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A10231	Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... The fourth edition, much enlarged with additions, and illustrated with mappes through the whole worke; and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenius. By Samuel Purchas, parson of St. Martins by Ludgate, London.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.; Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd, 1205-1273. Taŕikh al-Muslimin. English.; Methold, William, 1590-1653.; Horsey, Jerome, Sir, d. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 20508.5; ESTC S111832	2,067,390	1,140

is King of the whole world hauing in the word Echad many superstitious subtilties that the letter Daleth in regard of his place in the Alphabet signifieth foure and the word Echad contayneth in numerall letters two hundred fortie and fiue whereunto adding three hael elohechem emes God our Lord is true they make vp the number of two hundred fortie and eight and so many members there are in mans bodie for euerie member a prayer secures them all And this verse thrice recited secureth against the ill spirit They esteeme it a holy prayer by which miracles may bee wrought and therefore vse it morning and euening They haue another prayer called Schone esre that is eighteene because it contayneth so many thankesgiuing which they say twice a day and the chiefe chanter of the Synagogue singeth it twice by himselfe They thinke by this prayer to obtaine remission of their sinnes They must pray it standing so that one foot must not stand more on the ground then the other like the Angels And their foote was a right foote When they come to those words in it Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts they leape vp three times aloft And hee say their Chachamim which speaketh a word during this prayer shall haue burning coales giuen him to eate after his death These eighteene thanksgiuings are for the eighteene bones in the chine or back-bone which must in saying hereof be bended After this followeth a prayer against the Iewes reuolted to Christianitie and against all Christians saying These which are blotted out that is reuolters shall haue no more hope and all vnbeleeuers shall perish in the twinkling of an eye and all thine enemies which hate thee O GOD shall be destroyed and the proud and presumptuous Kingdome shall quickly be rooted out broken layd euen with the ground and at last shall vtterly perish and thou shalt make them presently in our dayes obedient to vs Blessed art thou God which breakest and subduest them which are rebellious They call the Turkish Empire the Kingdome of Ismael the Roman Edomiticall proud c. They are themselues indeed exceeding proud impatient and desirous of reuenge The Talmud sayth That the lying spirit in the mouth of Achabs Prophets which perswaded him to goe and fall at Ramoth Gilead was none other but the spirit of Naboth whom hee had before flaine And Victor Carbensis a Christian Iew testifieth That there are not vnder heauen a more quarrelsome people themselues acknowledging the Christians farre meeker then themselues when they haue this Prouerb that the modestie of the Christians the wisedome and industrie of the Heathens and faith of the Iewes are the three pillers which sustaine the world But to returne to their deuotions After those other before mentioned followeth a prayer for the good sort for Proselytes reedifying of the Temple for sending the Messias and restauration of their Kingdome In the end they pray GOD to keepe them in peace and when they come to these words Hee that makes peace aboue shall make peace ouer all Israel Amen they goe backe three paces bow themselues downewards bend their head on the right hand then on the left if some Christian bee there with an Image they must not bow but lift vp their heart This they doe for honours sake not to turne their hinder parts on the Arke and thus they goe like Crabbes out of the Synagogue vsing certaine prayers not running but with a slow pace lest they should seeme glad that their Mattins were done Other their niceties in praying as laying the right hand on the left ouer the heart not spetting nor breaking winde vp or downe not interrupted by a King to cease prayer to shake his bodie this way and that way not to touch his naked bodie and to say Amen with all his heart for they that say Amen are worthie to say it in the world to come And therefore Dauid endeth a Psalme with Amen Amen signifying that one is to bee said heere and the other in the other world also in a plaine eminent place purged from all filth freed from the sight of women his face to the East standing his feet close together fixing his eyes on the ground eleuating the heart to heauen c. I hold it enough thus to mention Their praying to the East must be vnderstood from our Westerne parts because Ierusalem standeth that way for otherwise Rambam sheweth that Abraham prayed in Mount Moriah toward the West and the Sanctum Sanctorum was in the West which place also Abraham set forth and determined And because the Gentiles worshipped the Sunne toward the rising