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A47282
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A letter sent by the Emperor of Morocco and King of Fez to His Majesty of Great Britain, and delivered by his embassador in January, 1681
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Ismāʻīl, Sultan of Morocco, d. 1727.
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1682
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Wing K347; ESTC R229535
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A LETTER Sent by the Emperor of Morocco And KING of FEZ To his MAJESTY of Great BRITAIN And delivered by his Embassador in January 1681. In the name of the most Gracious God the Lord over all Lords FRom the Servant of the most High God Governour over all the People ISMAEL KERIFF over-flowing with Good Deeds He the high Commands of God and of the Angels regarding but of none other He that has Millions of Horses at his Command sendeth Peace to them that follow Truth We have understood by way of TANGIER that we are in perfect Friendship and that the Peace is concluded over all our Countries and therefore the Letter that we have sent is to confirm the Peace and the Treaty that we have made with you for we desire to have a Trade with you but let us not make the same Terms as we had in the beginning of the War wherein so many dyed by the Sword when we were Enemies but let our Enemies dye We have slain such as have run away from us to you but you have not done the same For the Second Article is That if any Renegado shall run away from us to TANGIER you shall be obliged to send him back again And for your security in this Treaty we have sent unto you our Servant HERDV for the management of it and our joy at it shall be like the thing that begins to grow and I who am the Tree send you one of my Branches which I recommend to you as if it were the Tree itself and we have strictly charged him what he shall say to you Look upon him as yo would do upon my self that which he shall do shall be well done and you shall value it as a thing that comes from Heaven We heartily desire you to write to us Neither our Customs or Habits are like yours If you will build any thing on our Ground we will pull it down and we shall do our selves right We have amongst us some Christians that understand themselves and are more esteemed than our own Servants they have Eagles Eyes but hate us and our belief and therefore are a Scandal to us He that values our Honour honoureth God And because it is our desire that you should receive something from us we have sent you Thirty Ostriches out of the Desert and we expect that you should furnish us with Six Thousand pieces of Eight yearly As for TANGIER we stand in no manner of fear of it and after the Ratification of the Peace all Hostility betwixt us shall cease ISMAEL Son of the beloved KERIFF Descended from God POSTSCRIPT WHereas immediately after the arrival of his Excellency the Embassador from FEZ and MOROCCO there was published a LETTER from the Emperor of Morocco to the King of England this is to undeceive the Reader that that was only a Copy of an old LETTER Reprinted sent from one of their former Emperors to King CHARLES the First of ever-blessed Memory and that this is the Letter brought by the present Embassador to His Majesty whom God long preserve LONDON Printed for H. Jones 1682.