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A11529	A true discription and breefe discourse, of a most lamentable voiage, made latelie to Tripolie in Barbarie, in a ship named the Iesus vvherin is not onely shevved the great miserie, that then happened the aucthor hereof and his whole companie, aswell the marchants as the marriners in that voiage, according to the curssed custome of those barbarous and cruell tyrants, in their terrible vsage of Christian captiues: but also, the great vnfaithfulnesse of those heathnish infidels, in not regarding their promise. Together, with the most wonderfull iudgement of God, vpon the king of Tripolie and his sonne, and a great number of his people, being all the tormentors of those English captiues. Set foorth by Thomas Saunders, one of those captiues there at the same time.		1587 (1587)	STC 21778; ESTC S101651	18,804	26

and thrée to an oare and we rowed naked aboue the girdle and the Boteswaine of the Galley walked abast the Mast and his Mate afore the Maste and each of them a Bulles pissell dried in their handes and when their diuellish choller rose they would strike the Christians for no cause and they allowed vs but halfe a poūd of bread a man in a day without other kinde of sustenance water excepted And when we came to the place whereas we saw the Carmosall wée were not suffered to haue neither needle bodkin knife or any other instrument about vs nor at any other time in the night vp on paine of one hundreth bastinadoes wee were then also vildely manackled in such sort that we coulde not put our handes the length of a foote asunder the one from the other and euery night they searched our chaines three times to see if they were fast reaueted Wee continued fight with the Carmosall thrée houres and then we tooke it The Gallie of Tripolie tooke a Greekish Carmosall The Turkes build a church The Englishmen put to all kind of slauerie Some to hew stones Some to draw stores Some to draw timber Some to draw Ordinance The countrie rebelled against the king and lost but two of our men in that fight but there were slaine of the Greekes fiue and fourteen were cruellie hurt and they that were sound were presentlie made slaues and cheined to the oares and within fiftéene daies after we returned againe into Tripolie and then we were put to all manner of slauerie I was put to hew stones and other to carrie stones and some to draw the Carte with earth and some to make morter some to draw stones for at that time the Turkes builded a Church and thus we were put to al kind of slauerie that was to bée done and in the time of our béeing there the Moores that are the Husbandmen of the countrey rebelled against the King because he would haue constrained them to paye greater tribute then heretofore they had doone so that the souldiors of Tripolie marched foorth of the towne to haue ioined battell against the Moores for their rebellion and the King sent with them foure peeces of ordinance which were drawne by the captiues twentie miles into the countrie after them and at the sight thereof the Moores fled and then the captaines returned backe againe Then I and ninetéene Christians more were sent twelue miles into the countrie with a cart to lode timber and we returned againe the same daie The Christians sent three times a weeke thirtie miles to fetch wood Nowe the King had eighteene captiues which thrée times a wéeke went to fetch wood thirtie miles from the towne and on a time he appointed me for one of the eighteene we departed at eight of the clocke in the night and vpon the waie as we rode vpon the Cammels I demanded of one of our companie who did direct vs the waie he said that there was a Moore in our companie which was our guide and I demanded of them how Tripolie and the wood bore one of the other and he said East Northeast and Weast Southweast And at midnight or neere thereabouts as I was riding vpon my Cammell I sell a sleepe and the guide and all the rest rode awaie from me not thinking but I had béene among them When I awooke and finding my selfe alone durst not call nor hallow for feare least the wilde Moores should heare me because they hold this opinion that in killing a Christian they doo God good seruice musing with my selfe what were best for me to doo and if I should go foorth and the wilde Moores should hap to méet with me they would kill me and on the other side if I should returne backe to Tripolie without anie wood or companie I should be most miserablie vsed therefore of two euils rather I had to go foorth to the losing of my life then to turne backe and trust to their mercie fearing to be vsed as before I had seene others for vnderstanding by some of my companie before how Tripolie and the said wood did lie one of another by the North starre I went foorth at aduenture and as God would haue it I came right to the place where they were euen about an houre before day there altogether we rested and gaue our Cammels prouender and assoone as the daie appeared The Christians plucked vp the wood by the roots to loade their Cammels we rode all into the wood and I séeing no wood there but a sticke héere and a sticke there about the bignesse of a mans arme growing in the sand caused me to maruell how so manie Cammels should be loden in that place The wood was Iiniper we néeded no axe nor other edge toole