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A27210	The present state of the universe, or, An account of I. The rise, births, names, matches, children, and near allies of all the present chief princes of the world, II. Their coats of arms, motto's, devises, liveries, religions, and languages, III. The names of their chief towns, with some computation of the houses and inhabitants ... IV. Their revenues to which are added some other curious remarks, as also an account of common-wealths, relating to the foregoing heads.	Beaumont, John, d. 1731.	1694 (1694)	Wing B1623; ESTC R13456	71,782	106

1615 and settled this vast Empire and manag'd it in a more constant way of Peace with the Turk Tartar Polonian and Swethlander than any of his Predecessors had done before him At present there are two Brothers that Reign jointly as Czars Great Dukes or Emperours of Moscovy The eldest is nam'd Iwan-Alexeewich born about the year 1667. and has married the Daughter of one Soltikows a Polander The other is nam'd Peter Alexeewich born about the year 1670. Upon the death of the late Czar the elder of these came to the Crown but by reason of his Natural Defects being judg'd by a great party of the Empire unfit to Govern they would have Depos'd him and set up the younger Brother but the former being upheld by a good Interest after much stir they came to this accommodation that they should Reign joyntly II. The Great Seal of Moscovy is an Eagle displaied Sable in a Field Or bearing on its Brest a Shield the Field being Gules charg'd with a S. George Argent holding a Launce with which he kills a Dragon Betwixt the Heads of the Eagle are three Crowns plac'd one over the other which are said to signifie Moscovy and the two Kingdoms of Cassan and Astracan They say it was the Tyrant Iwann Basileewich who first made use of these Arms to raise a belief that he was descended from the Ancient Roman Emperours the word Czar signifying Caesar Heylin makes the Arms of Moscovy Sable a Portal Open of two Leaves and as many degrees Or. His Livery is of a Yellow Colour He is of the Greek Church and the Moscovites have a Bible translated from the Greek and printed in their own Tongue which is the Sclavonian in the Moscovite Characters III. Moscow seated on the River of the same name is the Capital City and Imperial Seat Few Cities in the World have suffer'd so much by Fire An. 1571. the Tartars burnt it and in it 80000 persons it being then 12 Miles in Compass and containing 41500 Families and Houses and above 1500 Convents Churches and Chapels It keeps its Compass still but the number of Houses is not restor'd they not extending above five Miles An. 1611. the Polanders burnt it and An. 1676. the Fire hapning by accident held on for three weeks and burnt as it s said 5000 Houses This Town is apt to Fires because the Houses of the Common People are generally built of Wood with Mortar mixt with Straw and done over with Lime brought from Smolensko and are cover'd with Boards and Barks of Trees having sometimes Turffs laid on them and Fires would happen oftner there but that Soldiers and Guards are appointed to take care of it The Churches and Houses of the Persons of Quality are built with Stone or Brick and some of the chief Churches are cover'd with gilt Copper or Tin and have many Globes of the same Metal on them so that the Prospect of Moscow is very beautiful There is a Bell rais'd on a Tower of Moscow which weighs above one hundred seventy six Tuns Two hundred Tuns of Metal were allow'd for making it It s twenty four Foot in hight the Clapper is twenty one Foot in length and weighs above seven Tuns IV. It s said that this Duke has more Lands than all the Dukes of Europe beside and his Government being Tyrannical so that he has the free and absolute disposal of his Subjects Lives and Fortunes he makes his Revenues what he pleases But beside the extraordinary ways of oppressing his Subjects which he often makes use of he has many ordinary ways for amassing Treasures viz. By Forestalling Homebred Commodities and Engrossing the Foreign selling them at what price he lists and hindring others from Trade till all his are sold By provision of Rent Corn and Victuals rais'd in some years to 20000 Marks Sterling Customs on Merchandize to 800000. Poll-mony to 400000. Rent Wood and Hey to 30000 c. Tartaria Precopensis or the Lesser Tartary I. IT S probable that upon the breaking of the great Empire of the Tartars into pieces upon the death of Tamerlane which hapned An. 1402. The Precopenses or European Tartars submitted to a Prince of their own Nation under the Power and Government of whose Successors they still continue The name of the present Cham of the Lesser Tartary or of the Crim Tartar is Nuradin Kiery He has a Wife call'd the Chamine and four Children to all whom the Emperour of Germany sent Presents some