, Cromwell. Charles II., and William, refers in
his "Diary" to this ambassador, named Hamet. When presented to the
king, he and his retinue were "clad in the Moorish habite, cassocks
of colored cloth or silk, with buttons and loopes; over this an
ALHAGA or white woolen mantle, so large as to wrap both head and
body; a shash or small turban; naked legg'd and armed, but with
leather socks like the Turks; rich scymeters, and large
calico-sleeved shirts. The ambassador had a string of pearls oddly
woven in the turban. Their presents were lions and estridges
(ostriches.) But the concourse and tumult of the people was
intolerable, so as the officers could keep no order."] and his men
of strange faces, in strange habits, with strange gestures and
behaviors, monsters to behold?
But where hadst thou that heart that gives entertainment to these
thoughts, these heavenly thoughts? These thoughts are like the
French Protestants, [Footnote: By the famous edict of Nantes, which
was granted the Huguenots by Henry IV., they were allowed liberty of
conscience and the free exercise of religion. Louis XIV., grandson
of Henry, after a series of arbitrary infractions of that edict by
his father and himself at the instigation of the Jesuits, at length
in 1685 abrogated it, and banished the Protestants from the kingdom
under circumstances of aggravated cruelty.
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