therefore Abraham worshipped Westward and appointed the Sanctuarie so to stand The Talmud saith Praying to the South bringeth wisdome toward the North riches I might heere also adde their Letanie and Commemoration of their Saints almost after the Popish fashion As thus for a taste Wee haue sinned before thee haue mercie on vs O Lord doe it for thy names sake and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for Abraham thy perfect one and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for him which was bound in thy porches to wit in Mount Moriah where the Temple was afterward builded and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for him which was heard in the ladder Iacob from thy high place and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for the merit of Ioseph thy holy one c. Lord doe it for him which was drawne out of the waters Moses and spare c. Lord doe it for Aaron the Priest with Vrim and Thummim Lord grant it for him that was zealous for thy name Phineas Lord doe it for the sweet Singer Dauid Lord doe it for him which built thine house They name not any but expresse him after this sort And then proceed in like manner with the titles attributes and workes of GOD. Doe it for thy Name Doe it for thy Goodnesse for thy Couenant thy Law thy Glorie c. in seuerall versicles And then to their Saints in a new passage Doe it for Abraham Isaac and Iacob Doe it for Moses and Aaron for Dauid and Salomon as if their combined forces should effect more then single Doe it for Ierusalem the holy Citie for Sion for the destruction of thy house for the poore Israelites for the bare Israelites for the miserable Israelites for the Widdowes and Orphans for the sucking and wained and if not for our sake yet for thine owne sake Then in another forme Thou which hearest the poore heare vs thou which hearest the oppressed heare vs Thou which heardest Abraham c. With renuing a commemoration of their Saints larger then before and after some repeating the diuine titles in another tune they oppose their Saint and wicked ones together as Remember not the lye of Achan but remember Iosua forgiuing him and remember Heli and Samuel and so on in a tedious length CHAP. XVI Of their Ceremonies at home after

in abomination presently The Samaritan if he meeteth a Iew Christian or Mahumetan he saith vnto them Touch me not Scaliger out of the Arabian Geographer telleth of an Iland still inhabited with these Samaritans in the red Sea which appeareth by their custome when any comes on shore forbidding to touch them This arrogant superstition remaineth with them The Samaritan Chronicle is cited by Eusebius Chron. graec l. 1. Scaliger saith hee had a copie of their great Chronicle translated out of Hebrew into Arabian but in Samaritan Letters It differeth somewhat from the Hebrew account The Iewes confound the Samaritans and Sadducees as if they were but one Sect The difference hath appeared for the Sadducees accept all the Bible the Samaritans Moses only The Sadducees denyed the soules immortalitie and reward The Samaritans in their Chronicle acknowledge both a place of reward and punishment after this life But whether they beleeue the Resurrection or no he doubteth The Sadducees denie Spirits Angels Diuels the Samaritans confesse them The Samaritans also vse still those ancient Letters called Phoenician which the Hebrewes vsed before the captiuitie which whoso listeth to view let him see their Characters and Scaligers large notes thereon in his Annotations vpon Eusebius Chronicle and a briefe of their Chronicle and Kalender therein written in his Emendation as before is said Which they beginne very Religiously after their manner In the name of Iah the GOD of Israel There is none like to Iah our GOD. One Iehoua GOD of GODS LORD of LORDS a great GOD strong and terrible There is none like to the GOD Ieschurun the GOD of ABRAHAM ISAAC IACOB IOSEPH and our Lord MOSES ELEAZAR and PHINEAS He confirme vnto you the blessing of our Lord MOSES IEHOVA GOD of our Fathers adde vnto you as many as yee are a thousand times and blesse you This inscription the great Synagogue of Garizim alwaies vse when they write to other Samaritan-Synagogues the Kalender of the yeere following They are very ignorant of Antiquities and know none other but that they came thither with Moses out of Aegypt neither can they tell any thing of the old Kings or defection of the ten Tribes vnder Ieroboam They lightly touch the names of Samson Samuel Dauid and others in their Chronicle which they call the booke of Iosue Ptolemaus Lagi conueyed Colonies of them into the Cities of Aegypt the Reliques whereof are those Samaritans which haue a Synagogue in the great Citie Cairo And those also in the Iland before mentioned In respect of the Mount Garizim the seate and Sanctuarie of their holies the Samaritans call themselues men which belong to the blessed Hill and still euery yeere they in Aegypt receiue from the great Synode of Garizim the type of the yeere following two of which Scaliger had seene and hath expressed one of them The Samaritans were diuided also into diuers sects as Epiphanius rehearseth