years since He is call'd the Crim Tartar from the Town of Crim the Ancient Seat of the Chams and at that time the fairest and greatest of the Country situate in the midst thereof and fortified with a strong Castle and for the hight of the Walls and depth of the Ditch esteem'd Impregnable The Country is also call'd Tartaria Precopensis from Precopia a chief Town thereof II. He bears Or three Grissins Sable arm'd Gules His Livery is of a _____ colour The Religion there most Embrac'd and Countenanc'd is that of Mahomet mingled with some few of their old Principles of Christianity for they confess that Christ shall be Judge both of the Quick and Dead in the day of Judgment and punish ●●ose that speak irreverently of him which makes great store of Grecian and Armenian Christians dwell among them The Language which they speak is their own Tartarian but intermixt with much of the Arabick and Turkish Tongues and when they write they use either Chaldean or Arabick Characters III. A late French Writer tells us he resides at Baccasarium which stands in the midst of his Countries perhaps the same with Crim before mention'd But the Court of the Great Cham in the Summer time makes a moveable City built upon Wheel-Houses and Transported from one place to another as occasion serves which Houses at every station are orderly dispos'd of into Streets and Lanes and by the Tartars are called Agara or a Town of Carts They remove also their droves of Cattle up and down with them Within these Territories there is a Town call'd Capha but it belongs wholly to the Turk he keeping there a Governour It was taken from the Genoeses An. 1475. It s six or seven Miles about being in a manner wholly inhabited by Christians The Greeks have twelve Churches there The Armenians thirty two and the Romanists one Dedicated to S. Peter The Town is of great Trade IV. The Revenues of this Prince are uncertain his Subjects having but little mony and living most upon Bartering of their Cattle beside what he has in Lands and Customs and five thousand five hundred Ducats yearly which he receives from the Great Turk he has the tenth of all Spoils which are gotten in the Wars The Male-Line of the Ottoman House failing these Chams are to succeed upon an Agreement made betwixt the two Emperours TURKY I. THE Turks who anciently inhabited about the Fens of Maeotis liv'd a poor and contemptible Nation till Mahomet the Sultan of Persian Rebelling against his

with the Seat of a Viceroy and the continual Resort if not constant Residence of most of the great Men of the Realm which makes the private Buildings to be very graceful and the publick stately and it had increased much more in Buildings if the King had not forbidden it by his special Edict and this partly at the persuasion of his Noblemen who fear'd that if there were not such a Restraint their Vassals would forsake the Country to inhabit here so to enjoy the Privileges and Exemptions of the Royal City but principally upon Jealousie and point of State the better to prevent all Revolts and Mutinies which in most populous Cities are of greatest danger In the Account of Masaniello's Rebellion at Naples Ann. 1647 published by the Lord Alexander Giraffi we find that in Naples at that time were above Six hundred thousand Souls for he there says that Masaniello on the Fourth Day of his Rebellion had One hundred and fifty thousand Men bearing Arms under him besides Boys and Women Now allowing as many Women in the City as Men it makes Three hundred thousand and allowing all under Sixteen Years of Age in the City to equal in number the Men and Women it makes Six hundred thousand not counting decrepid persons which make a Sixth Part of Mankind nor all those persons who adhering to the Viceroy never followed Masaniello Scarce any Country of Europe may be preferred before the Kingdom of Naples for its Beauty and excellency of its Soil and its great plenty of generous Wines Fruits and Corn or what else may afford Delight and Pleasure I may add in the last place that besides Brussels in the Low-Countries a well peopled Town Four Miles in compass and Ghent the greatest City of all the Netherlands the Birth place of Charles the Fifth who finding the Inhabitants inclined to Sedition built there the first Cittadel which was built in Europe the King of Spain has two considerable Towns in America In the Southern Division of it Lima was of later years the chief Town but since ruined by an Earthquake tho formerly Cusco was the chief Town this being the ancient Seat Royal of the Ingas or Peruvian Emperors the word Inga signifying an Emperor as Capa Inga by which name they sometimes called them the only Emperor who the more to beautifie this City commanded every one of the Nobility to build here a Palace for their continual Abode The Emperor's Palace now defaced was seated on a lofty Mountain and