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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

as their Virtues though I am indebted to this Country for my Birth and most part of my Education Now to deliver somewhat concerning the estates of these Christians They are called by some Cofti or Coptitae and by others Christians from the Girdle upward for albeit they be baptized as we are yet do they circumcise themselves like to the Jews so as a man may say their Christianity comes no lower than the girdle-stead But that which is worse they have for 1000 years followed the heresie of Eutiches which alloweth but of one Nature in Christ by which heresie they also separate and dismember themselves from the Union of the Church of Europe The occasion of this separation and schism was the Ephesine Council assembled by Dioscorus in defence of Eutiches who was now condemned by the Calcedon Council by six hundred and thirty Fathers congregated together by the authority of Leo the first For the Cofti fearing that to attribute two natures unto Christ might be all one as if they had assigned him two hypostases or persons to avoid the heresie of the Nestoreans they became Eutichians They say their Divine Service in the Chaldean oftentimes repeating Alleluja They read the Gospel first in Chaldean and then in Arabick When the Priest sayeth Pax vobis the youngest among them layeth his hand upon all the people that are present After Consecration they give a simple piece of Bread to the standers by a Ceremony used also in Greece They exercise their Function in the Church of Saint Mark amidst the ruines of Alexandria and in that of Suez upon the Red Sea They obey the Patriarck of Alexandria and affirm themselves to be of the Faith of Prete Ianni In our dayes two Popes have attemptted to reduce them to the Union of the Romish Church Pius the Fourth and Gregory the Thirteenth whose Letter they received with reverence laying them upon their heads before they opened them A DESCRIPTION OF The KINGDOME of FEZ THe World we know is divided into four parts Asia Europe Affrica and America the place under present consideration lieth in Affrica Affrica is bounded on the East by the Red Sea and the famous Bay of Arabia on the West with the Atlantick Sea which divides it from America on the North it is parted by the Mediterranean from Europe and on the South with the Ethiopian Sea from that place which Geographers call Terra Australis incognita altogether bounded by the Sea but that there is an Isthmus or a Neck of Land of threescore faith Dr. Heylin threescore and nine saith Leo Affricanus but fifty and four saith Munster and seventy four miles saith Atlas between it and Asia over which Neck Cleopatra would have drawn her Ships when her dear Anthony was defeated and adventured her self to an unknown Coast to escape Caesar's success and fortune had not her Minions company invited her to her own Egypt to put a period to that Rant and Frolick wherewith Fate and Fortune played with and exercised that Age of the World The form of Affrica saith Leo is a Pyramide reversed the Basis whereof which reacheth from Tangier and the Streight of Gibraltar to the foresaid Isthmus and is in length 1918 Italian miles the Cone narrow but 4155 miles in length that is to say in plain English that part of the world is 1920 miles abroad towards us and runs up narrower and narrower 4156 miles the further it goeth from us Asia is less then America Affrica then Asia Europe then Affrica that course cloth hath good measure Touching the temper of the Air which depends most an end upon the position and aspect of the Heaven we guess that since the Aequator I mean that Line that is supposed to divide the Heavens into two equal parts crosseth over the middle of this Country therefore it was by those of old that had no more Geography then they drew up by aim in their Studies and concluded from some of their own uncertain Speculations and conjectural Principles judged to lie under the most Torrid Zone and so for the most part unhabitable whereas a few more years experience travel and observation hath manifested most part of this Country habitable and temperate the cool of the Nights allaying the heat of the Days for there the mists dews and showres of the one refresh the scorches and parches of the other as indeed that vicissitude of Sun and Moon was designed by the Almighty who disposed all things in number weight and measure according to the eternal counsel of his will to keep this world in an equal temper not overheated with the fever of the Torrid nor overcooled with the ague of the Frigid Zone The best Description extant of this Coast that the Ancients had was that great Souldier and exact Observator Hannoes Journal a great while locked in his Punick Tongue until that great Restorer of Learning at once bestowed upon it the pains of a Translation into the Greek Tongue and the charge of an Impression at Basil 1526. Affrica is divided into 1. Egypt 2. Numidia 3. Lybia 4. Terra Nigritorum 5. Ethiopia Superiour and Inferiour with the Islands adjoyning to these respective parts The subject of this Discourse lieth in Barbary Barbary lieth Eastward towards Cyrenaica Westward toward the Atlantick Sea Northward upon the Mediterranean towards the Streights of Gibraltar and the Atlantick and Southward towards Atlas Spain and Numidia It is called Barbary but lately by the Saracens either as the more ancient Authors will have it from the word Barbar which among those people signifieth Murmur or Grumbling because the Language of that place is like the condition of it discontented Or from Bar as our modern Writers assert it a Desart in that Language intimating the desolateness of the place before their replenishing or peopling of it It is in length from the Atlantick to the Streights fifteen hundred miles and in breadth from Mount Atlas to the Mediterranean an hundred in the Inland Countries but outwardly towards the Streights three hundred This Barbary is divided into four parts by most Geographers but it is well known by those that travel to consist of six parts viz. Cus or Chus Hea Hascora Duccala Morocco and Fez. The first is a long piece of barren ground of one hundred and almost eighty Italian miles The second coasts along as may miles upon the Atlantick to the very mouth of the Streights It 's sixty German miles long and fifty English miles broad Mountainous but well inhabited Hilly but plentiful with all manner of necessaries the highest places there being as well peopled as our Valleys here The third is large but wild and Mountainous useless rather from its inhabitants carelessness then its own nature The fourth is eminent for nothing but that great Temple or Mosche made all of VVhale-bones The fifth Morocco the Inhabitants whereof are called Moores from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in the Greek signisieth black or obscure and denotes either

