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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.
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Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638.
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1633
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THE TRAGICALL LIFE AND DEATH OF MVLEY 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 Printed at Delph ANNO 1633. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS AND HOPEFVLL young Prince CHARLES Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhyne c. MOST ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE The great respect I receiued from your Highnes at Leyden two severall times after my comming out of Barbarie and the great desire your Highnes expressed as becometh Princes to vnderstand and be informed in foraigne afaires and the State of other countries hath encouraged me hauing novv againe been imployed into that countrie to present to your Highnes for a Nevv-years-gift this short relation of the life death of the late King Muley Abdala Melek as vvas related to me by vvaie of discourse onlie at seuerall times by those vvho for the most part vvere eye-vvitnesses Oculati testes VVhich also may serue your Highnes for matter of discourse and further information likewise to discerne betwixt a blessed Christian gouernment vvhereunto God hath ordained you and a cruell tyrannous Mahometan gouernment as is the Turkish vnder vvhich those miserable mis-belieuers yea and manie Christians likevvise there in most miserable slauerie groane the Lord deliuer them from it And giue vs grace to make vse of it both Prince people and acknovvledge our owne happines Prince vvho commaund ouer Christian obedient and dutifull subiects and subiects vvho liue vnder so peaceable and Christian a gouernement bona si sua norit agricola free from tyrannie rebuel as and tumults vvhereunto that countrie of Barbaric hath this long time been subiect Such is the miserable state and condition of tyrannie and of tyrants euen of Kings as your Highnes may perceiue by the sodaine fearefull and miserable end of this King qualis vita sinis ita his life vvas bloodie and so it ended in blood in his owne blood And thereafter may your Highnes and all other yong Princes vvho haue so good tuitors and ouerseërs to informe them learne as that famous Buchanan tuitor to your grand Father King Iames of blessed memorie in his epistle dedicatorie before his Tragaedie called Baptistes admonisheth vvorthie to be read ouer and ouer and remembred of all yong Princes his vvords as I remember are these maturé odisse quod tibi semper est fugiendum VVhich I pray God both your Highnes and all other Princes may remember and make vse of Hoping your Highnes vvill accept of this small present out of a Barbarous countrie for vvant of a better vvhither I should haue returned for the releasse of the remainder of my poore countrymen in captiuitie vnder the new King Muley Elvvalid vpon a new treatie Hauing alreadie been a means to releasse aboue two hundreth and threescore from Sallie and threescore mee as yet remaining vnder this king at Morocco and Sallie by them taken againe vpon a late breach besides vvhat are dispersed vp and dovvne the countrie all promised by that King to be releassed vpon his treatie VVhither I say I should haue returned long before this time longed and long looked for by those poore captiues For the captiue hasteneth to be loosed c. as it is in the Prophet But vvhether I shall returne at all or those poore captiues be loosed or releassed at all is in Gods hands vvho can make their verie enemies and all those that haue caried them avvaie captiues to pitie them othervvise no hope at all And so I leaue them to Gods mercie and both them all others in like distresse both there and elsvvhere to your Highnes and all other Christian princes to commiscrate according to a proposition or petition I haue hereunto annexed highlie concerning them in honour to consider of vvhich is also in Gods hands For the hearts of Kings as Salomon saith are in Gods hands he turneth thē vvhich vvaiesoeuer he pleaseth In the meane time as my dutie is hauing been imployed in these affaires I can but sollicit and petition though vvithout effect in hope contrarie to hope hauing hitherto receiued so small encouragement but discouragements and so goe on mourning still and like to doe finis vnius mali gradus futuri One crosse after an other still readie to receiue me VVhich I must beare patientlie so commaunded so resolued To take vp the crosse of Christ and follovv him vvhither soeuer he commaundeth from one conntrie to an other from one part of the vvorld to an other and to the vvorlds end Quem statues finem Rex magne laborum And so goe on mourning still as I haue don these manie years Hoc continuis agimus annis a countinuall mourner euer since the death of prince Henry my maister novv renewed by the death of your Royall Father that renovvmed King of Svveden vvho died that verie day of the month prince Henry died the 6. of Nouember the date after the povvder plot ominous For both vvhich the vvhole church of Christ hath cause to mourne and that continuallie not onlie outvvardlie but invvardlie euerie familie a part as vvas that great mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon For that good King Iosiah continuallie continuis annis euen to posteritie to be continued I say as vvas that for these two so good Kings so sodainlie so vntimelie taken avvate To mourne I say continuallie and invvardlie for our sins vvhich are the cause of these disasters Verus luctus est occultus that is the true mourning so to condole and mourne And so let vs continue our mourning and goe on mourning still euerie familie a part euerie true Christian a part to beare a part in this so great a mourning vvith our deare mother the church that comfortles Rachel vvho vveepeth for her children and vvill not be comforted because they are not Yea let the vvhole church of Christ renevve her vveeping and mourning againe till it Echo againe not onlie the last vvords vltima verba as it is in Seneca Sed totos reddat Troiae gemitus for her children first and last taken from her one after an other because they are not Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie is not King Iames is not Prince Henry is not And the other hopefull young prince Henry your brother is not Your Royall Father the King of Bohemia is not The King of Svveden is not Hovv is the valiant man fallen that deliuered Israel Besides other vvorthies the old prince of Orange and others they are not Yea manie other poore Christian soules of late slaine massacred perished and lost both vnder the Antichristian Mahometan tyrannie they are not For vvhom the vvhole church of Christ hath cause to mourne neuer more cause neuer more seasonable VVherunto now I betake myself euen to praiers and teares the vveapons of Gods church VVhich shall be the second part And my Account hereafter mentioned the third and last If God permit and other obstacles hinder not And
