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A14850	The rare and most vvonderfull things vvhich Edvv. VVebbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome trauailes in the cities of Ierusalem, Damasko, Bethlehem and Galely and in the landes of Iewrie, Egypt, Gracia, Russia, and Prester Iohn, vvherein is set forth his extreame slauery sustained many yeeres together in the gallies and warres of the great Turke, against the lands of Persia, Tartaria, Spaine, and Portugale.; Rare and most wonderfull things which Edward Webbe hath seene and passed.	Webbe, Edward, b. 1553 or 4.	1590 (1590)	STC 25152; ESTC S101834	15,304	30

commeth for the countrey is wonderfull cold and subiect to frosts there is a great hole made in the Ise ouer some great riuer and then the partie principall is first put in and after him his wife his children and all other his kinsfolkes and so leaue none of his posteritie to possesse his landes or goods but the same are bestowed vpon others at the Emperors pleasure There I stayed thrée yeares attendant on my Maister in which time the crym Tartarians otherwise named the new Christians made warre vpon the sayd citie of Musko which soone after was betrayed and spéedely burned the people in great aboundance massacred and the Tartarian souldiers had wonderfull rich spoyles in the same there was I at that time with seuen other Englishmen taken prisoners and for slaues were altogether conuayed to Caffa where the king of the Tartarians abideth and kéepeth a stately Court being conueyed thether we were set to wipe the féete of the kinges horses and to become ordinary slaues in the sayd Court to fetch water cleaue wood and to doe such other drudgerie There were we beaten thrée times a wéeke with a Bulls pissell or a horse tayle And in this sort and miserable seruitude wee stayed there fiue yeares then were we raunsomed from thence by our friends where we payde euery man thrée hundred crownes which is seuen shillings sixe pence a péece of currant English money Among that people called the Tartarians I noted specially this one thing that their children being new borne do neuer open their eyes vntill they be nine dayes and nine nights old Thus beeing ransomed as is aforesayd I returned home into England where hauing staied some small time I went againe into Russia in the Hart of maister Kings at Ratcliffe with thirtie sayle of ships more in our company at which ●a●e her Maiesties shippe cassed the Willoughby was our Admirall and the Harry appertayning to the company of the Marchantes was our vize-Admirall Master William Burrow then being our Captaine and master In which our voyage we met with fiue Rouers or men of warre whom we set vpon burnt their Admirall and brought those shippes into Narre and there the men were massacred in this manner by the Russians first great stakes stroken into the ground and they spitted vpon powles as a man would put a pigge vpon the spitte and so seuen score were handled in that manner in a very tyrannous sort We vnladed our burthen at Narre and tooke in other lading for our commodities but the ship wherein I was which was called the Hart hauing sayled but twelue miles from thence stroke vpon a rocke whereby the shippe and goods were lost the residew of the fléete had no harme and all the men in our ship saued their liues by taking them into the boate of the sayde shippe By meanes of which shippe so cast away I lost all that I had and then came againe into England and gathered a new stocke and in the Henrie of London I went to Leuanta alias Legorne This shippe called the Henrie had béene solde before to Doctor Hector and other Italian Marchants which was vnknowen vnto vs so that at our cōming to Legorne the ship was seased on by the factors of those that were the owners thereof and by them laden with marchandice to Alexandria in which shipp my selfe was master gunner Thus as I said before I remained sixe yeares in this miserable estate wonderfully beaten misused euery day there haue I séene of my fellowes when they haue béene so weake as they could not rowe by reason of sickenes and faintnes where the Turkes would laie vpon them as vpon Horses and beate them in such sort as oft times they died and then threw them into the Sea Thus séeing my selfe still to continue in this miserable state I was constrained for want of victuals to discouer my selfe and to shew them that I had good skill in Gunners Art which I thought would haue béen greatly well estéemed at the Turkes handes but then for the same I was more narrowly looked vnto yet somewhat better estéemed of then I was before Not long after the Turke made warres against the Persians and gathered 700. thousand men togither and these were conducted by his chiefe Bassaes into Persia. At which time for that had skill in Artillery I was chosen forth of the Gallies to goe with the Armye into Persia and there to doo the Turke seruice in the field with whom I traueiled on foote but in our going thither there died of our Armye by meanes of great sicknes disdiet and want of victuals about the number of 300. thousand so that when we came into Percia we were 400. thousand strong in the field there wée rested vs one moneth by which time wée hauing hartened our selues gaue a fierce assault vpon the Persians where the Turkes side got the worst and lost 60. thousand men Then the Generall ouer the Turkes Army whose name was Sannon Basha sent vs so many souldiers more as made vs 500. thousand strong there wée staied a long time making warres against the Persians and