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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47710	Memorable accidents, and unheard of transactions containing an accout of several strange events: as the deposing of tyrants, lamentable shipwrecks, dismal misfortunes, stratagems of war, perilous adventures, happy deliverances, with other remarkable occurrences, and select historical events, which have happened in several countries in this last age. Translated from the French, printed at Brussels in 1691. and dedicated to his present Majesty William King of England, &c. Published in English by B.B.	B. B.; Léonard, T.	1693 (1693)	Wing L1100A; ESTC R217274	108,650	193

Grief and Passion he spoke all that a Mind over-whelmed with Sorrow could utter reproaching the Chancellor that he was more desirous to condemn than save him and raved against the King in the most horrid expressions imaginable then shaking the Chancellor by the Arm You have Judged me said he but God will Absolve me he will lay open the Iniquities of those who have shut their Eyes because they would not see mine Innocency You my Lord shall answer for this Injustice before him whither I do Summon you within a year and a day I go before by the Judgment of Men but those that are the cause of my Death shall come after by the Judgment of God All which was spoke with the utmost fury and rage with other terrible Words both against the King and Parliament but his appeal was not answered for the Chancellor lived many years after And then proceeding in his discourse I see very well that I am not the most Wicked but the most Vnfortunate those that have done worse than I ever thought are favoured the Kings Clemency is dead towards me he doth not imitate the example of Caesar nor Augustus or of other great Princes who not only pardoned those that intended ill but that acted it too they were over-sparing of Blood yea of the meanest Wherein can the King shew himself greater than in Pardoning Mercy is a Princely Virtue every one can give Death but it belongs only to Soveraigns to give Life and Cruel that he is Does he not remember that he hath already pardoned me I had a bad Design and he graciously forgave me I demand it again and so you may inform him The Queen of England told me that if the Earl of Essex would have humbled himself and asked her Pardon she would have forgiven him but he grew obdurate and would never implore her Mercy and thereby deprived her of all means to show the effects of her Goodness she like a Generous Princess desired to pardon him as she hoped that God would pardon her He was Guilty I am Innocent he Sued for no Pardon for his Offence I desire it for mine Innocence Is it possible he should forget the Services I have done him Does he not remember the Conspiracy at Mantes and his great danger if I had not prevented it There is no vein in my Body that hath not bled for his Service he shews that he never loved me any longer than he thought himself to have need of me Has he forgotten the Siege of Amiens where I was often seen covered with Fire and Bullets ready to give or receive Death My Father exposed himself to a thousand Dangers and lost his Life to set the Crown upon his Head I have received thirty five Wounds in my Body to secure the Crown to him and for my Reward he takes my Head from my Shoulders Let him beware lest the Justice of God fall upon him he will find what profit my Death will bring him it will but impair the Reputation of his Justice He will lose this day a good Servant and the King of Spain a great Enemy I am not put to Death because I Treated with him my Courage raised me up and my Courage ruins me The Chancellor desired him not to torment himself any more about his Sentence since they had done him that Justice which a Father is bound to pronounce against his Son in such a case as his At which word his rage increased What Justice says he I was never heard but once I could not deliver the fiftieth part of my Justification What Justice upon the Evidence of La Fin the most wretched and execrable Villain in the World The Chancellor to divert his discourse told him that he had brought two Divines to comfort and prepare him for Death he replied That he was already prepared and had his Soul in that Tranquillity as the Night before he had spoken with God and that his Guards had heard him laugh in his Sleep He desired the Chancellor that he might have the last consolation of dying men that is Liberty to make his Will which was granted and he gave away several things to his Servants and the Guards attending him They then desired him to kneel and hear the Sentence read Read it says he and I will be as supple as a Glove but when mention was made that he had attempted against the Kings person he fell again into a Rage so that it was concluded he should be bound and delivered instantly into the hands of the Executioner He swore he would be drawn to pieces with four Horses before he would be carried to dye at the Greve but was told That the King had done him the favour to be Executed in the Bastile By