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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

bewtifull to be worne these fowles are as big as a Turkey their flesh is verie swéet and their feathers are of all maner of colours There is Swannes in that place which are as large againe as the Swans of England and their feathers are as blew as any blew cloth I haue séene in a place like a parke adioyning vnto Prester Iohns Court thrée score and seuentéene Unicornes and Oliphants all aliue at one time and they were so tame that I haue played with them as one would play with young Lambes These Oliphants together with many other wilde and tame beastes will not drinke of any water vntill the Unicornes doe begin therof these Unicornes when they come to drinke of any riuer they put in their horne which is blackish and but short and forth of that water will rise a great skum and thereby clense all the filth and corruption that is within the same and this horne grated to pouder in drinke is a present remedie against any maner of poyson When Prester Iohn is serued at his table there is no salt at all set on in any saltseller as in in other places but a loafe of bread is cut crosse and then two kniues are layde a crosse vpon the loafe and some salt put vpon the blades of the kniues and no more Being thus in the lande of Prester Iohn I trauailed within eightéene degrées of the Sunne euerie degrée being in distance thrée score miles I was at the Red sea at the place where Moses made passage with his wand for the children of Israell where I sawe a shippe called the graund Maria she drawes but xi foote water and against this shippe thrée score gallyes and shippes haue fought at one time and can not conquer her and this is vnder the gouernement of the great Turke This shippe is built almost flatte and is of such burthen that she will carrie in her ten thousand fighting men with their furniture I haue béen in the Courts of the thrée great Patriarks the first whereof is kept at Ierusalem the seconde at the gran Caer and the third is at Constantinople these haue their Courtes in very stately sort and attended on by none but Priestes When I was at Ierusalem I saw the sepulcher wherin it is sayd that Christ was buried it is as it were in a vault and hath seuen doores and seuen roes of marble steps or stayers to go downe into the same and then at the bottome of the stayers there is a faire Chappell with an Altar and a Lampe burning continually day and night before it and the graue is full of white earth so white as chalke and a tombe of the same earth made and layde vpon stone whereon are sundrie letters written but I could not read them Upon the left hand of which Chappell is a rocke of stone of a blackish coloure being all of that stone that we commonly call the load stone which is of this nature that it will draw yron vnto it this stone is the principallest instrument which Marriners Saylers do vse for directing of their compasse at the sea The great Turke hath some profit comming by the kéeping of this monement hath therefore builded at his own charges an Hospitall within Ierusalem which his Genezaries do kéepe and this Hospitall is to receiue all Pilgrims and trauellers to lodge in when so euer they come And all that come to sée the sepulcher do pay ten Crownes a péece whereof the Turke hath but one and the rest goes to the Church and so they may stay there so long as they list to lodge in that new Hospitall and haue lodging bread victuals and water so long as they will remaine there but no wine such as come thether for pilgrims haue no beds at all but lie vpon the ground on turkey karpets and before the sepulchre of Christ there is masse sayde euery day none may say the Masse there but a man that is a pure virgine there was one that died when I was there that daily sayd and sung the Masse before the sepulchre and hee was an hundred and thirtie yeares of age before his death and now another is in his roome but whether the old man that dead is or this which is now in place to sing and say the sayde Masse were pure virgins I know-not but sure I dare not swere for them because they are men and flesh and bloud as other are After that I had thus long trauelled and spent my time in the wars and affayres of the great Turke I was returned againe to Constantinople where at my ariuall a penny loafe of English starling money was worth a crowne of golde such was the sicknesse miserie and dearth then vpon the saide citie and happie was hee that so could get bread to eate Neuerthelesse because I was a Christian and for that the Turke had no cause presently to vse me in my office of gunnership I was there imprisoned where I found two thousand Christians pinde vp in stone walles lockt fast in yron chaynes grieuously pinched with extreme penury and such as wished death rather then in such miserie to liue amongest these was I placed and tooke part with them accordingly gréeuing at my hard hap that the warres had not ended me before I came thether Thus I remayned there with the rest garded and daily watched that we could stirre no manner of way there we were suffered to worke vpon any manner of trade or occupation wherein we were any way expert and what we did or made we solde to the Turkes and they gaue vs money for the same and thus were we suffered to worke vntill it were time to goe and gather snowe which is there vsed yearely of custome to be gathered for the Turke hath great summes of money payde him for the sayde snowe which is gathered and solde to his subiectes for a penny the pound which pound is two pound and a halfe English and this snowe they vse only to coole their drinke in the sommer season And no man may sell any snowe vntill the Turke hath solde all his Thus liuing in this slauish life as is afore saide a long time diuerse of vs compl●tted hamered in our heads how we might procure our releasement wherupon I attempted with the consent of fiue hundreth Christians fellow slaues with my selfe to break a wall of fourtéene foote broad made of earth lyme and sand which we greatly moystened with strong viniger so that the wall beeing made moyst therewith through the helpe of a spike of yron fiue hundred of vs had almost escaped out of prison but looke what shall be shall be and what God will haue shall come to passe and no more as appeareth by vs for we hauing made meanes for our speedie flight as we were issewing foorth we were bewrayed by the barking of a dogge which caused the Turkes to arise and they taking vs with the maner stopped vs from flying away and gaue vs in