built of such huge and massy Stones that the Spaniards thought it rather to have been the Work of Devils than of Men The spacious Market-place there has been always esteemed as the greatest and most regular found in any Town of America its Figure is square and at its Angles it gives an opening to four great Roads tending in a streight Line towards the four principal parts of the World and to the most considerable Provinces of the Empire of Peru made by the Ingas of a vast length and breadth with a most incredible Charge and Pains for the use of their Subjects To say a little of the Rise of the Peruvian Monarchs Heylin tells us that the Peruvians were generally governed by the Chief of their Tribes as in all Countries else where neither the Arms of Foreigners nor the Ambition of some few of the Natives had diminished any thing of those natural Rights nor subject to any one Supreme till these later times the Ingas of Peru growing into their Greatness but a little before their Fall Their Territory at first was not above Five or Six Leagues in compass situate in that part of the Country where Cusco now stands They were oppos'd at their first Encroachments by their Neighbours and had not prevail'd to their Greatness had they not used the Policy however they got it which has been used by many in these parts of the World in Imitation of the Truth conveyed down to us by Moses and the Prophets from Noah and the Patriarchs For the Ingas gave out that their Family had not only been the Seminary from which Mankind came but the Authors of that Religion also which was then in use particularly that the whole Earth had been destroyed by a Deluge except only seven persons who had hid themselves in a Cave called Paticambo where having liv'd in safety till the Fury of the Waters had been asswaged they came abroad at last and repeopled the Country That Viracocha the Creator and great God of Nature had appear'd to one of them and taught him how and with what Rites he would be worshipped which Rites were afterwards received over all Peru and finally that the same Viracocha had appeared lately to the Chief of their Family assuring him that he would aid him with invisible Forces against all their Enemies This soon gained Belief among those Barbarians and drew many to take part with the Ingas whereby they became victorious This is supposed to have happened Four hundred years before the Spaniards put an end to this flourishing Kingdom an 1533 within which time they had brought all the Country which we now call Peru and many of the adjacent Provinces under their Dominion The Ingas were much reverenced by their Subjects and so faithfully served that never any of their Subjects were found guilty of Treason nor wanted they good Arts whereby to indear their Subjects to keep them out of leisure to foment new Factions The way of Indearment was by the fair and satisfactory Distribution of the Spoils gotten in the Wars whether Lands or Goods all which they divided into three parts allotting the first unto the Service of the Gods the second for the maintenance of the King his Court and Nobles the third to the relief of the common People When there was no Cause of Wars they kept the People busied in Works of Magnificence as building of Palaces in every one of the conquered Provinces which served not only as Forts to assure the Conquest but were employed as Store Houses to lay up Provisions to be distributed among the People in times of Dearth But that which was the Work of greatest Trouble and chiefest Use was the Cross-ways that they made all over the Country the one upon the Mountains the other on the Plains extending Five hundred Leagues in length a Work to be preferred before any of Rome and Egypt for they were forced to raise the Ground in many places to the height of the Mountains and to lay the Mountains level with the flattest Plains to cut through some Rocks and underprop others that were ruinous to make even such Ways as were uneasie and support the Precipices and in the Plains to vanquish so many Difficulties as the uncertain Foundation of a sandy Country must needs carry with it And for the Nobility the Inga did not only command them to reside in Cusco to be assured of their persons but caused them to have their Children brought up there that they might serve

