Almohades and had by him the Alcoran This Abdelmon or Abdel Mumen was he writeth the sonne of a Potter to whom Auentumerth a great Astronomer foretold his Royaltie To this Auentumerth did one Almehadi ioyne himselfe who interpreted the Alcoran contrary to the Bagdat Catholocisme and the interpretations of the Almoranides which then ruled in Africa whose helpe Abdel vsed to obtaine the Kingdome both of Africa and Spaine Hee buried Almohadi being dead very Royally not farre from Marocco where he is had in great veneration and prayers made to him and the followers of his sect called of him Almohadis To Abdel Mumen succeeded his Sonne Auen Iacob who being slaine in Portugall his Brother Aveniuseph succeeded and then his Sonne this Auen Mahomath with whom he saith were slaine two hundred thousand Moores the carkasses lying so thicke that they could scarce ride ouer them and yet in all the field no signe of bloud to be seene For two dayes space the Spanish Armie burne no wood for any vse but the Arrowes Launces and Pikes of the Moores burning of purpose and not onely for necessitie and yet scarcely consumed halfe With him perished the Almohades Thus farre Rodericus an eye-witnesse not much differing from Leo. I cannot omit that which Mathew Paris hath written of Iohn King of England about these times and in his owne dayes He sent saith he Thomas Herdinton and Radulph Fitz Nicolas Knights and Robert of London Clarke to Admirall Murmelius King of Marocco Africa and Spaine whom they commonly call Miramumelius to make offer vnto him of his Vassalage and that he would not onely hold the Land of him with payment of Tribute but would also change his Religion and accept the Mahumetan The Embassadours hauing declared their message the King or Emire Elmumenin to call him rightly shut vp the Booke whereon they found him reading and after a little deliberation thus answered I was now reading a Greeke Booke of a certaine wise man and a Christian called Paul whose wordes and deeds well please me this onely I like not that hee forsooke the Religion wherein he was borne and vnconstantly embraced another and the same I say of your Master God Almightie knowes that if I were without the Law and now to chuse This aboue all other should be my choise And then by diuers questions enforming himselfe better of the state of the Kingdome and of the King he grew into great passion and indignation against the King protesting that he thought him vnworthy to bee his Confederate and commanded the Embassadours neuer more to see his face The Author heard Robert of London one of those which were sent relate these things HONDIVS his Map of the Kingdome of Marocco MAROCCHI REGNUM §. II. Of the Kings of the Seriffian Familie ABout the yeere 1508 began to grow in name through Numidia a certaine Alsaique borne in Tigumedet in the Prouince of Dara beeing a subtill man and no lesse ambitious in minde then learned in those Sciences whereunto the Mahumetanes are most addicted Hee by confidence of his blood descended of their Prophet and of the diuisions of the States of Africa and the exploits there dayly atchieued by the Portugals attempted to make himselfe Lord of Mauritania Tingitana For this cause hee sent his three Sonnes Abdel Abnet and Mahomet to visit the Sepulchre of Mahomet Much was the reuerence and reputation of holinesse which they hereby acquired amongst that superstitious people which now beheld them as Saints and kissed their garments as most holy Reliques These failed not in their parts of the play to act as much deuotion as high contemplatiue lookes deepe fetched sighes and other passionate interiections of holinesse could expresse Ala Ala was their yernfull note their food was the peoples almes The old Father ioyning to see his proiects thus farre proceed and minding to strike whiles the Iron was hote sent two of them to Fez Amet and Mahumet where one of them was made Reader in the Amodonaccia the most famous Colledge of Fez and the younger was made Tutor to the Kings young sonnes Aduanced thus in fauour of the King and People by their Fathers aduice they apprehended the present occasion of the harmes sustained by the Arabians and Moores vnder the Portugals Ensignes they demanded Licence of the King to display a Banner against the Christians putting him in hope easily to draw those Moores to him and so to secure the Prouinces of Marocco In vaine were Mulley Nazer the Kings brother his allegations not to arme this Name of Sanctitie which being once victorious might grow insolent and forget dutie in minding a Kingdome They obtaine their desires and with a Drum and Banner with Letters of commendations to the Arabians and people of Barbary they are so attended with forces and fortunes that Ducala and all as farre as Cape de Guer stoopes to their command the people willingly yeelding their Tenths to this Holy warre against the Portugals enemies of their Faith Hereunto was added the ouerthrow which they gaue to Lopes Barriga a famous Portugall Captaine the brightnesse of that sun-shine being somewhat eclipsed with the losse of their elder brother if rather a Monarchie were not hereby furthered By faire words they entered into Marocco The Arabians of Ducala and Xarquia about this time trying their quarrels by dint of Sword in mutuall conflicts presented a fit occasion to the Seriffs to prey vpon them both their strength hauing made them weake and their weaknesse making the other strong And now did they begin to vsurpe soueraigntie presenting their Fessan King with sixe Horses and sixe Camels and those but simple whom before they had acknowledged their Soueraigne with payment of the fifths of their spoile The King of Fez before applauding his owne victories in theirs began now to distaste and to distrust hee sends to them to demand his fifths and the tribute also formerly paide him by the Kings of Marocco Death the common enemie of Mankinde here interposed her selfe on the Seriffian part and tooke the King of Fez out of the world the Scepter descending to his Sonne Amet the Scholler of the young Seriff who not onely proceeded not in his Fathers demands but confirmed Amet in the Signiorie of Marocco so that in some small matters hee would acknowledge the soueraigntie of Fez But now the Seriffs whose hearts continually encreased with their fortunes sent him word that being lawfull successours to Mahomet they owed no man tribute and had more right in Africa then he if hee would respect them as his friends and Allies so it were if otherwise they which had power to offend the Christian should not bee destitute in defending themselues The sword the vnequalle starbiter of equitie is now made vmpire the Fessan proclaimeth warres besiegeth Marocco is dislodged and in his returne vanquished Thus haue the Seriffs acquited themselues of that yoake and now intend new conquests on the other side of Atlas and in Numidia and in
Phocas was ouercome and slaine An. 379. That yeere by an Earthquake the third part of the Temple of Saint Sophia at Constantinople fell downe which Basilius repayred A. 378. a great tempest happened in Egypt of Wind and Thunder and such darknesse as had not beene seene Next morning a Pillar of fire came forth which made the Skie and Earth red and the Aire was so full of dust that men could scarsly breath An. 386. Iacob Sonne of Ioseph Counseller of Aziz died Hee had of a Iew become a Muslim serued Cafur and after his death brought Muaz into Egypt Aziz prayed and wept for him as he deserued An. 381. An Earthquake threw downe a thousand houses at Damascus and a Village neere Balaber sunke downe and men ranne out of their houses into the fields It continued seuen dayes Ahmed Abulabbas Cadir Billa was the fiue and twentieth Abbaside Chalifa An. 385. Abulcasins Counsellor to King Fachruddaulas which of all Counsellours was first called Partner dyed He writ elegant Epistles and good Verses Fachruddaulas dyed Anno 387. His Sonne Rustem whom Cadir nominated Maghduddaulas succeeded him An. 389. Mahmud Iamanuddaulas Sonne of Sebertekin Lord of India possessed Chorasan taking it from Abdulmelic the last of the Samanaean Kings An. 391. Abulfadaijl Lord of Aleppo was poysoned and Lulu his Counsellour seised on the State Bahaiuddaulas after long warre slue Abunasr Sonne of Azzuddaulas and possessed his and his brothers Inheritance An. 397. Walid of the house of Ommia and Progeny of Hisiam inuaded Hakem Lord of Egypt surnaming himselfe Naijr Biamrilla but after many battels was slaine A. 399. Lulu Lord of Haleb dyed and his Sonne Murtadiddaulas succeeded An. 401. Carwas Gouernour of Maufil prayed in the name of Hakem Lord of Egypt and caused the same to be done at Cufa But vpon Bahaiuddaulas writing the calling of Cadir Billa was restored who sent Carwas gifts and An. 402. published a Writing against the Chalifas of Egypt saying that their originall was from Disania and that they were Charigaeans and had nothing to doe with Ali Sonne of Abutalib prouing the same by great Authors Radis and Murtadis Abuhamid c. An. 403. Bahaiuddaulas Lord of Irac dyed and his Sonne Abusugiaus Sultannaddaulas was vested in his place He resided at Sijraz The Deputy of the Lord of Haleb rebelled and held the same vnder Hakem Lord of Egypt which was soone after murthered by procurement of his Sister Daughter of Aziz and Ali his Sonne made Chalif This Hakem had beene of ill disposition of no Religion inconstant in all his businesse suborning Spies to bring him tales He forbad that any woman should goe in or out of his house or shooes to be made for women He set Mitsra on fire and commanded the Citizens to bee killed Their goods were spoyled Wiues rauished and the fourth part of the Citie was burned Yet some Fooles cryed to him O God which makest to liue and dye Hee afflicted Christians and Iewes and razed their Temples Whereupon some became Muslims and then he gaue them leaue to reuolt to their former Religion Sixteene thousand acknowledged his Deitie sollicited thereto by Muhammed Sonne of Ismael whom a zealous Turke slue in Hakems Chariot Once Atheisme and Madnesse were in him combined His Sonne Ali was surnamed Tahir Lijzaz-dinilla An. 413. the Lord of Haleb was slaine by his Seruant and Badir possessed it calling himselfe Waliuddaulas But Tahir sent an Army against it and tooke it An. 415. Salih Sonne of Mardas got possession of Haleb and Balabec Sultanuddaulas dyed and his Sonne Abulcalanghar succeeded and remayned at Sijraz but his Vncle Siarfuddaulas after many battel 's got Bagdad An. 420. Salih was slaine by the Egyptian forces with his Sonne in battell but his Sonne Nasr Abucamil Siabluddaulas held Aleppo An. 422. Cadir Billa the Chalif dyed after one and fortie yeeres Reigne aged eightie sixe In his time Muhammed Sonne of Ismael the false Prophet had preached Hakems Deity and after his death Hamza Alhadi in Egypt and Siria confirmed the same opinions placing Doctors at Mitsra giuing all license to marry their owne Sisters Daughters Mothers and tooke away Fasting Prayer and Pilgrimage Hakem abstained from Prayers on Fridayes Ramadan and Feast dayes forbade Pilgrimage to Mecca