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A03066	Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and the great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times as also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent iles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions, and other observations touching them. With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the author.; Relation of some yeares travaile	Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 13191; ESTC S119691	376,722	394

one Deaster or image of Cosrhoes which the people worshipped the frame was round resembling heaven his head was wreathed with the Sun the rayes spread themselves to the umbelique or navell of the image on one side was the Sun againe depicted on th' other the Moone and Starres his brother and sisters and under his feet the Angels with Crownes and Scepters attending him bat albeit the work was rare and the materiall of refined gold yet did the good Emperour throw it into the fire to incorporate it with his Diety Cosrhoes by this had gathered a fresh Armie out of Hyrcarnia and bids Shae-Rablecca to forrage Albania but they stood so excellently upon their defence that Rablacca returnes till Sarbaras with new forces forc't him back and much hurt questionlesse had they done had not Heraclius speedily entred and rooted them both in one day yet neither knowing it Mahomet the Prophet was in Heracliu's Armie till now and about this time begins the Hegyra or flight of that false Prophet from Mecca whose people threatned to kill him for his innovation and doctrine Anna Dom. 622 and of the Emperours reigne 13 Sarbaras past his Armie over Euphrates of purpose to trie the fortune of warre with Heraclius who so soone as hee knew his intent gave him reason to repent his arrogance the good Emperour himselfe discharging his duty so excellently with such excellent courage that Sarbaras upon view of it cryed out thus to Cosma his Companion O Cosmal seest thou with what courage the Emperour fights certainly hee alone is able to vanquish all our multitudes That Winter the Emperour marched to Sebastia and crossing the river Halys made Paphlagonia his rendezvous But Cosrhoe swels with passion and combines with Lucifer that by diabolicall Witchcraft he might vex the miserable Christians against whom hee raged with all sorts of cruelty and ere he gave a farewell to this world once more ventures a battell with the Romans 150000 men he musters up and divides them in three to Sayn one part to Serbaras another to himselfe the rest imagining by some or all of these to doe wonders Sayn with his 50000 went against the Emperour Sarbaras with his 50000 marcht to Constantinople and Cosrhoe stayes upon the frontiers Heraclius divides his also into three the one to hasten into Thrace the other to bestow a Camisado upon Sayns Quarter the last hee led himselfe into the Lazic Territories to which place the Gazarrs a sort of Turk came to serve him Theodore in small time rais'd Sayns Armie his Chrysolocae assisted by hayle from heaven so direfully thundring on them that all men there saw that God fought for them Sayn was a slaine in that battell but in stead of a decent buriall the Persian Tyrant array'd his carcasse in raggs persumed him with dogs turds and slasht his sencesse trunck into a thousand peeces That yeare the Gazarrs to gratifie Heraclius under conduct of Ziebit broke through the Caspian straits and did the Persians much mischiefe and to the Roman Armie exprest no small affection Anno Dom. 626 Sarbaras with infinit troopes entred Thrace pillg'd Calcedon a towne built by Iason and Argias much traded to in view of Bysanth and upon the Bospherus After that they layd siege to Constantinople and for ten dayes incessantly laboured to enter it but such was the excellent courage of the Christians such her naturall defence that the Persians could not prevaile but upon notice that Heraclius was approching they rais'd their siege retreated shamfully Anno 628. the Roman Emperour entred Armenia and in a long fought battell obtained a mervailous great victorie After which hee demolisht Ctesiphon and pursued Cosrhoe who when he heard that Sarbaras had sped but ill in Thrace and had re-delivered Caloedon to the Christians inflamed with passion he sends a villain an Assassinate to murther him but by strange hap the Emperors sonne had notice of it and acquaints the Generall who by this ingratitude of Cosrhoe begun to raise a dangerous rebellion Cosrhoes when he saw things succeeded thus infortunatly in anguish of soule breath'd out his spirit a Fever first and then a Flux so taking him that after he had reigned 50 yeares upon his death-bed he nominated as King his sonne Mardesae begot of Syra his Queene who ere hee could set the Crowne on 's head was slaine by Syroes his brother yea before his fathers face an act so horryd that Cosrhoe bitterly curses him but Syroes the most bloudie viper that ever liv'd