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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

Governour as happy to improve Advantages as resolute to gain them sent a Letter to Gayland to let him know That his Master the King of Great Britain as he wanted neither Resolution nor Ability to manage his just Right in that Garrison so he was so great a Friend to Peace that he would be ready to entertain a better Correspondency with his Excellency Which seconded with the Defeat then only you oblige the unworthy when you can awe them prevailed so much upon the Usurper that he sent Messengers for a Treaty which had so fair a progress that both Parties came to an Agreement Indeed so ill was Gaylands success so great our progress in Fortifications such convenience we had for fresh Air and fresh Victualls that we were in a plight if it had been thought fit to have sent Sir John Lawson to do as much by Sea as we could do by Land to shut up the Havens and Towns of Sallee and Tituan and batter A●sella to the ground Every day put us in a better state both of freedom and security having by our late Treaty gained a six Months Peace which did exceedingly conduce to our settlement At our first arrival a Flux troubled us but within six Months our temper agreed exceedingly well with the temper of the Climate August 24. 1663. The Vigilancy Courage and Conduct of the Earl of Tiveot moved Gayland in his own Expression to require a Peace which although concluded but for six Months was by him desired for seven Years After which time the English Forts are finished and this Advice waited upon his Excellence who was then embarquing for Englond At that time the Design of the Mould intended for the safety and advantage of Shipping was in a good forwardness of persection the Passage of the Stone being out out of the Rocks way made for a Gun-powder blow undermining There was a new Key made 30 yards foundation laid 3 yards raised above water well they might for no Place in the World afforded either better Materialls or those more conveniently disposed for the perfecting of such a Work which the Moors call and others shall find The Key of the World Indeed they that understand the World and themselves very well look upon this Place with great hopes of the Reputation and Advantage it may one day bring to the English Nation August 26. 1663. The Moors kept their Peace made with the English very punctually whom they treated when they went down into their Countries which is rich and well inhabited with great Civility The Earl of Tiveot was much esteemed for his Valour and well beloved for his Candour and Humanity insomuch as the very Moors term him a Good Man and indeed he was a Person of exact honour and integrity The Place was healthy and the situation pleasant and Provisions of sorts in such abundance that a man can scarce live cheaper any where But about this time we began our Mould and found it very hard to blow up the Rocks under water to make way for our Boats and Engines which otherwise cannot bring Stone but with difficulty at the top of high water but in a month way was made for our Engines to weigh our Stones and in six weeks time we laid 30. yards of Foundation and raised that two yards high It should seem we are better at this work than any other this being better work than any in the Streight But that we might not only secure our selves but oblige our Neighbours we sent Supplyes with a great deal of hazard to the Saint Falle a Favour he acknowledged so great that he hath promised when ever it is in his power he will not be backward in requital And now Gayland Complements his Sacred Majesty in Spanish to this purpose A Letter from Gayland to His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second King of England Sacred Royal Majesty HAving been advertis'd by his Excellency the Earl of Tiveot of his sudden occasion to visit these Parts I could not forbear this Address in respect of the Peace and good Intelligence we have lately affected in Your Majesties Name And having found his Excellency a Cavalier of great Valour and Honour and of so noble a Mind I could not choose but desire to Correspond with him by my Letters to signifie my Inclination of Complyance in all things that concern the Service of Your Majesty and which formerly I have forborn to do for want of so fit a Juncture to enable me I hope from the Divine savour that this Peace will be attended with many considerable Augmentations in order to Your Majesties Service the effecting of which good Work being iustly attributed with no small prais●s to the Prudence of his Excellency I beseech Your Maiesty to command him speedily back that we may perfect all things with him so greatly to be loved and esteemed If in any parts of our Dominions there is any thing that offers it self for Your Majesties Service the signification of Your Commands shall be esteemed the greatest favour that can be expressed God keep your Maiesty and give You all manner of felicity And the Governour of Morocco to the King of Portugal thus The Copy of a Letter from the King of Tetuan Governour of Morocco to the King of Portugal Sancta Crux June 27. 