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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54930	A relation of the great sufferings and strange adventures of Henry Pitman, chyrurgion to the late Duke of Monmouth, containing an account ...	Pitman, Henry.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2298; ESTC R4673	34,975	40

and now was that common saying verified Confess and be hanged for notwithstanding his large Promises of Grace and Favour we were all condemned to be drawn hanged quartered by his order there was 230 executed besides a great Number hanged immediately aster thē Fight the rest of us was ordered to be Transported to the Caribe Islands and in order thereunto my Brother and I with near 100 more was given to Jeremiah Nepho and by him sold to George Penne a needy Papist that wanted Money to pay for our Transportation and therefore was very importunate with my Relations to purchase mine and my Brothers freedom which my Relations at first were unwilling to do having no assurance of performing Articles at such a distance and therefore thought it best to defer it until we came to Barbadoes or otherwise to agree to pay him as soon as they should receive an account of our being set free But this not satisfying him having present occasion of Money he threatned that if they would not pay him now he would give orders to his Brother-in-law in Barbadoes that our freedom should not be sold us after we came there but that he should treat us with more rigour and severity then others with these Threats on the one hand and Promises of particular Favour on the other he at length prevailed with our Relations to give him threescore Pounds upon condition that we should be free when we came to Barbadoes only owning some Person whom we should think fit to nominate as a titular Master and in case that these with other Conditions was not performed the said George Penne was bound with his Brother John Penne in a Bond of 120 l. to pay the threescore Pounds back again And thus we may see the buying and selling of Free-men into slavery was beginning again to be renewed among Christians as if that Heathenish Custom had been a necessary dependance on arbitrary Power And in order to our Transportation we were removed to Weymouth and Shipt aboard a Vessel that belonged to London which in a few days set Sail for Barbadoes where we arrived in about five Weeks time but had a very sickly passage insomuch that nine of my Companions were buried in the Sea. We had not been many days in Barbadoes before the Governour of the said Island summoned the General Assembly who welcomed us with the following Unchristian and Inhumane Acts. An Act for the governing and retaining within this Island all such Rebels convict as by his most sacred Majesties Order or Permit have been or shall be Transported from his Europian Dominion to this Place WHereas a most horrid wicked and execrable Rebellion was lately raised and prosecuted within his Majesties Dominions by James Scot late Duke of Monmouth and Archibald Campbell late Earl of Argile and their trayterous Complices with intent to destroy his Majesties most sacred Person and royal Family to overthrow his Crown and Government and to render his Dominions the Theatres of Blood and Misery In prevention whereof it hath pleased the divine Providence which is ever peculiarly watchful to guard the Thrones of Princes to accompany his Majesties Counsel and Arms with such Success and Victory that the said Rebels and Traytors were utterly deseated for which impious Fact many of them have since deservedly suffered the pains of Death according to Law which the rest were liable unto being equally guilty of those barbarous Crimes and must have undergone but that his Majesty in his Princely and unparralled Grace and Clemency hath been pleased to extend his mercy in sparing the Lives of several Thousands of them by comuting the Execution of their Sentance unto atemporary Service in his American Colonies and forasmuch as his sacred Majesty hath signified it as his royal Pleasure that the said Rebels or so many of them as should be transported to his said American Collonies should be there held and obliged to serve the Buyers of them for and during the full space of and term of ten Years at least and that they be not permitted in any manner whatsoever to redeem themselves by Money or otherwise until that time be fully expired Therefore we his Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjests his Lieutenant Governonr Council and general Assembly of this his Majesties said Island taking the Premises into our serious Consideration and being zealous to render all due and ready Obedience to his Majesties Command as also to make apparent with how great abhorrence and detestation we resent the said late wicked inhumane and damnable Rebellion and all those that were Promotors and Actors therein have thought it becoming our duty to Bnact and it is hereby Enacted by the Right Honourable Edward Steed Esq Lt. Governour and Commander in chief of this and other the Caribbe Islands the Honourable the Council and general Assembly of this Island and Authority of the same That what Person or Persons soever were guilty of the aforesaid Rebellion and have been therefore Convict which either already have been or hereafter shall be brought to this Island either by his Majesties order or permit for the purpose aforesaid shall be held compelled and obliged to serve and obey the Owner or Purchaser of him or them in their Plantations within this Island in all such Labour or Service as they shall be commanded to perform and do by their Owners Masters or Mistresses or their Overseers for the full time and term of Ten Years from the day of their Landing and disposed of fully to be compleated and ended any Bargain Law Vsage or Custom in this Island to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding and to the intent that no Disobedience may be suffered or done upon his Majesties said Orders and Expectations concerning the said Rebels convict but that they may become fully liable unto and bare the aforesaid mark of their monstrous Villany It is farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Master of a Ship Importer Owner Master or Purchaser of any of the Rebels aforesaid shall acquit release or discharge them or any of them or do permit them or any of them to redeem themselves by Money or other Reward or Recompence or Consideration whatsoever respecting either themselves or the said Rebels convict before the term of ten Years Service in this Island as aforesaid be fully compleated and ended or shall conive at or assist unto their or any of their Removes With-drawings or Escapings from off this Island the Party or Parties so offending herein shall therefore forfeit and pay unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the sum of two Hundred Pound Sterling for each or every one of the said Rebels which by him or them shall be either aquitted released discharged or permitted to be redeemed or conived at or assisted unto a remove withdrawing or escaping off this Island before the full end of the Term aforesaid over and above the value or recompence for which it was permitted or done and farther shall suffer