heaps greater sinnes upon his head by commanding some villains to shoot him to death at that instant his loathed soule call'd to mind his like cruelty to Hormisda his father and acknowledged that God was just to his retaliation So soone as Heraclius heard of Cosrhoes death he imagines all his quarrells ended that yeare therefore he travell'd to the holy Citie and presented Zacharyas the then Patriarch with the Crosse of Christ found by Saint Helena a Brittanish Lady 3 May 326. and ravisht thence by Cosrhoes as I lately remembered His triumphant entring thither was the 17 of September 628 the same yeare that Boniface published to the world his Catholique Supremacie and in which Mahomet divulg'd his Alcoran Syroes by Teixerae call'd Chobad-Xirvihé in the Tarich or Annal of Time Scyrviah in the sixth yeare of his reigne was slaine by Sarbaras Sarbaras is by the Persians call'd Shawryr by Shicard Shiribar in the third moneth of his reigne he slew Ardohyr ben Xirviah right heire to the Crowne eight moneths after that is himselfe slaine by Ioen-sha or Shyn-Shaw Lord of part of Taurus The successours to this man are uncertainly delivered The Roman Authors from him to the conquest of Mahomet reckon three Kings of Persia The Arabs 6. The Persians 5. The Tarich 4. Teishera 7. The Armenians 11. How can I therefore reconcile them The most plausible is this That Ioon-sha at the end of three moneths was banisht by Tuwan or Turan Doct naturall daughter to Cosrhoe She had as bad a fate at the end of sixteene moneths shee was poysoned and dyed much lamented to her followed to Iazan-Zeddahs by the Tarich call'd Ian-ku-kar-connah by Elmacyn Gaescan-zedda who ruled nine months to him succeeded Azurmy Doct Cosrhoes youngest daughter who after sixteene moneths dyed and left Shezir or Kezir to suceed her who also at the end of six weeks was slaine by Phorog-Zeddah or Shyriar as some call him who after like time dyed of poyson and Yesdgyrd followed who was forthwith made away by Bornarym and he by Hormisdas the last of those 12 vanishing Turrets Cosrhoe saw in a perplexed vision one night after he had beene admiring Aristotle The Period of Pesia's command was now accomplished Such time as Hormisda after five yeares rule ten some say others six was slaine by Omar the 2 Calyph after Mahomet at which time viz. Anno 640 and of the world 4610. and from the yeare of the Hegira 20. by whose fall Persia

expence of 90000 lac of roopees trebled They delay not but with extremity of rage assayle him and in two houres by villany of Amir-chan and Sheirgodgee his chiefe Captaines who betrayed him get the victory forcing him into the castle which for two dayes kept safe but in the third was by treason entred his men slaine his treasure taken and to make him incapable of future ambition has his eyes put out Sultan Bullochy not suffering him to be killed That done they againe proclayme Bulloch Emperor of Industant and Lord of the Moguls and send Eradet with 20000 horse against the Virago Queen who hearing how ill her sonne had sped and doubting treason in her Army lets fall the Majesty of her spirit sighs at the perfidy of her brother grieves she slew him not when she had him in her power complaynes of her owne wickednesse in continuing so long inraged against Mahobet-chan deplores her abusing his valiant sonne and with a dejected eye beholding the sudden eclipse of her glory and the inconstancy of her Friends she wraps all up in dismissing her guard and disroabed of her bravery submits to Bulloch's mercy who comforts her gives her his oath of safety and during his reigne affords her all respect and freedome But long this good Prince injoyes not his soverainty for Assaph-chan seeing all as he desired speeds away a sure post with letters to Curroon who made such haste that in 14 dayes he runne 2500 of our myles to Daita 8 course from Necanpore and from Brodera or Radjepore 120 to the East in Decan there finding him overjoyed with such good newes and sending his excuse to Melec-Amber the Decan King hasts on with Mahobet-chan Zulpheckar-chan and 7000 other rashboots and mancibdars through Guzurat to Amadavad where by Saffin-chan he is welcomed there hee slept not long for making Agra the object of his race he bids farewell to Saffin-chan and with a greater troope feeding them with great promises when he had the crowne in three weeks travell comes to Agra where he claymes the Imperiall Title and is by his owne favorites proclaymed King by name of Pot Shaw-Iehan then giving notice to his Father in law Azaph-chan how farre and with what successe he had travelled as also that so long as Sultan Bulloch was living his owne greatnesse was but counterfeit Assaph-chan flesht in former homicides and not caring how so he could fixe the Dyadem on Curroon at that tyme tottering he makes Radgee Bandor of his counsell who forthwith without examination of right or wrong posts to Lahore and with Assaph-chans keyes enters the hummum or Bath where the