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and he was the firft who ordered the Sherifs, or defcendants of 
the Prophet, to wear a green turban. 
s E c T. II. 
Borgite Mamluks. 
This race was of Circafllan extra£l:, and continued to rule 
Egypt till the French invafion. 
1382. Barkuk-Daher, who had been Atabek in the mino- 
rity of Hadgi Salah, depofed his pupil, and feized the fupreme 
authority. Timur invading Syria, Barkuk obtained two vido- 
ries over the Moguls, and forced them to withdraw. 
1399. Faradj, fon of Barkuk. Few of thefe Sultans reigned 
above a year, till 
1442. Burfbai, who reigned fixteen. He fent a fleet 
againft Cyprus, which took Lymiffos and Nicofia, and brought 
John II. and moft of his nobility, captives. Syria remained 
almoft a conftant appanage to Egypt. 
1 46 1. Abu-'l-Fathe Achmed received tribute from Cyprus, 
and alTigned the crown to James, natural fon of John III. 
Lefley, his countryman, as a prime a£tor. There was an old Scottifti poem on 
the feats of Sir Walter, his brother, Duke of Leygaroch in France. Ibid, and 
Maitland's Poems. 
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