the great Citie of Damasko where the Turke litle preuailed for if the Turke were as polliticke as he is strong of power the Persians were not able to resist him Thus leauing the Turkes Army in Persia we came through Damasko to our Citie called the great Caier which Citie is thréescore miles in compasse and is the greatest Citie in the worlde it standeth vpon the Riuer of Nilo and in the saide Citie there are twelue thousād churches which they terme Muskots This Citie at all times kéepeth fortie thousand men continually in Souldiers pay and are readie at one houres warning to serue vnder the great Turke there we staied to sée the cutting or parting of the Riuer of Nilo which is done once euery yeare vpon the 25. day of August This Citie standeth in the land of Egypt and is vnder the gouernment of the great Turke And there is a king ouer the said Citie who is called the king of the great Caer and is the Uize Roy or Liefetenant to the great Turke and he is then present at the cutting of this riuer of Nilo at which time there is great triumph and euery Towne and Countrie round about to the valew of a thousand mile send gifts and presents to the King of the great Caer in consideration of the water which commeth to them from that Riuer of Nilo by meanes of the cutting of it which is but once euery yéere It is therefore to be knowne that in the land of Egypt it raineth not at all and all the grounde throughout the land of Egypt is continually watred by the water which vpon the 25. day of August is turned into the countries round about by meanes of the wonderfull growing and swelling of the water vpright without any staie at all on one side thereof to the height of a huge mountaine which beginneth to encrease the 15. day of August

of my troublesome trauel One thing did greatly comfort me which I saw long since in Sicilia in the citie of Palerms a thing worthie of memorie where the right honourable the Earle of Oxenford a famous man for Chiualrie at what time he trauailed into forraine countries being then personally present made there a challeng against all manner of persons whatsoeuer and at all manner of weapons as Turniments Barriors with horse and armour to fight and combat with any whatsoeuer in the defence of his Prince and countrie for which he was very highly commended and yet no man durst be so hardie to encounter with him so that all Italy ouer he is acknowledged euer since for the same the onely Chiuallier and Noble man of England This title they giue vnto him as worthely deserued Moreouer in the land of Egypt néere to the Riuer of Nilo within sixe miles of the gran Caer. There are seuen Mountaines builded on the out side like vnto the point of a Diamond which mountaines were builded in King Pharaos time to kéepe corne in and they are mountaines of great strength It is said that they were builded about that time when Ioseph did lade home his brethrens Asses with corne in the time of the great dearth mentioned in the scripture At which time all their corne lay in those mountaines In the riuer of Nilo there is long fishes of tenne or twelue foot long which swimmeth néere the shore they are called the fishes of King Pharao they are like vnto a Dolphin These fishes are so subtil that swimming néere the shore side they will pull men or women suddenly into the riuer and deuoure them In the citie of the gran Caer the houses are of a verie olde building all of lime and stone and in most of the houses the roofes are couered with fine golde in a very workmanly sort In Egypt there is small store of water because it neuer raineth in that countrie so that their water is very daungerous to drinke They haue no springs at all in that countrie and yet there falleth such a dew euery night as doth refresh and kéepe their hearbes and plants in due sort and makes them spring very fruitfully The people of those countries before mentioned are for the most part of a reasonable stature yet of a brounish and swart complexion their women goe muffled and generally in the land of Iewry they weare hye stéepled hats much like vnto the forme of a suger loafe The citie of Damasco is very fruitfull and greatly replenished with all maner of fruites whatsoeuer as Pombgranades Oringes Limons Apples Peares Plumbes Grapes and all other like fruites The Turkes are a people that at some time they will attempt to doe wonderfull thinges as going vpon Ropes and thrusting their swords into their naked flesh and sticke their swordes in their flesh like vnto a Scabbard and many other thinges of great daunger In Turkey no man may strike the gran Cadie that is their chiefest iudge if any man doo strike him he loseth his right arme for his labour without redemption At my comming ouer into England from Rome I was fame to steale away being then reteined in yéerly fée to the King of Spaine to be one of his chéefest Gunners And if the Ship wherein I came ouer had béen taken both they and I my selfe had died for that offence The old Citie of Ierusalem is a verie desolate place nothing to be séene but a litle of the olde walles which is yet remaining and all the rest is grasse mosse and wéedes like to a péece of ranke or moist ground They haue no tillage in those parts The Citie of Ierusalem where the Temple standeth is almost a mile from the olde walles of Ierusalem it is of a very old building and there standeth all the olde relikes preserued and kept as monuments of great treasure Now to returne where I left of and declare vnto you wherin I employed my selfe since my comming into England here I