innocent Princes were and with a horrid speed and infernall cruelty strangles them all to lead Curroon through such a bloody path unto the crowne In this miserable sort A.M. 5598 A. D. 1628 A. H. 1008 dyed young Bulloch but three moneths Emperour of Industant or great Mogul in that massacre accompanying him Sultan Sheryar Sha-Ethimore and Sha-Hossen the baptised sonnes of Prince Daniel two sonnes of Sultan Perwees two sonnes of Sultan Morad or Amurath all whose carcasses were without any respect buried in a garden in Lahore neere the entrayls of Iangheer but their heads as an assurance of their death sent to Curroon to glut his eyes by so horrid a Spectacle with infernall ambition The murther of the royall blood of Industand being known to Chan-Iehan Zied-chan-and other Umbraves they are orechardged with amazement and feare they see Assaph-chan guilty but want power to question him especially by inquisition hearing it was Curroons commandement they heap up a thousand maledictions on their heads and crave vengeance from above to recompence them Curroon peceives the Empire storming at him but his incantations quickly quiets them And now after much toyle having through the Ocean of inconstancy arrived at the port of greatnesse and ease as he thought he gives order for his solemne coronation which accordingly by a generall assembly of the great Umbraves and Nobles of his Empire is performed by second proclamation assuming the Name of Sultan-Sha-Bedyn-Mahumet Then he orders the affaires of his Monarchy placing and displacing at his pleasure the Seraglio of his father is shut up Normall and her three daughters are confined stricktly Assaph-chan is made second in the Empyre and next him Mahobet-chan Abdul-chan is released Channa-ziedchan is made viceroy of Bengala againe Ambassadours from Persia Arabia Tartaria and Decan come and joy him in his greatnesse Divers Radgees as Radgee-kessing from Nagor Chan-Azem from Azimeer the puissant Radgees Mainsingh Tzettersingh and Ghessingh from Fettipore with 50000 horse move with great and solemne state to Agray whither after six weeks came Assaph-chan Zadoch-chan Eradet-chan Rustan-chan Saffin-chan and Mirgomley to all whom he gave thanks for ther severall Favours remitting and putting in oblivion all offences and insults during his rebellion After which he proclaymes a Iubile celebrated by all men there with all sports and delights possible Thus has Curroon through a sea of blood attayned the highest port and dignity of the eastern world surrounded with delights and guarded by a power in his conceiving unresistable but these sinnes he makes nothing of have apparantly in these our tymes drawn downe the heavy Iudgments of God almighty both in taking his beloved wife away the week of his inauguration since when he has made his daughter by that dead Lady his wife incest of so high a nature that that yeare his whole Empire was so wounded with Gods arrowes of plague pestilence and Famine this thousand yeares before never so terrible 1634 1014 The sword also seemes to threaten him the Persians having snatched from him Kermaen and Candahar the Tartar Kabull Sheuph-Almuck indangers Tutta and Lourebander Radgee Ioogh with his Coolyes trouble Brampore and two counterfeit Bullochyes have sowne the seed of an universall rebellion The event of all is in the hands of God who in Infidells hates sinnes of blood incest and dissembling wee will close this story with a caveat from a heathen but of more reason and temperance Quid ille qui Mundum quatit Vibrans corusca fulmen Aetneum mann Stator Deorum credis hoc posse effeci Intor videntes omnia ut lateas What that great Iupiter the world that shakes When Aetna's thunderbolts in hands he takes Think'st thou from him who all the world doth see In lurking holes concealed close to bee To end all at our being in his country he came within two dayes journey of Surrat and in a ceremoniall way the English merchants ships thundred out his health by 200 great shot which he most thankfully accepted of T is high tyme now to renew our Travaile Diu. Adjoyning this and in the Cambayan Territorie is Diu or Dew in former times call'd Delta frō a resemblance of that in Egipt Patala Patalena and Hidespa as Arrhian Pliny and Strabo have it seated at th'entrance into the gulph in the latitude of 22 degrees 18 minutes North from Ormus

