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A17485	A true historicall discourse of Muley Hamets rising to the three kingdomes of Moruecos, Fes, and Sus The dis-vnion of the three kingdomes, by ciuill warre, kindled amongst his three ambitious sonnes, Muley Sheck, Muley Boferes, and Muley Sidan. The religion and police of the More, or barbarian. The aduentures of Sir Anthony Sherley, and diuers other English gentlemen, in those countries. With other nouelties.	Cottington, R.; Sherley, Anthony, Sir, 1565-1635?	1609 (1609)	STC 4300; ESTC S107368	47,807	84

quiteouer before prayer either post concubitum ●…reum or going to stoole or vrine so much respecting the saying Wash and be cleane as by washing they are perswaded to bee cleansed from their sinne Their first time of prayer is two houres before day which is called Salie when the Sexton or Mouden cryeth from the top of the Steeple Helo caber helo helelow hula which is O thou great God and none but one God then euery man awaketh washeth himselfe and destreth God to send them the day After this crie no man may touch his wife but prepare himselfe to serue God which he may doe by his bed side if he will not goe to the church but first to wash or his deuotion is no way acceptable Those which come to the Church either at the entrance must leaue their shooes behind them or carrie them in their handes During their prayers either they stand all arow one row before another or ●…t so but they are held most denote who prostrating themselues how their foreheads to the verie ground After their praier it may bee some desire to confer about some poynt of Religion Then doth the Talby sit downe and his auditours about him in a ring or circle to whom he declareth what they desire to be resolued vpon within halfe an houre dis●…th them this beeing all then haue in stead of preaching 2 Some two houres after when it is day they goe to Church againe thanking God he hath sent them the day after which eueryone goeth to his labour and this time of prayer is cati●… Subelhadl 3 The third-time of prayer is at Noone-tyde giuing thankes the halfe day is well passed which they call Dehour 4 Presently after foure of the clocke is Church-time againe desiring the Sunne may well set vpon them and this is called ●…our 5 Being twilight they giue God thanks after their dayly labors desiring his blessing may prosper them this they terme Mogrube 6 And two houres after this is their time of prayer called Lasha ell Hara when some go to Church but most say prayers at home desiring God to send thē g●…d night and quiet rest prouided alwayes-before saying of prayers they wash themselues though not starke naked yet their hands head feete and nether parts betweene their legges for which cause they hold it vnseemly to eat any meate with their left hand or touch any thing therwith but all with their right hand the other accounted as vncleane As we celebrate the Sabbath vpon Sunday in remembrance of Christs resurrection the Iewes vppon Saturday so the Moores vpon Fryday who will doe any worke vpon their Sabbath onely that day they goe more duely to the Church then on other dayes Their Churches are not so goodly builded as ours in Christendome neither haue seates to sit in or decked vp with any ornaments but all the floore is matted and keept verie cleane because no man may enter with shooes or any thing to de●…e them Bels they haue none in their Steeples but the Mouden or Sexton being a big voyced knue chosen for the purpose standeth in the top of the Steeple and calleth them to their Sallies or Prayers Their Church-men are verie poore and contented with a little may haue as many wiues as the lay-man neither is there any Church of great foundation or rich in treasure except the chiefe Church in Fe●… which is thought to haue in treasure a million of crownes which may not bee spent except the Christians should come to inuade Their church seruice or Lethargie is nothing at all in respect nor in any set forme not so long as the Lords prayer and the Beléefe therefore euerie one prayeth according to his owne deuotion So I thinke our men of the newe learning which would ouerthrowe church seruice haue the Minister liue vpon almes and mens good willes forsaking their tenths pray according to the spirit preach vt-dabitur in illa ●…ora hold ringing of Belles vnnecessarie wishing them turned into morters and great Pée●…es haue the selfe same chimeras in their heads which the Deuill forged in Mahomets Concerning Marriages THe More may haue by his law foure wiues Concubines as many as he will kéepe either captiues or slaues bought with mony for being his owne proper peculium they are to be at his disposing but with these hee may not lye withall in the night which the wiues clayme as their interest vnlesse by stealth if the husband haue many wiues none-will loose their turne so nightly the husband by course must lye with one then with another If in this case any be defrauded of her night and the husband pleasure one more than another with his company The wife iniured complaineth to the Magistrate that shée is despised and neglected whervnto the husband must answere if the Iudge