the perswasion of the Divines he began to examine his Conscience continuing therein about an hour which ought to have been done with an humble penitent and contrite Mind but he seemed more careful of the affairs of his Family than of his Soul praying to God not as a devout Christian but like a Souldier His Confession being ended he walked about often crying out of his Innocency and cursing La Fin and asking if it were not lawful for his Brethren to cause him to be Burnt He desired to see some of his Relations and Friends whom he Named but was told That there were none of them in the City whereupon he mournfully said All the World hath forsaken me in these Crimes Friendship is dangerous Friends fail and the Disease is counted Infectious to Acquaintance he is Wisest that knows no Man nor any Man him Going out of the Chappel the Executioner presented himself to him he asked Voison who he was It is said he the Executioner of the Sentence Be gone said the Duke touch me not till it be time and doubting he should be bound he added I will go freely to Death I have no hands to defend my self against it but it shall never be said that I dye bound like a Thief or a Slave and turning towards the Hang-man he swore if he came near him he would pull out his Throat He at length came to the Scaffold and kneeling upon the first step made a short Prayer with his eyes lift up to Heaven when he came up he cast a furious look upon the Executioner Voison perswaded him it was not he Nay says he You think to deceive me but I know him well enough The Executioner offered him a Cloth to put before his Eyes but he refused it saying That if he touch'd him except only to give him the stroke of Death he would strangle him He open'd his Breast to the Guards and said he should be much obliged to them if they would shoot him with a Musket What pity is it said he to dye so miserably and of so infamous a stroke He asked then Is there no pardon Well I have made my Soul ready to present it before Almighty God but I pity the Kings

us In the Evening one of our Company that had lain long Sick felt himself extreamly ill and apprehended the near approach of Death we comforted him as well as we could but he died that Night Next morning we dig'd a hole by turns in the Snow hard by the House seven foot deep in which we Buried our Companion which done we went to Breakfast and while we were at Meat discours'd concerning the huge quantity of Snow that fell in this Icy Region At last we resolv'd if it fell out that we were again enclos'd we would endeavour to get out through the Chimney immediately our Master went to try vvhether he could climb up that vvay and vvhile he vvas scrambling up one of our Men vvent forth to see if he vvere out or not vvho descrying the Sun call'd us all out to behold that Glorious Light in his full roundness a little above the Horizon this put an end to our Controversie and evidently confirm'd our first Assertion hereupon vve all rejoyc'd and return'd humble and hearty thanks to our Almighty Protector January 28. vve spent in various kinds of exercise refreshing our dull and num'd Joints but tvvo days after vve vvere again clos'd up vvith a prodigious Storm of Snovv The last day of the Month vve made the Door clean and going out vvere comforted vvith a sight of the Sun in its full Lustre mean vvhile vve savv a Bear coming tovvards us but vvhen vve shot at her she ran avvay The first of February a boisterous Storm made us again Prisoners this discourag'd us again much for hoping that the Sun vvould have rid us of the foul VVeather vve had made no great Provision of VVood. The third vve dig'd our Door open but a thick and dark Mist cover'd the Sun this day vve brought in some VVood vvith great pain But the very next day vve vvere again shut up by the Snovv and so vvere forc'd to climb out at the Chimney to ease our selves VVe vvere much perplex'd that vve could not enjoy the comfortable heat of the Sun that we had lately felt and yet were forc'd to have patience till the eighth before the fury of the Storm was over and on the tenth we were sensible of that agreeable warmth we had so much long'd for The eleventh we saw a Bear but she came not vvithin the reach of our Muskets but the day following we shot one into the breast as she came right before our Door the bullet pass'd quite through her Heart and came out at her Tail as flat as a shilling the Beast feeling her self wounded leapt backwards and run some five or six paces from the House before she fell VVe coming up found her still alive and when she saw us she rear'd up her Head in a threatning manner and we shot her twice in the body again before we adventur'd to touch her Having drawn her home to the House we flay'd her and took at least one hundred pound of fat out of her belly which we melted to burn in our Lamp and every Man had enough to burn a Lamp in his Cabbin for Reading and other exercises which before we could not do This was a great comfort to us in our dismal Habitation Next day five of us went to the Ship and found that the VVater did not