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A02730 The tragicall life and death of Muley Abdala Melek the late King of Barbarie With a proposition, or petition to all Christian princes, annexed therevnto: VVritten by a gentleman imployed into those parts. Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638. 1633 (1633) STC 12860; ESTC S116606 16,742 32

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Alkaid to be drubbed againe for not holding his stirrop He run a mans thigh thorovv vvith his launce to the saddle and after because he vvas not able to ride after him a pace giue him tvvo or three hundreth blovves VVould vvith his sword cut and flash men for his pleasure and after himself giue them plaisters to cure them VVould cast men to the lions to be devoured an other of his torments To one among the rest he promised that if he vvould fight vvith them and could escape he should be perdoned vvhich he did manfullie as I vvas told beating them from him either vvith stones or som such meanes clearing himself yet af●er vvas put to death Some he caused to be rastrar'd or dragged by the feete at the horse heeles their back and head against the stones as he did the Hacam of Morocco the chieffe officer of that citie round about his Almahalla or camp till he died Others iointed their fingers and toes first cut of by euerie jointe armes and legs so head and all An other hanged vp by the priuie members one caused to sit vpon him to vveigh him dovvne and vet the man liuing Another a hole digged in the ground set in the earth vp to the head as Schollers in some places use to shoote at the cock at Shrouetyde so did he cause the captiues vvith their peeces to shoote at this poore mans head They all missing he himself came neere vvith his ovvne peece and shot him calling him a deuill because they all missed him He cut of a Moores head a church man or Sexton for crying on the church tovver or steeple and cursing all that did drinke vvine forbidden by their lavve An other also for crying and singing more then vsuall For the Moores haue noe bels but in steed thereof these cryers to call them to their devotions in the name of God one God the great God and his Prophet Mahomet the Messenger of God Some say this mad King did once threaten that he vvould haue one of the Friars French or Spanish to sing masse before him vvhich I thinke vvould haue pleased him little better He caused a French captiue to turne Moore and be cut that is made an eunuch onlie for extolling the King of France to be one of the greatest Monarches of the vvorld An other vvho kept his horse neuer vvithout slashes and vvounds An other Frenchmans doublet vvith a paire of sizers did he cut all ouer in slashes vvith his ovvne hands saying he vvas novv a right French Cavallero like to the rest If in his drunken humor abroad in the fields as he vvas seldome sober he did fall from his horse all his Alkaid● and seruants must doe the like and lie dovvne and doe as he did Much like the catching of the dotterill and not offer to rise or get on horseback till he did nor to hold his stirrop or come neare him all the vvhile if they did he vvould giue them blovves One of his Alkaids for some such like offence caused he to sit 24. houres on he top of his tent in the Almahalla as it vvere on the pillorie for all men to gaze vpon And novv and then vvould he giue them a pill called Shishai the effect vvhereof is to make men merie drunke to make himself sport But indeed his onlie sport vvas in cutting of mens heads and as before in shedding and seeing of blood No one day escaped but one or other sacrificed in most bloodie manner to this vnsatiable deuill and she deuill together if that opinion of the Moores be true as before On a time the Christian captiues at Saffia the port town had laid a plot to breake the prison and escape by sea in a boate but in the acting thereof vvere discouered all taken and beaten in most pitifull maner to make them confesse the Authors most of them Spaniards and French the chieffe plotter a Spaniard as it seemeth of some account called Don Pedro vvho vvas sent for to the King then in his Almahalla vvho therevpon called all the English and others to kneele before him setting the Spaniard also right before him Then said to the English youe see this mis beliuer that vvould haue run avvaie if any of youe be like minded run sure and cleare avvaie othervvise if youe be taken see here your doome Then caused he first the Spaniards eares to be cut of one after an other then his nose then his lippes one after