WEST BARBARY ; OR A SHORT NARRATIVE OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE KINGDOMS OF FEZ AND MOROCCO, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT CUSTOMS, SACRED, CIVIL AND DOMESTICK.

Addison, Lancelot

Numéro d'objet:	8
Date:	1671
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Oxford
Sujet:	Ethnologie / Ethnographie

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• The Reverend Lancelot Addison (1632 - 1703) was the father of Joseph Addison the poet, essayist and politician who founded The Spectator with Richard Steele. Lancelot was educated at Queens College, Oxford and then spent 7 years in the 1660s working in Tangier as chaplain. On his return he wrote "West Barbary, or a Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco" (1671). In 1670 he was appointed royal chaplain or Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, in 1683 he became Dean of Lichfield, and in 1684 Archdeacon of Coventry. "The Present State of the Jews" is a detailed study of the Jewish population of the Barbary Coast of North Africa in the seventeenth century, their customs, laws and their religious behaviour. The first edition of 1675 had for subtitle '(more particularly relating to those in Barbary)' which was for some reason omitted from our edition but the banner at the top of the frontispiece reads: The Present State of the Jews of Barbary

Addison (1632[-]1703) was an outspoken supporter of the High Church faction of the Church of England during the Commonwealth. His ordination was delayed until the Restoration when he was also appointed chaplain to Lord Teviot, who later served as Governor of Tangier for King Charles II. Addison lived in the English garrison town of Tangier for eight years.

1671. Addison, Lancelot. – West Barbary ; or a short narrative of the revolutions of the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, with an account of the present Customs, Sacred, Civil and Domestick. The Theater in Oxford : 8vo, pp. 226, with « An Index of the Moorish Words. » Also Pinkerton's Voy. And Trav. vol. xv. Pp. 403-441.
The author, who had been Chaplain at Tangier, was subsequently one of the Chaplains in ordinary to His Majesty, and father of the celebrated Addison. There are also French and German translations of this work. The latter, « Beschreibung von Fes und Maroko, und der Westbarbarie, » was published at Nürnberg in 1672, 12mo.