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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77466	A brief relation or remonstrance of the injurious proceedings and inhumane cruelties of the Turks, perpetrated on the commander and company of the ship Lewis of London; with the resolved captivity of their ship, goods and person, by the men of war of Tripoli and Tunis; with their happy escape from them.		1657 (1657)	Wing B4637; Thomason E925_5; ESTC R207557	4,936	7

hanged by the Venetian General onely for bringing provisions to the Turks and hereof we had notice at Rhodes 5. That against this desperate destructive resolution of the Barbarian Corsares to make prize of his our persons and goods we could have little hope of protection from the Captain Bassa or General for that five dayes before we arrived at Rhodes the said seven ships of Tripoli which were then in the Grand Seignieurs service and had received their pay before they came out of Tripoli which notwithstanding did near Candia seize on the ship Resolution of London Captain Thomas on his way towards Scandarone with the value of Rials of 8 8 100000 in ready money and goods for the account of our Merchants and made sale of our ship persons and goods at Rhodes in the presence of the Grand Seignieur and Armate which ought to have protected our ship men and goods and released all according to our Capitulations had the Tripoli ship been simply in the capacity of Barbarian Rovers and much more being in the Grand Seignieurs pay and consequently of is own Navy The whole premisses considered with the assurances the French Captain and Officers affirmed they had from very good hands of the inevitable destruction which was designed for us together with the general Resolution of our men not to run themselves further into an apparent misery which was yet avoidable we on the 6 of July near the Isle of Samos took our opportunity to leave the Turks in the night and by Gods blessing on the 28 of July we arrived at Livorne for which great deliverance the good provident Lord be for ever blessed our Captain and all with him humbly conceived that God directed them to the most Christian and prudent expedient for the preservation of so many Christians estates liberties and lives which otherwise must inevitably have perished with their poor families depending on them all whom may now by Gods providence live to serve their Countrey We are now informed that some officious persons here clamour high condemning this our act as like to be prejudicial to the estate in Turkey and that therefore they would endeavour to procure the great Dukes denial of us the usual priviledge of his free Port. And that we shall neither have reception nor protection but would inforce us to return into the Barbarians hands from which God hath so graciously delivered us but had the pertest of those critical pretenders been under the same distress they would questionless have considered with us that life being the most desirable of all temporal good For skin for skin and all that a man hath he will give for his life next liberty and estate which makes our being a comfortable wel-being and then the reputation of justice and prudence which are mans chiefest ornaments and accomplishments and all these at brink of inevitable ruine and but one onely way left to escape it It is believed they would have concluded with us that preservation of all was preposeable unto self-felony self-betraying of liberty and estates with the wel-being of all our dearest relations in fidelity to the trust reposed in us by whom imployed us and forfeiture of the repute of prudent or able to manage imputation of all which must necessarily have been incured had we not used this onely means to save what else had been totally lost And for jealousie of prejudice to the estate in Turkey The Tenth Article of our capitulation provides as followeth viz. That no English-mans person or estate except of such as have become sureties by publick Act shall be liable to the debt or default of any other and questionless the Lord Embassadour with his power and authority will have better account of Capitulations from a Council of State where things are calmly debated that all parties may be understood then poor men could have had when in the hands of merciless Barbarians who had determined our general destruction besides the two youths which were committed to our Captains Tuition for education as well in Christianity as in abilities to be serviceable to their Countrey he was as willing to preserve from being forced by cruelties to turn Turk or suffering other unspeakable abuses As Lot was to incur inconveniencies to himself rather then to expose his two strangers once retired under his roof and protection to the abuse of those and these are no less Nefarious Sodomites who at Rhodes violated two Greek youths belonging to the Gallies for which some of the souldiers who were the instruments of bearing them away were hanged but the youths could never be recovered out of the hands of the Barbarian Captain who had them So little these Monsters value the Bassa's authority But not to be troublesome with much more which might be said The summe of all is self-preservation natural and rational and when that 's at stake which such a train of dependences as attended this case of ours 'T is humbly conceived that all other circumstances nay even legalities themselves are not considerable and if in order to self-preservation a Moses obscured himself a David feigned madness a Paul escaped out of a window in a basket It may be hoped there 's nothing in this act of ours contrary to Canon or civil right And to take of all suppositions of making any advantage of the Turks goods It is desired that the interessed in the ship would become security to his Highness the Lord Protector that just account shall be rendred of all that belongs to the Turks and that the ballance due to them shall likewise be deposited in the hands of whomsoever his Highness may think fit to appoint to be disposed accordingly after the case is more fully examined controverted and judged for we desire to give a good account of our selves in all particulars to enjoy our Countrey and friends and with our persons and substance to serve his Highness and the State as our Captain and many of us in the same ship did on the engagement with the Dutch before Livorne under Captain Badiley to the knowledge of all the Levant Company in whose service our Captain hath been imployed ever since his childhood nor hath any other way of livelihood save by the service of his friends in the Levant Navigation And therefore humbly desires that this Case may have gracious audience and himself and company acquitted or condemned according to the merit of it And in the mean time we further pray that the interessed in the ship would become petitioners to his Highness for his Letter to the great Duke of Tuscany that we may with the usual freedom of his Port buy sell and receive our dues without oppression or molestation from any pretenders whatsoever That we may not be necessitated to any resolutions unworthy our Christian profession or our Nation And lastly it is humbly desired That this our case may be represented to his Highness in the same dress it comes to you for simple attire best becomes so sad a truth which with our selves we with all humility prostrate at his Highness feet with prayers for his length of happy dayes This Remonstrance with a Petition to his Highness the Lord Protector was delivered to Mr Secretary Thurloe Wednesday last being the second day of September 1657.