One whereof were called Dositheans if it be lawfull to reckon them Samaritans which acknowledged as Epiphanius acknowledgeth of them the Resurrection of the dead They abstaine from such things as haue life some of them from marriage after they haue beene before married and some continue in Virginitie They obserue circumcision and the Sabbath and they touch no man but hold euery man in abomination Report goeth also of their fasting and exercises They had name of Dositheus who being a Iew and hauing well profited in their Law but not receiuing promotion sutable to his ambition reuolted to the Samaritans and hatched this sect amongst them And when afterwards in a singularitie he had gone aside into a Caue and there mewed vp himselfe and persisted in hypocrisie and fasting he there died as the fame goeth through his wilfull want of bread and water After a few daies some resorting to him found his dead body crawling with wormes and compassed with flies Of this name Dositheus there were diuers Two of them liued after the comming of Christ One a Iew sonne of R. Iannai the other a Samaritan which endeuoured to perswade his Countrimen that he was the Christ which Moses had prophecied of as Origen reporteth and saith of him are the Dositheans named Another is mentioned in Iohasin who liued in the time of Christ the Disciple of Sammai And before these was another Dosthai the sonne also of Iannas of whom it is said in Ilmednu that Senacherib sent R. Dostha to Samaria to teach the Samaritans the Law This seemeth to be he whom before out of Epiphanius wee haue called Esdras the first founder of the Samaritan heresie And so Tertullian saith of him Dositheus the Samaritan was the first that reiected the Prophets as not hauing spoken by the holy Ghost The like testimonie Hierome giueth of him His colleague and companion is said to be one Sebua the supposed author of the Sebuaeans In Ilmedenu he is called Sebaia or Sebuia Dositheus also taught that how and in what position of body he was in the Sabbath morning in the same he ought to continue all that day without change of gesture or place that if he did sit he should sit in the same place all day long and so of lying or other habit of body The Author of this Dosithean Sect properly so called liued as Scaliger thinketh about or at the destruction of the Temple and could not be that first Dustai or Dosthai The Sebuaeans you haue heard in Drusius opinion haue their name of Sebuia the companion of Dosthai sent by Senacherib or rather by Esarhaddon which if it be so it seemeth this Sect is ancient haply nothing differing from the other Samaritans Epiphanius maketh a difference but the cause he alledgeth was the Iewes refusall of their helpe at Ierusalem which was common to all the Samaritans The difference he alledgeth is the transposing of their solemnities for that quarrell betwixt them and the Iewes from the Iewish times so that they kept their Passe-ouer in August which they made the beginning of their yeere Pentecost in Autumne and that of Tabernacles when the Iewes kept their Passe-ouer neither might they sacrifice in Garizim obseruing such differing solemnities Scaliger whom I shame not thus often to name in relation of these things too intricate for mine owne or for common wits to finde both in his Treatise against Serarius cap. 1. and 21. and in his Canons Isagog lib. 3. dissenteth from Epiphanius saying that they dissented not from the other Samaritans but that the name was a common name which the Iewes ascribed to the Samaritans It signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Weekers Which name they gaue them because that euerie weeke betweene the Passe-ouer and Pentecost they obserued that day of the weeke in which the computation of the fiftie daies beganne with as great solemnitie as the feast of Pentecost it selfe This day from which the reckoning beganne was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the second because

away and they dyed whence came that custome of saluting and praying well to men in neezing The strangling of Achitophel they also interpret of this neezing farewell The fourth dayes fast is for Women which are with childe or giue sucke but the Tuesday and Wednesday in likelyhood were not ordinarie as the other Sunday might not bee thus honoured being the Christian Sabbath and Friday was the preparatiue to their owne Those two dayes are generally halfe holy-dayes Assembling earely in their Synagogues besides their ordinarie prayers they annexe many other Among others they vse one Prayer called Vchurachum of miraculous effect as appeared in Vespatians time who committing three Ships full of Iewes without Oare or Mariner to the wide Seas which arriued in three seuerall regions Louanda Arlado Burdeli worke for Geographers Those which arriued in this last port by tyrannicall Edict of the King were to be tryed whether they were true Iewes as Hananias Misael and Azarias made proofe of their Religion Whereupon three dayes being required as they said Nebuchadnezzar had granted them wherein to betake themselues to fasting and prayer in this time of respite three deuout