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A16632	Almansor the learned and victorious king that conquered Spaine. His life and death published by Robert Ashley, out of the librarie of the Uniuersitie of Oxford.; Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo. Part 2. English. Selections	Luna, Miguel de, 16th/17th cent.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1627 (1627)	STC 354; ESTC S100094	34,400	96

Prince or a crowned King that euer he told any lye or spake any vntruth Hee loued alwaies to speake the Truth himselfe expecting the like in them that negotiated with him for he said that a greater misery could not befal a man in this life then to be a lyer who with more reason might be called the Diuels disciple then accounted a reasonable man because there are found in a lyer all the mischiefes in the world being euer vniust a false witnesse bearer a very traitor to the Truth and such as was not fit to treat with any man or to looke him in the face With this zeale did he chasten so rigorusly whomsoeuer he found with a●●e that it cost many little lesse then their 〈◊〉 for according to the qualitie of the offence some hee caused cruelly to be whipt others to haue the tip of their tongue cut off condemning them for infamous and that their Testimonie might not bee receiued in any suite or controuersie And if it were to the preiudice of a third person he condemned them to death For hee said that all quarrels and debates wounding and killing with all other their appurtenances were occasioned onely of this that men spake not the Truth one to another All his Subiects knowing in what detestation he held falsehood durst not make any vniust demand before him or any of his Alcaydes who had the Gouernment which foundation being laide each Saturday hee sate in his Seate in the Royall Audience and his Cadi or chiefe Iustice ●i●ing one degreee lower at his feet with those Memorials Petitions and Bils which he had receiued on the Friday Hauing perused and placed them in order as he receiued them hee called the parties and they proposing the Iustice of their causes in such sort that euery one was heard for himselfe in his seuerall pretentions and allegations The Cadi gaue Iudgement giuing to euery one his right and because they durst not lye by reason of the cruell chastisement in that behalfe besides that there were the fewer causes and complaints they were also dispatched with much speed and very summarily in regard that there needed no proofes but onely the Confession of the parties vnlesse they were matters concerning the value of goods or of a higher nature in which cases he referred them to his Councel for auerring the Truth and when such kinde of pleas were in his Court they receiued an end at the second Audience which was the next weeke and if they were out of the Court in some other Citie they were to be determined within a fortnight or fifteene dayes after they began reseruing the definitiue sentence to himselfe if the parties did not conforme themselues or the Iudges were doubtfull therein In criminall causes he neuer detayned any prisoner aboue three dayes and for hainous crimes aboue nine and if any that was poore were in prison for debt hee paid it out of his owne treasure so that by oath or 〈…〉 were auerred that hee had no g●●●s to make payment And being so strict an obseruer of Truth there were very few Suits in Law and those also very necessarie and compulsorie for he was so feared of his Subiects that rather then to appeare before him for matter of Iustice they agreed among themselues without sute or debate by which meanes they were so careful to deale vprightly one with another that they liued in great peace He chastised theoues so seuerely that none durst take any thing from other neither in Citie nor Countrie as well in desert as in peopled places And in so great awe they were of him that if any one had lost ought in the streete or market place none durst meddle therewith otherwise then to leaue it at the next shop and cause it to be cryed til the owner were found to whom it was to bee restored This King was so feared in all his Kingdomes This custome was vsed among the Moores of Granada euen to our dayes and seemeth in a manner naturall to them and his Subiects liued in such securitie that one accident which befell in his time I hold worthy to bee here related Which is that after hee had conquered and wonne the Kingdome of Spaine from the King Rodrigo a Christian by Profession and had peopled and bordered it as he thought conuenient he sent an Alcayde a great fauorite of his called Abraham Maanya to visit the same who being arriued there and going about in visitation passed through a great playne which lyeth betweene two Cities where meeting with a woman that was alone vnaccompanied yet not vnhandsome nor euill fauoured he maruailed much asking her how shee durst aduenture to goe alone through that vnpeopled place reprouing and reprehending her boldnesse who answered him in this manner While our good King Iacob Almansor liueth whom I pray the Soueraigne God to grant a long life and victorie ouer his enemies Wee may all trauaile securely through his Kingdomes and as safely in the wild fields as in Townes and Cities The Alcayde maruailing much at her words when he was returned into the presence of his Lord Miramamolin Almansor to giue him account of such things as hee had recommended to his care in his Visitation of Spaine amongst other memorable things related vnto him how he met with the woman on that vninhabited plaine and how hee reprehending her boldnesse in aduenturing alone in a place where some outrage might easily bee done her shee had answered him in that confident manner before rehearsed and Miramamolin Almansor enquiring what he had replyed vnto her he said that hee had told her that shee was a foole to imagine any such securitie because if any were disposed to doe her any wrong or dammage Miramamolin Almansor could yeeld her little helpe or succour being then in Arabia so farre remote from Spaine The King Almansor was so much offended with those words that hee forthwith commanded him to prepare himselfe to returne eft-soones for Spaine for he had great vse of his Seruice there for administration of his Royall Iustice and with great dissimulation he wrote presently a letter to the Gouernour of Spaine called Abulcacim Abdiluar enclosing therein the Alcaydes owne Confession commanding that as soone as hee came hee should empale him in that very place where he met with the woman proclaiming his offence in this manner That King Almansor commanded this Iustice to bee executed on that Alcayde for his bold attempt of speaking with the woman in that desert place especially for putting her in doubt of the securitie of her person and saying that the King Iacob Almansor could not helpe or succor her liuing in Arabia so farre remote from Spaine This Alcayde forth with departed not knowing that he carried his death inclosed in that letter and as soone as hee came to the Alcayde Abdiluar then Gouernor of Spaine hauing read it he caused him to be taken and execute on him that sentence of the King Miramamolin his Lord. This case was

