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A10368	The life and death of Mahomet the conquest of Spaine together with the rysing and ruine of the Sarazen Empire. Written by Sr. Walter Raleigh Kt.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Luna, Miguel de, 16th/17th cent. Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo.	1637 (1637)	STC 20647; ESTC S115585	31,725	292

Mosquita built by himselfe in a vault of Jasper able to containe fortie persons sustained with pillars of guilt Alablaster garnished with pretious stone The King his son his kinsmen his officers and Councellors the chiefe Priests fifteene thousand other priests his houshold servants Courtiers his guards and an infinite multitude of common people with tearie eyes and mournfull hearts attended his funeral upon his Tomb this Epitaph ensuing was enscribed Here lies the terror of Christians Moores and Gentiles who furrowed the Seas levelled the Earth subdued the nations of the world the Pattern of Courtesie the Tree of Mercy and to the wicked the edge of Iustice. Here he lies that had a bountifull hand the defendor of the poore the father of Orphanes the protector of widdowes the mirror of Charity honesty shame facednes and modesty the modell of government the Treasurie of Nobilitie the maintainer of truth the enemie of Lies the lover of wisdome whose fame shall eternally live for a worthy Monument to future age in despight of Conquering time that burnes in oblivion the great actions of Princes Kings and Emperors Let us pray to the Creator that his glory may be endles that in imitation of him Monarchs may govern their states in peace and that he would be pleased to direct our waies in his service and fill us with his divine grace Abilqualit being for two yeeres together free from rebellion and living in blissefull peace after the example of his father and Grandfather resolved in his life time to settle the Crown upon his sonne Iacob Almanzor a child of tender age and to that end the first day of March in anno 725 104 he assembled all his great men to his Court at Zarvall who approving his intent sware there obedience to the Prince as to the rightfull snccessor of that ample Monarchy The forme used in the Ceremony ensueth Abilqualit Cloathed in royall Roabes with Crown and Scepter his Kingly ensignes majestically sitting in chiar of estate his sonne upon his right hand and the high priest upon the left his Princes and guards being assembled the high Priest with a loud and audible voyce declared the cause of summoning that royall Court demanded whether they were contented to sweare their future obedience unto the Prince they answered yea Then said the high priest in testimony that you have assented all of you must doe as I and the king will shew you thereupon the King rose set his son in his Charriot the Prince in token of his filial obedience kissed his Fathers right hand the father blessed his child and after in humble reverence kissed his hand and sate in his sonnes seate the high priest and after him all the great men falling at his feet did the like then a priest apparelled in a Ceremoniall habit upon a board in the middest of that assembly laid the Alcaron the high priest rising from his seat demanded whether they were all content to sweare by the living God and the holy contents of that book to maintaine and defend Iacob Almanzor to be lawfull heire and successor to his father King Abilqualit in all his kingdoms and dominions wherunto they answered content the high Priest replyed whosoever doth not constantly fulfill and maintain his assent here given let him be held a person infamous a traytor to the royall Crowne and let the vengeance and malediction of the Soveraigne God fall upon him and his the assemblie answared Amen Then the King rose from his seat kissed the booke and laid it upon his head and returned to his place the same was done by the high Priest and the rest the high priest then turning to the Prince said Your Highnesse must sweare by the most high and Soveraigne God and by the contents of this holy booke as King and Lord of these kingdoms that you will administer and maintaine Justice indifferently between your subjects that you will fulfill and preserve unto them al the priviledges and franchises justly ●●●●●ted by the Kings your predecessors where by they may live in peace without grievances the Prince said he would be sworn unto it if you do not said the high Priest accomplish your promise and oath let that Vengeance and Malediction of the high and Soveraigne God fall upon you as upon him that is perjured the Prince replyed Amen Then the Prince rose from his Regall seat kissed the booke laid it upon his head and returned to his place where pausing a little while attended with all the guards in pompe trumpets and musicall instruments sounding he rode to the principall Mosquita prayed and returned to his Palace where King Abilqualit attended his comming The next day was spent in feasting triumphs and other Martiall exercises the day following they repaired againe to the Chamber of assemblie where the high priest demanded whether they were content to ratifie and affirme the oath they had taken they answered yea Then the King Abilqualit the high priest and the rest according to their degrees one after another with humble reverence kissed the Princes hand who giving them thanks the Ceremony ended Not long after the king sickned his disease grew strong and the Phisitians skill too weake to remedie it the tender yeeres of his son required a Governor to which office by his testament he made election of one of his neere men in whose faith he reposed trust called Mahomet Amzarij Then laying aside all wordly busines he conferred only with religious men prayed incessantly died The Queene Dowager pleased with the ayre and seat of the Monastery where Almanzor died removed the yong King thither and in her motherly love staid with him The Kingly power was established in Mahomet Amzarij who finding himselfe obeyed as king despised the estate of a subject and resolved to set the Crown upon his own head the way unto it he conceived to be liberality towards all but especially to the great officers governors of Provinces and Captains The men of war being his Creatures the rest were easily to be wrought Unto them he was bountifull and courteous denying nothing sued for and often giving before it was asked With this carriage he so inchanted their hearts as his partie seemed strong but yet actions of great weight cannot be effected without advice and ayde The first man to whom he discovered his pretence was Abenzulayman his creature advanced by him to be one of the foure Councellors at war but his heart detesting the horrible treason used perswasions to him to give over the enterprize laying before his judgment the generall love borne to the yong king their naturall soveraigne the little hope of prevailing the intestine war and the hazard which the Empire should runne into by it and that the murther of the King for murthred he must be would make him odious unto all men and not only divert the principall Governors hearts from him but raise the like ambition by his example in others to revolt and establish themselves kings in their