gave to his Children and their Posterity the name of the Taingian Family from whom the last King of China call'd Zunchius was descended and under whom China was again Conquer'd by the Tartars and continues under their subjection To give an account of the rise of the Tartars it was as follows East Tartary contains many Regions Govern'd formerly by distinct Governours and among those Regions there were six of chiefest Note whereof one was nam'd Tartar giving name to the Tartars which was divided among five Tribes each Govern'd by its Chief as it s commonly among barbarous Nations tho all of them were subordinate to an higher Power being opprest by a King of Tenduc another of the six chief Regions so call'd But at length one Cingi a Chief of one of the said five Tribes first with the force of his own Tribe subdued the other four Tribes and afterward the King of Tenduc himself and then took on him the Title of Cham or Emperour about the year 1162. And this was the first step by which this base and beggarly Nation began their Empire and Sovereignty whereas before they liv'd like Beasts having neither Letters Faith nor dwelling but in Tents nor any thing befitting Men. Some write that Cingis before he joyn'd Battle with the King of Tenduc consulted with his Diviners and Astrologers of the Success who taking a green Reed cleft it asunder and on one piece writ the name of Cingis and on the other the name of the King of Tenduc and plac'd them not far asunder and then fell to reading their Charms and Conjurations whereupon the Reeds fell a fighting in the sight of the whole Army the Reed of Cingis overcoming the other whereby they foretold the joyful News of Victory to the Tartars which accordinly hapned But whether this seems not a Story contriv'd in imitation of the Rod of Moses and those of Pharao's Magicians I leave it to Consideration From the foresaid Cingis the present Cham or Emperour of Grand Tartary and China is descended The most famous of all the Chams of Tartary was the Great Tamerlane who Reign'd about the year 1370. he being thought to have subdued more Provinces in his life time than the Romans had done in eight hundred years Dying he divided his Empire among his Children viz. Persia to Mizra Charock his fourth Son Zagathy to another c. The account of the present Emperour of the Asiatick Tartars and of China stands thus An. 1644. a Chinese call'd Lycungus revolted against the Emperour of China call'd Zunchius defeated many of his Generals and surpriz'd the Town of Peking The Emperour for fear of falling into the Hands of the Rebels ran into the Garden of his Palace and seeing himself pursued hung himself to a Tree Some time before he had sent a considerable Army against the Tartars who had made some Incursions into China Usungus who commanded it hearing all what had past sent to desire the Tartars to joyn with him and to march together against the Rebels Zungteus the King of the Tartars accepted the proposition and came to him with eighty thousand Horse which were followed by above two hundred thousand Foot As soon as the Tartars saw themselves the stronger they made Usangus and his Troops to shave themselves like the Tartars and went straight to Peking which Lycungus had forsaken after having pillag'd it of all the Treasures of the Emperours of China Zungteus the King of the Tartars died on the way and left but one Son six years of Age. The Tartars own'd him for their Emperour and after having Crown'd him second Emperour of China by the name of Zunchius they pursued their Enterprize under the Conduct of Amavangus his Uncle and Tutor and in seven years they perfected the Conquest of almost the whole Empire and defeated many Princes of the Royal House who had been Crown'd in different Provinces This Emperour Zunchius died Feb. 6. 1661. and had for Successor his Son only eight years of Age. He ordered dying that his Mother and Grandmother should have the care of his Education till he were Major and that the State should be Govern'd by four Mandarins or great Lords of the Tartars He was call'd then Haei but since he has ascended the Throne he has caus'd himself to be call'd Yunchi He Reigned peaceably till the beginning of the year 1674 that the foremention'd Usangus seeing the Desolation of his Country and being in some power as being Viceroy of Quansi now let his Hair grow like the Chineses and endeavour'd to shake off the Tartar Yoke making himself Master in a little time of four great Provinces on the western part of China and drawing to his side the Viceroys of Foquien and Canton who commanded on the East and South But these three could not long agree so that the two last submitted themselves again to the Tartars and Usangus now stands only on a defensive War being Master of the Provinces of Quansi and Huquan where the Chineses keep still some remainder of their first Grandeur II Pontier says that this Emperour bears Or an Owl Sable for Tartary and that as King of China he bears Argent three Blackamoors Heads plac'd in front their bust vested Gules Another says the Kings of China have for Blazon two Dragons and that the Ancient Kings of China had a kind of Crown That now the Tartar Kings that command there have for their Royal mark a sort of Cap compast about with a Circle of Ivory and terminating in a point with a kind of Tower Or on the top of which there are many Pearls and among them one as big as