John Harrison was an English representative in

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

in the 17th century.

James I of England James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 unti ...

sent John Harrison to Muley Zaydan in Morocco in 1610 and again in 1613 and 1615 in order to obtain the release of English captives. He negotiated a treaty in May 1627 with

Sidi al-Ayachi Sidi M'Hamed al-Ayachi (; ), also el-Ayachi or al-Ayashi ( – 1641), was a Moroccan marabout, warlord, and jihadist. The Sultan of Morocco, Mulay Zidan al-Nasir, had made him governor (''qā′id'') of Azmūr, but in 1627 he decided to secede ...

, independent governor of

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, who had risen a month before against Mulay Zaydan. Harrison published an account of the Sultan Mulay Abd al-Malik in 1633.

Works

*''Late Newes out of Barbary'' (London: Arthur Jonson, 1613) *''The New Prophetical King of Barbary'' (London: Arthur Jonson, 1613) *''The Messiah Alreadie Come, Or Proofs of Christianitie'' (Amsterdam: Giles Thorp, 1613) *''A Short Relation of the Departure of the High and Mighty Prince Frederick King Elect of Bohemia'' (Dort: George Waters, 1619) *''The Reasons which compelled the States of Bohemia to reject the Archduke Ferdinand'' (Dort: George Waters, 1619) *''The Messiah Already Come, Or Proofs of Christianitie'' (Amsterdam: Giles Thorp, 1619) *''Bohemica Jura Defensa: The Bohemian Laws or Rights Defended, Against the Informer'' (1620) *''The Tragical Life and Death of Muley Abdala Melek the late King of Barbarie'' (Delft, 1633) *''A Vindication of the Holy Scriptures, Or the Manifestation of Jesus Christ the True Messiah Already Come'' (London: J.M., 1656) *''Proofs of Christianity: historically setting forth Jesus Christ the true Messiah already come'' (London: J. Playford, 1658)

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