increase much The fifteenth we were again clos'd up and on the morrow being Shrove-Tuesday we made merry in the middle of our sorrow and anguish and every one of us drank a draught of VVine The twenty second being clear VVeather eleven of us well Arm'd for fear of the Bears went to the place where we usually had our VVood but not being able to dig it up by reason that it lay so deep in the Snow we were forc'd to go a little further where we toil'd hard to get some but returning home with the Sled our strength fail'd us for the long and sore misery that we had suffer'd had so enfeebled us and so much impair'd our bodies that we were quite dishearten'd and almost resolv'd to abandon our selves to the untimely Death that threatned us but unavoidable necessity at length compell'd us to make another effort to proceed and our hopes of better VVeather redoubled our fainting strength and when we drew near to the House we saw much open VVater in the Sea which increas'd our hopes and so at last vvith great difficulty we finish'd our irksom labour Next day we vvere again clos'd up yet vvere constrain'd to get out for more VVood which we brought home with no less difficulty than before for one of our Companions had one of his Toes frozen off VVe resolv'd to spare our Wood exercising our selves when it was day vvith running leaping and walking To them that lay in their Cabbins we gave hot stones to warm them and towards Night made a good Fire The fourth of March five of us going to the Ship found that the Bears had open'd our Cooks Cup-board that was cover'd over with Snow and had drawn it out of the Ship Three days after we were again shut up but we were now us'd to climb up through the Chimney The Storm continued two or three days and we perceiv'd still more open Water in the Sea Twelve of us went to fetch Wood our pain and labour still increasing because our strength decreas'd When we came home we intreated our Master to give each of us a Glass of Wine which he did and this not only comforted and reviv'd our drooping Spirits but made us more willing and cheerful in performing our Laborious Tasks Yet would we often say to one another That if Wood might be had for Money we would gladly part with all our Wages for it for the cold was as piercing as in the depth of Winter and daily increased rather than diminish'd and therefore we made Shooes of Felt for the Leather was frozen as hard as a Horn. The twenty first we brought home another Sled full of Wood yet the cold was insupportable and it froze very hard on the Roofs and Walls of our House and the day after a storm enclos'd us and then our Coals were very useful to us but we dig'd our selves out two days after and fetch'd home more Wood the pinching extremity of cold having forc'd us to burn up all that we had The twenty eighth six of us went aboard the Ship and found there many marks of the Ravenous Bears one of them coming to our House we attempted to shoot at her but the Weather being moist and the cock foisty the Piece would not give Fire mean while the Beast advanc'd boldly forwards and coming down the Stairs close to the Door endeavour'd to break into the House Our Master run to shut the Door but being in great haste and fear could not make fast the Bolt but it pleas'd God that the furious Creature seeing the Door shut retir'd yet within two hours after returning she got upon the top of the House and made such a hideous

could never compose our selves securely to sleep and notwithstanding our tottering Limbs were hardly able to sustain our sinking Bodies we were forc'd to tug hard Night and Day both at Helm and Pump being at the same time almost frozen to Death with intolerable cold which was incomparably more grievous than that which to the admiration of all Men not many years ago cover'd all the Channels at Venice with thick and impenetrable Ice And now the compassionate Reader may consider how lamentable our case was we wanted Clothes to fence us from the pinching cold our Meat and Drink fail'd us and we remain'd amidst the Horrors of an unknown and stormy Ocean destitute not only of all comforts but even of necessaries to sustain our fainting Bodies and lest any thing should be wanting to compleat our Misery the Nights were twenty one hours long and very dark The growing cold now began to produce terrible effects of its cruelty among us we were all of a sudden seized with a certain numness which began at our Feet and then gradually ascending over-run our whole Bodies causing in us a disorder'd and raging appetite which was no small addition to our Sorrow for every Man endeavoured to filch what he could from his Neighbour and Ransacking every corner greedily devour'd all he could find Then did Death Tyrannize among us and you might see here one and there another breathe out a broken sigh shake his giddy Head and fall down dead on a sudden In which extremity of forty seven Men which made up our desolate Company twenty six gave up the Ghost and this was so far from being a Wonder considering our helpless condition that it was certainly a Miracle