to cut it but pluckt it vp by strength of hands rootes and all which a man might easilie doo and so gathered it togither a little at one place and so at another and laded our Cammels and came home about seauen of the clocke that night following bicause I fell lame and my Cammell was tired I left my wood in the waie Eighteene captiues run awaie from Tripolie There was in Tripolie that time a Venecian whose name was Benadetta Venissiano and seauentéene captiues more of his companie which ran awaie from Tripolie in a bote and came in sight of an Iland called Malta which lieth fortie leagues from Tripolie right North and being within a mile of the shore and verie faire weather one of their companie said In dispeto de diu a desse a venio de pilliar tarra The iudgement of God vpon wicked blasphemers which is as much to say In the despite of God we shall now fetch the shore and presentlie there arose a mightie storme with thunder and raine the wind at North their bote being verie small so that they were inforced to beare vp rome to sheare right afore the wind oueragainst the coast of Barbarie frō whence they came rowing vp downe the coast their vittels being spent the xxi day after their departure they were inforced through the want of food to come a shore thinking to haue stolne some shéepe but the Moores of the countrie verie craftilie perceiuing their intent gathered togither a thréescore horsmen hid themselues behind a sandie hill when the christians were come all a shore The Moores tooke the xviii christians that ran awaie from Tripolie past vp halfe a mile into she countrie the Moores rode betwixt them and their bote and some of them pursued the christians so they were all taken and brought to Tripolie from whence they had before escaped presentlie the king commanded that the foresaid Benedicta with one more of his companie should lose their eares the rest to be most cruellie beaten which was presentlie doone The king of Tripolie had a son which was ruler in the Iland of Ierbbye This king had a sonne

which was a ruler in an Iland called Ierbby wherevnto ariued an English ship called the Greene Dragon of the which was maister one M. Blonket who hauing a verie vnhappie boie in that ship vnderstanding that whosoeuer would turne Turke should be well enterteined of the kings sonne this boy did run a shore voluntarilie turned Turke Shortlie after the kings sone came to Tripolie to visit his father séeing our companie he greatlie fancied Rich. Burges our pursser Iames Smith they were both yoong mē therfore he was verie desirous to haue thē to turne Turke but they wold not yéeld to his desire saieng we are your fathers slaues as slaues we will serue him then his father the king sent for them asked them if they would turne Turke they said If it please your highnes christiās we were borne so we will remaine beséeched the king that they might not be inforced thervnto The king had there before in his house a son of a yeoman of our Queenes guard The kinges sonne had a Captiue that was sonne to one of the Queenes maiesties guard that was forced to turne Turke whom the kings son had inforsed to turne Turke his name was Iohn Nelson him the king caused to be brought to these yoong men and then said vnto them will not you beare this your countriman companie and be Turke as he is and they said that they would not yéeld therevnto during life but it sell out that within a moneth after the Kinges sonne went home to Ierbbïe againe being sixe score miles from Tripolie and caried our two foresaid yoong men with him which were Richard Burges and Iames Smith and after their departure from vs they sent vs a letter signifieng that there was no violence shewed vnto them as not but within thrée daies after they were violentlie vsed for that the kings sonne demanded of them againe if that they would turne Turke Richard Burges made a Turke by force then answered Richard Burges a Christian I am and so I will remaine Then the Kinges sonne verie angerlie said vnto him by Mahommet thou shalt presentlie be made Turke Then called he for his men and commanded them to make him Turke and they did so and circumcised him and would haue had him speake the words that therevnto belonged but he answered them stoutlie that hée would not and although they had put on him the habit of a Turke yet said hee Christian I was borne and so I will remaine though you force me to doo otherwise And then he called for the other commanded him to be made Turke perforce also Iames Smith made Turke and circumcised by force but he was verie strong for it was so much as eight of the Kings sonnes men could doo to hold him so in the end they circumcised him and made him Turke Now to passe ouer a little and so to shew the maner of our deliuerie out of that miserable captiuitie The first motion for those Englishmens deliuerie In Maye aforesaid shortlie after our apprehension I wrote a letter into England vnto my Father dwelling in Eauistoke in Deuonshire signifieng vnto him the whole estate of our calamities and I wrote also to Constantinople to the English ambassadour both which letters were faithfullie deliuered But when my Father had receiued my letter and vnderstood the truth of our mishap and the occasion thereof and what had happened to the offendors he certified the Right honorable the earle of Bedford thereof