an other then his mouth on both sides slit vp to the eares then his fingers disiointed one from an other vvhich don the King fell a laughing ha ha ha Then said the Spaniard to him hauing all this while looked him in the face indured it verie manfullie novv Tyrant doe thy vvorst vvherevpon presentlie he cut of his head So dyed this valiant champion euen in death triumphing ouer his tyrannicall tormentors An other time a Moore being brought before him for some misdemeanor fearing death said vnto him Muley I haue liued all the daies of my life hitherto a Christian if thou vvilt novv pardon me I vvill turne true Moore againe His meaning vvas that he had liued a vvicked and levvd life as many Christians haue don and doe both in that and other countries I speake it to their shame vvhereby the name of Christ his religion is scandalized and blasphaemed but yet notvvithstanding that his confession that he had liued a Christian and profession to turne Moore againe that is to say to lead a godly life vvas executed For vvith this King there vvas no respect of persons or religions or occasions great or small Sins veniall or mortall all one that is to say mortall Occasions nay oft times vvithout any occasion at all but onlie as he met vvith any by accident in his drunken and deuilish humor vvould try as before vpon his ovvne vvomen the strength of his arme and goodnes of his svvord and chiefflie vpon his ovvne nation vvithout respect of persons he had no minions or favorits at all one good propertie in him VVhat shall I say But as an Alkaid telling me of these and other his mad and tragicall acts exclaimed a deuill a deuill His Alcasava or court the verie picture of hell vvhich made the greater and better forte to flee away into the mountaines or stand vpon their guard a far of like those vvylie foxes in AEsop seeing all foote steps going forvvard into the lions den but fevv or none retrorsum back againe And those that did hovvling and crying vveeping and vvayling sighing and vvringing their hands either for themselues or their friends This vvas the dailie and dolefull musick both vvithin and vvithout the verie gates of hell Friends nay rather fiends daylie tormenting one an other For so vvould he commaund his Alkaids and servants to drub one an other at his pleasure cut of one an others heads too He vvould commonlie say in a iesting maner that it seemed to him whensoeuer he
so rest Your Highnes humble seruant IOHN HARRISON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MVLEY ABDALA MELEK the late King of Barbarie IF Plutarch vvho did vvrite and paralel the lives and acts of the most famous men of those times vvere novv living to vvrite and paralel on the contrarie the lives and acts of the most infamous men of the vvorld I think he vvould haue much adoe to finde out a fit match either auncient or moderne vvherevnto to paralel the late King of Barbarie Muley Abdala Melek yea rather I thinke he vvould leave him vnparalel'd And so must I only setting dovvne so much as in that short time I staid at Morocco vvhich vvas but tvvo monthes hath been related to me by vvay of discourse by such both of our ovvne nation and others as vvere for the most part eye-vvitnesses vvhich is scarce the hundreth part of his cruel acts and mad-pranks he plaid in that short time of his raigne vvhich vvas scarce foure yeares mad-pranks I may call them for so is he commonlie called the mad King He vvas Son to Mulay Sidan by a negra so by complexion a molato The Mores in that respect vvhether of vviues or concubines making no difference of succession but commonlie the eldest though by a concubine carieth the crovvne and sometimes the yonger getteth the blessing from the elder quo iure c. capiat qui capere potest He vvas extraordinarilie giuen to drinke vvine and strong drinke vvhich added to his naturall disposition vvhich needed not inclyned to crueltie euen from his infancie Of a manlie stature and of a most couragious disposition A good horseman vvith his launce target vvould euer be the first man in the face of his enemies vvho indeed durst neuer look him in the face but presently faces about his svvord making vvaie for him vvhich waie soeuer he vvent Such vvas his resolusion viam inveniam aut faciam So that it may be doubted vvhether his courage or crueltie vvere greater and in these tvvo respects I vvil be bold to saie as before not to be paraleld by any As by these fevv passages gessing at Hercules by his foote may easelie appeare And euen before he vvas King began to play his prize like Hercules