work-men being divided into three posts commanded one by a Lieutenant and 30 men another by an Ensign and 18 men and the third by a Serjeant and 12. We made a six Pounder Gun to be carried to the outmost line at the Serjeants post and gave order that after all the Garrison should be in readiness and at the shooting of the said Gun should take arms which was accordingly executed at 12 a Clock at night and after the Gun was brought off all those outer Lines were sown with Chaustraps Cultrips or stories whereof we brought over 36000. and the avenues with Sowgards or hollis wherein was put Powder as in a Mine and Loaden above with Stones Granadoes and Swedes feathers were put into those farther posts Sunday the 14 precisely at twelve a clock in the day whenall the Officers were retired to dinner the ordinary Guards in the Retrenchments appeared in an instant Gaylands forces who had long attaqued our outmost Lines the Lieutenant Ensign and Serjeants Posts with three Regiments of Red and White Colours Black Colours one of a sort of Violet Colour seconded by a Regiment of Horse Our Souldiers surprised and amazed abandoned their Posts and left the Powder in the Sowguards with some Granadoes to the Enemy who pursued with incredible vigour the Souldiers towards the Town Mean time the great Body of Foot attaqued the great Redoubt and shewed more than ordinary resolution in standing firm before our Granadoes and fire In the Fort was Commander by his turn Major Ridgert with some forty men and to his succour came Lieutenant-Col Chun Voluntier and Captain Giles a Lieutenant in the Governours Regiment and several others Reformed Officers which Major Officers defended themselves most gallantly killing about 40 of the Moors The Chaustraps that were sown about all the Lines and the Redoubt in particular were of wonderful use and effect for the bare-footed Moors when they were pricked in the feet by them sitting down to pick them out were pricked behind Many both of Foot and Horse were so hurt Mean time the Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonels with the Officers commanded in case of Alarm to maintain the three Posts as also Col. Bridges with his Horse marched out repulsed most gallantly the Enemy took in all their Posts again and in the end the Enemy retired in great hast and disorder They lost as near as we can conjecture by taking off the dead for they never leave any bodies behind them if possible above 100 in all 14 being left within our Lines which they could not carry off and several others in the fields Colonel Norwood with all imaginable gallantry going to the outer point before the Redoubt and Captain Needham with him The said Captain did kill a Moor for his part and for his pains was shot himself thorow the arm in the flesh only We lost 14 killed in the field and twenty hurt with Horse and we suppose we had more of our men hurt from our inner Line and Walls than by the Enemy It is reported by the Portuguez and Jews that he had never lost so many men at any time They are men of order and resolution and have most excellent Fire-arms and Lances I had forgot to tell you that when the Horse charged us he that did command them was cloathed in Crimson Velvet who being killed they went all off immediately which maketh us suspect he was of eminent quality After this Encounter an Express was sent to complement Gayland who returned the Answer inclosed by one of his own domesticks who confesseth that our Crows feet or Chaustraps did their Foot great harm and that they have lost many men The Earl of Tiveots Letter to Gayland Written in Spanish THe King my Master having honoured me with the Command of this place I did not look for less courtesie than your Excellencie used with my Predecessor giving me the welcome but on the contrary your Excellencie stole from me the hour of eating in which visits are usually received Notwithstanding what is passed if your Excellencie doth incline to a better correspondence be it in peace or war you shall not find me less disposed or provided though it be at the same hour Valuing my self upon the Laws of Souldiery I shall bury the dead bodies you left behind you but if your Excellencie desire to bury them your self after you manner you may send for them God keep your Excellencie the many years that I desire Tangier June 14. Gaylands Letter to the Earl of Tiveot Written in Spanish Signed above in Arabick Letters I Received your Excellencies of the 14 currant in which you seem to complain that I did not bid you welcome whereas on the Contrary it belongs to me to do so Persons of your quality being accustomed in these parts to give notice of their arrival and not to dispose of any thing as your Excellency hath done in my Lands Notwithstanding I gave order to my Subjects that the occasion presenting it self they should give good quarter to your Excellencies as they did with the Centinel which they took the other day whom I charged them to use well As to the Correspondence it is well known how punctal I am in it of which you may be informed I did not expect less from your Excellencies courtesie than you have used to the dead for which I am insinitely obliged to you God keep your Excellency many years as I desire Postscript If your Excellency please to send any person or persons from you you may do it and this shall secure him which goes with my servant The Earl of Tiveots Reply I Received your Excellencies of the 15 currant the same Evening by the hands of your Servant who carries this back to you To which I answer That if there hath been any omission on my part as to the accustomed Civility of th●se Countries it was a sin of ignorance for which your Excellency hath sufficiently chastised I am beholden to you for the good quarter which your Excellency commanded to be given to the Souldiers your men took the other day if my good fortune gives me the same occasion I will pay it with Interest As to what concerns the Peace and good Correspondence between the King my Master and your Excellency there only wants a good disposition on your part as it hath been treated formerly with my Predecessor to which if your Excellency enclines signifying it to me I will send persons to effect it on my behalf God k●●p your Excellency many and happy years From Tangier June 16. 1663. Notwithstanding these Complements Gayland attempted a new Work of ours with 10000. Men but the most vigilant and excellent Governour had so warily supplyed the defects of that place by planting great Gun to annoy the Assailants that though the assault was very sharp the Enemy was beaten off and that with the loss of 900. men which entertainment they liked so ill that the Army was drawn off And thereupon the said