THE PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA a.d. 



c. 1580. 

 during his aboad in Mecca with his company, and on the 

 other side the captaine to requite this liberalitie used 

 toward him by the Serifo giveth him a garment of cloth 

 of gold of great value, with certaine jewels and other like 

 things. After this, sitting downe together upon carpets 

 and hides they eate together, and rising from thence with 

 certaine of the chiefest, and taking with them the garment 

 and gate abovesayd, they goe directly to the Mosquita, 

 attended on but with a fewe, and being entered, they 

 cause the olde to be pulled downe, and put the newe 

 coverture upon the house of Abraham, and the olde 

 vesture is the eunuchs which serve in the sayde 

 Mosquita, who after sell it unto the pilgrimes at foure 

 or five serafines the pike : and happy doth that man 

 thinke himselfe, which can get never so litle a piece 

 thereof, to conserve ever after as a most holy relique : 

 and they say, that putting the same under the head of a 

 man at the houre of his death, through vertue thereof all 

 his sinnes are forgiven. Also they take away the old 

 doore, setting in the place the new doore, and the old by 

 custome they give unto the Serifo. After having made 

 their praiers with certaine ordinarie and woonted cere- 

 monies, the Serifo remaineth in the citie, and the captaine 

 of the pilgrimage returneth unto his pavillion. 



Of the Serifo the king of Mecca. 



THe Serifo is descended of the prophet Mahomet 

 by Fatma daughter of that good prophet, and AUi 

 husband to her, and sonne in lawe to Mahumet, who 

 had no issue male, save this stocke of the Serifo, to the 

 eldest Sonne whereof the realme commeth by succession. 

 This realme hath of revenues royall, every yeere halfe 

 a million of golde, or litle more : and all such as are 

 of the prophets kinred, or descended of that blood (which 

 are almost innumerable) are called Emyri, that is to say, 

 lordes. These all goe clothed in greene, or at the least 

 have their turbant greene, to bee knowen from the other. 

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