a Pidgeons Egg these Pearls being the sole mark of the Royalty none of the Kings of China how absolute soever they may be daring to wear them on their Caps The Ancient Motto of the Emperours of Tartary engrav'd in their Seals was this Deus in Caelo Chiukuth Cham in Terra Dei fortitudo omnium hominum Imperator This Emperous Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Mahometan Religion and uses the Chinese and Tartarian Languages III. Manesson Mallet in his late description of the Universe says that the little knowledge Men have had of the Eastern part of Tartary which is on the North of China has occasion'd the Errour of many persons who have taken Chambalu and Peking for two different Towns the greatest part of Geographers having made Chambalu the Capital City of Cathai which they believ'd to be one of the chief Countries of Tartary but since we have seen the relation of the Voyage of the Dutch to China and that of Father Kircher it has no longer been doubted but that Cathai was the northern part of China and that the Town of Peking was that which the Saracens and Moscovites call Chambalu that is the Court or City of the King the name of Peking signifying the same in the Chinese Language This City is said to be of a vast extent but we have

not any account thereof to rely on but it s generally agreed that the Houses for the most part are but of one Story and the Sreets being not pav'd so troublesom a dust is rais'd by the Wind in the Summer that it forces those who have not Portative Chairs to cover their Faces with a Linnen Cloth reaching to their Girdles thro which they may see without being seen and the Dirt makes the Streets altogether as offensive in the Winter In this City as they say the King has a Pallace of great Magnificence and Curiosity Nanking is the next chief City of China and not inferiour to the former only in the number of Inhabitants which by reason of the Kings Residence at Peking is there greater The Houses of the chief Merchants are very well built and of many Stories They compute in it a Million of Inhabitants without comprising a Garrison of forty thousand Men kept there by the Tartars under the Command of the Lieutenant General of the Southern Provinces who resides there There are several accounts of the vast numbers of Cities Towns Villages Houses and Inhabitants of China as also of their incredible numbers of Shipping concerning all which we want more perfect accounts to rely on IV. It s said that the Kings of China have ordinarily had an yearly Revenue of above one hundred and fifty Millions of Crowns His Revenues as C ham of Tartary may be what he lists himself he being the absolute Lord of all the Subject has without any thing he can call his own But that which ordinarily accrues to him is the Tenth of the Wooll Silk Hemp Corn and Cattle and he draws into his own Hands all the Gold and Silver which is brought into the Country and which he causes to be melted and preserv'd in his Treasury imposing on his people instead of mony in some places Cockleshells others a black Coin made of the Bark of Trees with his stamp on it and he keeps to himself the whole Trade of Pearl fishing which no Man upon pain of death dares fish for but by leave from him INDIA I. THE Emperour of India call'd the Great Mogul or King of Indostan is nam'd Aureng-Zebe which in the Indian Language signifies The Ornament of the Throne He is call'd the Mogul by reason of his descent from the Mongul Tartars one of the five great Tribes or Nations mention'd in the foregoing Head into which that people was divided deriv'd Originally from the Great Tamerlane The present Emperour began to Reign An. 1660 after the cruel Deaths which he made his own Father and Brothers to suffer he being the third of four Sons of that Prince He has many Children and his eldest Son is call'd Sultan Mahmond II. The Armorial Shield of India is Argent semè with Besants Or his Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Mahometan Religion which has been long Embrac'd by the Tartars from whom they were originally descended and he uses the Scythian or Tartarian Language from which the Turks a Scythian people differ but in Dialect and a sprinkling of the Persian intermixt with it III. The City where he keeps his Court is call'd Agra He formerly resided at Lahor Agra is esteem'd twice as great as Hispaan The Houses of the Persons of Quality are Magnificent tho they are but of one Story or two at most and are environ'd with very high Walls to keep their Wives from being seen IV. This King has an infinite Treasure in Gold and pretious Stones His yearly Revenue is said to be fifty Millions of Crowns and he is Heir to every Mans Estate that is worth an having the Persons and Purses of his Subjects being at his sole disposal so that he may amass what Treasures and raise what Forces for War he pleases