rest not satisfied the husband shall bee forced to pay the woman her dower and send her home to her Father if he be aliue marrying againe if shée will if not to the next of her Fathers kindred and this ●…ill of diuorce they call a ●…ill of Shyed Though this liberty of Poligamie be granted yet not one amongst a hundred hath 〈◊〉 the reason is the wiues friends will neuer suffer any to marry their kinswomen without first they haue a bill of dowry sufficient for the maintainance of her therefore the great and rich men haue thrée or foure wiues but the poore most but one ●…ew two because of their disability to maintaine Also this ●…ill of dower kéepeth their husbands in great awe and maketh the women haue the better life which otherwise would liue in great slauery First because the womans friends will bee sure to sée shée haue a stay of maintenance for feare of after charge to themselues Secondly the Iusties of the country is so strict if a man turne away his wife without reason he shall pay her tower though he sell the cloathes of his backe otherwise euery day for change of pleasure and yonger game men would turne away their wiues faster then horscosers tainted ●…ades Their fashion of wooing or marrying is thus the man neuer séeth the woman hee shall marry till shée commeth to his bed but hearing her to be a proper maide beautifull and commendable sendeth his mother sister or kinsewoman to sée her vppon this report the mans liking and affection resteth if he procéedeth then must he go to the father of the woman to demaund his daughter they two agréeing presently twoo of their Talbies or learned men are sent for to write downe her portion his endowment So some halfe yeare after is the wedding day which is onely a day of feasting when the friendes of the bride bring her home to the bridegome riding vppon a Mule inclosed like a blacke-bird within a cage made for the purpose couered ouer with ●…ke and great store of mu●…ke going before her yet in such sort riding thorough the stréets as shée is séene of no body no not of her husband

such as he wonne great loue among the Commons Nobility and many of the blood Royall When old Hamet dyed he was in his campe neare Fes and after his death rested all his loue vpon Muley Sidan holding him the prime man and fittest of the thrée brethren to rule the Kingdome vntill both he and Sidy Imbark could not counsell and rule Muley Sidan for his owne good and benefit of the common weale being headstronge and would take no mans counsell but to his owne liking and hurt therefore Sedy Abdela Imbark went to his contemplation at Aca And Azus to a castle in the Mountaines which hée had stored with treasure against a storme or to refresh the winter of his age from whence he will not come downe vntill he sée some hope of peace hauing at this instant more treasure in his Coffers then all the three Brethren besides and hopeth to kéepe it beeing in the middest of his friends and kindered and in a place as well fortified as any in Barbarie Cap. XVII Muley Sheck sendeth Iohn Elyna into Spaine 〈◊〉 the Mores are against their landing MVley Sheck séeing his Sonne Abdela returned to 〈◊〉 his souldiers part lost the residue wearied with trauels and out of heart his treasure all spent nothing left Sidan chasing Bosonne to the Mountaines who was there dispatched of his life recouering the Citie and likely to keepe it against them all Fearefull lest Sidans ne●…t enterprise would bée to rowze him out of Fes fell in conference with an Italian Marchant named Iohn Etina making him his agent to go into Spaine there to conclude that if the Catholique King would ayde him with men and money to recouer his right there should be deliuered vp into his hand●…s Allaroche Saly Alcasar and other townes lying fit for his mouth This negotiation was well entertained And Iohn Etina was promised for his labour in this businesse and bringing it to effect vppon the deliuery of the Porte Townes to haue yearely paied him Twoo Thousand Duckets during his life In Iune last past this matter was first mooued since which time in the latter end of August as my author telleth mée seauen Gallions and the Gallies of Naples in all a hundred sayle well manned with store of pyoners to raise forts went to Allaroche thinking to bee receaued but Thirtie Thousand Alarbees came downe to the shore not allowing any such neighborhoode though they holde the Andelusian halfe their bloud It is reported the Gouernour offered them the keyes of Allaroche if they would land but tolde them they came somewhat to soone before matters were ripe or could bee effected as Sheck did desire for the King of Spaines benefite Thus are they returned missing of their designes and for this yeare likely to fayle of making their Maister the onely Commander of both sides the streights of Gybraltar Whether Sir Anthonie Sherley was ymployed in this seruice it is not certainely knowen some are of opinion that he was induced therevnto because they haue formerly hearde the King of Spaine hath royally rewarded him for his trauailes with Boferes by giuing him the places and pay of two Captaines in the Indies made him Admirall of the Leuant