Iewes Ioseph Beniamin and Samuel inuened each of them a prayer which they ioyned into one and continued in praying the same three dayes at the end whereof they cast themselues into the fire and there continued till it was consumed Hence arose this ordinance euery Munday and Thursday to vse the same prayer which is this And hee is mercifull and pardoning sinne doth not destroy the sinner Hee often turneth his anger from vs and doth not kindle all his wrath Thou O my God suffer me not to want thy mercie let thy gentlenesse and truth keepe mee alwayes Helpe vs O God our God and gather vs from the Gentiles c. for their restitution as in other their prayers and destruction of their enemies the Christians After this they prostrate themselues on their faces as before with many other orisons to the like effect §. II. Of their Law-Lectures THeir solemne ceremonie of the Law-lecture followeth In all their Synagogues they haue the fiue bookes of Moses written in great letters on Parchments of Calues-skins sowed together in length which at both ends are fastened to pieces of wood by which the booke may be lifted and carried This booke is kept in an Arke or Chest set in some wall of the Synagogue Before the doores of the Arke is a hanging of Tapestrie more or lesse precious according to the qualitie of their Feasts and for the most part wrought with Bird-worke The booke is wrapped in a linnen-cloath wrought with Hebrew words without that is hanged about some other cloath of Linnen Silke Veluet or Gold to which is fastened a plate of Siluer by a chayne of Gold vpon the which is written The crowne of the Law or holinesse of the Lord Then goeth one about crying Who will buy Gelilah etzchaijm This is an office whereby they are authorized to handle those pieces of wood and to open the booke of the Law Hee which giueth most for it hath it the money is reserued for the poore The pieces of wood are called etzchaijm tree of life according to Salomon Wisedome is a tree of life to them that lay holde thereon When the chiefe Chanter hath taken out the booke and goeth with it into the Pulpit they all sing out of Num. 10.35 Arise O Lord and let thine enemies bee scattered and let them that hate thee flye before thee And out of Esay 2.3 Many people shall goe and say Come let vs ascend to the mount of the Lord to the house of the God of IACOB and hee shall teach vs his wayes and wee will walke in his pathes for the Law shall goe out of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem When this Praecentor layeth the booke on his arme hee saith Magnifie the Lord with mee and let vs exalt his name together to which all the people answer Exalt yee the Lord our God and bow before his foot-stoole for it is holy exalt yee the Lord our God and bow to the mountaine of his holinesse for Iehouah our God is holy There vpon a Table couered with silke hee layeth downe the booke and he which hath bought the Office taketh from it the cloathes wherein it is wrapped Then these two call some one of the Congregation by his owne and his Fathers name who commeth foorth and kisseth the booke not on the bare Parchment for that were a sinne but on the cloathes which couer it and taking it by those pieces of wood saith aloud Praise the Lord c. Blessed bee thou O Lord who hast chosen vs before any other people and giuen vs thy Law Blessed bee thou O God the Law-giuer Then the Praecentor readeth a Chapter out of the booke and then hee which was called foorth with like kissing and blessing returneth Then another is called foorth and doth likewise After him another who had need bee of strong armes for hee lifteth vp and carrieth this booke that all may see it all crying This is the Law which Moses gaue to the Israelites This Office is called Hagbahah and is sold as the former The women meane-while contend amongst themselues in this Synagogue by some Lattice to haue a sight of the Law for the women haue a Synagogue apart seuered with Lattices so besides their pretence of modestie to fulfill the saying of Zacharie The family of Dauid shall mourne apart and their wiues apart c. If he which carrieth the booke should stumble or fall it were ominous and should portend much euill These two Officers fold vp the booke as before and then come all and kisse the same and then it is carried to his place with singing After this they end their Prayers as at other times saying Lord leade mee in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies direct thy way before me And The Lord keepe my going out and comming in from henceforth for euer Which they also say when they goe foorth on a iourney or to worke §. III. Of the Iewish Sabbath THey prepare themselues to the obseruation of their Sabbath by diligent prouision on the Friday before night of the best meates well dressed especially the women prouide them good Cakes They honour the Sabbath with three bankets first on the Friday night when their Sabbath beginneth another on the Sabbath day at noone the third before sunne-set Eate yee it to day to day is the Sabbath of the Lord to day yee shall not find it Manna in the field do you not see To day thrice mentioned and therefore by Moses owne ordaining that Manna must so often bee eaten on the Sabbath The richest Iewes and most learned Rabbins disdaine not some or other office at chopping of hearbs kindling the fire or somewhat toward this preparation The Table remaineth couered all that night and day They wash and if need