1663. HIgh and Mighty Don Alfonso King of Roman Christians and of Portugal thanks be to God that we are obliged to give account and none is free from that duty and therefore we give him the prayse unto him due and this praise is for the dayly favour we receive from him By Order of the Servant of our Lord God on high to whom I submit all my affairs who is called Abdelazir 4 Mahomet Grand-son of Aly This our writing in the name of God our Lord. To your Majesty the King of Portugal Catholique D. Alfonso whom God bless and after that we give thanks to God for having made us Moors and Participate unto your Majesty how much we esteem the favour which you have done to my Servants who arrived in a little English Vessel safe in the Haven of Sancta Crux together with the good news which I received from the King Maly Mahomet to whom your Majesty was generously pleased to give his liberty and I for my part cannot but he very thankfull and doe offer my self and my Subjects with all that which from this Kingdom may be necessary to your Majesty without any fail and your Majesty whom God bless may out of hand make tryal thereof And I do give my Word and so this Letter goes signed by my hand and seal and from hence forward will celebrate the Peace between me and your Majesty with these undernamed conditions which are That all the Portugal Nation and their contractions may go and come enter and come out feeely into or from any of my Havens by Sea or Land with all security and in case they meet in the Sea with the Turk or any

A Guyland alias GAYLAND the Present Vsurper of the kingdome of FEZ A DESCRIPTION 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 GAYLAND 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 London Printed for Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleet-street near the Inner Temple-Gate 1664. of Affrica and America where an Acre of Ground is a Barony and a Rood a Dutchy as yeilding that Wealth with a few weeks pains that cannot be 〈…〉 for 〈◊〉 Ages Industry 3. Because this place and the Country round about is like to be that Renowned Scoene of Action which will render us considerable in this last Age to the world The French do intend to make themselves famous for seeking out a convenient footing in this Country no doubt but we shall be so for keeping ours It is a pleasure to go over his Majesties Dominions at home in Cambden Speed c. O what satisfaction is it then to go along with his Acquists and travel with his Conquests abroad to see how carefully he provides for Trade how providently he secures the Sea how zealously he promotes our interest and honour Here you will see First the situation improvement strength and advantages of Tangier that hath within 100 years cost 20 millions of money and the lives of one million of men Secondly the nature of the Country round about it Thirdly the Government of it together with its ancient Kings before this late Usurpation and their Correspondence Embassies and Letters to the Kings of England Fourthly the present Usurpation by Gayland whereunto is added a Discourse of his Person Government Revenue Discipline and Policy Fifthly the Transactions between him and the Earl of Tiveot in Barbary and his Sacred Majesty in England where are the Letters that passed between them concerning Peace and Accommodation And Sixthly here is the humour and temper of those people with whom we have to do there together with their Customes and Manners There have been whole Volumes written of this Place as 1. That of Hanno a MS. that was preserved for no less then 1400 years and an hundred years ago printed by the Noble Stephanus 2. That of Alcazar kept now in the Tower of Tetuan And 3. That of Leo Affricanus written by him as he travelled that Country in the Hegeira 953 and in the year of our Lord 1528 and translated into English by Mr. Robert Pary of Cambridge in the year 1600. And 4. That of Abaf●i vel Mammuled whereof there are but two Copies now in the World one is kept by the Governour of Morocco and the other by the Grand Seignior it being death for any Man to take a Map of that Country without their leave But I have not observed so much satisfaction within so narrow a compass so many particulars in so little a Volume in my life especially considering that the Book is an outlandish one and the Author a Spanyard then whom none go a greater way about either to do what they say or to say what they see You are to take notice that the Geography and History are Translated by one hand and the Letters by another but both very exactly compared with the Original and transmitted to the world upon the Faith and Honour of very ingenious