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

Mahometans may the rather be excited to a disdainfull emulation of their worthiest endeuours The Letter written by King Abencirix to the Alcayde Ali Abenzufian Viceroy and Gouernour of the Prouinces of Deuque in Arabia by which he commandeth him to write the life of King Iacob Almansor PRayse bee giuen to God alone Amen The high and highly honoured King Gouernour of the Moores of noble discent defender of Mahometisme who shieldeth himselfe vnder the protection of the most high God Ali Abencirix To the Vertuous Noble Wise Discreet Learned and Generous Gentleman the Alcayde Ali Abenzufian our Vice-roy and Gouernour of the Prouinces of Deuque wee send greeting And after our salutation wee say that considering the great wisedome with which the King Abilgualit Miramamolin Iacob Almansor our great Grandfather and Lord gouerned his Kingdomes in peace and the fortitude with which hee preserued his Subiects and rooted out their Enemies and the Iustice with which he conserued his Estates and the Temperance vsed by him in all his actions and deeds which of all the World are admired and all the Bookes replenished with his Sayings and Sentences in all Sciences and his notable Deeds of Armes with his great vertues and good customes to bee such as all the Princes of the World may take an example and patterne thereby to rule and gouerne their Common-weales and to liue in tranquilitie We haue thought meete and conuenient that the Discourse of his Life should be gathered together and orderly compiled and written in one Booke and not be left as it is now scattered in many parts as well for our owne consolation as for the Imitation of this great King in his customes and manner of liuing to make our profit and vse of them in matters that concerne our Gouernment and our Common-weales and to this effect hauing that regard which wee haue of your person abilitie and learning together with your trayning and continuall attendance and seruice in his Royall Palace from your childhood being alwayes inward with him in such sort that no other how learned soeuer can better set forth and write his life and manners then you Wee charge and command you that with conuenient breuitie auoyding prolixitie and writing the Truth with that obligation which is due to the fidelitie of an Historie whereof by reason of your good zeale and punctuall manner of writing obserued by you we rest assured you write a Booke of his life and customes together with the manner and order how this good King ruled and gouerned his Kingdomes till his life ended by death which you shall entitle the bright Mirrour of Princes whereby you shall doe vs acceptable seruice In this Booke you shall also doe well to set downe what especiall things a good King is to obserue to make himselfe beloued of his Subiects and feared of his enemies All which may serue vs in steed of a Guide or a Light with the fauour and helpe of our Souereigne God for the ruling and gouerning of our Kingdomes and Common-weales that they may enioy Peace and tranquillitie and our selues quietnesse of minde and clearnesse of Conscience Whereof through that confidence we haue in your worthinesse we make no doubt God haue you in his keeping From our Royall Palace of Zarbal the fourth day of the Moone of Mobarram The date is answerable to the yeare An. Christi 731. the hundred and tenth yeare of the Hixera The Letter of the Alcayde Ali Abenzusian in answer of the former by which hee dedicateth the Worke to King Ali Abencirix PRayse be giuen to our Souereigne God Amen To the much renowmed and that with reason for hu great skill in Gouerning Wisdome in conseruing and Fortitude in mayntayning his Subiects in Peace the valiant Warrior strong and couragious defender of Morisme of high and famous Progeny and Race the great Calipha the rooter out of his Enemies the King highly honoured and of complete power Ali Abeneirix the highest God continue his good desires And in answer to his Letter dated in the Palace of Zarbal the fourth day of the Moone of Moharram this present yeare by which I was commanded to write a Booke of the customes conditions and manner of life of his Predecessor King Abilgualit Iacob Almansor and therewith also to set downe and declare what other Rules a good Prince ought to obserue for the fulfilling whereof I haue stolne from other my great businesse some parts of the night bereauing my selfe of that sleepe which for my weake and wearied bodie had beane requisite and in these twelue briefe and compendious Chapters which accompany this my Letter I haue rehearsed and registred the life and customes and the