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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07165	Christopher Angell, a Grecian, who tasted of many stripes and torments inflicted by the Turkes for the faith which he had in Iesus Christ.	Angelus, Christophorus, d. 1638.	1618 (1618)	STC 641; ESTC S90301	8,211	17

CHRISTOPHER ANGELL A Grecian who tasted of many stripes and torments inflicted by the Turkes for the faith which he had in Iesus Christ AT OXFORD Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short Printers to the famous Vniuersitie 1618. TO THE MOST RENOWNED AND resplendent most wise and iudicious most learned and louing Patrons of the Greeke Tongue most gracious supporters of the decayed estate of all distressed Grecians and Strangers Fathers and Brethren in Christ Gouernours and Heads of the two famous and flourishing Vniuersities of this Iland in generall and more in particular to all heads of Colledges therin and whatsoeuer Students vnder their protection and to all Diuines Physicians and Lawyers Furthermore to all that beare authoritie in the ample and well gouerned Cities In generall to the industrious and studious among the Commonaltie within the Confines of the euer honoured and admired England prosperitie here and glory hereafter HEretofore gray-eyed Minerua spake and prophesied in Athens by the mouthes of learned Grecians but now and long before this time I see her singing in Brittany by the mouths of the most wise English men and crowning the sonnes of England with all kinds of diuers coloured Garlands Concerning me if any man shall enquire what might be the cause and for what reason I came into this famous Iland and haue trauelled so far as this most illustrious and renowned Vniuersitie of Oxford may it please him to he are the cause God himselfe will witnesse it to bee true according to this ensuing discourse Because the Deuill perceiued that his time was but short therefore he came into the Earth full of wrath and was mooued against the Church of God as a raging and angry Lion according to that which S. Iohn saith in the Reuelation the 12. Chap. and the 22. Verse and as the Prophet Danid speaketh in the 80. Psalme and the 13. Verse The wild Bore out of the Wood hath destroyed it and the wild beasts of the fields haue eaten it and againe in the 83. Psalme Verse 5. and 6. They haue consulted together in heart and haue made a league against thee The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ismaelites c. Right so the Greeke Church at this time suffereth being destitute of all perfection and knowledge the cause of this euill is the great Turke that is the King of the Turkes doth desire and is willing to haue peace with all that are vnder him but some of his Magistrates are very wicked and proud and by those the Greeke Church doth suffer much misery For this reason neither can there be any Schoole neither any Master desiring to teach Schollers can remayne in one place Euen as I suffered and know who haue tasted of many kinds of miserie Now the cause of this my miserie was this I in my youth desired much to better my vnderstanding and my learning remembring that saying of Christ Search the Scriptures and in them thou shalt find euerlasting life and that of Saint Paul to Timothie In that thou hast knowne the holy Scriptures of a child which are able to make thee wise vnto saluation And that of Salomon where the Lord saith In that thou askedst wisdome only and nothing else I will giue thee wisdome and riches therewithall and a Kingdome greater then all the Kingdoms of the earth And that of Dauid in the hundred and nineteenth Psalme In thy Lawes did I meditate Yet by reason of the defect of Teachers I trauelled through many places in Greece that I might supply that wāt profiting in some places more in some lesse At length I came to Athens studied preached there now the Captaine of that place was an Hagarene a deadly enemy to all Christians which dwelt at Athens besides this he was very couetous and cruell vniust and did much wrong to the Athenians by reason whereof the Athenians went to the great Turke three seuerall times and complayned of the iniuries which he had offered them whereupon the great Turke sent certaine Noble men to hang him but by reason of his Riches and Nobilitie they could not accomplish that they were sent for The Captaine vpon these complaints was grieuously offended with the Athenians and farther to satisfie his owne greedie desires he oppressed many Strangers amongst the rest seeing me also who was a Stranger and vnknowne of all immediately he layes hands vpon me diligently examined me concerning the name of the Gouernour of my Natiue Countrey I answered that it was now almost twentie yeares since I left my Countrey for study and learning sake and that I had not as yet returned to my Countrey and therefore I knew not the name of the Gouernour thereof Then hee answered me If you know not your Gouernour you must goe to Prison whither when I came they clapt a paire of Bolts vpon my legs Not long after the Gouernour called many of the Turkes who deriue their beginning from Mahomet and then he tooke me out of Prison brought me before them and said vnto them Behold a Spanish Traytor They all cryed out T is true as you say hee is a trayterous Spaniard as we know by his Beard for it is long and picked and blacke and his clothes are of a Spanish red for I did weare apparell of red colour such as the chiefe of the Greeke Monkes vse also and some of the Christians standing by made answere for mee to the Turkes that this was the vsuall apparell of the better fort of the Greeke Monkes but the Turkes withstood that saying that the Monkes Habits were made of courser cloth but mine was of finer and therefore a Spanish garment This they said not that the cloth was indeed finer then that of other Monks but that they might vniustly picke a quarrell and bring some accusation whereby they might punish me After this they began to iutice me saying Our Easter is neere at hand and if thou wilt deny thy Christ wee promise thee and that wee may not deceiue thee as concerning our promise we sweare that if thou wilt become a Turke thou shalt greatly honour our feast day and for this wee will make thee a Centurion besides other great honours which wait vpon thee Now it is the manner of the Turkes when they sweare not to falsifie their words and thrice in this manner they tempted me but I denied them alwaies telling them That my care was not for honours but that I desired rather to die in the same Religion for which my father and mother died also Then one of the Gouernours came and plucking me by the Beard the haire of the head buffetted mee saying Why seeing I turned Turke maist not thou also for before time he had beene a Christian I answered him that I cared not what hee had done I allow not of it Then he threw me on the groūd and trampled vpon my head before all the Congregation of Turkes and Christians And afterwards they shut mee vp in close ward meaning after