much delighted hee rewarded with ten pieces of Gold This Exercise hee followed vntill noone and then dined in the midst of a great house of pleasure which hee had there where all that followed him did eate and many poore folkes were refreshed for hee vsed that day and place especially for matters of Almes and reliefe of the poore and would not by expresse order bee encombred therewith eslewhere When hee had dined a Mayordomo put into a purse a thousand pieces of Gold called Mi●e●ales and then he sitting downe in a square Court there came the poore before him as well those of his Court as of other Townes and Cities which brought euery one his Certificate from his Alcayde or Gouernour of the estate of his necessities And if it were for Mariage of poore Orphanes or other such occasions he gaue direction for their reliefe And it they were some smaller wants hee supplyed them presently out of that purse which his Mayordomo had filled But if the matters were of more importance he subscribed his answere to those Relations or Certificates of his Gouernours giuing direction how euery one should be relieued and out of what receipt or reuenue in such good sort that all went away contented and satisfied Hee said to his followers that hee esteemed that the best day of his life in which hee relieued all those poore folkes for the loue of the souereigne God It was remarkable in him that it could neuer be noted that euer any sought for almes or succour at his hands whether he were Moore Christian or Iew that went away vnrelieued He held opinion that there was neuer any King poore and that if hee were so hee should bee very miserable and vnfortunate and that Kings should be as large in giuing as they are in demanding and receiuing of their Subiects without which they haue neyther power Empire nor command in the World more then a priuate person He was so readie to relieue the needy and to succour the succourlesse that going one day on hunting hee lost himselfe being seuered from his Seruants and holding on his course through the Wood hee found a poore trauayling man who being taken with some sodaine sicknesse was fallen on the ground vnable to goe any farther he therefore alighting laid him on his owne horse and hauing tyed him fast in his Saddle hee took the reines of the bridle in his hands and so walked on foote himselfe more then two leagues before hee met with his traine who albeit they offered to ease him of the care of the sicke and to mount him on another horse yet he would by no meanes yeeld vnto it but conducted him with his owne hands vntill hee had brought him to his house in the Wood and there caused him to be cured till hee was throughly recouered and when being become sound hee kissed his hand at parting with many thankes as was fitting for so great a auour he answered that there belonged no thankes vnto him but that all was due to the Soueraigne God who had sent him that day to succoun him for he assured him by his Royall Crowne that hee had lost his company wandering hee knew not where nor which way he went vntill he lighted happily on him in that place where hee found him sicke and that it could not possibly be but that he was guided by God seeing he wandered in that country in which hee was borne and bred and yet neuer had the like befallen him And when he that was healed would haue taken his leaue to depart he commanded a good summe of money to be giuen him out of his Treasurie that hee might liue in good sort and so did dismisse him These and other like things did the King Almansor that those about him might learne and take good and laudable examples out of his manners and customes The day following being Wensday hee gaue no Audience neyther treated with any but shut himselfe into his Chamber reposing himselfe after his Hunting and violent exerercising which hee had vsed the Tuesday before And there being alone hee wrought Astrolabes of Asrologie and other Instruments of great worth and high estimation amongst the wise of his time Otherwhiles hee made of inlayd warke such delicate things and of such great account that the skilfullest Masters and professors of that Art tooke example and patterne of those pieces which hee had wrought for in all these things hee had a singular dexteritie subtiltie and excell encie of hand Hee made Crosse-bowes also and other kind of Weapons and Armes especially Coates of Maile of such excellencie that I can witnesse that I saw one of them which hee had giuen to an Ale ayde being his Fauourite sold for the weight thereof in Siluer In these Exercises hee vsed to spend these dayes and not in any other sort CHAP. VII Of the Exercises which hee vsed on the Thursday and how hee exercised the Sciences among the Learned THis King Iacob Almansor was so learned in all Sciences and such a louer of learned men of what facultie soeuer they were that there neuer came any to his knowledge and acquaintance but hee honoured and loued him exceedingly and on the contrary hee no lesse hated and eschewed the foolish and ignorant For hee said that there was no greater miserie in the World then Ignorance neyther any Monster how fierce foule or abhominable soeuer that was comparable thereto Hee proclaymed ouer all his Kingdomes that whosoeuer should bring him any Booke that were not in his Librarie alreadie of what facultie soeuer it was should receiue double the value according to the iust estimation thereof and performed it accordingly And if they were exquisite Bookes and good hee paid much more to them that brought them giuing great rewards By this meanes hee gathered such a multitude of Books that when he numbred them in his Library hee found there fiftie fiue thousand seuen hundred twentie and two bodies of all kind of Sciences in their seuerall Languages and weighing them in a weight they weighed twelue hundred and nineteene Quintalls of Paper And for verifying of this Truth A Quintall is taken for a hundred weight the greatest part of them is yet at this present remayning in the Librarie of the Royall Palace which your Highnesse at this day possesseth and if any of the Bookes be wanting whereof I make no doubt the number and names of the Authors will bee found in the Catalogue which this learned King caused to bee made When Thursday was come hee went into a Royall Hall or large roome adioyning to his Librarie which was adorned with rich hangings and the floore couered with Carpets of great price and the roome replenished with costly Seates where by he honored those learned men with whom he had treated conferred about matters of Learning for hee would neuer permit any of them to stand nor heare him a word at those times appointed for conference vntill they were all set downe on their