who in shorte space acquainted hir Highnesse with the whole cause thereof and hir Maiestie like a most mercifull Princesse tendring hir subiects presentlie tooke order for our deliuerance Wherevpon the right worshipfull sir Edward Osburne knight directed his letters with all speed to the English ambassadour in Constantinople to procure our deliuerie and he obteined the great Turks commission sent it forth with to Tripolie by one master Edward Barton togither with a Iustice of the great Turks one souldior and another Turke a Greeke which was his interpretor which could speake besides Gréeke Turkish Italiā Spanish English And when they came to Tripolie they were well interteined A Commissiō come from the great Turke for the Englishmens deliuerie And the first night they did lie in a captaines house in the towne all our companie that were in Tripolie came that night for ioy to maister Barton and the other commissioners to see them Then maister Barton said vnto vs welcome my good countrimen and louinglie interteined vs at our departure from him he gaue vs two shillings and said serue God for to morrow I hope you shall be as frée as euer you were we all giue him thankes and so departed The next daie in the morning verie earlie the king had intelligence of their comming sent word to the kéeper that none of the Englishmē meaning our companie should go to worke Then he sent for maister Barton and the other commissioners demanded of the said M Barton his message the Iustice answered that the Great Turke his Souereigne had sent thē vnto him The somme of the great Turkes commission pronoun●ed by a a Turkish Iustice signifieng that he was informed that a certeine English ship called the Iesus was by him the said King confiscated about twelue moneths since and now my said Souereigne hath héere sent his especiall commission by vs vnto you for the deliuerie of the said ship goods and also the free libertie deliuerance of the Englishmen of the same ship whom you haue taken and kept in captiuitie farther the same Iustice said I am authorised by my said souereigne the great Turke to see it doone and therefore I command you by vertue of this commission presentlie to make restitution of the premises or the value therof and so did the Iustices deliuer vnto the King the great Turkes commission to the effect aforesaid which commission the king with all obedience receiued after the perusing of the same The Englishmen released by the king of Tripolie and deliuered to M Barton the 28 daie of Aprill 1585. he forthwith commanded all the English captiues to bee brought before him then willed the kéeper to strike of all our irons which doone the king said You Englishmen for that you did offend the lawes of this place by the same lawes therefore some of your companie were condemned to die as you know you to be perpetuall captiues during your liues notwithstāding seeing it hath pleased my souereigne lord the great Turke to pardon your said offences to giue you your freedom libertie behold héere I make deliuerie of you to this English gentleman so he deliuered vs all that were there being thirteene in number to maister Barton who required also those two yoong men which the kings sonne had taken with him Then the king answered that it was against their lawe to deliuer them for that they were turned Turkes

and touching the ship and goods the king said that he had sold hir but would make restitution of the value and as much of the goods as came vnto his hands and so the King arose went to dinner and commanded a Iew to go with maister Barton and the other commissioners to shewe them their lodging which was a house prouided and appointed them by the said king And bicause I had the Italian and Spanish toongs by which their most trafike in that countrie is Maister Barton made me his Cater to buie his victuals for him and his companie and deliuered me money néedfull for the same Thus were we set at libertie the xxviii day of Aprill 1585. The plagues and punishments that happened to the king and his people Now to returne to the kings plagues and punishments which Almightie God at his will and pleasure sendeth vpon men in the sight of the world and likewise of the plagues that befell his children and others aforesaid First when we were made bondmen being the second day of May 1584 the king had 300 captiues and before the moneth was expired there died of them of the plague 150 150 captiues died of the plague in one moneth Nine of the companie of the Iesus died of the pl●gue The king lost 150 Camels taken by the wilde Moores A captiue of Malta ran awaie with a Brigandine and xii captiues more The kings fairest M●re di●● vnder him which he made to be burried in hir skinne shooes all whereas there were xxvi men of our companie of whom two were hanged and one died the same day that we were made bondslaues that present moneth there died nine more of our companie of the plague other two were forced to turne Turkes as before is rehearsed on the fourth day of Iune next following the king lost 150 Cammels which were taken from him by the wild Moores on the xxviii day of the said moneth of Iune one Geffrey Maltees a Runnagado of Malta ran awaie to his countrie and stole a Brigandine which the king had builded for to take christians withall carried with him twelue christians more which were