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A92384	A relation of the whole proceedings concerning the redemption of the captives in Argier and Tunis. With the translates and copies of the letters from the Bashaw, Duana, Mufty, Caddee, and Shoudes, unto both the Honourable Houses of Parliament. As also the letters from Edmond Cason Esq; agent for the Parliament there, to the Honourable, the Committee for the Navie. Together with a list of the captives names redeemed, and the prizes they cost there in the market. Published by special authority.	Cason, Edmond.	1647 (1647)	Wing R890; Thomason E374_12; ESTC R201342	7,340	23

years past I was informed that divers Turks and Moores caused us to set down much more then their slaves cost the which I did advise the Basha he swore by the head of his master the great Turk I should pay not an Asper more then they cost in the market at the first sale when they were brought on shoar The register being taken of those which be here there are 650 and upwards besides above an too in the ships of this place now at Candia in the service of the great Turk And after payment of the 10000 dollors bagreed to give him six per cent for what money I should import to pay the ransome of slaves otherwise must have paid ten per cent Then also we agreed for his duties for exportation of the slaves 20 Pesas per man to the Basha and to the Officers half duties all which comes unto 31½ Dollars per slave without agreement they would have cost about 50 Dollars a man for charges Divers of the English Youths bee turned Turks through beating and hard usage and divers children the which they keep very gallant but the young men after turned they carry to Alexandria and other parts to the Eastwards Now for the freeing of the Captives my desire is that it may be done with all brevity and with ready money whilest this Basha is here The greatest part of the inhabitants had rather keep their slaves then permit them to be freed they come to much more per head then I expected the reason is here be many women and children which cost 50 l. per head first penny and might sell them for an 100. Besides them there are divers which were Masters of ships and Carpenters Caulkers Coopers Sailemakers Chirurgions and others which are here highly esteemed so that they doe come unto 32 l. per man first penny as they have rated them one with another and the port charges is 6 l 6 s. per head so they will be about 38 l. per head put a ship board I desired to have agreed with them at a certain price one with another old yong That they would not consent unto aleaging that they were bought at severall prices and it would make trouble amongst them the King hath promised I shall not be wronged I have all things under their hands and seals the originall peace according to the ancient capitulations renewed under the hand of the Basha Duana as also under the hand and seal of the Musty and Caddee and Shoudes which be principall Justices of the peace Edmond Cason Extract out of the Letters of the said Edmond Cason dated the 26 of November 1646. May it please you MY last was 29 October They of this place doe expect that our ships should not defend any other Nation which shal bee in our Company from the ships of this place I thought to have taken away the better sort of the people first and the rest afterwards the which I understood to be the command given me but it pleased God so to order that I must take away those I could have for cloth and leave the rest till afterwards The Basha pleased to tell me when we had difference that seeing I had taken the Register of the English and their price I should clear them before I went hence For the money set down I perswade my self you shall have your people free for both Spaniards and French have their protections performed when they come to clear slaves from this place For the businesse to be acted at Tunnis I must send your Letters to the Consull and the Merchants there to effect the appointed Now they strive who shall have their slaves first taken off and when soever your Honours please to send money which in my opinion the sooner the better though you suffer some inconveniences at home it will give a great reputation to their better performance of the peace which is hitherto only concluded as formerly not having the last Articles yet translated the which I will follow I beseech your Honors not to think that this redemption may be part one year and part another and I desire your people may go home in Summer for I do assure you their clothes be thin I think two good ships and a Pinnace will be fit to fetch away the rest of the slaves Your Honours most humble servant EDMOND CASON The Copy of the Letters from the Basha and the Duana and from the Mufty and Caddee and two Shoudes being all of the same words though in three severall Letters for the High Court of PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND THe Agent which it hath pleased God to bring hither from the Parliament of England We give God thanks for that he is come hither to make peace and love betwixt us till the end of the world and that he hath given us a Letter And that Edmond Cason is come Agent by consent and allowance of the Grand Signior in safety into the harbour of Argier and as it hath been accustomed in former times of peace and that he came a shoar unto us in love and peace and that a good peace was agreed upon by both parts and he demanded the English Christians that were slaves to be delivered unto him which could not bee granted because they were bought by Turks and souldiers that were in the pay and they would not deliver them till they had the money they cost them at first in the market and if he will take them upon those conditions as they had upon the former peace we will have a good peace with them as they have in Constantinople with the Grand Signior upon this good peace concluded we both small and great in the Duana were upon those agreements well content for the slaves as they have been sold first in the market so they shall have them upon that price againe as shall appear by their books at the time of their sale And upon this businesse that you send here one of your Gentlemen named Edmond Cason who took the names of all the Englishmen except them that were turned Turks and put their names down in his register or book And as the peace hath bin agreed upon in former years so this peace shall be continued and that if it please God it shall not be broke so long as the world enduret and that God and the Great Turks curse may fall upon him that breaks this peace In Argier the 15 of October 1646 c. And of the Hagaren account 1506 ARGIER Anno Domini 1646. The Names of the men women and children freed out of slavery with the prices their Patrons set them down at and what was paid for them both in Dobles and peeces of eight when they were set at liberty   Dobles Dollers THomas Goodier of Poole 372 080 Stephen Carter of London 535 115¼ William Thomas of Dover 480 103 Thomas Webber of Watchet   120 Bartholmew Goddin of Foulston 535 115 Stephen Marshall of Plymouth   120 Thomas Stebben

