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england_n	ambassador_n	king_n	send_v	11,843	5	6.7045	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29712	Barbarian cruelty being a true history of the distressed condition of the Christian captives under the tyranny of Mully Ishmael, Emperor of Morocco, and King of Fez and Macqueness in Barbary : in which is likewise given a particular account of his late wars with the Algerines, the manner of his pirates taking the Christians and others, his breach of faith with Christian princes, a description of his castles and guards, and the places where he keeps his women, his slaves and negroes : with a particular relation of the dangerous escape of the author and two English men more from thence, after a miserable slavery of ten years / by Francis Brooks.	Brooks, Francis.	1693 (1693)	Wing B4973; ESTC R2320	34,364	144

though if any of the rest if it be the greatest among them be found in the like Case if he comes to the knowledg of it he 'l kill them His Guards about him are made up of Negro Boys of fourteen sixteen or eighteen Years old If he calls for the greatest Man in his Country about the least Crime they presently run like so many Hounds and they come Collering of him as if he were a Bullock to be slaughtered When he 's hal'd so before the Emperor he either kills him or he 's beaten or put in Irons and thrown into Prison and after this manner he governs his own People When he had Business with our Nation and asked Advice of the Chief of his own Country none durst say his Concerns would go Well or Ill for fear he would dislike what they said although he would often require them to do it So he first gives his own Judgment of the Matter and they say as he does He is seldom true to his Word having cheated most Kings and Princes that have had any thing to do with him as in the Case of the Algerines who made him pay dearly for it Whilst I was there he made Peace with Holland and France but soon broke it taking since that time several Dutch and French Ships making Slaves of their Subjects If he swears one thing to Day he 'l swear quite another on the Morrow Yet he did not out-wit notwithstanding his Falshood and Treachery the King of Spain's Ambassador who surrendred not one of the Moors till the Christians were got into the Spanish Garison If any Christian King or Prince sends an Ambassadour to this Emperor as in my Time there have been from England Spain and France when they come thither he makes them wait a considerable time And he 's so high in his own Conceit that except they be Persons of Quality he regards them not and when they come before him he 'l be either in his Stable or on Horseback or sitting on an heap of Earth and so speaks to them by an Interpreter and he will not allow a Penny towards their Charges nor any Place to lodg in be they who they will and so sends for several of the White-men being Bashaws or Governours the chiefest of his Country who dare not for their Lives be Judges to speak otherwise than what he says first for fear of him About twelve Years since he sent an Ambassadour over to our late King Charles the Second to Congratulate his Majesty and Treat with him for Peace or the like and in the mean time sent out his Pirats to take our English Ships Our King not thinking him to be so false sent him a Present over by Hammet Benhado the Emperor's Ambassador who is now as barbarous to the poor Christians as any belonging to the Emperor He never goes to rest but when dead Sleep overcomes him and make him so drowsy that he can't hold up his Head and as he goes to rest he often kills one or other of his Negroes at home as well as abroad Then in one of his Rooms in the Castle he lies down on a kind of Quilt on the Ground and sleeping that Night he rises early in the Morning and falls to his old Tyrannous and Inhumane Practices domineering over his poor Slaves and sets the Negroes to whip stone and beat them to work harder than many times it 's possible for them to think they can hold out or endure till Night The poor Christians the English Captives daily praying to God if it be his Will to support them in this distressed Condition and to keep them and deliver them from under this miserable Oppression they are under and restrain the Hands of that bloody Tyrant And when they think of their Native Country and the Government thereof they cannot but greatly lament their own Condition erecting their Prayers to Heaven for the Preservation of their own King and Country and that God would be pleased to open their Hearts to remember them in this sad and deplorable Condition Thus bemoaning one another they commit their Case to him who is the wise Disposer and Orderer of all things without whose Permission nothing can be acted or done who can in his due Time grant them Relief On Fridays the Emperor goes to his Place of Worship having first viewed his Slaves being of several sorts both Christians Negroes and a sort of People called Brabboes the last sort being Natives of the Country which he suppresseth so much that they are not able to pay him Taxes keeping them at as hard Slavery as the rest If he kills none in the Morning before he goes to Worship they dread him for fear he will at his return he rides thither and back again going about Eleven of the Clock and returns about One against which time the poor Slaves order one or another to watch and are in as great fear when they see him as if they must all be destroyed and they all work more hard that day than all the rest of the Week He killed seven and twenty Moors on one day but there 's none can tell the several thousands of poor Souls this unmerciful Tyrant hath slain since his Reign which is now about two and twenty Years For his Women I think he knows not the number of them he hath so many both Whites Blacks Mollatoes and Copper-colour'd and for Apparel they have a piece of Silk of a Red or Yellow Colour which they wear over their Heads They wear Shifts or Smocks made of fine Linnen big enough to make two Shifts and fine Drawers that will reach down to their Heels which are open or slit in the middle and their upper Garment is fine Flannel and a Silk Girdle about their middle upon each of their Breasts they wear Silver or Gold Pins with which they fasten their upper Garment and upon the Wrists of their Hands they wear on each a Silver Shackle and likewise upon the Small of their Legs and on their Feet red Slippers He hath store of Children of several Colours He hath built within his Castle fine Dwellings for himself to live and lodg in and for his Women he hath built very fine Houses two Courts very sumptuous in the bigger of them are seventy two Marble Pillars each at least three foot thick to support the fine painted Works above in the middle of the greater Court is a Marble Cistern with curious Spring-Water which springs or boils up in the middle thereof and comes from a Fountain about two Miles from the Castle If he desires to lie with any of his Women he sends an Eunuch to fetch whom he pleases she being come he lies with her after that he bids her begone being as inhumane in this as in the rest of his Actions and away she goes lest he kill her He allows his Women a quantity of Flower and sends his Eunuchs to measure it them out and sometimes goes to look over them