which day the English advanced towards the Castle under which was riding the Portugall Armado and in despight of the Castle and best defence their Fleet could make being then but five Gallyons and twenty Frigots set fire on the Saint Pedro of one thousand five hundred Tun and Admirall of their Armado which mischance the rest of the Spanish Fleet with no small sorrow apprehended and finding no repaire to prevent more mischiefe and danger cut the Cables and in that flaming posture let her drive whither winde and tyde commanded her the English saw her too hot to meddle with and knew she could enrich the adventurer with no other booty but Bellonaes furniture so downe she went towards Larack in the way a rabble of Arabians and Persians boorded her like Iackhalls with hunger starved fury and avarice tore her asunder that rapine being no lesse base and outragious than the fire which two houres had assaulted her March 17. 1627. the seaventeenth of March the Persians to dispatch and shew they were not idle gave fire to a Mine stuft with forty barrells of powder which blew up a great part of the wall through which breach the enraged Portugalls immediatly sallyed maintain'd the fight above one houre against the amazed Persian who had drawne out a mayne Battalion but when the Trumpets sounded Acha recovered sense and magnanimity going on so couragiously that the most slow and hindmost discovered plainly a full scorne of death and powerfull desire of honourable execution for nine houres this conflict continued with great fury so that in fine the defendants were forced to retreat advis'd to it as well by pollicie as need for the heated Persian supposing themselves victors with great bravery begun to mount and enter the Citie in many quarters at which the Portugalls were very joyfull throwing on them such and so many Granadoes and burning fire-balls powder-pots and scalding Lead that the assailants in despight of their vowes and bravadoes were forced to retreat and could not prevent a thousand of their men from perishing which misery when Shaculibeg at full had viewed couragiously followed by two hundred men hee past through the fury of those affrighting fires and took one of their Flanckers but could not hold above halfe an houre they were so outragiously fryed and tormented with shewers of flames of Lead and Sulphur and in descending were beaten off by fifty Haydalgoes who for three houres affronted them repell'd them and retyred crown'd with conquest This entertainment so cool'd their bravery that for five dayes they did nothing but contemplate the valour and dexterity of their adversaries But the three and twentieth day assum'd more hopes when they beheld the fight betwixt the English and them our Cannon from the shore playing so hotly and battring their fortifications so soundly that at length making the ships their object after a great mutilation of shrowds and masts they sunk the Vice reare Admirall of Ru-Fryero's Fleet by that utterly losing their late hopes and ostentation of marine command and excellencie March 28 necessity humble them plague famine and fluxes raging in the City so as five dayes after two wel-bred Gentlemen well attended with great gravity mounted in a faire equipage to the Enemies Camp they were usherd in by some Coozelbashes of Shaculybegs Regiment and after small complement begun to treat of peace and that there might be a cessation of Armes which favour if the Duke would grant they were ready to acknowledge it and for retribution to present him two hundred thousand Tomayns in hand with good assurance of an annuall tribute of 140000 Ryalls which as afterwards they confessed was spoken in hypocrisie the Captaine dismisses them and appoints next day for answer acquaints the Generall who wanting money accepts their motion of peace so they would depose five hundred thousand amounting with us almost to two millions of pounds and pay yeerely to the King of Persia hundred thousand the Portugalls return'd him an answer they were in no such distresse to buy any favour so dishonourably and that greedinesse so overwhelmed them they assured a fift part of that proportion should never buy their ablest benefits After that they mediated a reconciliation twixt the English and them putting them in minde how they were Christians and by many reciprocall favours of old when Iohn of Gant invaded them and later times by allyances prevalent enough to beget good will in noble spirits If they had injured them they were now sorry and ready to satisfie in any punishment of paine or purse their Kings were at that instant good friends and how could such hostility be defended or answerd by law of Nations or Religion These and the like were sent them but whether the behaviour of the Fidalgo displeased our Sea men or that they understood them not or saw themselves so farre ingaged that with reputation they could not desist or that it was uttered with a faigned humility or the like I know not the Messenger departed not well satisfied And two dayes after saw apparently signes of confusion and revenge a hideous noise of hellish thunder amazing them caus'd by the English their blowing up two severall Mynes which gave open prospect into the Citie but the hearts of the assaylants durst not travell with their sight all their senses the last time were so confounded and disabled so that very poorely they onely became spectators and gave new courage to the dying Portugall all of them halfe dead with fluxes thirst the three pits in the Citie exhausted famine or pestilence The fourteenth day a ship full of Moores from Kishmee