visited my friendes from May till Nouember and then departed into Fraunce where I had entertainment at the handes of the renowmed king and captaine of this age Henry of Burbon king of France and Nauarre who receiued me into pay and appointed me his maister Gunner in the field It is to be remembred that at this great battaile I made one shot of such an accustomed mixture that did slay the Kinges enimies in great aboundance whereat the enimies greatly wondered considering they could neither find bullet chaineshot nor could sée any other thing more then plaine pouder and yet the people straungely slaine out right and lay dead in great aboundance At my departure forth of Fraunce the Kinges Secretary gaue me certaine letters of cōmendation to beare with me to the States of England wherein was declared my good seruice and how willing he was still to haue employed me in his warres and would haue giuen mee sufficient rewardes if with him I would haue remained but being sent for to come againe into my natiue countrie to the intent to be employed in her Maiesties affaires I could doe no lesse but make hast towardes England to take in hand any seruice which I were able to performe At which time I being in the French Kinges Court and ready to depart towards England there came certain newes to the King from Roane that Monsieur de Lego Captaine of the Castle in the saide towne of Roane with sundry other Protestants being gentlemen and gentlewomen of good account had conspired against the traitorous Leagers that doe there rebelliously withstand the King and had yéelded vp the Castle with the keyes vnto a Captaine of great courage to the vse of the French King whereupon all the power this Captaine could make was not able to kéepe it aboue halfe a day for the Kings power lay farre from the same yet vpon the suddaine they made towards Roane so fast as they might But all they did was in vaine for before the Kings force could get within sixe myles of the saide towne the enimy had wonne it againe by force of cannon shot and tooke sundry persons as prisoners which they found in the said Castle and apprehended sundry other in the town which consented thereunto Among whom was a Lady and her thrée waiting gentlewomen who were by the leager and traitours to the King taken and imprisoned The Captaine of the saide Castle perceiving that the enimie would haue grieuously tormented him stoode vpon battelments of the said castle and fought very valiantly and would not yéeld nor suffer him selfe to be taken by no meanes but after he had slaine with his owne handes about fourtéene or fiftéene seuerail persons he séeing the enimie come in great aboundance vpon him thereby entending to take him suddenly flung his weapons at them and without any regarde of sauing his life wilfully flung him selfe headlong ouer the castle wall and thereby broake his necke The rest were grieuously tormented and put to death for consenting thereunto But it gréeueth me to reporte the extreame tyranny which those Traitorous Leagers inflicted vpon the Lady aforesaid and her three waiting Maides onely for deliuering the keyes which they had in their custody These were massacred in this manner first they were all stripped naked in a fielde wherein they were executed they were all seuerally by the hands and legges bound to the feet of foure sundry horses prouided for that purpose and euery one being made fast vpon a suddaine to the horses some whipped each horse forward and then with axes swordes and hatchets quartered them aliue which reporte when the King vnderstoode thereof hee vowed to reuenge their death vpon those tyrannous Tormentors Thus haue you heard the manner of my tedious and grieuous trauaile my miserie slauerie and captiuitie which I suffered therein the manner of some olde monuments and the customes of such as dwell in forraine Nations farre off and in places where our Sauiour and his Apostles were resident and preached vpon the earth my seruices done vnder the great Turke in Persia Tartaria Grecia and places of seruice I omit herein my seruice at the taking of Tunnys and what I did in the Royle vnder don Iohn de Austria and many other thinges which I could here discouer vnto you onely let this suffise that I shall be glad and do daily desire that I may be imployed in some such seruice as may be profitable to my Prince and Countrie FINIS

recompence of our paynes taking herein seuen hundreth blowes a péece with a bulls pissell vpon the naked skinne viz. thrée hundred on the belly and foure hundred on the backe Thus lying still prisoner in the Turkes dungeons it pleased God to send thether for the releasement of me and others a worthy gentleman of this land named Maister Harborne Ambassadour thether for the company of Marchants who to the great honour of Englande did behaue himselfe wonderfull wisely and was a speciall meanes for the releasement of me and sundry other English captiues who were set at libertie soone after the death of the great Basha thus by the meanes of the sayd master Harborne I was set frée from thraldome and by him sent into England where I arriued on the first of May. 1589. Whilest I was remayning prisoner in Turkey and kept in such slauish maner as is before rehearsed the great Turke had his sonne circumcised which was the fore-skin of his priuie members was taken off at which time there was great triumphes and frée libertie proclaymed for a hundred dayes space that any Nobleman gentleman traueller Christian or other might freely without being molested come and see the