persons Here is in the Original an exact Account of the whole Kingdome as to all the remarkable particulars in it but we thought fit onely to take its general Delineations together with its chief Ports and Towns and the places nearest Tangier as most peculiarly concerning us whether as we possess that place or trade that way I will adde no more but that I must needs think that we are very happy now adays since Printing is so much improved that the meanest person need bestow no more pains then a few hours reading to take that view of the world which hath cost others many years travelling And that my Lord Rutherford Earl of Tiveot communicated to a Friend of his a little before his going over the last time his Designe of either publishing a new Description of that Country or Translating this or compleating Leo Affricanus We can do no more then perform the second wishing heartily that so knowing so observing and so publick-spirited a Person had lived to have done the first A DESCRIPTION OF TANGIER TANGIER or Tangis is one of the greatest and the very antientest City in Fez. Great it s now thrice as great say the most skilful Surveyors it hath been so antient that we find it was built by those Canaanites fled from the face of Josuah there being an Inscription left and two Pillars whereon it is engraven to this purpose Nos fugimus a facie Josuae praedonis filii Nave that is to say We here are the Inhabitants of the Land of Canaan that fled before the face of Josuah the Son of Nun. We have heard much of Hercules his Pillars but here one of them is to be seen on a Hill within seven Miles of the place as the other is over against it in Spain for here Hercules is reported to have slain the Gyant Anteus that the oftner he fell the oftner he rose again and could never be Conquered as long as he could touch his Mother Earth So considerable is this place that Claudius and other brave Romans drew here many Legions that they lost before the place which they at last gained and gave a new Name viz. Julia T●aducta yet in spite of that Fa●e that devolved the World upon that great City t is Corner of it returned at once to its old Liberty and antient Name that it retains unto this day When the Romans could do no good the ingenuous Portuguez guessing there was a shorter Cut that way than that which they knew formerly to the Indies and yet that that Cut could not be securely passed without an interest and hold in that Country Vasquez Gama attempts the Expedition 1497. and with so much success that he found the Streights of Gibralta but lived not either to instruct or encourage others to make use of or improve his noble discovery Yet he found the Continent large the Sea Towns strong the Inhabitants numerous and breaking in to some Sea Ports spoyled them until he came to the Atlantique where he dyed None could second him but a Prince and Henry Duke of Visco doth it as far as his Estate or Credit goeth he consults the experience of all the Sea Commanders sends for the Astronomers and Navigators peruseth all the Cosmography that was then in the World he sets out and is tossed along

expedite their service He hath the Keeper of his Seal who over-looks all others and is as it were Lord high Controllor He is attended alwayes in pubick with 1200. Horse and Foot His Armies are led by Ensign-Bearers who are alwayes such as understand best all Passages Fords c. The Cities are bound at their own Charge to send the Magicians to the Wars He hath one like a Master of Ceremonies that sitteth at his Feast ordering every man to sit down in order and speak in his turn His Concubines are all white but the Women he will have Children by must be black He goeth very plain and feareth nothing more than gathering of Taxes the burden whereof their Law hath mittigated and the people cannot endure When he goeth abroad there is notice given to all his Relations and Servants who attend at his Gate or Tent and march thence according to the Harbingers direction in order 1. The Standard 2. the Drums 3. the Master of the Horse 4. the Pensioners and Guards 5. the Officers of State Then the Sword the Shield and the Cross-Bow and at last Gayland and his Favourite with the Footmen one whereof the first carrieth his Stirrups the other his Partizan the 3. the Covering of his Saddle the 4. the Halter for his Horse and the 5. his curious Pantofle after him come his Eunuchs his Harquebuziers and Light Horse of all which he is the plainest man When he lyeth in the Field as all those Kings do most part of the year to keep their Subjects quiet his Tent is four square like a Castle in the midst of his Noble-mens that make a Town made of Cloath with glistering Spheres a top and then the Souldiers made of Goats-skins In the midst of all are his Kitchin and Pantrey next these Pavilions are the Artificers the Merchants and other Followers Tents Next them the Stables and round them the