyde or Governour of some part of the Country and by his Kindness and Affability to the People he gained Respect from them in that Country Mully Sheade being then King and living in the City of Fez there died and the Inhabitants there being all Whites and he a Mollato they cried up Mully Hammet Mully Ishmael being then beloved of his own People he raised a small Army and went against the said City and won it having conquered Fez he still strove to oblige the People and one Guillan raised a small Army against whom Mully Ishmael went Guillan being a great Friend to our Nation the Governour of Tangier offered him Assistance if he was pleased to accept it he returned him Thanks saying it was bad enough for himself and his own Army to be conquered and it would be worse for the Christians if they should go with him but engaging himself Mully Ishmael conquered him and his People carried his Head up to Macqueness When I was there the Emperor kept two of Guillan's Sons in his Castle and had them at School amongst his own Children because of their Father's Courage and Stoutness Our English Governour was concerned at the loss of Guillan and his People When the Emperor had won most of his Country and conquered Tarradant he soon after came to Macqueness and ordered all his Bashaws or Governours to build Walls and great Houses upon their own Charge on pain of losing their Lives Some finished their Houses and some could not having not wherewith to do it being brought so low he causing it to be so that they might not rebel against his chief Son called Mully Sedan for whom he hath the greatest Esteem above all his Sons thinking he may succeed after his Decease but I hope in God and wish it may never be for the young Tyrant imitates his Father too much in cutting and killing the Slaves as bad as he almost that the People begin to dread him as well as the old one The Emperor's Castle hath four Gates belonging to it The City of Macqueness is an old decay'd place the Castle standing distant from it and walled in some places double and has a few old Iron Guns mounted upon them For the Brass Guns that were taken from the King of Spain he 's afraid to leave them with any of his Governours lest they rise against him and had them brought up to Macqueness plac'd within the Castle Gates betwixt two Walls flat upon the Ground The Buildings within the Walls are very high and several small Forts round the Castle-Walls And lately he set the People to build two new Towns with which to plague his Country People to bring them as low as he can which I think will never be finished in his time and if he did it on his own Cost and Charge he would not have so many Buildings When Taxes are brought him in he treasures it up taking but little out again The common Diet the Emperor uses to eat is made like a kind of Grain they call it Cus●ozoo being boiled and mixed with their Butter which is far more loathsome and strong to us than our Butter in England being put into Platters they put thereon Mutton cut in small pieces So he sits down and thrusting his Hand into it he shakes it a little to and fro crambing it in his Mouth together When he has done he calls his Negroes to take what 's lest to eat while he stands over them and they are in great fear left he kill them which he certainly would do if one should eat more than another Their Drink is commonly Water 't is said he 'l drink Wine wherein he makes invalid the Doctrine of their great Prophet Mahomet who told the People It was a great Sin to do it yea and he 'l often be drunk too to the sorrow of his poor Slaves