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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04200	A relation strange and true, of a ship of Bristol named the Iacob of 120. tunnes, which was about the end of Octob. last 1621. taken by the Turkish pirats of Argier. And how within fiue dayes after, foure English youths did valiantly ouercome 13. of the said Turks, and brought the ship to S. Lucas in Spaine, where they sold nine of the Turks for gally-slaues.		1622 (1622)	STC 14322; ESTC S119754	5,706	14

sure for doing any harme they chased and followed the other nine so close that they to saue themselues being also many of them sore hurt and wounded ran betweene the ships decks whereupon the English men fastned the decks to keepe them vnder the Turkes not knowing how to be reuenged ran aftward toward the helme and vnshipt their whipstaffe or as some call it a whipstocke which is the staffe that a Mariner holds in his hand when hee guides or steeres a ship by which meanes the English men were in some distresse by reason the ship lay tumbling and rowling vnguided in the raging and boystrous billowes of the Sea at last Iohn Cooke and William Ling got each of them a Musket which they quickly charged and went downe where the nine Turkes were making offers to shoote at them at which they were much terrified whereupon they quickly ship'd their whipstocke againe deliuering the helme to Robert Tuckey and then presently they stowed all the Turkes vnder the hatches where they kept them close till the next morning and then as they had occasion to vse them they would call vp two or three of them at a time to hale and pull sheetes tacks braces and boleins to hoyse and strike sayles or any such necessary and laborious imployments in all which the English made the Turkes attend them and directing their course for the Port of Saint Lucas in Spaine they in short time by Gods ayde happily and safely arriued at the said Port where they sold the nine Turkes for Gally-slaues for a good summe of money and as I thinke a great deale more then they are worth Thus haue I set downe a true relation and description of these mens Captiuity and ioyfull deliuerance in which the Reader may see the instability of humane accidents and that the supernall power and prouidence hath a ruling hand to dispose all the purposes of men to his owne glory and the good of those that depend vpon him For what expectation of redresse or comfort could these distressed youths haue they being but foure in number their enemies being their masters and thirteene to the dozzen strong lusty able and mercilesse Turkes In the reason of man the poore mens case was desperat and past recouery but see Gods arme is not shortned hee that ouercame Pharaoh with Lice Grashoppers Froggs and Caterpillers to make Gedeon victorious with the breaking of Earthen Pitchers to cause Foxes with fire-brands to consume the Corne of the Philistims to make Sampson kill a thousand men with a silly Asses saw bone to strengthen Dauid being but a young Lad and a Shepherd that with his owne hands he slew a raging Lyon and a rauening Beare and after that with a sling and a stone to conquer and kill a mighty Gyant Innumerable are the examples that I could recite in this kinde but they are so manifest and frequent that with admiration and adoration our humane reason is strooke blinde and dumbe whil'st our faith with thankfulnesse should ascend to the author of our happinesse Nor can I forget to commend vnto memory the good and well bestowed courage of these foure young men for as a wise man said the talke of a souldier ought to hang vpon the point of his sword and courage cannot iustly be called courage but where the cause is iust and their cause being good they thought it more courage to dye free then to liue slaues they contemned all dangers they despised all miseries and they with fortitude conquered their Conquerors How many deiected slaues would haue sate whining like whelpes and like vassals haue put their necks into the noose of perpetuall seruitude crying onely God helpe but neuer endeuouring to vse the meanes that God hath giuen them whilst these braue sparks and spirits the darlings of valour to their owne long lasting fame and their countreys neuer dying honour makes Bristoll famous Britaine glorious their reputations pretious and the Turkes contemptuous Had Iohn Cooke beene some Collonell Captaine or Commander or William Ling some nauigating Lord or Dauid Iones some gentleman of land and riches or had Robert Tuckey beene one of fortunes minions to haue had more mony then wit or more wealth then valour oh what a triumphing had heere beene then what rare Muses would haue toyld like Mules to haue gallopt with their flattering encomiums beyond the 32. points of the compasse whilst these 4 rich caskets of home-spun valour and courage haue no pen to publish their deserued commendations no inuention to emblazon their saltwater honour but the poore lines and labours of a freshwater Poet. Nor doe I write this to the intent that any man should presume that their owne strengths valour or courage is sufficient to doe these or the like actions for they are not ordinary and therefore man is but made the ordinary instrument of an extraordinary power and hee that shall attribute such things as these to the arme of flesh and bloud is forgetfull ingratefull and in a manner Atheisticall One Iohn Fox an expert Mariner and a good approued and sufficient Gunner was in the raigne of Qu. Elizabeth taken by the Turkes and kept eighteene yeeres in most miserable bondage and slauery at the end of which time he espied his opportunity and God assisting him withall that he slew his keeper and fled to the seas side where he found a Gally with one hundred and fifty captiue Christians which he speedily waying their Anchor set saile and fell to worke like men and safely arriued in Spaine by which meanes he freed himselfe and a number of poore soules from long and intolerable seruitude after which the said Iohn Fox came into England and the Queene being rightly informed of his braue exploit did graciously entertaine him for her seruant and allowed him a yeerely pension Captaine Nicolls with a ship of London called the Dolphin fought a long and bloudy fight with many of the Turkish men of warre at one time at which time he sunke some of them slew many of their men and hauing his owne ship exceedingly rent and torne with the enemies great shot yet at last it pleased God to deliuer him from them so that he safely arriued at home Master William Malam of Rotherhith within these three yeeres was set vpon by these Rouers and after a long fight being much hurt by the Ordnance of the Turkes the night comming on which made the fight to cease when the Generall of the Pirats past his word and bound it with an oath that if M. Malam would come aboord his ship all night that he should well and safely be set aboord againe his owne ship the next morning vpon which word and oath M. Malam went aboord the Turke and a Merchant with him but first before hee went commanded his Mate to watch his opportunity and steale away with the ship in the night if he could which fell out as he wished whereby all the Merchants goods were saued and the ship safely arriued heere at London but in the morning when the Turkes did perceiue the English ship was gone then would they haue put M. Malam and the Merchant that was with him to death whereupon he vrged him with his oath and promise which was that he should come and goe safely and that if a Christian had made him or any man such a promise and bound it with a vow hee would haue kept his word And that for any thing he knew his ship being so dangerously hurt by them might bee sunke in the night and not escaped away as he imagined Now whilst they were in this discourse presently came a saile in sight which afterwards they found to bee a small Scottish ship bound for England whom the Turkes quickly tooke and pillag'd at their pleasure taking from them their Sailes Cables Anchors and all things necessary for their vse or preseruation and hauing rob'd and rifled the poore Scot in that manner they put Mr. Malam and the Merchant into her to try their fortunes either to sinke or swim but it pleased God they safely arriued in the west part of England where they came home by land sad and disconsolate because they could not heare any newes of the ship but the same night that he came home before day there was happy tidings brought of the ships safe arriuall into the riuer of Thames All these things are true vpon mine owne knowledge and these worthy Mariners that haue beene so deliuered doe and euer did attribute all the meanes of their deliuerance to the mighty hand of God and they are so far from taking any of these things to their owne prayse or glory that some of them haue euer done their best to suppresse them from being printed But as it were a meere vanity to boast or brag so I hold it a great pitty that either Gods mercies or mans benefits receiued should be concealed Here is matter sufficient related to perswade men that as they should not presumptuously ascribe Gods honour to themselues so on the other side here are maine motiues and examples to keepe men from despaire in their greatest distresses for as you see heere when all mans helpe failed then Gods helpe preuailed to whom alone as it is due bee ascribed all the honour FINIS