goe vnto Armillus with three hundred thousand Ephraimites carrying with him the booke of the Law and when he comes at him hee shall reade out of the same this sentence I am the Lord thy God thou shalt haue none other Gods in my sight Armillus shall reply that there is no such sentence in their Law and therefore they should acknowledge him for God as well as the Gentiles Then shall Nehemias ouerthrow two hundred thousand of Armillus his Armie whereat Armillus shall bee so wrathfull that hee shall assemble all his forces into a deepe valley and there shall destroy with many other Israelites this Nehemias But the Angels shall take and hide him that Armillus may not know of his death lest hee should not leaue one of Israel liuing All Nations shall then expell the Israelites and such affliction shall befall them as neuer since the beginning of the world At this time shall the Angell Michael come foorth and seperate the wicked from Israel as writeth Daniel They which remaine shall flye into the desart and for fiue and fortie dayes space liue with grasse and leaues and hearbes but all the wicked Israelites shall dye Armillus shall after subdue Aegypt and shall turne thence against Ierusalem and seeke againe to waste it These things after their manner they fable out of the eleuenth and twelfth of Daniel The eighth Miracle is the arising of Michael who three times shall winde his great horne Es 27.23 and Zach. 9.14 At the first sound the true Messias Ben Dauid and Elias the Prophet shall shew themselues to those deuout Israelites in the desarts of Iuda who shall then gather courage and all the Iewes in the world shall heare this sound and shall confesse GODS deliuerance and all that haue beene led captiue into Assyria shall assemble together The same horne shall strike feare and diseases into the Christians and other people Now shall the Iewes make great iourneyes towards Ierusalem and together with Elias and Messias shall come thither with ioy Armillus hearing this in his proud furie shall re-assemble his Christians against the Messias and Ierusalem But GOD not suffering his people to fall out of one trouble into another shall say to the Messias Come place thy selfe at my right hand and to the Israelites Bee still and wait for the great succour of the Lord this day And then shall GOD rayne fire and brimstone from Heauen as Ezekiel reporteth wherewith Armillus and his Armie shall dye and The house of Iacob shall bee as fire and the house of Ioseph as a flame and the house of Esau the Idumaean Atheists which destroyed GODS house as stubble At the second sound or blast of this horne of Michael the graues at Ierusalem shall open and the dead arise and Messias Ben Dauid with Elias shall reuoke into life that Messias Ben Ioseph and the Israelites shall send Messias Ben Dauid into all Countries of the Iewes dispersion to cause them to come to Ierusalem and the Nations with whom they are shall bring them in their Chariots and on their shoulders The last Miracle is the third time of Michaels winding his horne when GOD shall bring foorth all the Iewes which are by the Riuers Gosan Lachbach Chabor and in the Cities of Iuda and they without number or measure shall with their Infants enter into the Paradise of Moses and the ground before them and behind them shall be meere fire which shall leaue no sustenance to the Christians And when the ten Tribes shall depart out of the Nations then the piller of the cloud of Diuine glory shall compasse them and GOD shall goe before them and shall open to them the fountaines flowing from the tree of Life Esa 49.10 I might adde to these miracles that of the Asse which Abraham rode on when hee went to sacrifice his sonne which Moses also vsed when he returned into Aegypt and some say Balaams Asse was the same this shall the Messias ride on according to Zacharies Prophesie Zach. 9.5 Against these ten miraculous signes fore-shewing Messias his comming the most being full of troubles they haue ten consolations first The certaintie of Messias comming secondly That hee shall gather them from all places of the dispersion Ierem. 