Seas and next in place to the Uizeroy of Naples hauing for his entertaynment Fiue Hundred Duckets a moneth without question hee knoweth well the state of that vnciuill and barbarous Nation hauing an apprehending and admirable witte to conceaue the disposition of any people with whom he shall conuerse whilest he was amongst them he behaued himselfe very well toward the better sort winning credit with them gayning y● loue of the poorer sort excéedingly by his larges for if a More or slaue gaue him but a dish of Dates hée should receiue a reward as from an Emperour howsoeuer some may holde this a vice counting him a lauisher yet by this meanes he came to the knowledge of that which otherwise hee neuer should haue attained vnto The more credible fame is sir Anthonie was not with this Fléete therefore they sped neuer the better for had hee béene in company and had commaund hee would either haue taken footing or ventured all scorning to returne with doing nothing and so bee laughed at This may bee a caueat for great men not to vndertake great matters exployts but vppon certaine ground and weighty reason for else the enuious eye of the world looking vppon them and marking their actions will deride if they sée them faile in their enterprizes Now gentle Reader must I with these Galleys returne to the safe and calme harbour of your fauour and gentlenes séeing the Sunne declyneth towardes the winter Tropike the 〈◊〉 will beginne to runne high and rough if they should ●…anshe further into the maine perchance they might bee weather beaten Euen so for me to write without aduise is to saile at randome which would quickely be found in your wisedome how I ventured without my Sea-card and might without more directions easily make shippe-wracke of my smale burden not valuable I confesse yet will be better prised if it passe your friendly censure Therefore here will I strike sayle leauing Sheck with his Sonne Abdela in Fes Boferes either at Salie or vppon the Sea coaste redier to flye then to fight Sidan holding the sterne at Morruecos hoping to guide his tossed barke during the prophecy Spaine a great Monarch desiring to take better hold in Affrique then Tituan hauing at this instant Muley Sheck commonly called Prince de Morruecos the right heyre in discent from the stemme of Hamet Sheck Xarif in his safe kéeping who was the first man which gotte the Empire from the Marines and translated it into his owne Family THE DAMNABLE REligion of the incredulous More or Barbarian THE false Prophet Mahomet calling to counsell a Iew and a Fryer to make his lawe extracted out of the olde lawe what he found for his liking and likewise preuerted places in the newe Testament which by a wrong and sinfull wresting might séeme fit for his purpose Out of these two and the fancies of his own braine the Deuill being Register Mahomet compiled his Alcaron to please the Iew hee tolde him Moses was Cillim Vlla that is the word of God because hee spake to the Israelites as God commanded him To winne fauour with the Fryer hee confessed our Sauiour Christ was of great off éeme calling him Sedy Nysa and with all sayd he was Rohala that is the breath of God borne of the Uirgine Marie after a strange fashion whome he called Lylla Mariam but not incarnate Confessed that of her was borne a Prophet to saue the world to whome all should haue giuen eare and haue belieued But the Iewes before he had finished the woorke of our saluation would not heare but sought to crucifie him Wherevpon Christ seeing the Iewes so obstinate ascended vp into heauen putting another man in his place to bee crucified whom they did torment for which cause the Iewes are at this day slaues

amongst them that Christ shall come againe and at his comming all shall be one and gathered into one Shéepfold Their false Prophet Mahomet whom they call Rosulla that is the Messenger of God was but a Larbee as they were but God gaue vnto him power and vnderstanding to make an end of the Law which the Iewes would not suffer Christ to doe and most blasphemously alledge that place in the sixteenth of saint Iohns Gospel to be meant of Mahomet Expedit vobis vt ego vadam si enim non abiero paracletus non veniet advos si autem abiero mittam ●…um advos Images they disallow either in churches or priuate oratories holding this principle None can forgiue sinnes but God onely Other booke of Religion then their Alcoran none may vse neither anie explains by writing the meaning of any place therein be he neuer so learned Therefore if any doubt he must goe to the Priest called Talby and of him be resolued Smal learning maketh a Talby which is onely to learne the Alcoran without booke and it is thus learned First he bath written him a lesson vpon a boord like vnto a horn-booke when he hath learned that Memoriter then is it wiped out and a new written which beeing learned without booke●… is againe wiped out so a third so a fourth vntill he hath learned it all and then hee may be made a Talby Circumcision they vse and a kinde of Baptisme but at their owne houses not in the Churches because women vsed about the Lauature may not enter the Sinagogue first because of their often