and thus began the Sect of the Dararaeans especially famous at Tyre Sidon Mount Berit and the adioyning places of Syria Abdala Abugiafar Caijm Biamrilla Sonne of Cadir was the six and twentieth Abasids Chalifa created that day on which his Father dyed being before made partner of the couenant by his Father and mentioned in publike Prayers by that title The same yeere 422. King Ghalaluddaulas Sonne of Bahaiuddaulas came to Bagdad and tooke it and Prayers were made in his name Caijm stiled him Siahensiah greatest King of Kings Anno 426. Letters were brought from Mahmud Sonne of Sebucktakin Iamanuddaulas that he had taken many Cities in India that hee had slaine fiftie thousand Infidels and taken seuentie thousand and spoyles worth a Million of Gold An. 427. Taher Lord of Egypt died His Sonne Maabad Abutamim Mustansir Billa succeeded being about eight yeeres old or as some say sixe he ruled sixty yeeres None before had begun so soone or held out so long Yet Abdurrahman King of Andalusia reigned about so much time An. 430. began the Princes Salghucides Muhammed Abutalib Togrulbec was the first inaugurated of them His brethren were Dauid Ghacarbec Fir and Arselan the Sons of Michael Sonne of Salghuc Sonne of Dacac a Turke who first of that Race embraced Islamisme and was much employed by the Turkish King in his warres His Sonne Salghuc after his Fathers death was made chiefe Commander of the Turkish Armies but the King suspecting him sought to slay him whereupon he fled to Haron King of Ghabia and of him obtayned an Army to inuade those Infidels but was slaine in battell being a hundred and seuen yeeres old His Sonne Michael with his children abode in Mauranahar Many Turkes acknowledged none other Commander When Mahmud Sonne of Sebuctakin King of India passed ouer the Riuer Ghaihon to helpe Wararchan King of Mauranahar hee cast Michael into bonds for refusing to goe with him promising to set him in Chorasan to keepe it against the enemies but tooke with him Michaels Souldiers which stayed in his Countrey Masud succeeding his Father Mahmud expelled them by an Army the remaynder of these Turkes after Michaels death followed Togrulbec who ouerthrew the Army of Masud and pursued them to Tus which Towne hee tooke the first Towne which came into their hands wherein they fortified themselues Thence they went to Naisabur and tooke it King Masud fled into India and forsaking Chorasan stayed there a long time The Salghucides subdued Chorasan meane while and when Masud returned they ouerthrew him whereupon Caijm Biamrilla exhorted them to keepe the Region of the Muslims They ouerthrew Masud a second time and their Empire was established A. 431. Masud ouerthrew
after held cruell fight with twelue great Gallies full of Ianizaries and choice men whom he ouerthrew and tooke But the Ianizaries that were left cast their Scimaters ouer-boord least such choice weapons should come to the Christians hands Solyman conuerting his forces against the Venetians for the indignities mentioned had almost fallen into the hands of the Mountaine-Theeues which liued in the Acroceranian Hills who in a strange resolution had conspired to kill him in his Tent and had almost to the wonder of the world in a night by vnknowne wayes suddenly effected it had not the cracking of a bough discouered their Captaine who in a tree was taking view of the Campe how to bring to passe his desperate designes This their Captaine by name Damianus was after confession hereof torne in pieces and those wilde Mountainers liuing on robberie without Law or Religion were like wilde beasts hunted to destruction The Turkes inuaded Corfu whence they carried sixteene thousand of the Islanders captiues They likewise in their returne committed great spoyle in Zante and Cythera sacked Aegina Paros and other Ilands in the Archipelago bringing Naxos vnder tribute Barbarussa sacked Botrotus a Venetian Citie The like did Vstrif to Obroatium and the Castle of Nadin Nauplium also and Epidaurus were besieged But Ferdinand who had entituled himselfe King of Hungarie after Lewis his death receiued a greater disgrace in Hungarie by the Turkish forces then befell the Venetians in all their losses Cazzianer the Generall of the Christians shamefully flying and betraying his associates to the Turkish crueltie The next yeere 1538. Barbarussa chaseth the Christian Fleet in which the Emperours Venetians and the Popes forces were ioyned In the yeere 1541. Solyman againe inuadeth Hungarie professing himselfe Protector of the young King which Iohn late King of Hungarie who had held long warres with Ferdinand about that Title had left behinde him his heire and successor But vnder colour of protection hee maketh himselfe Lord of Buda the chiefe Citie turning the Cathedrall Church into a Meschit and maketh Hungarie a Turkish Prouince bestowing Transyluania and what he pleased on the Orphan Two yeeres after he reentereth Hungarie and taketh Strigonium turning the Christian Temples into Mahumetan sacrificing there for his victorie as he had done at Buda Hee entred also into Alba Regalis where the Hungarian Kings lye entombed another chiefe Citie of that Kingdome and slew the Magistrates I speake not all this while of the spacious Countries in Africa which from the Riuer Muluia hee added to his Dominions the Kingdomes of Algier Tremisen Tunes Tripoly c. being annexed to his Turkish Soueraigntie Howbeit Tunes by ayde of Charles the Emperour somewhat recouered her selfe but breathed out againe her last gaspe of libertie in the daies of Selym his sonne And thus was Solyman victorious and happy otherwhere victorious and vnhappy when he was forced to darreine battell against his owne bowels and hauing murthered Mustapha his eldest sonne the hopefullest branch in Turkish estimation that euer grew out of the Ottoman stocke hee warred against Baiazet another of his sonnes whom with foure of his children he procured to be done to death in Persia And after much domesticall trouble in his seuenth Expedition into Hungarie his Fleet in the siege of Malta being before with great disgrace repulsed he dyed at the siege of Zigeth the fourth of September 1566. §. II. Of SELIM the second and AMVRATH the third SELYM the onely sonne which the bloudie father had left aliue succeeded in the Throne not in the prowesse and valour of his father Neither hath any Turkish Sultan since his dayes led their forces in person but committed it to their Deputies and Generals except once when Mahomet the third had almost lost his Armie and himselfe Yet did this Selym by his Bassaes make him Lord of Cyprus and also of the Kingdome of Tunis But this sweet meate was sourely sauced by his exceeding losse in the Sea-fight betwixt Hali Bassa Admirall of the Turkes and Don Iohn of Austria Generall of the Fleet set forth by the Pope Spaniard and Venetian 1571. wherein an hundred threescore and one Gallies were taken fortie sunke or burnt and of Galliots and other small vessels were taken about threescore The Turkish Admirall was then slaine Wittily did a Turke descant vpon this losse of the Turkes and their gaine of Cyprus comparing this to the shauing of a mans beard which would grow againe that to the losse of an arme which once cut off cannot bee renued Lastly Tunes came in and Selym went out of this Turkish Soueraigntie both in manner together 1574. Amurath his heire began his Empire with the slaughter of his fiue brethren The mother of Solyman one of that number slew herselfe with a dagger for anguish of that losse He in viewing a new Gally by the breach of a Peece hardly escaped death thirtie of his company being slaine And because the Plague was exceeding hot hee by deuotion sought to appease diuine anger and therefore prohibited all vse of Sodomie Blasphemie and Polygamie and himselfe put out fiue hundred women out of his Seraile In a priuate habite hee visited the Markets and hanged vp the hoorders of corne He by the Tartars inuaded Polonia and Henry of France secretly leauing that Kingdome of Polonia hee wrote vnto him to chuse Stephen Battor for their King in which letters he called himselfe God of the Earth Gouernour of the whole World Messenger of God and faithfull seruant of the great Prophet which wrought so much with the Nobilitie that either they would not or durst not doe otherwise howsoeuer Maximilian had beene before by many of them chosen Tamas the Persian at the same time dying bequeathed his Crowne to Ismael his sonne whom Aidere his brother seeketh to depriue but is therefore himselfe depriued of that ambitious head which he sought to adorne with the Crowne and Ismael adding the slaughter of eight his younger brethren ascendeth the Throne which together with his life hee lost by vnnaturall trecherie of Periaconcona his sister the foure and twentieth of Nouember 1577. Mahomet his brother succeeded in this troublesome State which Amurath the Turke in these troubled waters thought fit time for himselfe to fish for Hereunto also helped the hatred and ciuill broyles in Persia for the head of Periaconcona presented to Mahomet with the haire disheuelled on a Launce and for other vncouth and bloudie spectacles Sahamal and Leuent Ogli two Georgian Lords seeking also innouations Amurath therefore in the yeere 1578. sent Mustapha Bassa which had lately conquered Cyprus with an Army of an hundred and tenne thousand into Persia who in the first battell he had with them slew fiue thousand and tooke three thousand Persians and to strike that Nation with terrour commanded a bulwarke to be framed of those heads but by an exceeding tempest which lasted foure dayes together whereby the Heauens seemed to melt themselues in teares for
