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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07889	The admirable deliuerance of 266. Christians by Iohn Reynard Englishman from the captiuitie of the Turkes, who had been gally slaues many yeares in Alexandria The number of the seuerall nations that were captiues follow in the next page.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 18258; ESTC S112976	11,814	32

on either side presently does the demy canon culuering striue to drownd that noise whilst the Sea roares of purpose to drowne the noise of both In this conflict of three elements Aire water and fire Iohn Raynard the Gonner so liuely so stoutly be haued hinselfe in discharging his ordnance of their great bellies that at length fire seemed to haue the maistry for so thickly did his bulletts fly abroad were wrapt vp in such cloudes of lightning that the sea shewd as if it had bin al in flames whilst the Gallies of the Turkes aswell as the English Shippe could hardly but by the grones and showtes of men beene fownd out where about in the Sea they houered Many Turkes and many gally slaues did in this battaile loose their liues and end their Captiuitie but those who suruiued doubling their spirits at the horror of the dāger with which they were inuironed fell vpon the English Shippe in such stormes of haile-shot which still like hammers on an Anuill lay beating on the ribs of it that at length the Sea offred in many places to breake into her and to get the conquest of which glory the Turkes being enuious came flying with the force of all those wodden wings that bore them vp and of purpose to board her But at this stirring feast Neptune was made drunke which the bloud both of Christians and Turkes mingled to gether Here came the gallyes and the Ship to grapling looke howe a companie of howndes hang vppon a goodly Stagge when with their noise they ring out his death So hang these Gallies vppon the bodie of her nothing of her coulde bee seene for Smoke and fire shee was halfe choked with the flames and halfe stifled in the waters Yet as you shall often see a Bull when his strength seemeth to bee all spent and that he is readie to faint and fall on his knees castes vp on a suddaine his surly head and brauely renewes a fresh and more feirce encounter So did this ship breake from the Gallyes like a lustie Beare from so manie dogs or rather like an inuineible Lion from so manie beares The Turkes leapd out of their vessells and like ratts nimbly climed vp to the taclings of the ship But the English Mariners so laid about them with swords browne bills haluebeards and morris pikes that in so tragicall an act it was halfe a comedie to behold what tumbling tricks the Turkes made into the sea backwards Some of them catching hold of the vpper deckes had their hands strick off and so for euer lost their feeling other clasping their armes about a cable to fling their bodyes into the ship lost their heads so knew not which way to goe though it lay before them In this terrible insurrection in Neptunes kingdome it was hard to tell for a great while who should bée the winners albeit how soeuer they sped both were certaine to bee loosers for the Turks would not giue ouer the English scorned to yéelde the Owner Maister and Boteswayne cryed out brauely and with lowd lusty spirits let vs all resolue to die but not a man bée so base as to yéeld to a Turke especially did the Boteswayne shew the noble courage of a Mariner both in directing without feare and in bestowing blowes in scorne of danger which hard almes whilst hee was dealing amongst the Miscreants a shot was sent from a gally as a messenger of his death ther by a spoiler though not a conqueror of his valour for it brake with the vielent stroke it gaue his whistle in sunder left him an the hatches with these last words in his mouth Fight it out as you are Christians and win honor by death His fall did not abate but whetted their stomackes to a sharper reueng onely the maisters mate shewed himselfe not worthie of that name or to bée mate to so noble a maister as he was for cowardly he cried yeeld yeeld pulling in his arme from striking in the hottest of the skirmish What cittie is not ouer come by the tyrany of Time or the oppression of assaults what shoares though neuer so high can beat back the sea when he swelles vp infury what castles of flynt or marble are not shaken with the continuall thunder of the Canon So was this poore English ship whilst her ribs held out and were vnbroken her Mariners held out and had their hearts sound But when they felt her shrinke vnder them that should beare them vp in all stormes and that such numbers of Turkes did so oppresse them with thronging in and with beating them downe when they had scarce féete able to stande then euen then did they not yéelde but yet then were they taken Glad was the Turke that though in this storme it rayned down bloud so fast he was wet no farther hee looked vpon his ill gotten commodity with a dull heauie eye for the foote of his account shewed him that his gaines of this voyage woulde not answere the treble part of his losses Inraged at which emptying the wetherbeaten and the mangled ship both of men and of such things as were woorth the cariage the one he tooke home with him to enrich the number of his spoiles the other were condemned to the Gallies Néere to the cittie of Alexandria being a hauen towne vnder the Turkes dominion is a Road defended by strong walles wher the gallies are drawn vp on shore euery yeare in the winter season and are there trimmed layd vp against the Spring In this Roade standes a prison where all those that serue in those gallies of Alexandria are kept as captiues so long as the seas bée rough and not passable for their Turkish vessels hither were these Chrstians brought the first villany and indignitie that was done vnto them was the shauing off of all the hayre both of heade and beard thereby to rob them of those ornaments which all Christians make much of because they best become them It is well knowne to all nations in Christendome by the wofull experience of those wretches that haue felt it what miserie men endure in this thraldome vnder the Turke Their lodging is the cold earth their diet course bread and sometimes stinking water for if they shoulde taste of the cleere Springe their drinke were as good as the Turkes who neuer tast wine their apparell thin and course canuas their stockings and shooes heauie bolts and cold Irons the exercise to put life into them or to catch them a heate is at the pleasure of a prowd and dogged Turke for the least fault nay for none at all but onely to feede his humor to receiue a hundred bastinadoes on the rim of the bellie with a bulls dried péezle at one time and within a day after two hundred stripes on the backe In this most lamentable estate did these Christians continue but it was not long ere the Master and Owner by the good meanes of freindes were redéemed from this