Almedina and tooke it by force This first good fortune wrought the effect he desired for instantly by his Army he was saluted Calipha which interpreted is King and because his creation hapned upon a Friday that day was ordayned by him to be their Sabbaoth His next conquest was the City of Mecca where he triumphed in the blood of his neighbour Citizens which was not spared and proclaimed death to all those that did not embrace his Doctrine The Princes and great men in Arabia opposite unto him assembled all their forces Mahomet being too weake was overthrown wounded and fled to Mecca yet in the end the warre continuing he prevailed and reduced the three Arabies under his subjection Grown great and glorious with his victories and at that time the Emperor of Constantinople and King of Persia being men of weake and tame Spirits he invaded their Dominions and with a conquering sword triumphed over Syria the City of Jerusalem the kingdome of Mesopotamia and Persia the great City of Babylon with other Eastern Provinces of all which as of the Arabies he styled himselfe King being now grown elde● by his inordinate life in the state of his body then in yeeres which exceded not fifty seven full of glory as well in regard of his large Empire as in opinion of sanctity in being esteemed a Prophet and weary with warre with a fained holynesse under which maske he intended to take his ease sequestred himself from publique affaires committing the government of his estates to the Lievetenants within in three yeeres following which was in Anno Domini 631 the sixtith yeere of his Age and the tenth of his Reign he died Upon his death-bed he commended unto his principal Commanders the care and use of his fantasticall Law assuring them that it was agreeable to the will of God and that so long as they and their posterity should hold and maintaine it they should flourish This false Prophet and usurping Prince pretended paternally to discend from the Patriarch Abraham by his eldest Sonne Ismael and to avoyd the infamie of an unlawfull bed his successors affirmed that Ismael was the Sonne of Sara not of the bond-woman Agar whereupon the Arabians which is the undoubted name of that people are by some writers of Ismael called Ismalites by others of Agar Agarens And of Sara Sarazens but in this latter time they are distinguished by the name of Arabians Moores and Mahometans the first is proper only to those which inhabit in Arabia the Mores are the progeny of such Arabians as after their Conquests seated themselves in that part of Affrica the Manometans is the generall name of all nations that professe Mahomet as Turks Tartars Persians c. Of the successors of Mahomet until the yeere of our Lord 673 the writers vary in opinion both in name and number of the Caliphaes and in the yeeres of their reignes the reason that begat their errors proceeded from the dissention that happened about the succession amongst Mahomet's kinsmen evermore anti-Caliphaes starting up with pretended titles in opposition to him that had the Diadem whereof some were murthered and others deposed so as the writers either out of ignorance not able to discerne the truth or wilfully partiall have erred Notwithstanding their civill tumults they kept Mahomet's Dominions and inherited his fortunes for every of them added somwhat to his Monarchie where by they became fearfull to the world and potent in Asia Affrica and Europe The fourth Calipha agreed upon by Historiographers was callded Hozman or Azman husband to Mahomet's daughter who perceiving that in this upstart Religion Schisms and diversities of opinions began to rise by the helpe of his wifes mother recovered Mahomet's papers wherein his law was written which hee caused to be digested into one volume contaning foure books divided into 206 Chapters and called it the Alcoran commanding the same to be published upon paine of death to be observed by his subjects Hee was a great Conqueror and wan much upon the Christians but this discourse treateth not of his particular actions or of his successors untill the reigne of Abilqualet Iacob Myramamolin surnamed Almanzor which interpreted is the defendor of the law of God sonne to Abilqualet Calipha of the Arabians who seeing his sonnes abilitie to govern himselfe by reason of yeres exceeding 70 unable to mannage publique affaires in the yeere of Christ 675. resigned his Scepter unto him Without comparison hee was the greatest Monarch then living upon the earth The seat of his Empire as his predecessors accustomed was at Zarvall in Arabia Foelix from east to west his dominions were bounded with the river Indus in Asia and the Atlantick seas which in length exceeded the Roman Empire The conquests he made were admirable all which in this collection are omitted untill the 37 yeere of his reigne in which he attempted the conquest of Spaine abreviated out of two Arabique writers translated into Spanish in anno 1606. Both the Authors living in his time the one a Captaine in that war and the other for 20 yeeres together of Almanzors chamber and after his death a Provinciall Governor in Arabia Foelix In the yeere of our redemption 712. Don Roderigo in the right of Don Sancho his elder brothers Soone then in minoritie swayed the Spanish Monarchie having so faire a Jewell in his possession and unwilling to loose kingly power after so long use of it his impostumed heart swolne with Ambition poysned in the center restles and care full he only held and approved such Counsel without respect of conscience or honor as might worke his end The way to fixe the Crown to his head which while his Nephew lived sat loose was to deprive him of his life Anagilda mother to Don Sancho fearing what shee suspected and suspecting no lesse then there was cause had a watchfull eye over her sonne as much afflicted how to avoyd harme as Don Roderigo was perplexed how to contrive it The first project was to poyson him at a banquet but the mothers care prevented the innocents danger that failing hee corrupted one Ataulpho his Favorite to kill him Ataulpho not prodigall of his life which he knew to be in danger both in hot and cold blood after a murther perswaded Don Roderigo to frame some coulourable accusations against him and once in prison hee might at leasure without any perill act what he listed Ataulpho was presently sent with commission to apprehend Don Sancho then resident in Cordova promise of reward gave him wings in his post at midnight the Prince was taken in his bed carried out of the towne and committed to guard Anagilda though greived beyond expression with the accident yet being a Ladie of great spirit armed such servants and friends as shee had pursued Ataulpho besiedged the Castle where hee and her sonne were tooke it by force him prisoner slewe the rest and recovered the Prince which done trussing up her treasure and jewels with a small trayne