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A35762	A discription of Tangier, the country and people adjoyning with an account of the person and government of Gayland, the present usurper of the kingdome of Fez, and a short narrative of the proceedings of the English in those parts : whereunto is added, the copy of a letter from the King of Fez to the King of England, for assistance against his rebellious subjects, and another from Grayland to His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second : with divers letters and passages worthy of note / translated from the Spanish into English, and published by authority.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Ghaylān, Aḥmad al-Khāḍir ibn ʻAlī, d. 1673.; Teviot, Andrew Rutherford, Earl of, d. 1664.	1664 (1664)	Wing D1151; ESTC R12756	46,144	89

he cannot help himself These discontented Forlornes offer him their service his necessity accepts it they tye him up and gain to themselves the Military Power Now one General is set up and when he falls anon another Gayland shewing not himself but as an eminent Souldier without whom the Kingdom could not subsist He foments the former Jealousies prolongeth the War frustrateth all Treaties until at last there were two Parties in the Army one for Peace another for War Now was his time to gratifie the Warriours to caress the Souldiers to whom his Valour and Conduct had endeared him Here is the Case in short the Army must stand by him or be disbanded hereupon they choose him General he modelleth them At last they Remonstrate That the King must be laid aside as who had betrayed his Country to Foreigners Yet he kept this close until he overcame the Enemy shut up the Christians in their Garrison and then he turned upon his own Masters cut off some of his Senate for ill advising and at last shut him up as at this hour within a strong City Sure there was an evil Star this last Age that looked upon the World That all Men of all Religions were unanimously disposed to Innovate Reform as we call it and Disturb the World A Description of the Person and Government of Gayland the present Vsurper of the Kingdom of Fez. THis Gayland since his success hath his Pedigree derived from Mahomet as Cromwel had his from the Welch Kings His Person looks handsomer than his Condition his Look is fat and plain but his Nature close and reserved He is plump yet melancholy valiant yet sly boysterous yet of few words watchful and lustful careful and intemperate a contradiction in Nature Although he hath a sadness and a heaviness by Nature that becometh a Priest yet he hath gained a complaizance by Art that becomes a Prince He hath two Qualities that may do any thing 1. Perfidiousness and 2. Cruelty When he swears most solemnly then you may be sure he lyeth so treacherous he is and when fawns most basely then you must look for mischief so bloody he is You shall have him 8. times a day at his Devotion and as many with his Concubines whom he never toucheth after sixteen having his Ministers of pleasure to annoint him and his Ladies to that purpose So prodigions is their Lust there that they take pleasure in haughtiness when they cannot be naught themselves You may be preferred and poysoned there in a day to speak cunningly to act daringly to have many strong Relations a great Estate or one handsome Wife is reason enough to send a man into another world Gaylands Calling is a Butcher and a Priest for they have all Trades there He is setling a new way of Religion which he calls The Antient One His Council are all Trades-men that understand business very well and his Judges the like His Brethren are his Favourites who yet are Gelded and so not dangerous He hath little or no strength at Sea only his tampering under-hand with them of Tunis and Tripoli He hath divided the Country among his Followers who must be true to him or they will not be so to themselves the old and loyal possessors being transplanted When he is courted to a Peace he saith It is in uain for him to think of Peace until he hath made himself terrible His Ports are strong his Speech alwayes dubious and knowingly intangled His Interest obliging him to a reserve for he dares neither clearly own his thoughts nor totally disclaim them the one way endangering his Design the other his Person so that the skill of his Port lyeth in this neither to be mistaken by his Friends nor understood by his Enemies By this middle course he gaineth time to remove Obstacles and ripen Occasions which to improve and follow is his peculiar Talent He is a Slave to his Ambition and knoweth no other measure of good and bad but as things stand in this or that relation to his end Honour Faith and Conscience