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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43159	The floating island, or, A new discovery relating the strange adventure on a late voyage from Lambethana to Villa Franca, alias Ramallia, to the eastward of Terra del Templo, by three ships, viz. the Pay-naught, the Excuse, the Least-in-sight, under the conduct of Captain Robert Owe-much, describing the nature of the inhabitants, their religion, laws and customs / published by Franck Careless, one of the discoverers.	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1673 (1673)	Wing H1253; ESTC R9532	26,693	44

attempted without hazard by reason of the straggling Troops of the Enemy who lie Purdue in every Ale-house thereabouts The safest way of Sally is that through the Walks from whence the Red-Lyon in Graies-Inn-lane receives them with good quartering and passes them through the back way into the Main Land Bauldwins Gardens is a Fortress of considerable strength being much embellisht of late and the Pavement near the Battlements is renewed so that the Defendants may march much more commodiously to the Breast-works the Canniballs or Tenter-hooks have made several attempts to storm this Fortress but have commonly come off with considerable loss and though notable Shavers have not come off so trimly but that they were forced to make their escape through the Bog-house There was a famous Cittadel belonging to the Ramy-kins but long since surprized and taken in by the Enemy it still retains the name of Great St. Bartholomews upon whose Platform a whole Army of Borrowers and Book-men might have been mustred and drawn out in length or into what form or figure it had pleased them to cast themselves What works yea what variety of Art and Workmanship was within it What an excellent half-Moon was there cast up without it for defence to the Eastward What excellent Sconces in the fashion of Tobacco-shops and Ale-houses in all parts of it But alas these are demolisht for the most part the old Soldiers discharg'd and all delivered up into the hand of the Enemy upon composition The frequent assaults that have been made upon St. John of Jerusalem have rendred the place incapable of holding out longer so that the band of Borrowers there billeted are disbanded and dismist The Fryers Augustine and Cruciate Black White and Gray had all their Cowls pull'd or'e their heads and were for the most part led into the City captive where they remain to this day It is believed by most of the Sword-men thereunto belonging that these places had ne'r been lost had they not suffer'd those of the freedom to dwell among them who increased and multiplyed after that wonderful manner that by their general planting they supplanted the Nobility and Gentry which upheld their Liberties and in the end engrossed all the power of Office Trust and Authority into their hands and thereby did set open the Gates to let the Military men of the Mace to enter and surprize all The Commanders of the City were only content upon Treaty to article and agree with those of the Black-Fryers that not withstanding they so entred upon Conquest yet the old Companions especially the English Feather makers the Scotch Taylors and the French Shoo-makers with some Forreign Forces should enjoy their antient priviledges without molestation or interruption or any other that will manfully fight for their antient rights and customs To the Northward of the Black-Friers lies a very strong and formidable Cittadel belonging to the Enemy standing on the brow of an Hill which scours all the whole Country about This Cittadel is guarded like Marselles wi●h Bloodhounds who almost daily bring in a great number of Prisoners upon horses called Duce facias's This place is so remarkable I cannot pass it by without a small description It is much like the Apples of Sodom better for sight without than in It s who●e prospect from within are Iron grates where through every Transen the forlorn Captives may take a view of the Iron Age there is one single entrance which like Hells Gate le ts many in but few out turn once the Ward Et vestigia nulla retrorsum The Cimmerians in their dwellings resemble these in their lodgings only their lights are different those receive some scatter'd beamlings by their Mountain Crannies these by their disconsolate loopholes Yet from above the Inhabitants may take a view of all those places which club'd to their restraint and be reminded of the loss of time which brought them thither The Governour here of is careless whence they come but infinitely cautious how they go away and if they go away without his favour they are in great danger to break their necks for their labour This place holds as much as the world all its inhabitants are either good or bad here is a good Prisoner and he makes contemplation his refection nothing can confine him because he finds nothing fit to entertain him which Earth can afford him here is a fat sensual Prisoner who is content with any place that may belul his clowdy understanding in a careless sleep freedom and bondage are indifferently equal to his fruitless pilgrimage here is the lean Prisoner who one would think had procured such a divorce from his flesh as if he had only enter'd into covenant with his spirit whose weak exhausted feature proceeding from the defective reversions of a trencher merits pity bearing the Characters of his renury in the dying colours of his Physiognomy To be out at Elbows here is to be in fashion it being a great indecorum not to be thread-bare Every man shews here like so many wracks on the Sea here the ribs of five hundred pound here the relick of a shop well furnished and a good portion with his Wife The Company one with the other is but a vying of complaints and the causes they have to rail at fortune fool themselves and there is a great deal of good fellowship in this The mirth of this place is but feigned where over a large dose they endeavour to keep themselves from themselves and so drown the torment of thinking what they have been They huddle up their lives as a thing of no use and wear it out like an old suit the faster the better and he that deceives the time best best spends it In the next place I should speak som what of Mountagues close but that I think it doth not properly belong to the Ramy-kins and therefore I shall desist and give you an account what the nature and disposition of these people are which appertain to Ramallia or the Ramy-kins with the Territories thereunto belonging as also what those people are that fight against them The manners and dispositions of the Ramallians with their Religion Laws and Customs THey are a wandring sort of people who like the Tartars never abide long in a place but remove often carrying all that they have about them They are very fearful and cautelous and dangerous to be dealt withall and you cannot affront them worse than to bring any Mace by way of barter for they hate it worse than a Jew Swines flesh You may know them from any other people by these marks following If any of them have occasion to walk into the Imperial City to be sure at the lanes end he looks behind him and after he hath turned out of sight he mends his pace in an extraordinary degree of footmanship till he hath gain'd some ground of the followers and then he makes another stand to take notice whether any of them have arrived thither with more