Decan and Cambaia I. THE name of the King of Decan and Cambaia is Idalcansi or Idalschaa II. He bears Verte encompast with a Collar of large precious Stones His Livery is of a _____ colour He professes the Mahometan Religion and uses the _____ Language III. His chief Cities are Decan and Visapore tho he resides ordinarily at Danoger There is much talk of a great Canon he has in his Artillery He has in his Country an Hill encompast with an high Wall and kept by a strong Garrison because of the great store of Diamonds and other Precious Stones which are dug out of it An. 150● the Portugueses took from a Prince of Decan the Island and Town of Goa which they have since made the Capital of their East India Conquests Golchonda and Orixa I. THE King of Golchonda and Orixa is call'd Cha John II. He professes the Mahometan Religion III. His Capital City is Golchonda which is very fair and strong All the Merchants Lodge in the Suburbs and the Kings Officers and persons of Quality in the Town IV. This Prince has in his Estates a very rich Mine of Diamonds CALICUT I. THE name of the King of Calicut is Zamorin II. He professes the Mahometan Religion III. His Capital City and the ordinary place of his Residence is Calicut It is in length extended upon the Sea shore three Miles and a Mile in breadth containing about six thousand Houses but mean and low built few of them exceeding the height of a Man on Horseback the Soil being so hollow and full of water that it is not capable of a Foundation for an heavier building and for that cause unwall'd so that Merchants Houses are here valued but at twenty Crowns those of the Common sort no more than ten yet it is of great Trading The Portuguese forc'd a Foundation on the shore there for a strong Castle but were so put to it by the King of Calicut that they were fain to demolish it and to quit their Posts The Priests or Bramans there were yellow clothing because they think this colour Consecrated to God by reason of its resemblance to the Sun and to Gold PEGU THE Kingdom of Pegu and the Town of its name are now almost ruin'd Siriangh is at present the most considerable Town of the Kingdom and the ordinary place of the Kings Residence Pegu was once the chief City and was very famous having round about it a Moat in which Crocodiles were kept to keep people from surprising the Town The people of Pegu have white Elephants in great Veneration and think they draw on them a Benediction and that their false Prophet Xaca was Metamorphoz'd into that Animal This King is a Pagan SIAM I. THE present King of Siam is about forty years of Age. II. He is a Pagan tho the people of Siam are generally Adiaphorists that is to say all Religions are indifferent to to them because they believe them all good wherefore they tolerate them all so they may consist with the Laws of their State III. The Capital City is Siam it s said to be one of the finest a Man can look on The buildings are of an admirable Structure and the

Temples Monasteries and gilded Towers appear so rich and beautiful that they surpass all may be imagin'd of most stately JAPAN I. POntier tells us the Emperour of Japan's name is Xogun or Taico Mallet says its Quane II. According to the Relation of the Ambassadors of the Dutch East-India Company sent to this Emperour his Arms are Or with six Stars Argent in an Oval Shield and bordered with little Points of Gold Mallet says he bears Sable with three Trefoils Argent He is a Pagan III. Meaco was formerly the Capital City of Japan while the Emperours there resided but since he has left it it is not so considerable tho it contains still above one hundred thousand Houses the most part built of Carpenters Work as being less subject to be shaken with Earthquakes which are there very frequent In this City is a most magnificent Palace in which the Dairy or Chief Priest resides Yedo is now the Capital City the Emperour there residing The Houses are generally built of Clay and cover'd with Wood that the moisture might not prove offensive The great Mens Palaces are numerous and of a magnificent Structure There is one Street in the Town near four Leagues in length The Emperours Palace there is one of the most beautiful of Japan The Temple of Amida in Yedo is very stately IV. This Country is very Fertile in Corn Beasts Wild-Fowl Pearls Mines of Gold and Silver and others Rice alone as it s said brings this Emperour yearly two Millions of Crowns TONQUIN I. THE present King of Tonquin is about fifty five years of Age. II. He is a Pagan and when a King is there newly elected the number of Beasts sent to be Sacrifis'd in the Temples of their false Gods is said to be one hundred thousand III. The Capital City is Checo Tonquin is judg'd almost in equal extent with France The Tonquineses say that the whole Kingdom contains above twenty thousand Cities and Towns and many