of Divine Bounty that any of us were preserv'd alive to Celebrate the never-failing goodness of our Almighty Deliverer and exalt the Glory of his power These twenty six died between the twenty third of December to the fifth of January and found their Graves in the bottom of the merciless Ocean And now the last day of this disastrous year presented us with a dismal prospect of unavoidable Ruine for our little stock of Wine was wholly exhausted and the sad experience of our dead and dying Companions taught us that the Sea-water with which we were wont to delude the intolerable fury of our Thirst did only hasten our approaching Death so that not knowing what to do we forc'd our own Water down our Throats How deplorable and heart-breaking an object was it to see some gasping Wretches whose parcht Entrails refus'd to furnish any moisture with dying groans and rueful looks imploring the favour of a small draught of the Urine of their Companions who either unwilling to part with what they fear'd would quickly be spent or rather unable to spare any from themselves refus'd to save the Lives of their dearest Friends at the expences of a small quantity of that unsavory Liquor which was the only means left to preserve their own 'T is true some of us had the prudence to temper it with a little Sirrup of Green Ginger and Lemons which by Providence was not yet consum'd At last when there was no hopes left when Despair and Paleness were painted on our hollow Cheeks and the Grim-King of Terrors in the most frightful shape star'd us in the Face then did our pitiful Redeemer stretch forth his helping Hand and on the third of January 1431. we descry'd Land afar off being a ledge of ragged Rocks cover'd to the top with huge Mountains of Snow and lying to the weather of us But it seems Fortune still ow'd us a spite for the Winds being contrary we durst not spread our Sails and our feeble Arms were altogether unable to manage the Oars so that a strong current driving us along we lost sight of Land and all our Hopes together But magnified be the wonderful Goodness of our God we escaped safe out of a Deluge of Dangers in which we were almost over-whelmed for having been long toss'd and batter'd by the Cruelty of outragious Gusts among the Death-threatning points of lurking Rocks which by reason of the horrible darkness of the tedious Night we could not avoid at last fear of Death and desire of Life inspiring us with unwonted Vigour we enter'd into a Bay between two steep Rocks No sooner did our Pinnace touch upon the Sand but five of our men made desperate by tormenting Thirst leap'd into the Sea without knowing the depth thereof which was considerable and making haste towards the Snow thrust such great quantities down their insatiable Throats that they seem'd to delight in glutting themselves therewith at length they return'd Laden with huge quantities thereof which we also gulp'd down very greedily Now from the time that we left the Ship until January 6. being eighteen days we made account according to our best Judgments that we had run two thousand five hundred miles at least without seeing Land for Sailing all that time between the East and North-east points of the Compass we never hand less Wind than after the rate of six miles in an hour On the forementioned day being the Feast of Epiphany Nineteen of us went ashore on this desolate and barren Island called the Isle of Saints which lies on the Coast of Norway and belongs to the King of Denmark leaving only two men to look to the Boat Being Landed we retired to a place that was cover'd from the fury of the piercing Winds and kindled a Fire by means of a Tinder-Box and an Oar the sight of which was very comfortable to us But perceiving that this Island was Uninhabited we resolved to go to another which we descry'd about five miles distant But alas our Pinnace was so Leaky that despairing to be ever able to fit her out for the Sea again we drew her not without great pain to Land and determin'd to make a little Hovel of her to shelter us from the violence of the Weather To accomplish which we divided her into two parts of the first and greater of which we made a Shed for Thirteen of us and of the lesser another for the rest covering them with part of our Sails and reserving the remainder with the Cordage for Fuel to comfort our frozen Limbs And now being utterly destitute of all Sustenance to preserve our wretched Lives we wander'd along the shore to gather some small quantity of Periwinkles and Barnackles which by chance we found there and removing the Snow in some places we found certain Herbs which we boiled with Snow in our Caldron and then eat them through extream Necessity Thus did we live for thirteen days together if I may call that Life which was spent in perpetual agonies and terrors and deserveth rather the Name of a lingring Death In the middle of these extremities four of our Companions of the greater Shed unable to hold out longer under the insupportable weight of misery that overwhelm'd us gave up the Ghost notwithstanding all the pains that