31.8 but the Lame there mentioned shall bee so cured that They shall leape as Harts c. thirdly GOD will raise vp the dead fourthly GOD will erect a third Temple according to the figure of that in Ezekiel 41. fiftly That the Israelites shall then raigne ouer all the earth Esa 60.12 yea all the world shall bee subiect to the Law Soph. 3.9 sixtly GOD will destroy all their enemies Ezek. 25.14 seuenthly GOD will take from them all diseases Esa 33.24 eightly GOD will prolong their liues that they shall liue as long as an Oake Esa 65.22 and as in the times from Adam to Noe ninthly They shall see God face to face Esa 40.5 and They all shall Prophesie Ioel. 2.28 tenthly GOD shall take away from them all euill concupiscence and inclination to euill Ezek. 36.26 Thus farre out of the booke Abhkas Rochel §. II. Iewish tales of monstrous Birds Beasts Fishes and Men. THeir cheere in these dayes shall bee the greatest Beasts Birds and Fishes which GOD ouer created and no other wine then that which grew in Paradise and was kept in Adams Celler till that time the great Oxe Behemoth mentioned in Iob and Psal. 50.10 All the Beasts of the wood are mine and the beasts feeding on a thousand hills that is Behemoth which euery day feedeth on a thousand hills But lest this deuouring beast should consume all the hills in the world they tell you that hee is a stalled Oxe still abiding in the same place and what hee eateth in the day groweth againe in the night The huge Whale Leuiathan or as they pronounce it Lipiasan must honour also this Feast of this they write in the Talmud that to preuent filling the world with these huge monsters GOD gelded the male Leuiathan and the female is slaine and preserued in pickle for the iust to be eaten in the times of the Messias Esay 27. The male Behemoth was gelded also and the female was stored vp for this feast Elias Leuita reporteth of a huge huge Bird also called Bariuchne to bee rosted at this feast of which the Talmud saith that an egge sometime falling out of her nest did ouerthrow and breake downe three hundred tall Cedars with which fall the egge being broken ouerflowed and carryed away sixtie Villages Wee will haue the Whetstone before we part R. Barchannah saw a Frogge as big as Akra a village of sixtie housholds then came a huger Serpent and swallowed that huge Frogge Lastly the hugest hugest Crow that euer the Rabbine saw flew and deuoured these both and flying away sate on a tree which tree sure could not be lesse then the three hundred Cedars before mentioned if this Crow were but as bigge as

after carryed prisoner by the Turke to Constantinople where hee dyed Besides these of the posterity of Tamerlan there were other Princes in Persia and the parts adioyning as those of the factions of Blacke Sheepe and White Sheepe Of the former was Kara Issuf which conquered Tauris Sultania Casbin and the countries of Seruan and Diarbech but dying was spoyled to his shirt of his Souldiers yea they cut off his eares for his iewells and left him in the open field Charrok held long warres with Scander and Iooncha his sonnes the latter of which after many conquests was slaine by Acembec and Acen Aly his sonne and successour and thus the White Sheepe faction preuayled Ozun Acembec or Vusun-Casan the head thereof of the Tarcoman Nation heire of Diarbech and Lord of many Prouinces which hee conquered as before is noted but defeated by Mahumet the great Turke He dyed Anno 1471. His sonne Calil succeeded who was slaine by his brother Iacob or Yacub whose wife bearing dishonest affection to one of the Court sought by the murther of her husband to aduance this Courtier to her husbands bed and Empire And hauing conueyed venome into a golden cup presents her husband the same to drinke who somewhat suspecting her caused her to begin himselfe and his sonne following her both in dinking and dying And thus was Persia by the wickednesse of one woman made the Stage of ciuill warres whiles the chiefe Nobles sought each to possesse himselfe of the State which at last after fiue or sixe yeeres war befell to Alumut or Eluan-beg then being but fourteene yeere old who was slaine by Ismael in the yeere 1499. And thus yee haue had the succession of the Persian Kings in the first and second Dynastie of the Saracens you heard in the former Booke next after whom the Tartars and these here mentioned till Ismael obtayned the state whose posterity still hold it Beniamin Tudelensis telleth that Senigar then King of Persia had two and fortie Kingdomes subiect to him and that his Dominion extended foure moneths iourney and speaketh as though hee were not subiect to the Caliph in his temporalities Master Polo reckons eight Kingdomes of Persia Casibin Curdistan Lor Suolistan Spaan Siras Soncaia Timocaim not reckoning Hirak the chiefe Citie wherof was Tauris and diuers other Countries now and before his time subiect to the Persian And by most Historians it appeareth that Persia had before the dayes of Tangrolopix and till the Tartars conquest Sultans which yeelded small subiection to the Chaliphs §. III. Of Ismael Sofi first founder of the present Persian Empire or fifth Dynastie THe Historie of Ismael because it giueth much light both into the State and Religion of Persia is more fully to be reported After that Mustacen Mumbila or Almustacenbila Abdula the Caliph of Bagdet had bin by the Tartars done to death in the yeere after Haithonus account 1258. about the yeere 1369. there arose in Persia a Nobleman called Sophi Lord of the Citie Ardouil reporting himselfe to be of the bloud of Alle or Hali descended from Musa Cazin or Cersin one of the twelue sonnes as is said of Hocem thirteene descents distant This Sophi or as our Tarik Mirkond aforesaid calls him Cheque Safy had issue Cheque Mucha the father of Cheque Ali who begate Cheque Ebrahem and he Sultan