suffer him to perish therefore leaue and very shortly shall strange things happen in the Empire Achmet contrary to all expectation the next morning after his Dreame sent for him into the roome of State where he lay on a stately Pallet with all his Vice-Roys and Bashaws groueling on the ground and the principall Mustie kneeling before him reading on a booke It should seeme that glad tidings came first to the Citie For he was taken out of the prison with great respect and obseruation he was admitted to his galley with high Ceremonies and yet solemne countenances hee was accompanied on the Sea with thousands of boats and ten thousand of weeping eyes hee landed at the Emperours owne Caska with great respect and modest stilnesse hee walking through the Garden of Cypres trees and at last came to an Iron gate where his owne company left him except two Bashawes who led him by the armes the gate opens and he must through a Guard of Cupogies they bend to the ground and yet looke cheerefully they brought him into the roome where the Mutes stood whose presence did more appale him then the rest but that hee saw the crueltie confirmed and their very sight was worse then an vnreuersable iudgement but when he perceiued no violent hands laid vpon him and that he must yet goe further he was the more astonished and the more vexed to endure such a procrastination At last he came where the Emperour lay sicke on his Pallet before whom his prostitution was as the ordinary slaues but contrary to all expectation he bad him rise and commanded certaine Persian Carpets to be spread and rich Cushions to be laid on which according to their manner hee sate crosse legged by him and when the Muftie had raised the Emperour vp a little with a faint voyce he discouered an vnlooke for louing heart and bequeathed to him the succession He had no sooner done but he began to faint and so read them all a lesson of mortalitie by opening a booke wherein they saw death writ in Capitall letters and himselfe sinking past recouery which made them recouer new Spirits and presently bring his brother out into the Sophia where the principall Muftie proclaimed Mustapha Emperour intimating to the Ianizaries the charge of Achmat to the discharging their duties and the pleasure of Mustapha to giue them a larges which equalling the bountie of other Princes ouerswayed nicer exceptions and so with great acclamations they ratified the Election and cried out Liue and raigne great Mustapha Thus is Mustapha Emperour and they had two yeeres triall of his disposition whereby they found him harmelesse if innocent in both senses Encomions of no great and stirring Spirit Scander and Mehemet Bashaw take the young Osman after this out of the Seralio and present him to the Ianizaries a comely sweet young youth of nine or ten yeere old demanding withall if such an heire of the Othoman Family were to bee reiected without cause or why they should bring an harmelesse Prince as they reputed Mustapha into the danger of vsurpation and differing no further from a Traytor but that it was not imputed to him as for Achmats Will Empires are not so translated and what could they tell but priuate men for their owne ends had wrought vpon his weaknesse making a diseased tongue speake that which a healthfull heart and perfect sense would not consent to For it was probable that a Father would disinherit his children for any brother in the world Besides there was no triall or cause either of insufficiencie or disabilitie and therefore they could not beleeue it Last of all for any thing they saw Mustapha himselfe was not stirring or strong enough to play the Steeres-man in such an high built Ship considering the Seas were tempestuous and many dangerous shores and rockes were to be passed by These speeches to the turbulent Ianizaries were like fewell to fire and the presence of the louely youth made them amazed at their inconstancie so that by way of penitencie and satisfaction they quickely altered the acclamation of Liue Mustapha into the cries of God saue young Osman and so without further disputing hee was aduanced into the Throne and brought into the Seralio when Mustapha least thought of the alteration But now there is no remedie hee must needs bee deposed and sent prisoner once againe into the seuen Towers Now doth Osman begin his Phaetons flourish and runneth the course of pleasures with his youth spending foure or fiue yeeres in wantonnesse and iollitie while his Bashawes spent the time in couetousnesse and ambitious ouer-ruling others yet not without carefull ouer-looking the Ianizaries and prouident preuenting their discontents turbulent disposition but all doth helpe for they ouer-accustomed to actiue imployment and liuing vpon the spoile of forraine Nations as much as the Emperours entertainment cried out to the warre and when answer was made that the Persians had contracted a new league and the Emperours of Germanies old couenants were not yet determined or ended They presently replyed the indignities which the Russians had offered vnto their neighbors the Tartarians were not to be endured for they need goe no further then the piracies of the blacke Sea and the iniuries of the Cossacks and Polonians Nay why should they not march to the expugnation of Loepolis and the foraging of the Countries of Moldauia and Bogdonia and so forward to teach Poland a better lesson then to displease the Othoman Family and mightinesse The Bashawes knew there was no replying nor now the fire was kindled no other quenching it then letting it consume to cinders whereupon they presently answered they were glad that the Souldiers were so memorable of the glory of the Empire and so readie to imploy themselues for the dignitie of the Nation and therefore they would not by any meanes hinder them or the cause But they should finde the Emperour as carefull to satisfie their demands as they were willing to augment his Greatnesse so that if they would giue way vnto time for the preparing of all things fit for the Armie and the sending for the Tartarians to accompany them in the iourney the Emperour should goe in person into the field and Poland soone finde what it was to exasperate such a Maiestie The King of Poland sent to the Emperour to the French King to the Pope for assistance as also to his Maiestie of England with intimation of the terrour and his well deliuered discourse made such impression on his Maiesties Princely heart that he had a present supply In a word his Armie was soone readie and his Cossacks prepared by the end of Iuly hee was encamped in the fields of Bogdonia and within eight dayes entrenched with twentie Peeces of Ordnance mounted but the Cossacks quartered by themselues and after their accustomed manner lying between two Riuers were the more emboldened to make their daily excursions vpon the Tartars For hauing a bridge in the reare of their Campe with
And this they doe foure or fiue times according to the order of their seruice After this they all kneele and prostrate themselues on the ground the Meizin obseruing a long Ceremonie in which with a loud voyce hee prayeth GOD to inspire the Christians Iewes Greekes and generally all Infidels to turne to their Law This being said euery man lifteth his hand to heauen crying aloud Amin Amin and then they touch their eyes to wipe them with their hands which is as crossing among the Papists a blessing of themselues bringing their hands ouer their face and so they depart In the English Treatise of the Turkish Policie these things are related with some other Ceremonies as that they say together with the Priest the first Azoara or Chapter of the Alcoran c. Bartholomaeus Georgiouitz saith that onely the chiefe sort are bound to assemble to the daily deuotions which they obserue fiue times a day others which cannot spare the times are not tyed On their Sabbaths it is otherwise §. IIII. Of their Sabbaths and of their Lent and Easter THE women enter not their Mesquitas but on Fridayes at nine a clocke or at Easter and then they are in a Gallery or Terasse apart where they may see and not bee seene and this is not common to all but the wiues and mothers of the chiefe of the place And as we haue said of the Priest so it is to be vnderstood that all the men and women there doe the same without failing in any point They suffer not a Christian to enter therein and yet will they enter into the Churches of the Christians to heare the Church-musicke The women abide in their Churches from nine of the clocke to midnight continually praying with certaine motions and strange cries continuing so long in this act that they fall vpon the ground as in a swoune through wearinesse and if any feele her selfe at that time to bee with childe the Turkes hold that they are conceiued by the holy Ghost and presently vow that childe to God and call such Nefecs Ogli that is sonnes of the holy Ghost And on Friday at nine or ten of the clocke the Priest vseth to preach to the people and these their discourses last aboue two houres That which is said is not verie manifest yet they say that he preacheth the miracles of Mahomet sometime exalting their faith sometime commending obedience and sometime rehearsing fabulous tales to terrifie the bad as that such mens soules are carried of certaine Camels there being some sixe thousand flying about in the ayre for this purpose into the Sepulchres of wicked Christians and that the good Christians are put in their emptie Sepulchres inueighing against the blasphemers of Mahomet Christ and the Saints exhorting to Almes rehearsing their commandements of the law And if they preach scandalous doctrine the Mufti and the Cadlilescher depriue them and correct them as Heretikes yea some of them for preferring Christ before Mahomet are put to death of which one Ibraim Schec a Priest of Constantinople reported to haue wrought miracles amongst the Turkes in the dayes of Soliman was stoned to death his head cut off and his bodie burned of his Disciples some were beheaded others thrust into the Gallies for preferring Christ and denying Mahomet And were it not for the terrour of the sword there would be more innouations of religion and some haue perswaded the Grand Signior not to suffer the Alcoran to bee so common to be read and interpreted of euerie one guiltie of the absurdities therein contained But to returne After this preaching ended two young Clerkes goe vp to him and sing certaine prayers which ended the Priest againe beginneth to sing with the people in a base voyce with wrigling euery way for the space of halfe an houre saying nothing but Lailla illellah that is there is but one God And these Ceremonies are done onely on their Lenten Fridayes Their Lent is one Moone or Moneth in the yeere which if this yeere it be Iuly the next it shall bee August and so in order that in twelue yeeres they haue fasted all times of the yeere making no other difference of meates then at other times but eating onely in the night They prepare themselues by diminishing their fare not as the Christians at Shrouetide that they may the better endure it for on the day in which they fast they will not so much as taste a cup of water or wash their mouthes therewith till the Starres appeare And eight or ten dayes after it beginneth some Officers ride about the towne crying Such a day beginneth the Fast prepare yee prepare yee and when it is begun the Cadi and Subassi if they finde any shops open or any body eating in the day set him on an Asse backwards with the tayle in his hand as Adulterers are punished and to drinke wine at this time is death Neither will they suffer Iewes or Christians to scandalize their Turkes this way And when their Lent is neere the end they goe all to the Baths and plucke off all their haires but of the head and beard with an oyntment for that purpose they colour their nayles red with an enduring colour called Chua with which they dye also the tayles and feet of their horses and the women their hands feet and priuie parts This they doe in honour of their solemnitie which lasteth three daies with great feasting in which nothing else but meates and drinkes may be sold They goe to the Sepulchres of the dead there to eate full of gladnesse and salute each other saying Baaram glutiotzong that is God giue you a good Feast and if they meete with a Iew or a Christian woe vnto them On the first day of their Bairam the Sultan rideth to S. Sophia with all pompe and then did we see saith Master Sandys a sight full of horror many mourne with age yet dead before death and reuolting from their Christianitie therefore throwing away their bonets and lifting vp their fore fingers to which the Tyrant bowed himselfe as glorying in such conuersions The Turks keepe another Easter especially in Mecca more solemne to the Tartars Moores and Arabians then to the Turkes except the Pilgrims which resort thither §. V. Of the Turkish Circumcision THE Turkes say they are circumcised because they are the sonnes of Ismael and because they may be cleane when they goe to their Temples no filth lying hid vnder the skinne At seuen or eight yeeres of age or later this Ceremonie is performed The first thing they doe is to inuite many thither both Turkes Iewes and Christians besides the friends and kindred to make the greater gaine euery one giuing somewhat according to his abilitie When the day is come they which are inuited mount on horse-backe for else it is no solemnitie and goe to the house of the childe who being mounted on a faire horse richly clothed with a great Tulipant on his head
