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A72379	The fierce and cruel battaile fought by the three Kings in Barbarie, nere to the cittie of Maroques, the 25. of Aprill last. 1607		1607 (1607)	STC 1376.5; ESTC S123077	4,091	13

THE Fierce and cruel Battaile fought by the three Kings in Barbarie nere to the Cittie of Maroques the 25. of Aprill last 1607. IHS LOND●N Printed for Thomas Archer and are to be sold at his Shop in the Popes-head-Pallace nere the Royall-Exchange 1607. A Breefe and true Relation of the notablest accidents that haue hapned in Barberie since the eight of December 1606. vntill the 29. of Aprill 1607. ON the eight of December 1606. Mouley Bufferes King of Maroques and Mouley Abdela Son vnto Mouley Sheck King of Fez of the age of twentie foure yeares encoūtred one another about some two leagues and a halfe to the Southeast of the Cittie of Maroques about nine of the clock in the morning Mouley Bufferes being accompained with some twentie fiue or twentie sixe thousand men horse and foote together with fifteene fielde peeces or Faulconets Mouley Abdelas forces were in number about nine thousand men seuenteene peeces hee had moreouer with him 72 English Soldiers which hee had got out of the ships of Captaine Ferres Captaine Feyts Captaine Brist Captaine Watter-drinker Item thirtie fiue Neitherlanders of Captaine Iohn Franscens companie of Amsterdam together with a leuen Frenchmen which had beene taken by the aforesaid English All these were taken in Laratche and Salee by Mouley Sheck who found great ritches in their Ships These English French and Dutchmen behaued themselues exceeding valiantly in the Battaile as well in fighting as in skilfull managing and discharging their Ordinance the rather to obtaine their promised libertie that those of Maroques were put to flight they remaining victors and maisters of the field Those of Maroques lost about some fiue hundred men for the moste of them were adicted and inclyned to the partie of Mouley Abdela and therefore they would not fight This done Mouley Bufferes fled into the Citty where taking some treasure and certaine Women out of his Pallace left the Cittie and fled vp towards the Mountaines but before hee could reach them hee was met and assaulted by certaine Rebelled Alarbes or Peasants who not onely robbed and depriued him of all his money and wealth but also stripped his Women starke naked and so let them passe Thus according to the euerchanging course of this incertaine world he was almoste in an instant seene changed from a mightie and great Emperor to a miserable man and in this estate dooth he yet continue in the mountaines The same day Mouley Adlela would not stirre from the place where hee had got the victorie but remained there all that day The next day being the ninth of December he set forwards for the Cittie of Maroques pitching his Tentes before the Gates incamping himselfe on the East side of the Cittie The tenth of the same month in the morning this victorious King entred the Cittie and lodged himselfe in the Kings Pallace where hee continued vntill the twentie three of Februarie 1607. During all which time his people committed manye wilfull ryots Insolences boasting that they wonne and ouercome the Cittie by strength and force of Armes whereat so much the rather because the inhabitants of Maroques doe accoūt those of Fees but as Iewes whereat they were greatly greeued In the meane time that those of Fees did dominere thus in Maroques robbing and Ryfling manie houses of the Alkeydes or Noblemen enritching themselues by the spoiles therof for they got great booties especiallye out of the house of Alkeydes Azus who for his safetie fled vp to the moūtaines to a Castle of his but hee was pursued his house sacked they brought out of the same 12 thousand Gownes and Cloakes of cleath of Gold silk and other stuffs with fiue of sixe hundreth ales of Roane-cloath amounting to an infinit valew besides his Iewels moneye and costlye Housholdstuffe running from thence to the house of Alkey de Hamdt bemmaisor whereof likewise they tooke great store of ritches together with manye such like housen which they sacked robbed ryfled spoyled which for breuitie sake I omit to specifie Mouley Abdela caused nine Alkeydens to be beheaded Amongst the which was Basha Zondier generall of Mouley Bufferes all which heads he sent to Fez to his Father where they were set vppon stakes This vnexpected cruelty and misdemeanor of the Fezians made manye of the people to forsake them and fled vnto Mouley Zidan vncle vnto the afornamed Mouley Abdela who watching for his good fortune had placed himselfe in a place halfe way betweene Fez and Maroques but by meanes of this oportunitie and vpon certaine intelligence had from those of Maroques hee remoued his Campe towards the Cittie And on the twentie two of Februarie he pitched the same within two leagues thereof The same day being Thursday and Market day the Townes-men made a subtill enterprise on the Northwest and North side of the Cittie about three of the clocke in the morning breaking vpon the house of the Alkeyde Azus where they murthered a great Alkeyde with his two Sonnes that were lodged there and sent their heads of Mouley Zidan From thence the streame of their furie droue them forwards to the house of the Hamdtbemmaisor where the generall of the campe was lodged intending to haue vsed him in the like sort but hee was accompayned with fiftie or sixtie Soldiers of Titnan who defended themselues verie valiantly vntill the day break then was hee rescued by the Adalosen who not without great daunger brought him through the cittie into the campe The same night they released the prisoners which in number were about two thousand the which ran crying about the cittie Viue Mouley Ziden which caused a greate commotion yet all this while Mouley Abdela was in the cittie During this Tumult in