arrived at Ormus to help the Portugalls perceiving themselves intercepted they returned back thinking to land at some better quarter the Persian Generall swore they should receive no dammage by his Army to which when they foolishly gave beliefe to fourscore of their heads were forthwith struck off and the rest inchayned The Ormuzians languishing thus long under so many sorts of afflictions every houre hoped for delivery from Ru-Friero but he failed them The seventeenth day another breach was made by giving fire to sixty barrels of powder through which the Moores entred in huge swarmes but were beat back by eighteene Gentlemen without the Bulwark howbeit next day they re-entred and possessed it The eighteenth of Aprill two famisht renegadoes stole thence into the Camp of their Adversaries and being brought before the Duke confest the willingnesse of their departure told him their expectation of supplies together with their present miseries assuring him they could not endure long death raging more furiously within the City than the greatest forces they could oppose them with At that report the reanimated Persian againe beseiges her intending the next breach to enter pellmell amongst them which when the Portugall saw and no safety any way appearing the three and twentieth day knowing no faith in the Mahomitans they yeelded the Castle and their treasure unto the English only craving of them

One-ewch Charda or Chaharda Fourteene One-dewrt Pounzda Fifteene One-beash Shoonzda Sixteene One-alté Hawda Seventeene One-yedté Hashda Eighteene One-seckez Nouzda Nineteene One-dockoz Beest Twenty Ygarmy Yec-beest Twenty one Ygarmy beer Dota-beest Twenty two Ygarmy eckee Se-beest Twenty three Ygarmy ewch Char-beest Twenty foure Ygarmy dewrt Sounce-beest Twenty five Ygarmy beash Se Thirty   Chehel Forty   Pangoh Fifty   Phast Sixty   Haftat Seventy   Hashtat Eighty   Navat Ninety   Satt One hundred   Da hazatt or hazar One thousand   The Religion of the Persians THE Persian Religion at this day varies not from the Turks in any particle of the Alcoran and yet they account one the other Hereticks and are no lesse zealous and divided in their profession than wee and the Papalins a devision begun Anno Domini 1400 by a Syet of Ardoveil a Citie in Media the better to advance the Sophyan Title to the Crowne derived from Mortis Ally their famous predecessor cosen and sonne in law to Mahumet which Ally albeit hee had just right to sit as Kalyph at Mecca next to Mahomet yet in his despight three other men stept up before him and during their lives kept him in slaverie and withstood him These three Abuboker Omer Ozman are by the Turks most venerably accounted of but by the Persians as appeares by their cursing them in a prayer made by Syet Gunet as impostors doggs and hereticks whereby is sown such mortall hatred betwixt these two potent Monarchs that to Europs good they abominate each other with implacable hatred MAHOMET sonne of Abdar a Pagan and Emma a Jew was borne at Iathreb or Itrarip Iezrab in Postellus now Medyna in Arabia the yeere from the Creation 4544 of Christ our blessed Lord and Saviour 574 Iustinian at that time commanding the Roman Empire and Cozrhoes father to Hormizda the Persians His parents being mean and poore he was forced to serve an apprentiship and with much patience served Zayed-ben-Hartah a rich and famous Merchant who dying left his servant so good a legacie that Mahomet was thought worthy any woman in Mecca but by reason of those incessant broyles commenc't by Cozrhoe and inflamed by the Romans Traffick decayed and most men danc't to the shrill brazen sound of Bellonaes musick Mahomet amongst the rest serving for pay first with Heraclius and then the Persian not caring much who was victor so he was on the safest side by both their confusion to plot some way or other to advance himselfe both in a terrhen dignity and as a Deity nor did he erre in his prediction for what by his great estate and good fortune in the warres he soone threw off the qualitie of a common man and got a companie yea at length an Armie of so many Tattars and Arabians that he dared to assault the infeebled Christians and became victor yea by stratagem mingling with the credulous and gladded Persians upon a watch-word cut asunder and confounded the Persian Armie Which done hee blusht not to extoll himselfe to all his troops deciphering the misery of Persia and horror of Roman bondage acquainting them also with the great discord ' mongst Christians of that inhumane villanie perpetrated upon Mauritius by Phocas then Emperour his detested servant and of Pope Boniface's usurpation of the title of Universall Bishop contrary to the good will of all the World and what Pope Gregory the great had lately branded Iohn the Constantinopolitan Patriack with as the Antichrist in that sixtie six good Bishops of Rome from Lynus seven yeeres after the passion to that Pope then teaching never desired it That hee himselfe was ordained from