you see the Iaponian Christianitie Some of the Bonzij are diligent Preachers with great zeale and eloquence declaring the goodnesse of their Amida and exhortation to call vpon him §. V. Of their Feasts their bloudie Pilgrimages and Confessions MEaco their chiefe Citie is chiefe also in superstitions hauing had if report lye not on the Hill neere to it seuen thousand Cloysters or Abbies one of which is so famous that the Kings in their Warres will vow great summes of gold and after victorie pay the same there the people also in distresse make it their sanctuarie where the Deuill by visions deludeth them In August they celebrate the Feast of Gibon with Pageants fifteene or sixteene Chariots couered with silke goe before in them are children with Minstralsie Euery Chariot is drawne with thirtie or fortie men and followed by their peculiar Companies or Trades and after them Chariots of men armed which all passe by the Temple in the morning In the euening two Litters come forth carried by men the one of the God the other of his Lemman then followed the third of his Wife with which the men runne vp and downe in such a confused manner as may signifie her iealousie Here the people weepe and pray to their goddesse whom yet with a contrary deuotion they comfort and lastly as if by the peoples mediation the Litters are ioyned together and carried into the Temple In the same moneth they haue their feast of All-soules in which they light many lamps at their doores and all night walke vp and downe the Citie and many suppose at a certaine place they meet with the walking ghosts of their deceased friends and after welcomming ceremonies they set victuals before them at least in that place where hauing a little attended they inuite them to their houses The reason of this refreshing they alleage the long iourney to Paradise which in lesse then three yeeres space cannot be passed and therefore they haue neede of heartning Two dayes this feast lasteth in which they clense their graues and giue presents to the Bonzij In March they haue festiuall Playes in which many meet in the afternoone painted with the Images of their gods on their shoulders and parting themselues into two rankes the boyes beginne with stones the men continue the fray with arrowes poles and swords alwayes with the death of some and impunitie of the doers The fourth moneth is a kind of Lent or deuouter season in which euery day in the weeke the Bonzij preach twice or thrice a day in the prayses of Xara At Sacai in Iuly they keepe the feast of Daimaogin to whom many Temples are dedicated in which the Idoll is carried with much pompe on horse-backe followed first by the Bonzij then the Nobilitie after them certayne Witches whom armed troupes of Souldiers follow Then commeth the Litter of the God all gilded carried by twentie men answering each other in certaine Hymnes the people worshipping They beleeue diuers Paradises into each of which their peculiar gods carry their owne worshippers And some make ouer-hastie iourneyes thither on this sort Hee watcheth certayne dayes and then out of a pulpit preacheth of the contempt of the world Others betake them to be his companions and some giue their almes On the last day hee maketh an Oration to his fellowes who all drinking wine goe into their ship carrying a sithe to cut vp all the brambles in their way and putting on their clothes stuste their sleeues with stones and hanging a great stone about their necks to helpe them the sooner to their Paradise hurle themselues into the Sea And great honour is done to them being thus dead I saw one saith Vilela that had seuen of these companions which with their great alacritie and my great amazement did this But they which worship Amida obserue another rite Being weary of liuing they put themselues in a strait hole of the earth receiuing breath onely by a reede and so continue fasting and praying till death Some in honour of a certayne Idoll doe cast themselues downe from an high Tower where this Idoll is placed and after their death are reputed Saints Others sayle to their Paradise as before but when they haue launched into the deepe make holes in the ships keele for Death to enter and the Sea to swallow both it and them Diuers also crosse and disembowell themselues before their Idols for with such sacrifices their gods are pleased Iosephus Acosta tells of a strange Confession which is obserued in this order There are saith he in Ocaca very high and steepe Rocks which haue pikes or points on them aboue two hundred fadome high One of which higher and more terrible then the rest daunteth and terrifieth the Xamabusis which are certayne pilgrimes to looke vp vnto it vpon the top of the point there is a great rod of Iron of three fadome long placed there by a strange deuice at the end of this rod is a ballance tyed whereof the scales are so bigge as a man may sit in one of them And the Goquis which be Deuils in humane shape command those pilgrimes to enter therein one after another not leauing one of them Then with an Engine or Instrument which mooueth by meanes of a wheele they make this rod of Iron to hang in the aire one of the Xamabusis being set in one of the scales which because there is no counterpoise in the other seale presently hangeth downe and the emptie one riseth to touch the rod aforesaid whereupon the ballance hangeth Then the Goquis telleth the poore pilgrime that hee must confesse all his sinnes that hee can remember with a lowd voyce that all may heare Which he presently doth some of the hearers laughing some sighing At euery sinne mentioned the other scale falls a little till that hauing told all it remaynes equall with the other wherein the sorrowfull penitent sits Then the Goquis turnes the wheele and drawes the rod and ballance vnto him , and the pilgrime comes forth and another enters till all haue passed If any concealed any sinne the emptie scale yeelded not and if when hee was vrged to confesse he grew obstinate the Goquis cast him downe from the top where in an instant he is broken in a thousand peeces A Iaponian who had seuen times made triall hereof being conuerted to Christianitie reported this But the terror was such said hee that few would conceale any thing The place is hereof called Sangenetocoro that is the place of Confession Thus much Acosta whom as I thanke for the storie so I would a little trouble for hee would more patiently heare and beare then some of his hotter brethren with a question concerning Confession And if the question come too late yet the Societie liueth and will longer then a better thing in to a Colledge of whom Iapon hath brought vs as their names here testifie The question is whether euery Residence of the Iesuites bee not a Songenotocoro
ruines testifieth her sometime proud buildings Hospitals Innes and Temples In Thagia is visited the Sepulchre of a holy Man which liued in the time of Habdul Mumen the Calif or Patriarch who wrought great miracles against the Lyons wherwith the Towne is much molested Ettedle a Mahumetane Doctor wrote a Legend of his miracles which Leo saith hee had read and supposed that they were done either by Naturall or Diuellish Magicke The Fessans after their Easter yeerely resort to his Tombe with such numbers of Men Women and Children and their Tents that they seeme an Armie It standeth from Fez an hundred and twentie miles so that their going and returning in this Pilgrimage lasteth fifteene dayes My Father carried mee yeerely thither when I was a Childe and since I haue beene there many times by reason of many vowes which I made being in danger of Lyons Where Zarfa stood the Arabians now sow Corne The Territorie of Fez hath on the West the Riuer Buragard the East Inaven on the North Subu and Atlas on the South Sella was built by the Romans sacked by the Gothes subiect since to Fez The buildings are of Mosaike worke supported with Marble Pillars euen the Shops are vnder faire and large Porches and there are arches to part Occupations All the Temples are beautifull In this Towne the Genowaies English Flemings and Venetians vsed to trade The Spaniards tooke it in the 670 of the Hegira but lost it againe within ten dayes Fanzara was destroyed by Sahid who with certaine Arabians besieged Fez seuen yeeres together and destroyed all the Villages in the Countrey about Mahmora was made famous by the slaughter of the Portugals whose bloud dyed the Sea three dayes together blushing to see the barbarous Barbarian spill so much Christian bloud Leo was there present and numbreth the slaine Christians at ten thousand besides the losse of their Ships and Ordnance whereof the Moores tooke vp foure hundred great Brasse Peeces out of the Sea in the yeere of the Heg. 921. HONDIVS his Map of the Kingdome of Fez FESSAE REGNUM §. II. Of the Citie of Fez as it was in LEO's dayes and the Customes of the Inhabitants THe Citie Fez or Fesse was built in the time of Aron the Caliph in the 185. yeere of the Hegira or Mahumeticall computation It had this golden Title because on the first day of the Foundation there was found some quantitie of Gold Gasper Varerius and Aldrete are of opinion That the Riuer Phut so called of the sonne of Cham before mentioned is this Riuer of Fez by the Arabians thus altered and that this Riuer gaue Name to the Region and the Citie which opinion is also recited by Leo. The Founder was named Idris Arons neere kinsman to whom the Caliphaship was more due For he was nephew of Hali Mahumets cousin who married Falerna daughter of Mahumet and therefore both by Father and Mother of that kindred whereas Aron was but in the halfe-blood being nephew to Habbus the vncle of Mahumet Howbeit both these Families were depriued of the Caliphate and Aron by deceit vsurped For Arons Grandfather fained himselfe willing to transferre that dignitie to Hali and caused the house of Vmene to lose it and Habdulla Seffec became the first Caliph who persecuted the House of Hals openly chasing some into Asia and some into India But one of them remayned in Elmadina of whom because hee was old and religious he had no great feare His two Sonnes grew in such fauour with the