the kings captiues Afterward about the tenth day of Iulye next following the king rode foorth vpon the greatest fairest Mare that might be séene as white as any Swan he had not ridden fortie paces from his house but on a sudden the same Mare fell downe vnder him starke dead I with six more was commanded to burie hir skin shooes and all which we did And about thrée moneths after our deliuerie M. Barton with all the residue of his companie departed from Tripolie to Oezant in a vessell called a Settea of one Marcus Segoorus who dwelt in Oezāt after our ariuall at Oezāt we remained xv daies there aboord our vessell before we could haue Platego that is leaue to come a shore bicause the plague was in that place from whence we came about thrée daies after we came a shore Two Englishmen shipped to Constantinople with M. Barton N●ne of the Englishmen shipped to England The Soldiors of Tripolie kill the king The kings sonne goeth to Constantinople with his fathers captiues who skirmish in the Galley with him and his Turkes in which conflict two Englishmen were slaine thether came another Settea of Massilins bound for Constantinople Then did M. Barton and his companie with two more of our companie ship themselues as passengers in the same Settea and went to Constantinople But the other nine of vs that remained in Oezāt about three moneths after shipt our selues in a Ship of the said Mareus Segoorus which came to Oezant and was bound for England In which three moneths the Souldiors of Tripolie killed the said King And then the kings sonne according to the custome there went to Constantinople to surrender vp all his fathers treasure goods Captiues and Concubines vnto the Great Turke and tooke with him our said Pursser Richard Burges Iames Smith and also the other two Englishmen which he the said kings sonne had inforced to become Turkes as is aforesaid And they the said Englishmen finding now some opportunitie concluded with the Christian captiues which were going with them vnto Constantinople being in number about one hundred and fiftie to kill the kings sonne and all the Turks which were aboord of the Galley and priuilie the said Englishmen conueyed vnto the said Christian captiues weapons for that purpose And when they came into the maine sea towa●ds Constantinople vpon the faithfull promise of the said Christian captiues these foure Englishmen lept suddenlie into the Croossia that is into the midst of the Galley where the Cannon lieth and with their swords drawne did fight against all the foresaid Turkes and for wante of helpe of the said Christian captiues who falslie brake the●●●emises the said M. Blonkets boy was killed and the sa●● I●mes Smith our Pursser Richard Burges and the other Englishman were taken bound into chaines to be han●●●●● there arriuall into Constantinoples and as the Lords w●● 〈◊〉 about two daies after passing through the gulfe of V 〈…〉 an Iland called Saffalonea they met with two of the doke of Venis his Galleis Two Galleis of Venice tooke the king of Tripolie hi● Galley and killed the kings sonne and all the Turkes in it released all the Christians being in number 150. which tooke that Gallie kild the kings sonne his mother all the Turks that were there in nūber ●50 and they saued the Christian captiues would haue killed the two Englishmen bicause they were circumcised become Turkes had not the other Christian captiues excused them saieng that they were enforsed to be Turks by the kings sonne shewed the Venecians also how they did enterprise at sea to fight against all the Turks that their two fellowes were slaine in that fight Thē the Venecians saued them they with all the residue of the said captiues had their libertie which were in number 150 or thereabouts the said Gallie all the Turkes treasure was confiscated to the vse of the duke of Venice frō thence our two Englishmen trauelled homeward by land in this meane time we had one more of our cōpanie which died in Oezante afterward the other eight shipped thēselues at Oezante in a ship of the said Marcus Segorius which was bound for Englād before we departed thence there ariued the Assenciō the George Bonauenture of London into Saffalonea in a harbor ther called Arrogostoria whose marchants agréed with the marchants of our ship so loded all the marchandize of our ship into the said ships of Londō who tooke vs eight also in as passengers so we came home within two moneths after our ariuall at Londō our said pursser Richard Burges his fellow came home also for the which we are bound to praise almightie God during our life and as dutie bindeth vs to praie for the preseruation of our most gratious Quéene for the great care hir Maiestie had ouer vs hir poore subiects in séeking procuring of our deliuerance aforesaid also for hir honorable priuie councell I especiallie for the prosperitie good estate of the house of the late deceased the Right honorable the erle of Bedford whose honor I must confesse most diligentlie at the sute of my father now departed trauelled herein for that which Arest continuallie bounden to his whose soule I doubt not but is alreadie in the heauens in ioy with the Almightie vnto which place he vouchsafe to bring vs all that for our sins suffered most vile and shamefull death vpon the crosse there to liue perpetuallie world without end Amen Thom Sanders FINIS