furens his arme and svvord still in action cutting and killing at his pleasure vpon euery slight occasion At one time he killed one of his ovvne blood the blood royall onlie for tasting a litle of his svveet meates by stealth Sweet meates must haue sowre sauce An other the chieffest of the cast of the Shebanites allied vnto him by mariage of his Praedecessours into that cast hauing vvronged one of his servants he taketh some fevv of his servants not aboue ten at the most vvith him goeth desperatlie among all the Shebanites to the ●ent of this man being the valiantest amongst them all challenged him of the vvrong vvho slighted him being then not King mounted on horsebacke discharged his pistoll at him but missed whō presently this yong Prince drawing his sword slue hand to hād maugre al the Shebanits came of cleare An other time a Levantado or rebell one of their saints comming against his Father Muley Sidan vvith 3000. horse like to surprize him on a sodaine he vvith his drums musik and ensignes and not aboue fortie horse vvent out against him chardged so furiously as put them al to flight pursued the victory as they say vvith his ovvne hand vvounded the Levantado that he dyed his head after brought in to Muley Sidan hanged vp in the Alcasaua and quarters likevvise on the vvals of Morocco on the gates of the citie Hauing be ore challenged his Father of neglect and too much securitie of vvhom not only his enemies but euen his Father as they say stood in feare yet his Father calling him Father Such is the praeposterous maner of the Moores to call their eldest Son Father out of a reuerence as they say they giue to him being the first born to be as it seemeth Pater familias Father of the familie for the time to come other reason I can not giue of their praeposterous inversion of that relation or rather confusion for the Father to call his Son Father Our Heauenly Father I am sure did not so the King of Kings Thou art my Son c. as it is in the Psalmes Nor Dauid the King in that his patheticall expression of his Fatherly affection far beyond theirs yea beyond all expression Absalon my Son my Son After his comming to be King some of the frends of the Leuantado hauing by stealth taken dovvne his quarters to bury them he commanded a great number of the neighbours heads who dvvelt neere there aboutes to be cut of executing many vvith his ovvne hands as he met them in the streets And not long after immediatlie vpon the death of his Father being nevvlie proclaimed King his brother Muley Flvvallid this King comming against him vvith a great force better affected of the comminaltie than the other in respect of his crueltie vvhich they greatlie feared and not vvithout cause as aftervvards they found Muley Abdala Melek giuing order first for his ordnance to be dischardged immediatlie after himself being the first man hauing but a fevv horse chardged so furiouslie and so throughlie as he rovvted them all vvhervpon his brother fled tovvards Sallie but not long after vvas betrayed brought back againe by Alkaid Hamuda dvvelling neare Azamore vvhose horma or sanctuarie he tooke invited and encouraged by him to some further attempt but indeed betrayed vvho after vsed him in a verie base vnseemlie manner stripping him beating him and carying him chained vpon a horse to the King VVherevpon the King they say vvhen he savv him relented yea vvept not vsing any extremitie but rather out of his lion-like magnanimitie contemning vvhat either he or any other had don or could doe against him Yet did his brother liue in continuall feare diuers times threatned by the King in his mad humor sending to him to prepare himself and to knovve vvhat kinde of death he vvould dye but by mediation of his sisters and others still put of At one time the King being at Saffia in his drunken humor the sentence pronounced and an Alkaid presentlie sent tovvards Morocco vvhere his brother was then prisonner to execute it but the next morning the King comme to himself and by mediation as before reversed and a messenger dispatched to countermaund the other vvhom he ouertooke but at Tansift a riuer vvithin foure myles of Morocco commanded vpon his life to ouertake him the other making no great hast othervvise it had been executed One time at Saffia his Almahalla or campe vvherein his brother Muley Semyn vvas then comming to pitch neare thereaboutes he in steed of a vvarning piece to remoue further of shot a bullet amongst them An other time as I heard in iest among the market folke yet did no hurt but killed an asse An other time in