manner of Ruling and Gouerning with this great King and Gouernour vsed in the time of his prosperous Raigne and I am also of this opinion that without any farther addition of those Learnings which are written by the Phylosophers and other graue and learned Authors one may gather out of this as much fruit as he desireth I am an eye witnesse of all that I write hauing serued him in his Chamber and other Offices in his Royall Palace of no small importance more then twentie yeares as is well knowne to those that frequented the Court in his time and haue seene and knowne his customes and conditions vprightnesse and simplicitie Gouernment and manner of administring justice both in Peace and Warre Now in this manner of writing I worke two effects the accomplishing of a Royall commandement and the registring of the vertuous and laudable morall customes of so good a King Vouchsafe to accept my good will and pardon my faults and ouersights if there bee any in this Treatise whereof I doubt not there may bee many attributing them rather to my forgetfulnesse then to any wilfull imperfection carelesnesse or negligence eyther against the fidelitie of an Historie or the loyaltie which is due to his Royall Seruice whom our Souereigne God continue in his Protection From the Citie of Deuque the fifteenth day of the Moone of Rabeh the first This date agreeth with the month of Angust of the yeare of Christ 731. the one hundred and tenth yeere of the Hixera THE LIFE AND Death of IACOB ALMANSOR an Arabian Mahometan King written in the Arabicke TONGVE CHAP. I. Of the Descendence and Genealogie of the King Abilgualit Miramamolin Iacob Almansor and of some of his memorable deeds ABilgualit Miramamolin Iacob Almansor was the sonne of the great Caliph the sustayner of Morisme Abihabdi Allahi Abilgualit Abinque Abni Malique and nephew of the great Caliph Abni Abel Hasen Motaleb of famous and high Linage Solar the renowmed race and house of the Gentile Kings of Arabia Hee was borne in the eleuenth yeare of the Higera on the second day of the Moone of I●buel hauing attained with sound and perfect health to fifteene yeares of Age he began to show so great courage and Inclination to Armes and Learning that hee caused admiration in

●●●●●SOR THE LEARNED AND VICTORIOVS King that conquered Spaine His Life and Death published By ROBERT ASHLEY Out of the Librarie of the Vniuersitie of OXFORD Seneca Otium tuum non emineat sed appareat LONDON Printed for Iohn Parker 1627. TO OVR GRACIOVS SOVEREIGNE King CHARLES THis briefe Historie of the life and death of Iacob Almansor the Victorious was intended to the now deceassed yet euer renowmed for Learning and worthily stiled Iacobus Pacificus your Royall Father The death of some who had vndertaken the Printing and the generall Visitation of this your Realme with sicknesse hath delayed the publishing and altered the designe of the Dedication The Wandering Ghost of this Learned Vertuous and Victorious Almansor who neuer suffered repulse being now come into England and clad with an English garment presseth into your Kingly presence and expecteth condigne entertainment Though the Storie bee ancient and your Time and Religion also from his much different yet he hopeth that Vertue and Valour are neuer out of season Nor the Wisdome and Industrie of any bee hee Heathen Mahometan or Christian to be disesteemed As Alexander was enflamed with the example of Achilles who liued long before him Caesar by that of Alexander of a different time and Nation the one being a Grecian King of Macedon the other but a priuate Gentleman of Rome and Scipio a young Roman that triumphed ouer Africke was animated by the Historie of Cyrus the great King of Persia described by Xenophon So if at this day among Christians they that haue any heart are enkindled in their courage when they reade of the Clemencie of Caesar the Magnanimitie of Alexander the Integritie of Aristides the Constancie of Cato or the Iusti●e and Goodnesse of Traian being but Heathens of former Ages that knew not Christ nor Christian Pietie with more reason Almansor of much later Age though a misbeleeuing Mahometan may well expect euen in these times among the professors of perfect Pietie his Vertues should not be vnregarded nor his well ordered life and death be buried in obliuion I leaue them that list to dispute the truth of his Historie or whether it bee not a patterne of Perfection deuised as many haue supposed the like of Cyrus described by Xenophon Howsoeuer the Truth bee I hold the one and the other of better vse being thus published then to be buried in silence I doubt not but your Royall Fathers Instruction and your