Foot about them the Horse and the Light-Horse of the outside You would think his Tent is inacessible yet are they sometimes so careless and sleepy that Enemies have been known to come within a Furlong of his Royal Pavilion Barbarism with all its care hath not the art to secure it self Gaylands Policies 1. HE hath a standing Army enriched with the Spoyles of the King and Country that will be undone if it returns either to a Peace or any thing that may threaten a Restitution 2. Most of the Officers of this Army are related to himself by Kindred or Alliance 3. All the old Nobility are either cut off or kept under 4. All the Grievances that the People have lain under these forty years are ordered to be brought to him in Tables and he hath the honour to redress them 5. Every Body hath access to him himself Provided that they come with no Mantle or Sleeves or with their Breasts opened 6. He keeps his Revells and Gamballs wherewith he takes the Country People three times a Year as Running Hunting c. 7. He employeth so many rigid Officers over the respective Provinces as may exasperate them and then he offereth those Exactors a Sacrifice to the Vulgar Fury gaining thereby together with their Rigour the Reputation of Mildness and Moderation 8. The Army knoweth not one day where it must be the next so marching it up and down at once to keep the Country from rising and his Followers from settling to any Combinatior or Confaederacy 9. Besies that they are of so many Nations and Interests that they can hardly ever close to any Particular Design against his General one 10. He hath an excellent way of Droll whereby he at once pleaseth and discovereth the common Humour 11. He layeth out as much Money as he can in Slaves and Renegadoes to whom he is beholding for all his Skill and Conduct 12. He hath wrought upon the Necessities of those about his Master the King that there is not any Order passeth him whereof he hath not Advertisment before ever it comes to be put in Execution 13. He hath got in likewise with the two last Viziers and him that now governeth by Money whereof none hath so little use as the Turk and yet none more Covetous 14. It is as usual as can be with him to send in his own very Souldiers and Ingineers with Provision in the habite of Country Fellows to the very Walls of Tangier to descry in what posture things stand and where he may make his most successfull attempts 15. To countenance his own Usurpations he hath appointed 200 Priests and Souldiers to regulate both the Religion and Law of the place both which he intends to publish with certain new Interpretations delivered as he pretends to two holy Priests at Tituar who are now under ground for two years discoursing with Mahomet and shall get up after the two years end with two Trumpets to reform the World Lord That there can be no Treason even in Africa without Inspiration 16. There is now a design set on foot to draw the poor Country that hath been harassed with these late divisions and are ready to embrace any settlement rather than the late Disorders to press him to take upon himself the Soveraignty as the most likely means to heal the breaches that we may borrow our modern Elegancies and lay aside the unhappy Xeriff as the grand obstacle of the peace and settlement Goodly goodly sure the Phanatique Spirit hath possesled them and they that turn the world upside down are gone thither also 17. He is upon setling a Company to traffick upon the same terms that the Europeans do at whose Charge he intends such a Navy may be Equipped as may give Law to the Streights with the Grand Seigniours leave 18. He doth intend to bring in some ambitious Christian Prince with whose Interest he intends to check all other Pretenders 19. He cannot endure any man that speaks cunningly and subtlely insomuch that it is the way of his Creatures to make their Addresses in clear Terms when Canting Parts are Treason against Tyrants 20. His special Cronies are the Zealous and Enthusiastick Ecclesiasticks with whose grave Countenances he gains a great Reverence to all his proceedings 21. He keeps up a constant Faction in his Camp between his chief Officers whereby they watch one another so closely that they cannot do any thing to his prejudice for fear of one anothers mutual inspection and observation Divide Impera is got now beyond Italy 22. He trains up the Moors to so much Discipline that they shall march 20000. together with that order and silence for forty Mile that they cannot be discovered yea there is not a word spoken in the Camp for two dayes together sometimes except in his own Tent And what is more remarkable 2. or 3000. of them shall lodge themselves in the Fernes and among the rising Grounds so that you may ride through those very Grounds and not discover a man Nay bear up your belief a little longer while I tell you that

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