people that they were forced to flee and one being taken and strangled the other which was this Idris escaped into Mauritania where hee grew in such reputation that in short time he got both Swords into his hand and dwelt in the Hill Zaron thirtie miles from Fez and all Mauritania payed him tribute Hee dyed without issue onely hee left his slaue with Child she was a Goth become Mahumetan and had a sonne which after his father was called Idris Hee succeeded in the Principalitie and was brought vp vnder the discipline of a valiant Captaine named Rasid and began to shew great prowesse at fifteen yeeres He afterwards encreasing in power built on the East side of the Riuer a small Citie of three thousand Families After his death one of his sonnes built another Citie on the West side both which Cities so encreased that there was small distance betweene them And a hundred and eighty yeeres after there arose ciuill Warres betwixt those two Cities which continued a hundred yeeres And as Aesops Kite serued the Mouse and Frog so Ioseph of the Luntune Family apprehending this aduantage tooke both their Lords and slew them and thirty thousand of the Citizens He brake downe the walls which parted the two Cities and caused many Bridges to be made and brought them both to be one Citie which he diuided into twelue Wards The Citie is now or at least in Leos time was both great and strong It seemes that Nature and Art haue played the Wantons and haue brought forth this Citie the fruit of their dalliance Or else they seeme Corriuals both by all kind Offices seeking to winne her loue So doth the Earth seeme to dance in little Hillocks and pretie Vallies diuersifying the Soyle so doth the Riuer disperse it selfe into manifold Chanels no sooner entring the Citie but it is diuided into two Armes wherewith it embraceth this louely Nymph and these subdiuided as it were into many Fingers in variety of Water-courses insinuating it selfe vnto euery Street and Member thereof and not contented thus in publike to testifie affection findes meanes of secret intelligence with his Loue by Conduit-pipes closely visiting euery Temple Colledge Inne Hospitall the speciall Chambers of his Spouse Yea and almost euery priuate house from whence with an officious seruice he carrieth the filth that might offend either sight or sent of his Bride which still enjoying he wooeth and euer wooing enjoyeth Only in hot Seasons he hath a cold suit for the Riuer is dry but then he hath six hundred Fountaynes to speake for him in his absence Neither is Art behind in his proffered courtesies but still presents her with Mosaike workes as Chaynes and Iewels to adorne her with fine Brickes and stones framed into most artificiall Fabricks both louely for delight and stately for admiration The roofes of their houses are adorned with Gold Azure and other excellent colours which are made flat for the Inhabitants vse and pleasure whose Houses are richly furnished euery Chamber with a Presse curiously paynted and varnished And who can tell the exquisitenesse of the Portals Pillars Cisternes and other parts of this Cities furniture Which if they be not now so excellent as when Leo liued here yet it is worth the sight to looke vpon it with his eyes as then it flourished before the Court was remoued thence to Marocco or the deuouring bellies of Time and Warre had impaired her Beauties Once let the Temples therein a
others and euery one of a seuerall God There was one round Temple dedicated to the God of the Aire called Quecalcouatl the forme of the Temple representing the Aires circular course about the earth The entrance of that Temple had a doore made like the mouth of a Serpent with foule and deuillish resemblances striking dreadfull horrour to such as entered All these Temples had peculiar houses Priests Gods and Seruices At euery doore of the great Temple was a large Hall and goodly buildings which were common Armories for the Citie They had other darke houses full of Idols of diuers metals all embrued with bloud the dayly sprinkling whereof made them shew blacke yea the walls were an inch thicke and the ground a foot thicke with bloud which yeelded a lothsome sent The Priests entered dayly therein which they allowed not to others except to Noble personages who at their entry were bound to offer some Man to be sacrificed to those slaughter-houses of the Diuell There did continually reside in the great Temple 5000. persons which had there their meat drinke and lodging the Temple enioying great reuenues and diuers Townes for the maintenance thereof Next to the Temple of Vitziliputzli was that of Tescalipuca the God of Penance Punishments and Prouidence very high and well built It had foure ascents the top was flat an hundred and twenty foot broad and ioyning to it was a Hall hanged with Tapistry and Curtains of diuers colours and workes The doore being low and large was alwayes couered with a Vaile and none but the Priests might enter All this Temple was beautified with diuers Images and Pictures most curiously for that these two Temples were as the Cathedrall Churches the rest as Parishionall They were so spacious and had so many chambers that there were in them places for the Priests Colledges and Schooles Without the great Temple and ouer against the principall doore a stones cast distant was the Charnell house or that Golgotha before mentioned where vpon poles or sticks and also in the wals two Towres hauing no other stuffe but Lime and Skuls Andrew de Tapia certified Gomara that he and Gonsala de Vmbria did reckon in one day an hundred thirty sixe thousand skuls When any wastad supply was made of others in their roome §. II. Of their Nunnes Friers and other Votaries WIthin this great Circuit of the principall Temple were two Houses like Cloisters the one opposite to the other one of Men the other of Women In that of Women they were Virgins onely of twelue or thirteens yeeres of age which they called the Maids of Penance they were as many as the men and liued chastly and regularly as Virgins dedicated to the seruice of their God Their charge was to sweepe and make cleane the Temple and euery morning to prepare meat for the Idol and his Ministers of the Almes the Religious gathered The food they prepared for the Idoll were small Loaues in the forme of hands and feet as of Marchpane and with this bread they prepared certaine sawces which they cast dayly before the Idol and his Priests did eate it These Virgins had their haire cut and then let them grow for a certaine time they rose at midnight to the Idols Mattins which they dayly celebrated performing the same exercises which the Religious did They had their Abbesse who employed them to make cloth of diuers fashions for the ornaments of their Gods and Temples Their ordinarie habite was all white without any worke or colour They did their penance at midnight sacrificing and wounding themselues and piercing the tops of their eares laying the bloud which issued forth vpon their cheekes and after bathed themselues in a poole which was within the Monasterie If any were found dishonest they were put to death without remission saying she had polluted the house of their God They held it for an ominous token that some religious man or woman had committed a fault when they saw a Rat or Mouse passe or a Bat in the Idol-Chappell or that they had gnawed any of the vailes for that they say a Cat or a Bat would not aduenture to commit such an indignitie if some offence had not gone before and then began to make inquisition and discouering the offender put him to death None were receiued into this Monasterie but the daughters of one of the sixe quarters named for that purpose and this profession continued a yeere during which time their fathers and themselues had made a vow to serue the Idoll in this manner and from thence they went to be married The other Cloyster or Monasterie was of young-men of eighteene or twentie yeeres of age which they called Religious Their Crownes were shauen as the Friers in these parts their haire a little longer which fell to the middest of their eare except on the hinder part of the head where they let it grow on their shoulders and tyed it vp in trusses These serued in the Temple liued poorely and chastly and as the Leuites ministred to the Priests Incense Lights and Garments swept and made cleane the Holy place bringing wood for a continuall fire to the Harth of their God which was like a Lampe that still burned before the Altar of their Idoll Besides these there were other little Boyes that serued for manuall vses as to decke the Temple with Boughes Roses and Reeds to giue the Priests water to wash Rasors to sacrifice and to goe with such as begged almes to carrie it All these had their superiours who had the gouernment ouer them and when they came in publike where women were they carried their eyes to the ground not daring to behold them They had linnen garments and went into the Citie foure or sixe together to aske almes in all quarters and if they got none it was lawfull for them to goe into the Corne-fields and gather that which they needed none daring to contradict them Cortes writeth that almost all the chiefe mens sonnes in the Citie after they were sixe or seuen yeeres old till the time of their marriage especially the eldest were thrust into a kind of Religious habit and seruice There might not aboue fiftie liue in that strict penance they rose at midnight and sounded the Trumpets to awake the people Euery one watched by turne lest the fire before the Altar should die they gaue the censor with which the Priest at midnight incensed the Idoll and also in the morning at noone and at night They were very subiect and obedient to their superiours and passed not any one point commanded And at midnight after the Priest had ended his censing they retyred themselues apart into a secret place where they sacrificed and drew bloud from the Calues of their legs with sharp bodkins therewith rubbing their Temples and vnder their Eares presently washing themselues in a Poole appointed to that end These yong men did not anoint their heads and bodies with Petum
