The general history of Spain from the first peopling of it by Tubal, till the death of King Ferdinand, who united the crowns of Castile and Aragon : with a continuation to the death of King Philip III / written in Spanish by the R.F.F. John de Mariana ; to which are added, two supplements, the first by F. Ferdinand Camargo y Salcedo, the other by F. Basil Varen de Soto, bringing it down to the present reign ; the whole translated from the Spanish by Capt. John Stevens.

Anno 1610.

At Paris on the 14th. of May, Francis Ravilliac, a bloody Villain, who had been a School-Master, * 1.1 barbarously murder'd Henry IV. King of France, stabbing him with a Ponyard. His Son Luis XIII. succeeded him.

The Princess Margaret was born the 25th. of the same Month at Lerma. In November, by the contrivance of a certain Moor with whom private Correspondence was held, our Forces possessed themselves of the strong Castle of Alarache, a place of great importance upon the Coast of Africk on the Ocean. About it is a Bay and River called Mamora, which * 1.2 was a Den of Pyrats. For this reason four Years after D. Luis Faxardo, Admiral of the Fleet, possessed himself of that place, and built a good Castle, in which he left a sufficient Garison. The Moores at first flocked thither to hinder this Work, but prevailed not. This Year was very remarkable for the banishing of all the Morisco's, that is those de∣scended * 1.3 of the Moores, out of Spain. This wicked Race held correspondence with the Turks, and Barbary Moores. So great a Work could not be finished this Year, but was afterwards continued; however many are said to have remain'd behind, not being well known to be such, tho the multitude of those that departed was incredible.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Henry IV. King of France murder'd.
• * 1.2

  Alarache in Africk taken.
• * 1.3

  Morisco's banish'd.