triumphes there vsed which were woonderfull I my selfe was then constrayned to make a cunning péece of fire woorke framed in forme like to the Arke of Noye being 24. yardes high and eight yardes broad wherin was placed 40. men drawn on sixe whéeles yet no man séene but séemed to go alone as though it wer onely drawne by two fiery Dragons in which shew or Arke there was 12. thousand seuerall péeces of fire worke At the same time that I was released there were set at libertie about twentie English men whereof I was one of the last some of them are at this present in England My selfe and others were released by meanes of her Maiesties fauourable letters sent to the great Turke brought by the aforesaide maister Harborne some by the ransome money gathered at sundrie times by the Marchants in the Citie of London for that godly purpose of which some of their names that were released were these Hamond Pan Iohn Béere Iohn Band Andrew Pullins Edward Buggins and others Here may the bountifull Citizens of London sée as in a glasse the fruites of their liberalitie and charitable deuotion giuen at seuerall times in the yeare towards the releasment of poore captiues such as are constrained to abide most vilde and grieuous tortures especially the torture and torment of conscience which grieued me all true Christians to the very soule for the Turke by all meanes possible would still perswade me and other my fellow Christians while I was there the time of thirtéene yeares to forsake Christ to deny him and to belieue in their God Mahomet which if I would haue done I might haue had wonderfull preferment of the Turke and haue liued in as great felicitie as any Lord in that Countrie but I vtterly denyed their request though by them grieuously beaten naked for my labour and reuiled in most detestable sort calling me dogge diuell helhound and such like names but I giue God thanks he gaue me strength to abide with patience these crosses And though I were but a simple man voide of all learning yet still I had in remembrance that Christ died for me as appeareth by the holy Scriptures and that Christ therein saith He that denyeth me before men I will deny him before my father which is in heauen and againe he saith Whosoeuer belieueth on me shall be saued and haue life euerlasting this comfort made me resolute that I would rather suffer all the torments of death in the world then to deny my Sauiour and Redéemer Christ Iesus After my frée libertie graunted in Turkey I intending my iourney towards England came by land to Uenicie where I met at Padua thirtie Englishmen students I met also with an Englishman who liued in the state of a Fryer he brought me before the high Bishop where I was accused for an heretike and he brought in two false witnesses to be sworne against me hauing before knowne me in Turkey neuerthelesse I disproued his witnesses and they were found forsworne men then was I set at libertie and constrained to giue fiftéene Crownes towards the finishing of our Ladies shrine at Padua and my accuser and his witnesses were punished From thence I came to the Duke of Ferrara where I was well entertained and liberally rewarded with a horse and fiue and twentie Crownes for the sake of the Quéenes Maiestie of England Thrice had I the strappado hoysted vp backward with my handes bound behind me which stroke all the iointes in my armes out of ioint where a Phisition was readie to set my armes in ioynt againe presently I was also constrained to drinke salt water and quicklyme and then a fine lawne or callico thrust down my throat and pluckt vp againe readie to pluck my hart out of my belly all to make me to confesse that I was an English spye After this there were foure barde horses prepared to quarter me and I was still threatned to dye except I would confesse some thing to my harme Thus seuen monethes I endured in this misery and yet they could finde no cause against me then I wrote to the Uice-Roy to do me iustice he did write to the K. of Spaine to know what should be done with me whereupon the king of Spaine wrote that I should be employed in a gunners roome then was I entertained and had 35. crownes a moneth and had the kinges pattent sealed for the same and then vnderstanding that thrée ships were comming towards England I departed and fled from thence with them to my natiue countrie in the grace of London by the helpe of one Nicholas Nottingham maister thereof Thus came I into England with great ioy and harts delight both to my selfe and all my acquiantance The report in Rume Naples and all ouer Italy in my trauel which was at such time as the Spaniards came to inuade England after I had béene released of my imprisonment as I passed thpough the stréetes the people of that partes asked mee howe I durst acknowledge my selfe to be an English man and thereupon to daunt mee did say that England was taken by the Spaniards and that the Quéene of England whom God long preserue was taken prisoner and was comming towardes Rome to doe penuance and that her highnesse was brought thither through desarts moist hilly and foule places and where plaine ground was hoales and hollow trenches were digged in the way of her Maiesties passage to the intent that she might haue gone vp to the mid legge in oes or mire with these spéeches they did checke me and I saide that I trusted God doubtlesse would defend my prince better then to deliuer her into the handes of her enimies wherefore they did greatly reuile me Many thinges I haue omitted to speake of which I haue séene and noted in the time