well attended to meet him and make his prouisions At Yeraslaue another Querry of the Stable met him At Musco hee was honourably entertayned Knez Iuan Suetzcoie attended with 300. Horse brought him to his lodging Sauelle Frolloue the Secretary was sent to congratulate his welcome with many dishes of dressed meate and promise of best accommodating The next day the Emperour sent a Noble man Ignatie Tatishoue to visit him with faire words and promise of speediest audience which was on Satturday following About nine of the clocke the streets were filled with people and a thousand Gunners attired in yellow and blue Garments set in rankes by the Captaines on Horsebacke with bright Harquebuses in their hands from the Ambassadours doore to the Emperours Palace Knez Iuan Sitzcoie attended him mounted on a faire Gennet richly bedecked with a faire Gelding well furnished for the Embassadour attended with three hundred Gentlemen gallantly adorned The Embassadour being displeased that the Dukes Horse was better then his mounted on his owne Horse and with his thirty men liveried in Stamell Clokes well set forth each hauing a part of his Present being most Plate marched onward to the Kings Palace where another Duke met him and told him that the Emperour stayed for him He answered that hee came as fast as he could By the way the people ghessing at the vnpleasingnesse of his message cryed Carenke that is Cranes-legs in mockage of him whereat hee stormed much The passage stayres and Roomes thorow which hee was conducted were all beset with Merchants and Gentlemen in Golden Coats His men entred before him with their Presents into the Roome where the Emperour sate in his Robes and Maiesty with his three Crownes before him foure young Noble men called Ryndes shining in their Cloth of beaten Siluer with foure Scepters or bright Siluer Hatchets in their hands on each side of him the Prince and other his great Dukes and Nobles in rankes sitting round about him The Emperour stood vp and the Embassadour making his courtesies deliuers the Queenes Letters which hee receiued and put off his Imperiall Cap asking how his louing Sister Queene Elizabeth did His answere made he sate downe on a side forme couered with a Carpet and after some little pause and mutuall view was dismissed in manner as hee came and his Dinner of two hundred dishes of dressed meats sent after him by a Gentleman of qualitie I was forewarned by my secret and best friends not to intermeddle in those businesses Some secret and publike conferences passed but good note was taken that none of the great Family of the Godonoues were consulted with therein The King feasts the Embassadour grants great allowance of daily prouision and nothing would please him yea he made great complaints about friuolous matters The Merchants and the Emperours Officers were reconciled in their accounts grieuances remedied Priuiledges granted and an Embassadour to the Queene resolued on if Sir I. B. could haue conformed himselfe to the time any thing might haue beene yeelded yea he promised that if his Marriage with the Queenes Kinswoman tooke effect her issue should inherit the Crowne for assurance whereof he had a masse of ready treasure presently to be transported with his Embassadour vnto Queene Elizabeths trust The Clergy and Noblity especially the neerest allied to the old Empresse the Princes wife and her Family of the Godonoues found meanes to crosse all these Designes The King much distracted in fury caused many Witches Magicians or Wors presently to be sent for out of the North where there are many betweene Colmogro and Lappia Threescore of them were brought post to Musco where they were guarded dyeted and daily visited by the Emperours great Fauourite Bodan Belscoy to receiue from them their Diuinations or Oracles on the Subiects giuen them in charge by the Emperour Note that a great blasing Star and other prodigious sights were seene a moneth together euery night ouer Musco that yeere This Fauorite now sought to serue the turne of the rising Sunne wearied with the wicked disposition of the Emperour The Sooth-sayers tell him that the heauenly Planets and Constellations would produce the Emperours death by such a day But he not daring to tell the Emperour so much said to them that on that day they should be all burned The Emperour began grieuously to swell in his Cods wherewith he had offended so long boasting that he had deflowred thousands of Virgins and a thousand children of his begetting destroyed was carried euery day in his Chaire into his Treasury One day two dayes before the Emperour his death the Prince beckoned to me to follow and I aduenturously stood among the rest and heard him call for his Precious Stones and Iewels He then held discourse to the Nobles about him directing his eye and speech most to Boris Godouona of the nature and properties of his Gemmes of the World compassing Load-stone causing the Wayters to make a Chaine of Needles therewith touched of the Corall also and Turkesse whose beautifull colours sayd he layd on my arme poysoned with inflammation you see are turned pale and declare my death Reach out my Staffe Royall an Vnicornes Horne garnished with very faite Diamonds Rubies Saphires Emeralds and other Precious Stones it cost 70000. Markes sterling bought of Dauid Gowell of the Fulkers of Ausburge seeke out some Spiders caused his Physician Iohannes Eiloff to scrape a Circle thereof vpon the Table and put within it one Spider and after another which burst presently others without the Circle running away from it aliue It is too late it will not preserue me Behold these Precious Stones the Diamond most precious of all other I neuer affected it it restraines Fury and Luxury the powder is poyson Then he points to the Rubie this comforts the Braine and Memory clarifieth congealed bloud That Emerald of the nature of the Rainbow is enemy to all vncleanenesse and though a man cohabit in Lust with his owne Wife this Stone being about them will burst at the spending of Nature The Saphyre I greatly delight in it preserueth and increaseth Nature and Courage reioyceth the heart is pleasing to all the vitall Senses souereigne to the Eyes strengthens the Muscles Hee takes the Onyx in hand c. All these are Gods wonderfull gifts secrets in Nature reuealed to mans vse and contemplation as friends to grace and vertue and Enemies to vice I faint carry me away till another time In the afternoone he peruseth ouer his Will and yet thinkes not to dye His Ghostly Father dares not put him in minde of annointing in holy forme Hee hath beene witched in that place and often vnwitched againe He commands the Master of the Apotheke and the Physicians to prepare a Bath for his solace enquires the goodnesse of the Signe sends his Fauourite to his Witches to know their Calculations Hee tels them the Emperour will bury or burne them all quicke for their Illusions and Lyes the day is comne he is
a very great Crocodile shewing himselfe aboue water and swimming downe the streame in our way whereupon the Ferriman entring the Riuer to the calues of his logs he stands vpon one of them muttering to himselfe certaine words and withall tying knots vpon a small Coard he held in his hand to the number of seuen which Coard hee left hanging on a bush thereby and confidently pusht vs and our Horses ouer the Crocodile lying all this while still in our sight not able as he said to open his iawes so hauing ferried vs ouer he made haste to returne and vntie the Coard affirming that if the Crocodile should be starued by the power of this Charme his Charme would from thenceforth lose its power and effect Arrecan borders vpon Bengala and participates in its plenty from whence there commeth yeerely shipping to the Coast of Choromandel The King is by Religion a Gentile but such a one as holdeth all meates and drinkes indifferent he marrieth constantly his owne sister and giueth for reason the first mens practice in the infancy of the World affirming that no Religion can deny that Adams Sons married Adams daughters He is very kind to Strangers giuing good respect and entertainment to Moores Persians and Arabians which liue in his Countrey professing publikely the practice of their Mahumetan Superstition Hee hath also diuers times inuited the Dutch and English to resort vnto his Countrey but the Dutch by good experience hauing had sometimes a Factory there the English not by their example but true knowledge of the little Trade and lesse benefit auoyd his importunity yet continue good correspondence with him and his people as knowing it a plentifull Country and not inconuenient to supply themselues with many necessaries if difference with other Nations should enforce them to that extremity Betwixt this King and the Mogull there is continuall Warre both by Sea and Land defensiue on the King of Arrecans part securing his owne Countrey that bordereth vpon Bengala From thence confronting in small skirmishes the opposite party but any set or great battle I haue not heard of to haue beene fought betwixt them In which warres he giueth so good entertainment to strangers that I haue knowne diuers Hollanders that hauing expired their couenanted time of seruice with the East Indian Company and so purchased then freedome haue gone to serue this King and receiued good countenance and content in his employment of them Pegu borders vpon Arrecan and is a most plentifull and temperate Country yet hardly recouered from the desolation where with warre plague and famine had within few former yeeres infested it which is most visible in the vast Country the Cities being alwayes first and best replenished , and that all other places may the better bee so it is death to export a woman from thence and certaine profit to bring them The King is a Gentile by his Religion agreeing in all points of opinion and pactice with the Kings of Arrecan Tannassery Syam all of them in probability receiuing their Rudiments from the Chineset who without question sometimes commanded those Countries their vicinity resemblance in Phisiognomy and conformity in many customes being my best reasons to goe along with these thus farre that are of opinion the Chineses sometimes Monarchised as farre as Madagascar The King which now reigneth was Nephew to the last notwithstanding he had children which this hath supprest and hath in his time recouered from the King of Syam what hee had enforced from his Predecessor amongst others the town and Kingdom of Zangomay and therein an Englishman named Thomas Samuel who not long before had beene sent from Syam by Master Lucas Anthonison to discouer the Trade of that Country by the sale of certaine goods sent along with him to that purpose which Thomas Samuell together with all other strangers was by the King taken from Zangomay and carried to Pegu where not long after Samuel dyed the King seising vpon what he had by Inuentory with purpose as by the sequell to giue account thereof to the lawfull Proprietors The Kingdome of Pegu beginng to bee better established Merchants of diuers Nations began to repaire thither againe about their negotiations where some of Musulipatnam by conference with Moores that were Samuels associates vnderstood his death and the Kings taking his goods into his hands with the probability of recouery if sought after which they making knowne to the English at their returne to Musulipatnam it happened that Master Lucas Anthonison who imployed Samuel from Syam to Zangomay was then Agent at Musulipatnam who apprehending this encouragement consulted with his assistants and resolued to send two English with a Letter and Present to the King and some small aduenture to beare the charge of the Voyage and make tryall of the Trade which tooke place and they embarquing at Musulipatnam the tenth of September arriued at Siriam the Port of Pegu the third of October following whose entertaynment I giue you in their owne words as I finde them written in their Letters to Musulipatnam The King hearing of our comming sent foure Galliots with Presents to the Ambassador and vnto vs sending vs word that he did much reioyce at our comming into his country These Gallies hauing 50 oares of a side with eight Noblemen in them caused our Ship to come to an anchor before the town of Siriam the 7. of October the King of Pegues Brother being chiefe Gouernour sending two Noblemen abord of our Ship writing our names our age of yeeres the cause of our cōming we assuring them that we were messengers sent from Musulipatnam by our chief Captain hauing a Present a Letter vnto the King which when his Highnesse shall be pleased to receiue shall vnderstand the effect of our businesse and the cause of our comming The tenth day of October wee were sent for on shoare by the Kings Brother who sitting in a large house of Bamboson in great state bedeckt with Iewels in his eares with Gold Rings with rich stones on his fingers being a white man and of very good vnderstanding demanding of vs the question the Noblemen before did and we answering him as wee did before because that our speeches should be found alwayes as one we gaue him at that time a fine for a Present to the intent that he might speake and write to the King his Brother in our behalfe that we might haue accesse vnto the King the sooner that our businesse might haue effect The eight of Nouember the King sent for vs and the Kings Brother prouided for vs a Beate with six men to rowe and also a Nobleman with vs to Pegu to be our Guard hauing Narsarcan and Hodges Ismael with vs vnto which Nobleman we gaue a Present for in this place heere is nothing to bee done or spoken or any busines performed without Bribes Gifts or Presents Arriuing in Pegu the eleuenth of Nouember hauing our Present with vs Bany Bram