A RELATION Of the whole proceedings concerning the Redemption of the CAPTIVES in ARGIER and TUNIS With the Translates and Copies of the Letters from the Ba●haw Duana Mufty Caddee and Shoudes unto both the Honourable Houses of PARLIAMENT As also the Letters from EDMOND CASON Esq Agent for the Parliament there to the Honourable the Committee for the Navie Together with a List of the Captives names redeemed and the prizes they cost there in the Market Published by special authority LONDON Printed by F. L. for Laurence Blaikelock living at Temple barre 1647. A Relation of the whole proceedings concerning the redemption of the Captives in ARGEIR c. AS nothing can demonstrate to the world the sincerity of the intentions of a State better then their own publick actions so the piety of their resolutions can never be manifested more clearly then when carried on through variety of difficulties the truth whereof doth herein most evidently appear At the commence of this Parliament while yet the kingdom was in peace both Houses passed an Act whereby they did manifest unto the world their resolutions of undertaking that Christian work of the redemption of the Captives taken by Turkish Moorish and other Pirats from that cruel thraldome which they lay under immediately after the passing whereof this unnaturall war was by the malice of the Kingdomes enemies formented and continued and the whole Kingdome enwrapped in misery and to be redeemed by both Houses of Parliament from the tyrannicall oppression which it groaned under Whereby indeed that work of the redemption of the Captives was for a time interrupted in its progression and had the Parliament looked on thing only according to humane reason they might well have altogether deferred the undertaking at that time that so great an action referring to a forein State so remote as Africa yet with a proportionall equality of care to release the whole and its severall part those principles that first moved them kept up their resolutions in the midst of the storme yea quickned them on To that purpose in the year 1645 they set forth a ship of strength called the Honour laden with a Gargasoon of money and goods to a great value sending Edmond Cason Esq their Agent with Power and instructions to go for Argier to treat for the release of the English Captives from thence and setling of a future peace for security of the Marchants and Mariners voyage But it so pleased the Divine Providence to whose guidance all things submit that the said ship with her lading comming to anchor by reason of contrary windes in the Road of Gibraltar was there by accident set on fire all possible means used to quench it but with no effect the goods by violence of the inhabitants of the place taken away and not by the Agent to be recovered some monies that were saved were put on board another English ship called the Diamond at that time riding in the Bay but the Diamond a while after before her return to England was cast away near Cadiz and so the monies there were lost Thus one affliction is added to another and misery like waves tread one on the others heel And now who could have otherwise thought but that with this sad disaster the work it self would have been layd aside but yet that great God that gave the first motion continued the resolutions And on considence of a good effect in the end this last year 1646. Both Houses were pleased againe to set forth a ship of strength called the Charles with a Gargasoon of money and goods sending the said Edmond Cason Esq again their Agent with the like power and commission at before for to treat for redemption of the Captives and setling of a firme peace In prosecution of which orders the said Agent ship and goods proceeded on the voyage and God hath so blessed the work that they arived at that Port in safety where after a long and difficult treaty the Register of the Captives is taken wherein are inrolled the names of all that are upon that place and the price for their ransome agreed on as they first cost in the market that Gargasoon of money and goods that was sent out hath by the Agent been so well managed as that 244 persons men women children are redeemed and sent home in the said ship the Charles the Agent is constrained to stay there untill such time as the remainder are likewise redeemed In preparation to the dispatch wherof two ships are now providing to be sent thither with a greater Gargasoon then before and to the intent that all may receive satisfaction concerning the proceedings of the treaty the number of the persons there captives the names of the persons redeemed and brought home The course taken for those at Tunnis here followeth the extract of the Letters of the Agent Mr. Cason the List of the persons redeemed and the translation in English of the Letters from the Basha the Duana the Mufty Caddee and Shoudes unto both Houses of Parliament An Extract out of the Letters of EDMOND CASON Esq the Parliaments Agent at Argier directed unto the Committee of the Navy dated the 29 of October 1646. MAy it please you we arived at this Port in safety thanks be to GOD the 21 of September the Basha and Duana sent me a safe conduct the next day I went on shoar and delivered my Letters to the Basha who had order from the Duana to treat with me and desired to know my businesse so I delivered him and some of the Duana my credentiall Letters and then advised them my commands from the Parliament both for complaints and the joyning perpetuall peace and desired the subjects of England to be delivered unto me free for wee had not broke the peace with them they answered they consented a peace but the Slaves were sold unto divers men souldiers and others who would not deliver them without paying for them what they first cost in the market as should appear by their books Being not content with this answer I desired my Letters being then translated to be read in the Duana to have the answer from the Basha and Duana when they were in councell the which they consented the next Saturday being the day of their sitting the 26 Ditto I had the same answer by the Trudgeman and for all things I was againe appointed to treat with the Basha this day the peace was concluded and proclaimed in the Duana The Basha entertained me with all courtesie feasted me at his house and afterwards in the fields Then I desired to take a register of all the English there detained as Captives and that every owner of an English captive might come with his slave before me and a Scrivener of this place to declare his slaves name and what he cost him the first penny the which was registred by us both and further took the place he was of his age and what ship he was taken in and how many