the Cittie the Cittizens together with some of Mouley Zidans Souldiers which they had let in that same night through a secret gate made a salley on the North side vppon the Regiment of Zalee where they tooke foure peeces of Ordinance and would also haue supprised the Campe of Mouley Abdela where stoode thirteeene peeces more and might very wel haue done it for there was but small resistance of men and began alreadie to giue backe and retyre all which wee perfectly saw from our house but by the comming of the King Mouley Abdela who presently issued out of the Cittie in their behalfe with two thousand men or there about together with certaine English and Netherlanders they recouered their foure peeces againe droue the enemie back to the place from whence they came holding them in a continuall skirmish vntil thrée of the clocke after noone There were slaine on either side about three or foure hundred men This enterprise was most subtlely plotted and it wanted but verie little but those of Fees had beene beaten and discomfited The fiue and twentie day Mouley Abdela with all his power went to the South North-sides of the Cittie for Mouly Zidan was come to the North side thereof vppon the foure and twentieth

day towards which place Mouly Abdela caused to be shot from certaine Turrets Gates of the Kings house where the Ordenance stoode also in the Cittie he set two thousand souldiers to keepe the Pallace against the Cittie and himselfe with the rest of his forces marched without alongst the cittie walles when comming halfe way they met each other Those of Fees charged them with ten or twelue peeces of Ordenance so that they returned backe towards the North-side againe where Mouley Zidan lay with his maine armie The Fezians thinking that they had alreadie got the victorie followed them close euen to their campe drawing their Ordenance after them Their way lay betweene two high walles and the same so narrowe that they could drawe but one peece after another the which Mouley Zidan wellknowing encouraged his men shewing them the inconuenience wherein their enemyes had brought themselues into by reason of the narowe passage where by they were barred from the vse of their shot which could not hurt them he charged these of Fees with foure peeces ouer running their footemen with his Horse for they had no means to vse their Ordinance by reason of their owne men so that by their owne disorder they lost the battaile The Townesmen on the other side slew them with stones from the Cittie walles and issuing foorth fell on the taile of them killing all what came to their handes so that there were slaine about fiue or sixe thousand men moste of them all hewed to peeces and slaine by the Sword or sable The rest which were neere about one thousand were for the moste part all slaine the two next daies following in such sorte that of all this greate Armie about seauen or eight thousand men were slaine scarce two hundred escaped the like slaughter was neuer tofore seene nor heard of in Barbarie And in the space of a leuen weekes we sawe thrée seuerall Kinges raigning in Maroques The King Mouley Abdela with some of his Horsemen escaped and is with his Father at Fees where some report he strengthneth himselfe againe he hath lately taken three or foure ships in Larathe whereof is reported the one to bee Captaine Warrye a Pyrate who hath kept within the Streights certaine yeares with thirtie two brasse Peeces the other are Netherlanders but this report is not altogether sure But as for the King of Fees it is held for certaine that hee will come heather againe For the common people which serued Mouley Zidan and holpe him to winne the Cittie of Maroques beginne to fall from him and to be his contraries for that he neither giues them any payment or other satisfaction And whereas they thought that in making him King the country would be in peace and quietnesse and the other King be constraind to flie either into Spaine or Italy This helde for a certaine truth that he to wit the other King holdeth correspondence with the king of Spaine of whom he receiues great assistance of Monies what the euent wil be the time will shew This King that now reigneth is a verie seuere man yet hee administreth good iustice in his Countrey and is generally feared of all men He imprisoneth and fortureth many Noble men of the lande to get their wealth Also he causeth many to be beheaded insomuch that it is greatly to be feared that most of the chiefest of Maroques will all by little and little be made away The naturall condition of this people is euerie day to desire a newe King for they are not true and faithfull to their Kings so that by all likelihoodes our warres here are not yet done but as it were doe but begin by reason of this great bloud-shed which happened Whereby a great rage and enmitie is growne amongest the people and hath caused a great hatred one against the other Besides the Countrey is spoyled and the dearth increaseth for a sack of corne is woorth heere at this instant in Maroques three pounds starling and vpwardes and yet none to bee got for money All other necessaries are after the rate extreame deare for many persons die of meere hunger In the former battaile were slaine fiue and fortie English men amongst the which were captaine Ferres and captaine Feyts Item eightéene of our Netherlanders ten Frenchmen and fiue and thirtie Spanish slaues And haue vsed such tyrannie ouer them by reason that they did them much hurt with their shooting that they would not suffer them to be buried but were eaten by the Dogges Such as are yet liuing are maintained by the charitie of good friends for there is nothing to be got of the King Thus haue you heard all what hath passed in these partes vntill the 29. of Aprill 1607. what else from time to time shall occurre you shall with all fit oportunitie at his due time be partaker thereof farewell