vncleannesse secondly for their offence because Eue incited Adam to 〈◊〉 the like custom for their women is amongst the Iewes therefore the Moore when a sonne or daughter is borne the eight vay after their birth the parents send for a Talby and some old men and women where after a fewe prayers said the women wash the childe all ouer with water and so giue the name making a banket according to the mans abilitie but it may be the child shall not bee circumcised of two three or eight yeares after according as the father doth thinke good for then he maketh great bankets and vsually to saue cost hath a child marryed or some of his kindred vpon that day They haue foure principall feasts The Easter which is calld Rumedan preceding this feast is their Lent about the constitution of which their Prophet finding it hard to fast fortie dayes together abated them tenne so they fast but thirtie yet is it verie hard for after day breaketh they take no manerof suste●…ance in the world not so much as a sup of water before night that the stars doe appeare so strict are they when their Lent falleth high in the yeare which it must needes doe because their yeare is shorter than ours by ten dayes reckoning by the Moone not by the Moneth as many grow faint with fasting and my Authour saith he hath seene diuers layd before the Church doore readie to giue vp the ghost for drought and some haue died holding it no question something meritorious to die in seeking to fulfill their Law And once the same Gentleman trauailing to Morruecos with certaine Moores in his companie in their time of Lent one of the Moores being thirstie with heate and trauaile went to a Conduit in the streetes of Moruecos to drink a little water but the people so wondered at him and reuiled the poore slaue crying out hee knew not God for breaking in publique their Lawe though it doth admit one may breake the fast for great necessitie a day or two in his trauaile so hee take vpon his conscience to fast as many dayes as hee hath missed before the next Rumedan come againe that the poore slaue seeing himselfe condemned of his owne people and dishonoured before the Christian trauailers in a desperate minde which may be counted zeale killed himselfe with his owne dagger The Iewes in that Countrey obserue a Lent in remembrance of their fortie yeares iourney in the Wildernesse but diuide the forty dayes of this their Lent equally into euery moneth some Their second feast called Lidlaber celebrated about our Whitsontide is kept in remembrance of Abrahams obedience in sacrificing his sonne Isaac therefore the Moore be he poore or rich for himselfe and for euerie sonne he hath will buy a shéepe against the day when euery one must kill his shéepe with his owne hands And the King both the like slaying one with his owne hand turning the head into the East The Iewes in their Church or Synagogue thrée or foure times when they are at praiers ●…o blow a shéepes horne in remembrance of this feast but not euery one bloweth it only the greatest Raby or high Priest for solémnitie sake doth it Their third feast is like to our Michaelmasse called Lashour which the Iewes kéepe as the feast of Tabernacles The Moore celebrateth it after his Inning of Corne and fruits The King maketh vse of this positiue Law strengthning it with his authoritie as also with the habite and cloake of Religion and conscience thereby to make his subiect pay the tenths due to bee payed at that time of all his corne and cattle both young and old with greater alacritie All which commeth vnto the Kings coffers Like wise at this time the common people should pay the tenth of their money to the poore and Church something indéed they giue but if the King bée payed y● oftentimes is winked at their Church hauing no command to compell y● laitie to pay their due for the temporall sword since Augustines time who as many 〈◊〉 report hath preached in Morruecos and not ●…arre from thence lieth buried hath beaten downe the key of the Prelacie the beautie of which being taken from them no doubt is the greatest cause of their barbarisme and slauerie There fourth ●…east is their Candlemasse day called Lidshemaw when euery one must haue a Candle for him selfe and for euery sonne in his house The King that day hath candles carried to him thorow the Citie some like Maypoles other like Castles sixe or eight men carrying one of them they are so great and heauie made so ●…ne with deuises as some are in making sixe moneths That night the king doth heare all his law read and the like is done in all other Churches Likewise vpon their good Fryday in Lent the law is re●… ouer and the Talby which can not read it ouer in one night is held as insufficient for his place and function Many of their learned men sit vp all that night because many of the denotest Moores will watch the ●…ight thorow to heare their law not in remembrance of our Sauiour Christ is this méeting but rather to supp●…e the sparkes of Christianitie in the mindes of their owne people and darken the remembrance of his most bitter death and passion The manner of going to prayer THey go to seruice ●…xe times in twentie foure hours washing themselues