the begining of the world to eclipse the pride of that Pope to instruct the world in a better and more plausible way than either Moses did the Jewes or Christ the Christians that hee was the Comforter promised yet sayes that he came to give his Law by the sword and not by miracles and to advance the Arabians name and dignitie above all other Kingdomes in the Universe The amazed Savages admire his boldnesse and though some thought basely of him most part hoping hee could effect his promises give credit to him and atttend his revelations But ere he could finish his new moulded work the inraged Persian suddenly steales among them and in memory of their late kindnesse retaliates them so fiercely that Mahomet to save his life posts away leaving the rest to the mercilesse furie of the Persian Mahomet with a sad heart arrives safely in Mecca Mocura and Munychiates in old writers the Arabian Metropolis but when he cals to mind his miserable estate by this last defeat being cheated of his moneys and men yea such men as hee had prepar'd to help forwards his ambition hee consumes in the meditation and by his faint-heartednesse and constant vexing had doubtlesse made Death his executioner had not Satan physicke him Some safer way he intends to take than in Mars his rugged fields so full of cost and blood-shed And therefore in the first place to solace his unquiet spirits inrich himselfe he laies seige to Chodaige or Aediga a woman of great wealth and worship by some thought Queene of Corasan whom after a few amorous assaults he won and of her begot three sonnes and foure daughters named Ebrahim Tajeb and Taher all three dying young Fatyma and Zaynab both married to Mortis Ally Om-Kalthom and Rachya wives to old Abuboker Mahomets stomack grew weak and one sort of meat begun to loath him Chodaige was stale and others fancied him he therefore purpos'd in his Law then in hatching to allow all sorts of carnall liberty and to incourage them by his example solemnly as Ben Casen a writer of his beleife sayes espoused Aysce the beloved child of his sonne in law Abubocher a child though Mahomets wife I well may call her at that time not exceeding six yeeres old yet so pliable to the delights of her wanton husband that hee calls her his best beloved and dictates a whole chapter to her praises so that for her affection to him her courtesie to others her witty conceits her skil in history and language she is intituled Mother of the Faithfull and contrarie to his tenet in his Alcoran in whose grave hoping there also to imbrace her Mahomet desired to be buried as was by old Abubocher afterwards performed His third wife was Miriam or Mamrya of whom he begot Ebrahim Cassen who at the age of six months by the arrow of grim death was directed the inevitable way of his brethren Zaynab the repudiate of Ben-Hartah Mahomets master was Mahomets fourth and last wife concubines hee had above a hundred but in any Author I find not named a Lady of singular perfection and so credulous of his feigned visions and that his epilepsie was caus'd by an Angells glory oft conferring with him that by all Mahomitans she is also named a second Mother of Mussulmen or true beleevers These his bosome friends and

other his bed fellowes together which taught birds to feed at his eare and beasts by practize directed blazond his holinesse and put all Arabia into a confused wonder and having by the Devills prompting and the help of Sergius an Italian a neast of uncleannesse a Monck a Sabellian a discontented wretch for missing worldly preferment at Byzanth and of Iohn of Antioch an infamous Nestorian finisht his Alcoran in the yeere of our blessed Lord God 620. and of Mahomets age 46. which so transported him that to Mecca hee goes intending to divulge it and where hee hoped to have it easily credited but therin his prediction faild him for so soon as they perceived his ground of innovation formerly acquainted with his birth breeding and subtlety they banish him and but for his wives kindred had crusht him and his Cockatrice egge but then in hatching Mahomet involud with more perplexity now than ever is at his wits end once resolving to burne his book and fall to trading but Sergius moderates telling him a designe of so great consequence must needs bee attended with persecution and many other circumstances The halfe dead Prophet revives upon this incouragement and quickly apprehends this affliction propitious to his memory so that to Iathreb hee goes and for two yeeres secludes himselfe from much company till having finisht his plot and commanding the accompt of all his sectaries to begin from his late flight out of Mecca he again adventures and by bribery magick and other meanes attracted many followers and in seven yeeres after is received in Mecca from this accursed root branching out so many sects as in short time infected and shaded all the Orient in an eclipse of fearfull darknesse Mahomet whose name Arabically signifies Deceit and many times