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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03635	A dolorous discourse, of a most terrible and bloudy battel, fought in Barbarie, the fowrth day of August, last past. 1578 VVherein were slaine, two kings, (but as most men say) three, besyde many of her famous personages: with a great number of captains, and other souldiers that were slaine on both sides. VVhereunto is also annexed, a note of the names of diuerse that were taken prisoners at the same time.		1579 (1579)	STC 1376; ESTC S108235	8,729	34

¶ A Dolorous discourse of a most terrible and bloudy Battel fought in Barbarie the fowrth day of August last past 1578. VVherein were slaine two Kings but as most then say three besyde many 〈◊〉 … mous personages with 〈…〉 ●umber of Captains and 〈◊〉 Souldiers that were ●●●ine on both sides Whereunto is also annexed a note of the names of diuerse that were taken prisoners at the same time POST TENEBRAS LVX 〈…〉 abonde ❧ To the Reader IT was not without great reason gentle Reader that the auncient Poets in old time fained Phaeton to fal from heauen and to be drowned in the deapth of the Sea because not contented with his calling he woulde of a prowde ambicious minde presume to take vppon him the gouernement of his Father Phaebus Chariot being a thing farre beyond his skil to compas For surely there is not in the whole world a more pestilent euil or a thing that breedeth so much mischife as doth the cankred and most accursed vice of ambition which not onely worketh the ruine of the partye therewith poscessed but often times causeth the confusion of many mighty Monark● and ●●e vtter ouerthrovv of whole Countreyes and common weales Wherewith the words of Cornelius … rus do verry aptly agree who saith that after the desier of principallytie had longe continued in the mindes of men vndiscouered when Princes be●an to enlarge their Limittes and to make their dominions greater when they began to conquer kingdomes and enuying the felicitie of common weales desired the confusion and vtter ouerthrowe one of another Then began this ambition first of all to breake out which as Saint Barnard saieth pleaseth and delighteth euery man and yet is there nothinge that doth more cruelly crucifie or breede more vnquietnes then it doth For from whence springeth bloody warres so much as from this roote of Ambition What causeth so manye to endure the extremitie of the coulde Winter nightes by lying abroade in the open Feeldes without any harbour and to abide the heate of the whot Sommer season being clogged with the carryage of their vnweldye armoure but onelye ambicion Is it ought els but this greedy ambition that maketh men to trauell so many intemperate countryes and desperately to runne into so many doubtfull daingers as they do In conclusion there is nothing that more breaketh the bandes of beneuolence abateth the obedience of childrē towardes their Parentes the loue of Parentes towardes their Children the dutye of subiectes towardes their Princes and the care of Countryes commoditye from al men as doth this abominable vice of ambicion Whereof dyuers historyes aswell of auncient time as examples daylye shewed amongst vs is a most perfect testimony By the greedye ambition of Scilla Marius Carbo Cinna Pompeius and Caesar there were more slaine amongst the Romaines then in conquering to them the kingdome of the whole world Silla condempned caused to be executed 80000. Romaines besydes many ●ore that were slaine in the ciuil wars betweene him and both the Marius Also Pompeius and Iulius Caesar the one suffring no peere the other no superiour by their insasiable ambition caused innumerable people to be slaine betweene them and subuerted the best and most renowmed publique weale in the whole world and finally enioying little time to reioyce them in theyr vnlawfull desires Pompeius shamefullye flyinge had his head stroken off by the commaundement of Ptolome Kinge of Egipt vnto whom as to his frende he fled for succour and Caesar that was the vanquisher was shortlye after cruellye murdred in the Senate with daggers by them whom he best trusted and most specially fauowred It would require much time and a verye large volume to make mencion of all those that heretofore by coueting to encrease their credit and estimation in the worlde and to aduaunce themselues to high dignities haue brought both themselues and their countryes to extreame daunger But I will leaue heere to rehearse any more of such antiquitye and shew a more liuely lamentable example of three renowmed Princes who not longe since by their ambicious desires did not onely procure their owne vntimely death but also the destruction of many thousandes of their people in the maintenaunce of their vniust quarrels as by that which followeth shall more manifestly appeare But before I proceede to the matter I haue here thought good for the readers better instruction breflye to discribe the country of Barbary and the customes thereof ⸪ ❧ A discription of the orders and customes of Barbary BArbary is a country scituate in Affrica inhabited with a barbarous people obseruinge the lawes of Mahomet geuen for the most part to idlenes sundry supersticions In this Countrye are manie Iewes enhabiting in whose handes consisteth the most parte of the trafique of the Country being the onelye Marchantes of Sugers Mallasses and other ritche marchandize which the same yeldeth for the which they paye great sums of money to the king And now to the matter ¶ A Dolorous discourse of a most terrible blouddy Battell fought in Barbarie the. 4. of August 1578. VNderstande that not long synce there raygned ouer the countrey of Barbary a King named Mully Hamet Shek ▪ who had diuers Sons by sundry his Wiues and Concubines for there they maye haue as manye wiues as they wyll The King passing on a tyme from Moroccus the chiefe City of his coūtrey towards another Countrey of his called Sus was in the mydway at a place called Bibon murdred by his owne men After him raigned one of his Sons called Mulla Abdula by whose meanes a Noble man of that countrey called Alcatho Alley caused the throtes of eleuen of the Kinges Brethren to be cutte in one morning Two other of his brethren fled for feare into Turky and were there brought vp in the Turks warres One other of his Brethren named Mulla Hamet remayned styll in Barbary without any violence offered vnto him and was well beloued of his wicked brother so that he grew verye rytch and was in great estimation throughout the whole countrey And as cruel murder can neuer lōg rest vnrewarded This Alkatho Alley the onely minister of the Kinges mischieuous deuise was in the ende measured with such a lyke measure as he had before meat to the Kings brethren Now the cruel king Mulla Abdula amongst manye other taking to his wife a bond woman that was a Blacke Negro had by her a sonne called Mulla Sheriffa who for that he was of his Mothers complection ●as cōmonly called the Black King to whome Mulla Abdula his Father commytted the kingdome after his death as to his onely heyre Mulla Hamet after the death of his brother Abdula fearing the tyranny of his Blacke Neuew that succeded him fled incontinently with all his substaunce and treasure to Argere a Towne belonging to y Turke wher he remayned in good safetie Mulla Sheriffa hauing for a whyle peaceably possessed the Crowne became in the ende so cruel a tyrant as his people therfore hating him