owne worthy disposition hath figured in your noble brest many worthier Christian patternes for Imitation Yet by comparing our selues with Heathens with Infidels with Mahometans and other Misbeleeuers we attaine the better and cleerer knowledge of our aduantages and defects Hereof your aduenturous Trauailes in your younger yeares haue giuen you good experience Hee that knoweth no Countrey but his own knoweth not the worth or wants of his owne Commendandus ante omnes qui sapientiam toto orbe requirit saith Marsilius which oportunitie of personall Trauaile being not alwayes permitted it must bee supplyed by Bookes and Histories The aduertisement following will informe the particulars how this briefe Historie came to the Presenters hands who remaineth In all humilitie your Maiesties deuoted Subiect Robert Ashley An Aduertisement HAuing during my younger yeares had some trayning in the Arts and Learned Languages in the famous Vniuersitie of Oxford and by aduice of experienced friends hauing after seriously sought to attaine the knowledge of the Lawes vnder which wee liue in the place where they are professed and hauing beene long since ingaged and denominated among the Professors thereof yet finding the practise to haue ebbes and tydes as haue for the most part all other humane employments I haue stolne and snatched at vacant times some oportunities what by Trauaile Bookes and Conference to get some knowledge of forreigne Countries and vulgar Languages especially those of our Neighbours I meane the French and Dutch the Spanish and Italian that by the perusing of their Writings I might also bee made partaker of the Wisdome of those Nations hauing beene long of this opinion That as no one soyle or territorie yeeldeth all fruits alike so no one Climate or Region affordeth all kind of knowledge in full measure With this resolution being not letted by other occasions J spent the best houres of some few Weekes not many yeeres sithence in a superficiall suruey of the famous Librarie of that flourishing Vniuersitie where I had beene trayned which I found richly replenished with Bookes of all Sciences and Faculties not only in the Learned Languages Latine Greeke and Hebrew besides the vulgar Tongues of our Neighbour Nations but euen with some furniture as well of Manuscripts as of printed Copies in the Arabian Aethiopian and Armenian Languages with the Egyptian Wisdome and Characters not speaking of the Chaldaick and Syriak because they are accounted by many but as Hebrew-dialects There are also some Turkish Persian Manuscripts Indian Malayan and Mexican Characters and Writings Yea China it selfe being thought by many to bee inaccessible to Strangers though by sundry Seas and Lands it bee farre separated from vs hath vouchsafed to inrich this great Magazin or Storehouse of Learning with diuers and sundry parcels of her Wisdome imprinted in her strange Characters Amongst the rest I happened on an Arabian Historie concerning the losse of Spaine by Roderigo King of the Gothes which by commandment of King Philip the Second was translated into Spanish out of the Arabian Copie remayning in the Escurial where I my selfe haue seene a glorious golden Librarie of Arabian Bookes In the midst of that Historie I found a Summarie Collection or obsernation of the life and death of a Learned Arabian King Iacob Almansor the Conquerour of Spaine Of the excellencie of this great King some hauing heard and read that among other his vertues hee was an infinite louer of Learning hauing assembled together in his Librarie fiftie fiue thousand Bookes in an ignorant Age when long before the Inuention of Printing all Monuments of Learning were only preserued by the laborious industrie of the Writers hand and Pen. Weighing also his wise distribution of his time with his exact Iustice Wisdome of Gouernment his Temperance of Dyet Fortitude and Prudence in his Militarie affaires with the Prosperitie of his Conquests and successe of all his enterprizes they became desirous to bee acquainted with the particulars of his life and longed to haue it communicated vnto them in a Tongue which they better vnderstood To their honest desire hauing oportunitie in my hand I thought it conuenient to giue satisfaction by translating it out of the Spanish Copie which was printed at Saragoza 1603. remayning in that vnparalleld rare Librarie of the Vniuersitie of Oxford and therehence out of the larger Historie of the Conquest of Spaine by the Moores being then the Subiects of this Almansor by me excerpted and published I present it to publicke view that Christians finding their vertuous Industrie to be equalled or ouermatched by