arme vvhom he had killed broyled it on the coales and did eate it The King of Gagoes son not ouer a day or tvvo before the Kings death some say the same day drinking together because he vvas not able to pledge him so much as he drunk being all aqua vitae for so must euerie one doe as he did and drinke as he did caused the vvhole bole full of aqua vitae to be giuen him backvvard like a glister till it reversed in their faces againe that gaue it Hauing not long before made him to stand tvvo daies and tvvo nights in the vvater And before throvvne dovvne an other of the sons from the vvals of Saffia and broke his thigh Vnder a colour of going a hawking vvould lie vvhole daies and nights abroad in the fields a drinking And before his death manie daies nights together God hauing bereaued him of his vnderstāding as he did Nebuchadnezer and driuen him from men to dwell vvith the beasts of the field Yea he himself not long before hauing driuen avvaie from him all his most trustie servants saue one or tvvo committed to prison And vvithall a vvatchfull dog vvhich he loued fed vvith his ovvne hand for some small offence he tooke likevvise committed to prison vvith them commaunding he should but haue so much bread and vvater a daie All these his vvatchmen at once sequestred from him and the other so ouer toyled vvearied vvith vvatching day night perhaps also vvearie of him as vvere others all seemed to conspire his death Plotted as it seemeth before by some of the Elchies or renegadoes vvhom the King had threatned the next time he came to his house in Morocco to cut and make Eunuches to the number of two hundreth vvhereof they vvere sore affraid And therefore one among the rest a Frenchman as is reported vvatched his opportunitie vvhen the King came back to his tent at night hauing been all the day abroad a drinking and vvith a peece chardged vvith tvvo chained bullets shot him in by the fundament and privie members into the bodie as he vvas lying along in his tent A iust iudgement of God in respect of that glister of aqua vitae he gaue to the King of Gagoes Son threatning likevvise the elchies as before As also in respect of that abhominable impudent and filthie act he did at Saffia to those poore vvomen But chiefly vvhich God in the end vvill punish vpon those Mahometans both Turks and Moores in causing poore Christians boyes and others to be circumcised perforce yea cut and made eunuches A iust iudgement of God I say of all those Tyrants both Turkes Moores and others to be trembled at and so I leaue him Immediatly after his death his younger brother Muley Elvvallid vvas saluted King being at that time a prisoner in the Alcasaua the Kings house in Morocco expecting dailie nothing els but death VVherevpon some of his frends as at such a time and in such a case all are frends happie he that can be the first and svviftest Messenger running in all hast to the prison doore and crying out aloud to him to come forth he thinking it had been to execution to be put to death lingering excusing himself that he vvould but take leaue of his vvife and make himself readie vvhich he did only to die they calling and crying more and more at length he came forth and so vvas pregoned and proclaimed King of a prisoner I say on a sodaine become a King Of a far more soft nature disposition than his brother yet cruell and Tyrannous to poore Christians and to the English vvhom of late he hath most Barbarously entreated some of them Eight at once taken and circumcised perforce beaten vvounded and one mans head almost cut of to make them turne Moores and forsake their faith The rest fearefull dailie expecting the like measure as by letters latelie vvritten from the Merchants there may appeare vvhich I reserue vvith other passages to a further account leauing them to his mercie vvhich indeed is crueltie For the mercies of the vvicked are cruelties and him and them to God to iudge betwixt them which in time might haue been preuented by a seasonable dispatch long since expected the losse of so manie poore Christian soules as necessarie I dare say as some other dispatches if the bodies and soules of Christians be esteemed of any value novv a daies as they are in Gods sight right precious precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints And novv vvill I addresse my selfe vvith this Proposition and petition herevnto annexed to Christian Princes to condole and commiserate the distressed or rather desperate estate of these most miserable or rather more than miserable creatures if more may be not only the English but all other nations vvho this long time haue indured a most miserable and intollerable slauerie vnder these infidels both Turks and Moores and are like to doe more and more if not prevented VVhich I pray God at length they may take into their Christian consideration AMEN A PROPOSITION AND PETITION TO ALL CHRISTIAN Princes and States Professours and Defenders of the true Christian faith against all Antichristian povvers and principallities As vvell the Pope and his adherents as the Turk his Vassals the Mahometans both the one the other novv in these last daies to be vtterly destroyed and the Kingdome of Iesus Christ to be erected neuer to be destroyed but to indure and triumph euen to the end of the VVorld according to Daniels Prophecie 2. 44. And our Sauiours likevvise Mat. 24. 14. This Gospel of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the vvorld for a vvitnes vnto all nations and then shall the end come MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCES Hauing been heretofore diuers times imployed into Barbarie for the redeeming of poore Christians out of Slauerie and other affaires and hauing been an eye-vvitnes of those great miseries or rather indignities don to those poore Christians in those Countries by that Barbarous people indignities I say not to be vttered not to be expressed but rather vailed ouer as did that painter the sorovvfull and mournefull or rather more than mournefull countenance of that heathen Prince for his daughter adiudged to be sacrificed to that heathen Goddesse or rather Idoll by no painters pensill to be expressed More than mournefull I say maiora lachrymis so manie poore Christians dailie taken by those infidels Turks and Moores and caried captiues into those cruell lions dens as sheepe appointed for the slaughter bought and sold in the merket as beasts and not men and devoured by those blooddie monsters vvhose soules lie vnder the Altar daily sacrificed to those heathen deuills crying Hovv long o Lord holie and true doest thou not iudge and auenge our blood on them that dvvell on the earth Yea beaten and tormented euen to death to make them forsake their faith as not only men but children also haue been