weighing nothing in that Country further than they subserve to Interest He is one that will hazard very little if either Money or Wiles may do his work He hath his Renegadoes from whom he hath learned all his skill in Fortifications and Guns Gaylands Revenue HE receiveth from his Tributary Vassals the Tenths and first-Fruits of their Corn and Cattel For the first-Fruits he taketh no more than one for twenty and the whole being above twenty and demandeth no more than two though it amount to an hundred For every dayes Tilth of Ground he hath a Ducket and a quarter and so much likewise for every House as also he hath after the same rate of every Person above fifteen years old Male or Female and when need requireth a greater summ And to the end that the people may the more chearfully pay that which is imposed upon them he alwayes demands half as much more as he is to receive Most true it is that on the Mountains there inhabit certain fierce and untamed People who by reason of the steep craggy and inexpugnable situation of their Country cannot be forced to Tributes that which is gotten of them is the Tenth of their Corn and Fruits only that they may be permitted to have recourse in the Plains Besides these Revenues the King hath the Tolls and Customes of Fez and of other Cities for at the entring of their Goods the natural Citizen payeth two in the hundred and the Stranger ten Amongst many other things he hath the Revenues of Mills which yield him little less than half a Royal of Plate for every Hanega of Corn that is ground in Fez where as I told you there are four hundred Mills The Moschea of Caruven had fourscore thousand Duckets of Rent The Colledges and Hospitalls of Fez had also many thousands All which the King hath at this present And further He is Heir to all the Alcaydes and them that have Pension of him and at their Death he possesseth their Horses Armour Garments and all their Goods Howbeit if the Deceased leave any Sons apt for the service of the Wars he granteth them their Fathers Provision but if they be but young he bringeth up the Male Children to years of service and the Daughters till they be Married And therefore that he may have Interest in the Goods of Rich men he bestoweth upon them some Government or Charge with Provision Wherefore for fear of Confiscation after death every one coveteth to hide his wealth or to remove far from the Court and the Kings sight For which cause the City of Fez cometh far short of her antient glory Besides His Revenues have been augmented of late years by mighty summs of Gold which he fetcheth from Tombuto and Gago in the Land of Negros which Gold according to the report of Fame may yearly amount to three Millions of Duckets His Forces and Military Strength HE hath not any Fortresses

Treasury of the World The Authority of that Town well managed may make the Masters of it Arbitrators of the Interest of Europe 3. It may be a Free Port or a kind of a Sound to which all Nations on this side the Line may be glad to have addressed themselves 4. It will be a great relief and security to our Merchants in their long Voyages to the Indies 5. In that place there may be bred as in a Seminary such Souldiers and others as may be inured to the temper and way of that Country and therefore may be in a capacity to carry on our Interest in those Coasts as far as Justice and honour will give way yea we may draw thence a Regiment or two of Veteranes upon any occasion at home No man knoweth but themselves what advantage the Hollanders enjoy and the French promise themselves from one or two Towns upon any of these Coasts The Christians had another excellent Harbour upon the Mediterranian called Bedis or Velles de Gumern which Ferdenand King of Castile took by shutting it up with two Forts that commanded it and kept it two years until it was betrayed by a false treacherous Spaniard who slew the Governour because he had taken his Wife from him into the Moors possession and all the Christians were slain not a man escaping save only the Spanish Traytor who in regard of his Treason was greatly rewarded both by the Governour of Bedis and also by the King of Fez. Anno 1520. True it is a wild kind of Harbour lying open to the Sea without any windings or high-land-shelter so that let the wind blow from what Compass it will the Ships riding there are exposed to the sury of it and upon the dragging of an Anchor Wracks do commonly follow upon the adjoyning Strand but that is to be remedied by a Moll such as that in Weymouth of two Furlongs Compass that may be raised by the Shoar some twenty yards high within which the Ships may ride safe and quiet The Lawful Government of this Country by Kings THE Xeriff