Confession at Ocaca ibid. Nicaragua 887. In Peru 942. 943 Congo the Historie thereof 765 Six Prouinces therein 766. their Kings Idols Conuersion 767 768. Their admirable trees 769 Constantina a Citie 643 Constantinople decyphred with due Epithites and titles 322. 323 Constellations of the Chaldaeans 52 Confusius a Philosophicall Saint in China 462. His Temple ibid. Confusian Sect their opinions and Rites 462. 463 Cookery superstitious 200. 201 Copernicus his opinion of the Spheres 8 Cophti Christians in Aegypt 657 658 Coquo-nut and Tree and the commodities thereof 567 Coray how situate 602 Corkan of the Iewes 127. 128 Cordaei or Gordiaei montes 35 Corycean Caue 301 Corterealis Discouery 860 Cortez his Conquest 858. 859. His expedition to Mexico c. 860. 861 Corybantes and bloudy Priests 86 Corvat his trauels and obseruatitions 531 Cosroes the Great his Reigne 362 363. 364 Cosumil or Acusamil 885 Cothone Iland 82 Cotton where and how it groweth 395 Couerts Trauels 531 Couetousnesse punished 331 Courts of the Iewes 98. At Bagdat 146. 147. 148 Country of Couche how situate 511 Coughing at Sermons 704 Coughing Rites in Benomotapa 722 Crabs in India fullest in the wane 566. Exceeding great Crabs ibid. Cranganor a Christian Citie in India 554 Crassus slaine at Carrae 63. His Periury 119. 353 Cray-fish of three Cubits 480. Others exceeding great ibid. Creation what it is and the Histostorie therof 5. Proued 12. Iewish dreames thereof 178. 179. Mahomets dreames 253. 254. Dreames of the Magi concerning it 670. Of the Indians 478 479. Of the Aegyptians 635 636. In Peru 934 Creed of the Moderne Iewes 171 172 Cretans called Chetim Cortim 37 Crim-Tartars 421. Their gouernment and wars 422. Religion and other Customes 423. There inuading Russia and Acts there 975. 976. seq Strange Embassage 975 Crisses a kind of Daggers 460 Crocodiles in Pegu accounted holy 507. In Iaua eaten 610 In Africa 623. In Aegypt 637. In Congo 769. A kind of Crocodile in Poland 990. Crocodiles charmed 1005 Crowes ominous 540. Fed from the King of Calecuts Table 550 Hurtfull 565. Iewish tale of a huge Crow 210 Crosses in Aegyptian Ceremonies what 636. Vsed by some Mahumetans 243. In lucatan 885 Cruelty of Abdalla the 22. Chalifa 1027 Cresias 357 Ctesiphon built by the Parthians 63 Cuba discouered 954. 955. Cubagua 951 Cubit sacred and Geometricall 33 Cucuij a strange Beetle 637 Cufa a Citie 64 Cumania described 896. Rarities and Rites ibid. Their dancing drinking 897. Their Gods Crosses and Priests 898. Their Diuinations and Funerals ibid. Curdi Mungrels in Religion 67 their habitation Rites and manner of liuing 349 Curiana how situate 895 Cusco a Citie in Peru 949. 950 Custome what and how strong 26 27 Cutha part of the Desart of Arabia 136 Cuthaeans 136. The subtilest beggers in the World 136. Cursed by the Leuits 136 Cutlu-Muses his Acts 280. 281 Cublay-can 406. His greatnesse and Conquests 407. 408 Cush his Posteritie 37. 726. Cush how vsed in Scripture ibidem Cushites who called 726 Cyaxares destroyed Niniue 66 Cybele 340 Cynocephalus worshipped Cyprus the description thereof 584 The Map of Cyprus 585 Cyrus 60. 336. Hee tooke Darius at Borsippa 63. 357. Tooke Croesus 356. The Historie of him 356. 357. seq How much he got by his warres in Asia 102 Nourished by a Bitch 350 Cyzicus a Citie of Mysia Minor 334 Czophylar a Turkish Sect 315. 316 D DAbaiba Riuer and Goddesse 893. The Pilgrimes Sacrifices Fasts Bels Priests Funerals bloudy Dances 894. 895. Monster there ibid. Dabuh a Beast 563 Dagon Idoll 77. 80. The word Dagon signifieth a Sea God 80 Dan 92. Apostasie of Dan. 94 The Citie of Dan why so called 92 Daniel expounded by Berosus 49 Set ouer the Chaldee 55. Another Daniel supposed 59. His interpretations interpreted 60. His Sepulchre 148. The place of his imprisonment 64 Daniel Sonne of Hasdai 147. his authority ouer all Congregations of the Israelites 148 Darknesse on the face of the Deepe 6. A priuation 7. Cimmerian darknesse 576 Darknesse internall externall eternall met together 518 Darius Medus 61. 359 Darius spared the Temple of Belus 56. The History of him 359 360 Darius Nothus 102 Damascus in Syria 14. The History thereof 75. 76 Damut in Aethiopia 739 Dancali Dambri Damote Dambea c. In Aethiopia 726 Damiadee Daddor Dille in the Moguls Country 534 Dances of Iewes 211 Daphne neere Antioch 71. The Fable ibid. The vanity of Antiochus there 72 Dariene described 891. Their Rites 892. 893 Date-trees planted by Mahomet 248 Date-Region 654. 706. 707. seq The effect of Dates 655 Dauid Elroi a false Messias 143 144 Dauids Sepulchres 230. His Ecclesiasticall Constitutions ibid. Iewish dreames of him 124 Captaine Dauies slaine 817. His Northwest Discoueries 813. His Discoueries in the South Sea 914 Daulas what it signifies 1036 Day Naturall and Artificiall 105 The day diuersly begun ibid. Diuided into watches 106. What dayes the Iewes fasted 113. Mundayes and Thursdayes ibid. Death spirituall naturall eternall 22. Opinions touching the dead among the Turkes 313. 314 Debts how preuented and punished in China 437. At Calecut 550 Decapolis whence so called 93. Her Townes ibid. Decanius 539 Decan Kingdomes described 539 540. Their combination against the Mogoll 996 Dedication Feast 199. 114 Degrees of the Chinians 448. 449 seq Dens or Caue 64 Decij imitated by the Turkes 401 By the Indians 478. Angolians 766 Dely a Kingdome 543. Their Religion and Rites 543. 544 Derbices their Rites 400 Derceto mother of Semiramis 68 Halfe a woman halfe a fish 69. 80 Dermschler a Turkish Order 315 Also Deruis 316. 317 Demetrius of Russia 991. 992 Desart of Arabia 224. seq Desarts of Indie 477 Desolation Iland 395 Deucalion his floud 34. Founder of the Temple at Hierapolis 68 Deuiclaci worshippers of the Sun 135 Deuils malice and policie 21. 22 Deuils worshipped 53. Mahomets opinion that the Deuils shall once bee saued by the Alcoran 263. An Altar erected to the Deuill by the Pegusians 306. Worshipped by the Cambayans and their Rites in his worship 543. 544 Dewras an impregnable Hill 563 Diamonds poyson 740. Whence taken ibid. Diana her Story 337. Worshipped in Babylon 56. At Castabala 191. In Galatia 260. Ionia and Asia her Temple Priests c. 337 Diargument or Hircania 355 356. Diasares an Arabian Deitie 228. Dido why so called 82 Digs his Iland 817 Dinias his fabulous iourney 15 Dinor a fiery Brooke 325 Dyonysius his monstrous fatnesse 226. Worshipped by the Arabians 227 Diosurias famous for many Languages 97 Diospolis or Thebes 632 Diseases amongst the Iewes and their Superstitions 205. Meanes for cure 205 Diuination 45. 51. 54. 56. 131 408 466. 686. Diuers kinds of Diuination 369. 370. Scythian Diuination 397. 398. Tartarian Diuination 416. 428. Chinian Diuinations 466. 467. 468 Diuinations in Fez 686. 687 Diuorce of Iewes 204 Dodanim Author of the Dorians and Rhodians 37 Dogzijn or Drusians their Sect Irreligion Irregularitie Infamy Incest 220. 221 Dogges
848 Saualets many Voyages Sciequian Sect 463 Sclauonian Tongue the large extent thereof 973 Scribes not a Sect but a Function 132. The Historie of them 132. 133. Two sorts of them 132 Scriptures sense how diuerse 14 The mysticall is miste-all and missecall 16. Opinions concerning the Scripture 169. First penned by Moses 175. Digested by Ezra 87. Numbers of the Bookes Chapters Verses Who first Authour of Chapters 159 The Trent Decree of Translations 168. Iewes respect to the Scripture 168. 169 Seyles King of the Scythians his misfortunes 398 Scythia a great part of the World contayned vnder the name 396 Why so called ibid. The people religion language and manner of life 396 397. Their Temples Diuination Funerals c. 397. 398 Their cruelty and hatred of Forreigne Rites ibidem Particular Nations in Scythia their Acts and Rites 398. 399. seq Scythes a Monster 396 Scythilmus 45 Sea the Creation thereof 10. Diuision thereof 575. Commodities thereof ibid. The Red Sea 84 582. 583. seq 775. seq A large Discourse of the Sea and many Obseruations thereof 571. 572. seq The forme greatnesse depth ibid. The profit motion and saltnesse 573. 574 The Sea Original of Fountaines 574. Varieties of Seas 575. 576 The Persians and Mogol haue no power by Sea 293 Seales a kind of Fishes 435 Seba Peopler and people of Arabia 37. 225. The Region of Seba 143 Sebua Sebuaeans 139. Sebuaeans a Sect of Samaritans ibid. Sebaste in Samaria 105 Seboraei whence so called 165 Sebyrians 432 Secsina in Barbary 700 Sects in Golchonda 995 Seed of the woman and the Serpent 27 Master Selden his deserued commendation 70. 150 Seilan or Zeilan 616. seq The riches and rarities thereof ibid. Their Temples Images Monasteries Processions 617. Their workmanship and iugling 618 Whither Seilan bee Taprobane ibid. Selim the great Turke 283. sequitur Selim the second 285. 286. Selim the great Mogol now reignning his greatnesse and conditions 519. 520 Selfe-penance vide Punishments Selfe-murther 633 Selebes they abound with Gold 578 eat mans flesh 608. Ilands neere ibid. Seleucia 63. Turned into Bagdet 50. Built by Seleucas 63. With eight other of that name 73 Seleucus worshipped 70. His historie 73 Seleuccian Family of Turkes 279 280. 281 Semiramis her Pillar 45. Her Babylon Buildings 48. 