Iuneyd father of Cheque Aydar who begate Ismael These continued their Hali-holies Our Authors mention none from Sophi to Iuneyd whom they make his sonne calling him Guinne otherwise written Guini Guine and Giunet Minadoi saith That Sexchiuni or more distinctly Siec Giunet was Authour of the Persian sect who vnder the name of So and of Siec that is of a wise man and an Author of Religion or rather vnder the pretence of holinesse began to perswade the people that the three first successors of Mahomet were vsurpers onely Ali ought to be named lawfull successor and ought to be called vpon in their prayers and by all meanes ro be honoured From this time forward the Sepulchre of Ali and his sonnes in Cafe grew in great credit and was visited euery yeere after the same sort that the Turks visit the Sepulchre of the other three and the Kings of Persia vsed there to bee crowned and girt with their sword and their great Calife there kept his residence Because this Case was neere Babylon hence grew the common error that these things were done at Babylon or Bagdet Iouius also is deceiued where he maketh Arduelle or Aidere author of the Persian faction Sofi is by Minadoi deriued of Sofiti a people subdued by Alexander but Scaliger more fitly Tzophi which in Arabike signifieth a man of pure Religion In this respect there is no lesse contention betweene these other Muhammedans then betweene the Samaritans and the Iewes so that the Persians are a kinde of Catharists or Puritans in their impure Muhammedrie Claudet Duret mentioneth another Etymologie that Sophi signifieth Wooll and that this profession in token of humilitie wearing nothing on their heads more precious then wooll were so called But the former deriuation is more probable Nic. Nicolai in his third Booke hath also that woollen deriuation and Geffrey Ducket saith that Sophi signifieth a Begger and that the King is not there in Persia so called but Shaugh which agreeth with their report which say that Ismael renewed or continued the name Sofi or Sofiti but his successors leauing that and the name of Siec haue retayned onely the Title of Saha which some write Shaugh some Xa a Royall title communicated by the head of this superstition to those Kings which participate with them therein Ioseph Scaliger saith that Sa or Scha is the same with Monsieur among the French and Don among the Spaniards The Iewes and Arabians write it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is sometimes set before the name as in the present King Scha Habas sometime comes after as Melixa for Melic-scha Barrius begins this pedigree at the father of Giunet or Guine so he calls him and not as Minadoi with Guinet himselfe He addeth That for the Ensigne Character or Cognisance of his Sect he ordayned that in the midst of their Turbant which they weare with many folds there should arise a sharpe top in manner of a Pyramis diuided into twelue parts in remembrance of Ali his twelue sonnes from the top to the bottome They vsed the colour Red on their heads saith Minadoi by ordinance of Arduelle and therefore were called Cheselbas that is Red-heads some write it Cuselbas Sophi as Mirkond affirmeth was holden in such reputation of holinesse by Tamerlane that he came to visit him as a Saint and at his request set free 30000. slaues which he had taken in the warres against Baiazat to whom Cheque Sophi gaue apparell and other necessaries and sent them home to their houses whereby hee wan great fame and affection Barrius

possessed the Throne which Almahadi in a great battell recouered Anno 404. but lost it soone after with his life and Isen was restored Alhameri was made Alhagiber Viceroy The Countrey was spoyled and neere Corduba almost dispeopled by Barbarians Zuleman also and Almahadis Sonne in diuers parts doing much harme against whem Isen hired Earle Sarcius restoring six Castles to him which Almanzor had taken Zuleman wan Corduba and Isen fled into Africa Now was all in combustion Ali Alcazin Hyahye Cazim Mahomet Abderramen Mahomet Hyahya Iris Isen successiuely starting in and out of the Throne so that the Kingdome of Corduba failed and euery man made himselfe Master of his charge and vsurped what he could The Ommian Race fayling the Almorauides of Africa An. 484. possessed the Kingdome Ioseph Sonne of Tessephin being called to helpe one against the other and taking all into his owne dominion He made Morocco his Seat Royall Ali his Sonne succeeded and Tessephim his Sonne was deposed An. 539. The Almoades extinguished the Almorauides After many changes and chances the Realme of Granado was erected which continued aboue two hundred and fifty yeeres vnder these Kings successiuely Mahomet Alen Alhamar Mir Almus Aben Azar Aben Leuin Ismael Mahumet Ioseph Lagus Mahumet Mah. Guadix Ioseph Balua Ioseph Aben Azar Mah. the little Ioseph M. Aben Ozmen Ismael Muley Alboracen Mah. Boabdelin Muley Boabdelin expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella A. 1492. A Relation of the Kings of Barbary after the ending of the Egyptian Chalifas to the present Xeriffian Family taken out of a Spanish Booke of that argument ABtilhac was