of Fez whose Dominion reacheth from Capo Boiudor to Tangier N. S. and from the Atlantique to the River Melvia the fairest fruitfullest best inhabited and most civil Port of all Africk and likewise the most trafickable as well in reference to the passage that way to the Indies as to the Commodities there afforded hath continued his Government from the year 1508. to this day after this manner A subtle learned and ambitious Mahumetan Benumotto 1508. boasting his descent from Mahomet laid a Design in Numidia where he lived to possess Mauritania Tingitania while the Moors and Portuguez were at Variance To this end he sent his three Sons on Pilgrimage to Mella and Medina that returning thence with a great Fame for their Religion the people might reverence them as they did when they went up and down as men ravished with Contemplation alwayes crying Ala Ala The cunning Father sends them to the King of Fez where they had no sooner got into esteem than they desired to display their Banners against the Christians The Kings Brother smelt the Design and asked the Xeriff If these holy men conquered the Christians who should conquer them But their pretended holiness carried it first for a Commission from the King and then for a whole multitude of men that followed the devout men giving them a Tenth of their Estate for the Cause With these men they poysoned the King of Morocco set up Xeriffo and his Son who with the assistance of the Christian Renegadoes over-ran the whole Country whereof 1. Amet 1542. 2. Mahomet 1549. 3. Abdalla 1557. 4. Abdalla 1572. 5. Mahomet the Second who was murthered 1590. 6. Hamet Abdalla 1599. 7. Maly Shecti 1603. 8. Sidon who rebelled against him 1607. 9. Hamet Abdall 1623. against whom a Hermit stirred up the people 10. Misil Tira 1628. who writ to King CHARLES the First of glorious memory for assistance against the Rebells to this purpose A Letter from the King of Fez and Morocco to the King of England WHen these Letters are so happy as to come to thy Renowned Majesties pure hands I wish the Spirit of the Righteous God may direct thy mind to consider that Regal Majesty is given men to reward the good and punish the bad for we are the Servants of the Creator to do good to the World that it may bless us for we are like those Coelestial Bodies that have our Reverence for our Beneficence which I speak not as if I would instruct thee whose mind is so clear and whose apprehension is so quick that thou art one of the great Gods greatest Viceroy that is in Europe There are a Company of Rebells and Pirates that molest thy People and are too hard for me if thou wilt assist me and right thy self against them thou wilt be as glorious as the Sun and thy Name shall perfume all Ages who shall sing thy Virtue equal to thy Power Thy God is a Lyon of the Tribe of Juda and a Prince of Peace One that seeks Peace through War Thy Father was a Peace-maker by his Power as well as his Counsel Thy God increase thine happiness and thy dayes Fez 1131. Hegerin 1633 10. Myralla Shin 1642. who was judged to death in that fatal year 1648. 11. Mahomet A●dalla against whom Aguiland or Gayland hath managed a Rebellion to this day after this manner First Finding the People under a very great discontent because of the Christian Invasions on the one hand and their own Kings Oppressions on the other Particularly 1. Because there was an Order That every man that married a Wife should bring her to Court and there offer her Virginity to the In●idells Lust 2. Because there was a Licence to drink Wine contrary to Mahomet's Law 3 Because the King being weak was about to Treat with the Christians about building of Forts in those Countries contrary to the Fundamentalls of their Religion He stirs up the Puritan Mahumetans I mean the Zealots of that way whereof he was one himself for as Cromwel was a Preacher so is Gayland a Priest to go up and down and propnesie of Woes Lamentations and Desolation some of which Zealots pretended a familiarity with Mahomet that is as our good people canted it Communion with God Then it was taught That the Law was corrupted That Mahomet would come and reform it To this cry were added discourses of humane Liberty and Slavery This was helped with a Dearth 1656. The alteration of some old Customes 1657. The advancement of unworthy Persons and the admission of strangers the same year To help forward the Design Jealousie is raised between the King and the Nobility who now 1658. hold their Meetings settle their Correspondence and so many overthrown Estates as there were so many Votes for Troubles New Revelations are broached and while the Kingdom is in a hurly burly an Invasion is continued The King is left so dest●●ure that