49. Not the Founder thereof ibid. Her Sepulchre 45. The first that made Eunuchs 61. Abuse of her Husbands 66. Supposed the Founder of the Temple at Hierapolis 68 Her Image there 69. In Media 350. Her inuading India 381 Senaga Riuer 714 Senacherib ouerthrowne by Mice 62. Slaine by his owne Sonnes 66 Sentence in the Court of the Iewes how giuen 98 Sentida a feeling herbe 563 Sensim an Order of Tartarian Priests who obserue great strictnesse 418 Separatists a Sect of Moores 273 Sepulchres vide Funerals Serpents eaten in America 33. Diuers kinds of Serpents in India 565. Death to kill a Serpent ibid. The King of Calicuts opinion of Serpents 565. 566. Huge Serpents in Africa 623. 624 Seuerall kinds of Serpents there ibid. Serpent vsed to tempt Eue 21. 22 His curse 23. Seed of the Serpent 27. 28 Serpent Images in Belus Temple 47 Serpent honoured by the Phaenicians 77. By the Ophitae 135 Worshipped by the Arabians 221 By the Indians 565. By the Aegyptians 637. 638. By the Adeans 652. A Serpent the Armes of the King of China 451. Tame Serpents 623 Serpents in Brasill 912. 913 Seres their Habitaion and Rites 400 Serug Author of Idolatry 45. 95 Sesostris 227 Seth his Natiuitie and Posteritie 29. 30. Artes ascribed to him 31 Sethiani a Sect of the Iewes worshippers of Seth 135 Sem Sonne of Noah 36. His Posteritie 37. The same with Melchisedec 45 Serapis his Temple and Rites 650 651 Seriffo of Barbary his History 695 696 Seuerus his seueritie 71 Seuerity Elders 99 Seuenty Weekes of Daniel 98 Sharke a Fish 953. 954 Shaugh Tamas the Story of him and of the Persian troubles after his death 585. 586 Shem and his Posteritie 37 Shemer 136. A Citie so called ibid. Sherly viz. Sir Anthony Sherley his Trauels 388. 389 Sheshack and Shacke 58 Shomron Mountaine 136 Siam Silon or Sion a Citie and Kingdome in India 490. Their Houses Inundations Monkes and Superstitions ibidem Their Gods and Religious Men 491. sequitur Their Feastes Temples Deuotions 492. The Kings greatnesse ibidem Besieged 493. Acts of the Blacke and White Kings ibidem Fury of the Iapanders there ibidem They weare Balls in their yards 496 Sibils counterfeit 35. 38 Sichem 137. Called Flauia Caesarea and Naples 143. The Sichemites Religion ibid. Sicke persons how vsed amongst the Iewes 206 Sidon the building thereof 78 Sidonians first Authors of Weights and Measures 82 Sidon first inhabited the Sea-coast 86 Siluer the nature thereof and of the Mines 797 Sinai 225. Mount Sinai how situate ibid. Sincopura Straits 579 Sinda described 532. 533 Sinne the definition and distinction thereof 24. Whence Originall Sinne and how ibidem Whither by Generation 25 Sinnes combination in our first Parents 22. The fearefull state of Sinners 28. Seuen mortall sinnes reckoned by the Turkes 301 Sinne-offering of the Iewes 116 The nature of actuall sinne 25 What accounted sinnes by the Tartars 415. 416 Sion 94 Sithuchrus the same with Noah 47. His Chaldaean Legend ibid. Sitting a signe of reuerence standing of dignitie 420 Skuls in the Temple of Mexico how many 873. In Nicaragua 888 Skuls of Parents made drinking cups 951. A Turret built of stone and Skuls 951 Slaues of Angola 766 Sleds vsed by the Samoeds drawne with Deere 432. Their swiftnesse ibid. Sleds drawn with dogs 744 Snakes vide Serpents Snake-wood where growing 570 Socatera or Socotoro 778. The description thereof 779 Socota an Idoll in Virginia 839 Sodome and Sodomites 85. Historie of Sodome 83. 84. sequitur The Sodomie of Turkes 229 230. Of Persians 371 Of Tartars 419. Of Chinois 440 Sogor a Village neere Sodome 84 Sofala 756. Supposed Ophir ibid. Soldania 761. Their cheape sale of beasts beastly habit and diet colour c. 762. 763. 764 Solyman a name of diuers Turkes 280. 284 Solyman the Magnificent his acts 284. 285 Solmissus how situate 339 Sommers Ilands 960. 961 Sophia chiefe Temple in Constantinople turned into a Meschit 306. 307 Sophi of the Turkes 321 Sorceries of the Tartars 416 Soule 13. It s immortalitie 126 The Iewes Opinion of three soules and one Sabbatary 127 Dogzijn their Opinion of the soule 220 South-sea sayled by Viloa and Alarchon 922 South Continent how great 832 By whom discouered 831 Spaniards how detested in the Philippinas 604. 605. 606. In Cuba 954. Indian conceits of them and their Horses 962 Their cruelties in the West Indies and of their peruerse Conuersion of the Indians vnto Christianitie 962. 963. sequitur Spaine infested by the Danes 1045 Spelman viz. Sir Henry Spelman his deserued commendation 116 Spirit very God 3. Our sanctifier 4. His manner of working 6. 7. Mouing on the waters 6
great Dukes Feast * Pardon this prolixity in narration of a Feast I doe it partly for Q. Elizabeths sake to whole honour it was intended and partly to expresse the magnificence and customes of Lithuania little knowne to most Practise to poyson Sir Ier Horsey Demetrius slain and his Mother poysoned Boris is made Emperour Description of his person and qualities Boris his ruine He poysoneth himselfe The Counterfeit Demetrius raigneth He is slaine Suskoy is crowned and captiued by the Poles The Poles expelled by the Tartars * Sinus Gangeticus Zeloan or Zeilan Candy p Captaines Gouernour d Two shillings six pence sterling S. Thome See before in Balbie c. Palecat possessed by the Dutch Sir Adolfe Thomason Portugals weaknes within the Gulfe Musulipatnam or Musulipatan P. W. Floris See P. 1. l. 3. Climate and Seasons Hote and killing winds Peter Iacobson R. Stower Commodious Flouds All trees continually greene Fertilitie Golchonda described Glorious Palace The King a mahumetan Their Sects Kings title Wiues Concubines Three Decan Kings enemy to the Mogull Kings Reueue Indian Monarchie Miserable people Castles 66. * Captaines or Gouernors Castle described Intelligence by Torches * Mahumetan Churches Relgion of the Gentiles in those parts Ier 35. Their morality Their Tribes forty foure The Bramene Their writing Learning Superstition d Casta signifying a Tribe The Fangam The Committy The Campo Waro The Whoores Tribe x Moores circumcise their children Mechanikes Their Piriawes Their Idols Temples k Doulia Latria Feastiuals Tumblers Strange actiuitie Idoll-Procession Block-Saint Acts 17. Sea-feasts Other Saints Idol-Miracles * Water Suger and iuce of Limons mingled Deuil-Saint G. Ball T. Iones Vowes Bloudie Rites See the like before in Balby Houshold-gods Mariages Widowes Infants Trauell with little labour Apparell Colour Small wages Burning of wiues whence i The name of one of their Idols k Is an Officer amongst the Moores not much vnlike to the Sheriffs of London Diamonds how found The Authours iourney to the Myne Myne of Diamonds described d Or Tribe e A Vyse is three pound English weight Iron Steele Bezars how taken out of Goats Callicoes Painting and durable colours Indico See Finches Voyage Lib. 4. Their trafficke Voyage to Mocha and Mecca Bengala Bad people Crocodiles charmed Arrecan * Pegu Of the late miserable state thereof and former glory see l. 10. cap. 5 6 7 8. where other Countries of this Gulfe of Bengala and Goast of coromandel are related Zangomay or Iangoma Thomas Samuel an Englishman his Trade there and in Pegu Other English sent A Letter relating the King of Pegus entertainment to the English Peguan tyrannie Their vnfaithfulnesse and vnthriftie courses King of Pegus Letter Tannassery Syam Now in Holland Sowes fruitfull without Boxes Read M. Terries Relation of these things L . 9. c. Gen. 16 10 12. 17.20 1. Tim. 4.8 Gen. 17.27 Rom. 9.7 Gal. 4.25 Rom. 4.16 Gal. 4.28 29. Iohn 8.35.36 * Compare those Locusts Apoc. 9. with this Saracenical history which though it may be applied in part to Papists yet is literally more manifest in many things of these It was farre greater then the Roman Emâ—ire and their Religion still couereth more ground than the Christian in all professions Chalifa signifieth Vicar r Musleman or Muslim signifies a beleeuer se of that doctrine of Muhammed The name which al of that religion giue themselues Saracen and Moore c. which we giue them they know not p Misericordis miseraâ—oris gracious and mercifull their vsuall beginning of Prayers Bookes workes The Authors Preface Mahomet first Author of Islamisme that is the Mabumetan Faith praised by this author a Mahumetan t We say odious and iustly yet here and like cases follow the author The birth and genealogie of Mahomet u This M. Abugiafar was a Prince and learned Historian which died A H. 316. A.D. 922. Our of him principally is this history to that time gathered His education His vocation His doctrine * Magi were those which professed the Ethnike Religion vsed in Persia Christ blasphemed with hypocriticall honours His enemies His two wiues Aijsia Sewda The conuersion of Medina * The Hegira or flight of M. fell out on the 16. of Iuly A.D. 622. Fatima D. of Muh married to Ali his Vncles Sonne Au. H. 2. which began Iuly 5. 623. His slight skirmishes which after grew to great battels A.H. 3. which began Iune 24. A.D. 624. M. wounded A. H 4. which began Iune 13. 625. A.H. 5. Iune 2. 626. A.H. 6. which began May 23. A D. 627. Mahomets third wife M. his Coronation or installation A. H. May 11. 628. M. his Pulpit A.H. 8. April 30 629. Mecca taken A.H. 9. April 20 630. A.H. 10. which began April 9. A.D. 631. His pilgrimage A.H. 11. Mar. 28 A. Christi 632. False prophets Mahomets death His Secretaries and Officers of State This curiositie of Chronology he obserueth in the rest by vs omitted M. his respect to Christians * These Persian and Imperiall occurrents I translate also that the Reader may see how the Saracenicall Empire grew to so sudden a greatnes out of the ruines of these two Empires The Peâ—sians are said to haue preuayled in Syria Egypt One great cause of this Persian combustion Abubcer 2. hee first called himselfe Chalifa .i. Vicar or giuen of God Hee may bee called the Numa of the Saracens * Fugitiues were such as had fl d from Mecca first with M. and after from other places from which flight is their Heg. reckoned Other false Prophets A.H. 12 Ma. 18 A.C. 1633 p Irac is the name of the country where Bagdad Balsora stand extending on both sides of the bottom of the Persian Gulfe But to giue his names of countries iust interpretation is very difficult the Arabs giuing one name Tarâ—ars another and others others to the same countries which I therefore forbeare Hierac in Persia hath â—fsahon the chiefe city Stater were of diuers values some were drams a piece some betwixt some halfe that and the former some the tenth part of a dramme Alcoran first gathered together Al is the Article the coran signifieth collection of this act of Abubecr Mushaph signifies a Booke come from heauen or heauenly writing or the Scripture Coran signifies reading in publike or a collection of Surats Azoaras , some call them or chapters They hold it to excell all creatures which Christians or Iewes may not touch to sit on it were horrible or themselues to touch it vnwashed c. Omar the third Emperour or Chalifa Damascus taken A.H. 14. which began Feb. 25. A.C. 635. AH 15. Feb. 14. 636. By Romans he meaneth Subiects of the Roman Emperour which he calleth Infidels as his owne Mahumetans Muslims or right beleeuers n This seâ—meth the later Cosroes or that before of Herac is not fully true which he saith he tooke out of Christian stories The last Persian King ouercome A.H. 17. Ian. 23. A.C. 638. Egypt conquered Misra since enlarged and called