Conveniunt rebus nomina saepe fuis affoording also the number 666 the marke of Antichrist having accomplisht his desires and runne his race is summond to appeare before the Lord of all flesh the God Omnipotent Omniscient and Judge of all mens actions where no doubt he received a just judgement for his impiety This was in his great clymacteric 63 of the Hegira 17 and of our Saviour 637 ordaining Ally to succeed him and his Carcasse to be placed in Aisces grave in Iathrip which per Antonomasiam he new named Medina Talnabi it or Mecca in my opinion being that Munichyates in Ptolomy but I rather think Mecca it because I read that Medina or Iathrep was built Anno Domini 364. by Aadhuddaule then King of Babylon and by Osman allegorically call'd El-haramain and by others De-A'salem i.e. a holy place or Town of mercy none daring in the garb or language of a soldyer tread East West North or South nigher than six one way twelve eighteene and twenty foure miles the other upon paine of death and eternall displeasure Speak we now a little of his fabulous Alcoran or Sunna i.e. the Book of truth or a Legend for the faithfull stuft with obsceannesse lyes miracles visions morall and naturall Philosophy such trash as may powerfully provoke the silliest student to a height of laughter The proem this That it was sent from God by Gabryel the holy Angell to Mortis Ally but hee mistaking the man gave it to Mahomet whom when God saw replenisht with equall vertue the Angell was not blamed but the guift confirmed and made irrevocable The Alcoran To begin then The Alcoran or Bible by them call'd Kurrawn and Alesalem i.e. the law of peace or Alcacan i.e. Judgement as it was digested by Ozman fifteen yeeres after the death of Mahomet is in volume twice so big as the Psalmes of David divided into a hundred and foureteene Azoaraes or Chapters put by Ozman into a poore kind of rythme unpleasant to the eare unlesse well ordered It is not a continued tract of devotion or direction but of his owne life the Art of warre the use of peace Rhetorick Numbers the Zodiack the Earth and a mishmash out of Applis or Aristotle grosly and confusedly handled His mother instructed him in the Jewish Rites or Talmud and Sergius in the Gospell whereby in the seventy one Azoara of Nohha and in the tenth of Iunys hee records the Historie of Noah and Ionas and in other chapters of Enoch Abraham Ioseph Moses Elias and David whose songs call'd Zebur-Dahood or the Psalmes of David and the Teurat Moissah or pentateuch of Moses he extolls most vehemently The Ingil also or Gospell of Saint Luke he sets out at large in the fourth Azoara of Anneza and in the fifth of Almeyda naming Christ the Messiah Rooth-noor Alloh and Hazret i.e. Messias the Spirit or word and light of God holy Jesus not omitting his bodily ascention into heaven in sight of his twelve Apostles seventy Disciples and five hundred men Yet denyes him be to the sonne of God but that the Virgin conceiv'd by smelling to a Rose presented her by Gabriel and that he was borne out of her breasts Also that he was not crucified but Iudas or some other wicked theife Christ being separated from them by a cloud that covered him and came from heaven And thence it is the Crosse is so rediculous amongst them they say also that hee was the most holy chast and powerfull Saint that ever converst on earth and that in the second Azoara of Albacara in the Alcoran Moses and Christ shall save the Jewes and Christians at the day of Doome and yet in the next chapter of Amram forgetting what hee had said protests that no soule shall ever bee saved but by his Alcoran hee being sent into the world to moderate the strictnesse of the Gospell as Christ did the severity of the Law ceremoniall varying also from what in the twelfth Assuratto hee commands that they should bee held in equall repute with the Alcoran running thus The holy and mercifull God first sentt he ceremoniall Law and then the Gospell to direct all men in the right path and lastly the Alcoran a faithfull Book and for your instruction No man therefore that is truly religious dare to undervalue the old Law and Gospell but to practize it no lesse than what is commanded in the Alcoran From whence it is that they reverence the holy Sepulchre visit Saints Tombs and honour the memorie of our Saviour abhorring the Jewes of all creatures Saint Iohn Baptist also hee speaks modestly of and of the blessed Virgin with singular reverence saying in the nineteenth Azoara to this purpose Hayle Mary thou art blessed yea in puritie and holinesse excelling all other women the meditation of Gods lawes was ever in thy heart therfore he hath selected thee refined thee and made thee his happiest dwelling thou art full of knowledge and mercie free from pollution hatred or ambition yea thou the Virgin Mother of the great Prophet Jesus art only of woman-kind most lovely and perfect in the sight of the Almighty c. Which I name not that his Book is any way more valuable the end