the first King Merin in Fez He had Sonnes A Bucar and Iacob Bucar the which Iacob was Lord of Ramatto and Abtilhac left his Kingdome in his life time to his Sonne Bucar Bucar had for Sonne Yahia This Bucar ouercame King Abtolcader and dyed in the battell and he said Yahia was King vnder protection of his Vncle Iacob which was Lord of Ramatto Yahia dyed a child without issue and the said Iacob Bucar his Vncle remayned King which afterward caused himselfe to be called Muley Xeh which signifieth old King This King built new Fez which is called the white Citie hee ouercame Budebuz King of Marweccos and sometimes was Lord of Tremesen Tumbe and Sojumenza and in the yeere of our Lord 1264. he entred Spaine being called by the King of Granado Hee had three Sonnes Abuçait Aben Iacob and Aben Iucef Abuçait Abuçayt after that his father had gained Tremezen was left for King there he had one Son a child whose name is not knowne and Abuhamo begotten vpon a Christian woman Abuçait reigning in Tremezen his father Iacob Aben Iucef dyed and his younger Son Aben Iacob reigned in his steed in Marweccos Sojumenza and Algarue and besieged Tremezen against his brother Abuçait and the said Aben Iacob left two Sonnes Abucale and Aliborregira which afterward was drowned by Aborabec Abucalec the eldest Sonne of Aben Iacob had a Sonne called Abuhumer who dyed and was neuer King himselfe But left two Sons Botheyd and Aborabec both which were Kings Abuçait dying at the end of foure yeeres left as I said before two Sonnes the eldest for vnderstanding we call the Old who reigned a yeere and a halfe after the death of his father and dyed without issue and Abuhamo which afterward was King in his steed The foresaid child being dead his brother Abuhamo reigned in his steed who afterward was called Abuhertab and his Vncle Aben Iacob besieged him in Tremezen seuen yeeres after whose death the siege was raysed and the said Abuhamo afterward with the ayde of D. Iayme of Aragon gained Ceuet in the yeere of our Lord 1310. After that Aben Iacob was dead his Sonne Abucalee tooke possession of the new Citie but his Vncle for hatred that he bore him caused them to receiue for King Botheyd who was Sonne vnto Abuhamer that dyed and neuer had beene King himselfe and the said Botheyd pursued Abucalee and slue him and reigned after him Botheyd after that his Vncle had saluted him for King dyed without issue After that Botheyd was dead the Christians raysed his brother Aborabe for King Then the Moores would haue had Ali Berregira King younger Sonne to Aben Iacob which was the sixt King and so after much warres betweene them at length Aborabee ouercame him and commanded him to bee drowned And after Aborabee had reigned two yeeres he dyed without issue After Aborabee dyed his great Vncle Aben Iucef Abuçayt was made King in Fez hee had two Sonnes Abohali and Abuhaçen This Aben Iucef Abuçait gained many Cities in Spaine in the yeere of our Lord 1318. and 1322. Albohali wounded his father in the warres and made himselfe to bee called King of Fez and his father being sicke besieged him and they came to agreement that his father should giue him Sojumensa and the halfe of the treasure of Fez and his father should remayne with Marweccos Algarue and Fez The said Albohali had two Sonnes Buzayn and Bahamon Albuhazen was receiued for King in the life of his father for his brother Albohali was disinherited for wounding his father This Albuhaçen had three Sonnes Abtulmalic Abtolrahmin and Abuhenan he was King of Fez Marueccos Algarue Sojumenza Tremezen and Tunes Abtulmalic was King of Algezira he past into Spaine in the yeere of our Lord 1340. and was ouercome by the Christians which they call La victoria del salido and in the warres of Xeres hee dyed Abtolramin his other brother rose with the Citie Mequines and his Father cut off his head Abuhenan rose with the Kingdome of Fez and fought against his father Albuhaçen ouercame him he made in Fez the Colledge which is called The Colledge of Abuhenan He had three Sonnes Muley Buçayt and Muley Zaet and Iacob Abuçayt sent his brother Zaet to succour Gibraltar who was taken Prisoner by the Kings of Granada and Abuçayt was killed by his owne subiects leauing one Sonne called Abtilhac Zaet vnderstanding the death of his brother got liberty and ayde of the King of Grada and recouered Fez After the death of Zaet Abtilhac Sonne of Abuçayt was King who was slaine by treason by one of his owne subiects who thought to vsurpe the Kingdome but Zaet Benimerine next heire vnto Abtilhac recouered it againe by force of armes within few moneths and put to death the Vsurper Zaet left for heires two Sonnes Muley Mahamet and Muley Nacer Muley Mahamet succeeded his father in the Kingdome and had two Sonnes to wit Muley Ahmat and Muley Naçant Muley Ahmat succeeded his father and had one Daughter called Lalalu which was forced to marry with the Xarife and dyed without issue for griefe of the death of her father and three Sonnes Muley Bucar which dyed in the warre when King Buhason recouered Fez and Muley Muhamet and Muley Alcasery which was King vpon conditions in the absence of his