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GRANADA is circumscribed on the West with Andalusia, on the East with Murcia and the Mediteranean, on the North with New Castile, on the South only with the Midland Sea.
This Kingdome was a Limb of the Kingdome of Corduba, being still wrapp'd up in the Fate of that, having still the same Inhabitants cultiva∣ting its earth, and the same Conquests retrenching its Liberty, so that it was sacrific'd as an oblation to the Sword of the invading Moors and Sara∣zens.
But when the Castilians by many signal Encounters had so dissipated and rent asunder the great Kingdom of Corduba, that it appear'd to be split into Parcels, this was seised on by Maho∣met ben Alhamar or Alcamir, who so vigorously asserted the Interest of the Moors, even in their declining Fortune, that he made this Province part of his own Endowment and Patrimony, and▪ vvas by those persons vvhom he had so gallantly shadovved vvith his protection, advanced to be the first King of Granada, though he vvas the last of Corduba; of all the Kings subsequent to him, the Spanish Records affords us so dim a Beam that we wander in the dark, when we en∣devour to trace out a just and successive Series of them; for Civil Contentions and intestine Ani∣mosities like a private Moth did so fret into the Title, that it was no longer stable than the power of the Sword did support it, nor indeed could it be but expected that the Foundation of a Monar∣chy fixed on so great a Ruine, and whose Fabrick was cimented with so much blood, must be crazy, brittle, and unsafe, so that the ••••own devol∣ving to Mahomet Boad delin (who did not ex∣pect his Fathers death, but hastned it) with all these imperfections debauching its lustre, it is no wonder if it was snatch'd from his head by Fer∣dinand and Isabella, who having by a noble and a Christian Conquest knit it to the Demeasn of Castile and Arragon, it is now by successive right brought down to confesse Philip the Fourth, now
King of Spain for its Lord and Soveraign.