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I make no Difficulty to speak in this manner, for as at the very moment that I write these great things, there are still People of that time, that, as well as me, have seen the greatest part of them, and who can give me the lye, if I do not relate them according as they pass'd? I shall content my self with taking them to witness of the truth and I willingly submit my self to their Censure.

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any Memoires of all I had seen, than to have made them such as they are and the greatest Criticks will be oblig'd to own, That if all Authors that undertake to write History, had like me, had some part in the Events they describe, their Works would be much better receiv'd by the Publick, and not be, as they are, for the most part, full of Falsities and Ʋncertainties. Good Will, and will have some indulgence for the faults as shall doubtless, in great numbers occur therein, when they shall consider that there is no Body in the World exempt from them, and that we ought to mind our own, before we judge of those of others nay, some there will be that will find there would have been much more reason to have blam'd me, had I not made Wherefore I may hope that those as shall take the pains to read it, instead of Wondering at my Boldness, will con me thanks for my who could know them better as from the Principal Officers and Generals of Armies, who have themselves given me the Letters and Memoires whereof I make mention in this History, that I might be accordingly provided for the writing it one time or other. Thus I may say, that I have been an Eye-witness of most of the things whereof I speak and that as for those I have not seen in all times, I have had the Curiosity to be informed of them from Persons Merida by reason that at that time, I was in the Province of Julian, until that he had finish'd that Conquest and that there was no Battel nor Occasion, but whereat I was in Person, excepting the Sieges of But after having agreed with them in this, they will allow me to tell them the Reasons that made me take Pen in Hand and perhaps, they will be satisfy'd when I shall tell them that I was present in that War, from the first day that General to give the necessary Weight and Authority to so great a Work. As I will add nothing of my self to such great events, save such considerable matters as occurr'd in those times I neither expect nor merit Honour or Profit: I only require of him that shall read what I am going to write, that he would pray God to teach me what I ought to do for his service and that he would supply what is not in me by his Grace: And indeed I am well assur'd of being blam'd for having undertaken so vast a design, and that several will find (as it is true) that it required both more lofty and more polish'd Genuisses than mine,Įach meallalhimar, Highland.

the Governours of all his Kingdoms who after having revoltev against their King, wag'd War upon one another, about the division of that great Empire.

The History of the Conquest of Spain, and the Wars occasion'd by the Death ofĬaliph Aboulvalid Almanzor, not only in that great Kingdom, but inĪfrica, and throughout the whole extent of theĪrabians: first of all among the Princes his Children, and afterwards among Majah, Invention, by reason he has done it without any forging. To this great God do I make my humble Addresses, to obtain the force I shall need to write exactly and truly,

of Kings to accomplish by them, as second causes upon Earth, what Providence has resolv'd on from all Eternity in Heaven who punishes him that merits it by his Justice, and predestines whomever he pleases by his Mercy, seeing written together, and of one and the same date, the past, present and future, in the great Book of his infinite knowledge. The Being from whence proceeds all Beings: The first and only cause that subsists of it self, and gives motion to all others, which it causes to act through incomprehensible Resorts, moving as it pleases, the Hearts of all Men, and particularly that In Arabick, Alhaliq, Alhadin., and Creator of all things, whose Reign is without beginning, and without middle, as well as without end. PRaised and Glorified be, for evermore one sole God This material was created by the Text Creation Partnership in partnership with ProQuest's Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints. The Conquest of that Kingdom under the Caliph Valid Almanzor: And the Wars which his Death occasion'd in Africa, in Europe and Asia, between his Children and his Generals. Containing the Life of Don Rodrigo, King of Spain.

A TABLE Of the Chapters contained in the First Part.

THE PREFACE OF Abulcacim Tariff Abentariq.

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