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death_n	great_a	time_n	year_n	7,732	5	4.6212	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03702	The trauailes of an English man Containing his sundrie calalmities indured by the space of twentie and odd yeres in his absence from his natiue countrie; wherein is truly decyphered the sundrie shapes of wilde beasts, birds, fishes, foules, rootes, plants, &c. With the description of a man that appeared in the sea: and also of a huge giant brought from China to the King of Spaine. No lesse pleasant than approued. By I.H. Published with authoritie.; Rare travailes of Job Hortop	Hortop, Job.	1591 (1591)	STC 13828; ESTC S116216	16,448	32

place as before where wee heard our sentence which was that we should go to the Gallies and there to rowe at the oares end ten yeeres and then to be brought backe to the Inquisition house to haue the cote with S. Andrewes crosse put on our backes and from thence to go to the euerlasting prison remedilesse and so wee were returned to the scaffold from whence we came Thomas Marks and Thomas Ellis were called and had sentence to serue in the Gallies eight yeeres and Humphrey Roberts and Iohn Emerie to serue fiue yeres and so were returned to the benches on the scaffold where wee sate till foure of clocke in the after noone Then we were led againe to the Inquisition house from whence we were brought The next day in the morning Bresinia the secretorie came thither to vs and deliuered to euerie one of vs his sentence in writing I with the rest were sent to the Gallies where we were chained foure and foure together euery mans daily allowance was twentie six ounces of course black bisket and water Our clothing for the whole yeare two shirts two paire of breches of course canuas a red cote of course cloth soone on and soone off and a gowne of haire with a Friars hoode our lodging was on the bare bords and bankes of the Gallies our heads and beards were shauen euery month hunger thirst cold and stripes wee lacked none till our seuerall time expired and after the time of 12 yeeres for I serued two yeres aboue my sentence I was sent backe to the Inquisition house in Ciuill there hauing put on the cote with S. Andrews crosse I was sent to the euerlasting prison remedilesse where I wore the cote 4. yeeres then vpon great suite I had it taken off for 50 duckets which Hornando de Soria treasurer of the kings mint lent me whom I serued for it as a drudge 7 yeeres and vntill the moneth of October last 1590. and then I came from Ciuil to S. Lucar where I made means to come away in a fly-bote that was laden with wines salt which were Flemmings goodes the king of Spaynes subiects dwelling in Ciuill maried to Spanish women and sworne to their king In this moneth of October last departing from S. Lucar at sea off the sothernmost Cape wee met an English ship called the Galleon Dudley who tooke the Flemming and mee out of him brought me to Portsmouth where they set me on land the 2 day of December last past 1590. From thence I was sent by M. Muns the lieutenant of Portsmouth with letters to the R. honorable the Earle of Sussex who commanded his secretorie to take my name and examination how long I had beene out of England and with whom I went which he did And on Christmas euen I tooke my leaue of his honor and went to Redriffe The Computation of my imprisonment I suffered imprisonment in Mexico two yeeres In the Contratation house in Ciuill one yeere In the Inquisition house in Triana one yeere I was in the Gallies twelue yeere In the euerlasting prison remedilesse with the cote with S. Andrews crosse on my backe foure yeres And at libertie I serued as a drudge Hornando de Soria 3 yeres which is the ful complement of 23 yeres Since my departure from England vntill this time of my return I was fiue times in great danger of death besides the many perils I was in in the Gallyes First in Port of S. Iohn de Low where being on shore with many other of our company which were all slaine sauing I two other that by swimming got aboord the Iesus of Libbicke Secondly when we were robd by the wild Indians Thirdly after wee came to Mexico the vize-king would haue hanged vs. Fourthly because hee could not haue his minde to hang vs he would haue burnt vs. Fiftly the Generall that brought vs into Spayne would hane hanged vs at sea Thus hauing truly set downe vnto you my trauels misery dangers endured the space of 23. yeres I say Let patience nowe the standard beare And forgiuenes giue the charge Of bleege and eke the ancour teare Of spightfull mallice barge Expect the ende of prisoned race And hope of future happe That each good gift of fortunes grace May fall within our lappe Extremeties cannot alwayes last Each thing doth bowe and bend In time both ioy and woe doth wast And all things haue an end FINIS