more there would be but that many of the people choose rather to live on the Water than on the Land so that the greatest part of their Rivers is cover'd with Boats which serve them instead of Houses IV. The chief Riches of Tonquin which yield a great Revenue to the King consists in the great quantities of Silks which are there worn by Rich and Poor and in their Musk and Lignum Aloes of which there is some worth one thousand Crowns the pound according to its goodness and oiliness tho there is some not worth above 3 l. it being dry The Names and Ages of some other East-India Princes THE old Sultan of Bantam nam'd Abdul Fete if now living is about sixty years of Age. His Son Sultan Annum-Cassar Abdull-Massar is aged thirty seven years Sasnum Emperour of Java vulgarly call'd the Mandarin is aged about forty years Sultan Annum-Abdull-Negara King of Jambee is aged about forty five years Sultan Rutterro King of Cherriboam aged about thirty nine years Sultan Adisbull-Abdull-Isphew King of Macasser aged about forty four years Raja Pallacca King of the Buggesses the High Land of Macasser aged about fifty seven years The King of Ceilon now about eighty six years of Age. MOROCCO and FEZ I. NOT to go farther for the Rise of the Emperors of Fez and Morocco a Family of them called the Marine Family begun in Jacob Ben-Joseph ann 1270 who held their Residence at Fez as the first Seat of their Empire Morocco being then governed by an Under-King and the rest of the Provinces of the Kingdom cantoned into several States Now it happened about the year 1508 that Mahomet Ben Amet a Native of Dora in the farther Numidia pretending a Descent from their Prophet Mahomet caused himself to be called Xeriffe a Name by which the Kindred and Successors of that Impostor used to call themselves and being a poor Hermite only which sort of pretended Saints have often imposed on this People plotted to make his Sons the chief Princes of Mauritania To this end he sent them to Meccha whence they returned with such an opinion of Sanctity that Mahomet the then King of Fez made Amet the elder of them Governor of the famous College of Amadorach and the youngest called Mahomet Tutor to his Children In those days the Portuguese greatly infested the Provinces of the Realm of Morocco to repress whose Insolences Mahomet and Amet obtained Commissions tho much opposed therein by Muley the King's Brother who told him that under colour of Religion they might quickly raise themselves to a power and how unsafe it was to trust an arm'd Hypocrisie But this Counsel was rejected and they being furnished with an Army defeated Lopez Barriga Commander of the Portugal Forces under King Emanuel and compelled that King to abandon all his Footing there and they subdued Duccata Sus and Hea three Provinces of the Realm of Morocco entered that City poisoned the Tributary King and salute Amet King thereof by the name of Xeriffe of Morocco investing Mahomet the other Brother in the Kingdom of Sus. During these Successes the King of Fez died and his Successor named Amet an improvident young Prince confirms his quondam Tutors in their new Estates conditionally they should hold of him in Chief and pay him the accustomed Tributes Amet denied both Tribute and Superiority to the King of Fez whom he overthrew in a set Field and was himself afterwards vanquished and dispossessed of his Kingdom upon some quarrel breaking out by his Brother Mahomet King of Sus who having got the Kingdom of Morocco united Fez unto it also by the vanquishment of Amet the King thereof who at last was slain by the Turks of his Guard From this Mahomet is descended Ismael Muley or Muler her Brother to the late King of Taffilette by the Mother-side present Emperor of Barbary and Morocco King of Fez Susa and Taffilette being about forty years of Age. II. He bears for Arms three Wheels Argent He professes the Mahometan Religion and styles himself Xeriffe of the Race of Mahomet Xeriffe signifying an illustrious and sacred person The Language spoken at present in most of the Maritime Towns of Barbary except those of Fez and Morocco is the Arabick In those two Kingdoms and most part of the Country Villages the Punick or Old African the ancient Languages of the Country is spoken The Punick in all places where anciently the Carthaginians were of any power the African whatsoever it was in the parts of Mauritania not subject to them III. The two Capital Cities are Fez and Morocco the latter was reckoned once amongst the greatest Cities of the World at what time it was said to contain one hundred thousand Families but by the Depredations of the Barbarians and the removal of the Seat Royal to Fez it s hardly a third part so big as formerly The Castle there is very large and strong on a Tower whereof stand three Globes made of pure Gold prized at six hundred thousand Livres There is no City