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A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the English prisoners of war being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany, to Thoulon in Provence, and back again ... / faithfully and impartially performed by Richard Strutton, being an eye-witness, and a fellow sufferer.
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Strutton, Richard.
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Wing S6018; ESTC R17656
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brought over a hundred and five Englishmen into England supplying many of them with Money according to their present Occasions giving them whilst they were in their Passage the best of Food and good Drink and by God's assistance landed us May 31. at Weymouth where when we came ashore we were kindly treated by those good People June the first we got our several Passes of the Mayor so away we travelled to Dorchester where we were relieved by the People the Mayor also giving us his Charity very liberally and at night we got to Blanford where we were very charitably relieved by the good People of the Town But in all the rest of the Towns we came through our Men had so little Charity bestow'd on them that if some of us that had Money had not reliev'd them they had without doubt died on the Road. When we came to Salisbury thirty of us went directly to the Mayor and shewed him our Passes who gave amongst us all four shillings Our Men desired his Worship to consider them they having eaten nothing all day and as for this Money they knew not well what to do with it He hastily replied Give it me again and I will give you nothing So away they went with that little they had Now this Mayor of Salisbury had a Son that was taken by the French and travell'd with us up from St. Malo to Toulon in Irons and when we came back to Rochfort died in a most lamentable condition with the Small Pox. There were in our Company two Men that belonged to the Ship this Mayor's Son did whose Names were Samuel Westmore and Thomas Dicas and these men had taken care of this young man in his Sickness and when he was dead made his Grave and buried him Now they had often heard him in his Life-time say That his Father lived well and in good fashion in Salisbury and it so hapning as they came through this Town they enquired for one Mr. Phelps the People told them that Mr. Phelps was the Mayor so away they went to him expecting to be sure a Belly full of Victuals They told him they came out of France and that his Son Charles was dead He asked them what Ship he did belong to They told him the Ships Name and Commander too Well said he to them I do believe your Testimony and withal gave betwixt them two a Double Stiver and dismiss'd them now I heard the Men say that the People of that Town would take it for no more than a Peny By God's assistance the major part of us got into London the fifth day of June So here is the End of my hard Travels which as it is not the full Sum of our Sorrows so I am able to produce the Testimony of at least twenty Men in a short time if occasion required that are able to make Oath that I have not writ any thing in this whole Work that is contrary to Truth So I wish all good People good Success in their honest Employments FINIS Books Printed for Richard Baldwin THE Memoirs of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the Beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richlieu To which is added A Particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the Advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which hapned the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original The Cabinet Open'd or The Secret History of the Amours of Madam de Maintenon with the French King Translated from the French Copy The History of the Most Illustrious William Prince of Orange Deduc'd from the first Founders of the Ancient House of Nassau Together with the most considerable Actions of this present Prince The Second Edition A Collection of Fourteen Papers relating to the Affairs of Church and State in the Reign of the late King James The Character of a Trimmer His Opinion of I. The Laws and Government II. Protestant Religion III. The Papists IV. Foreign Affairs By the Honourable Sir W. Coventry The Third Edition carefully Corrected and cleared from the Errors of the First Impression An Impartial Relation of the Illegal Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon in the Year of our Lord 1687. Containing only Matters of Fact as they occurred The Second Edition To which is added the most Remarkable Passages omitted in the former Collected by a Fellow of the said Colledge The Absolute Necessity of standing vigorously by the present Government Or A View of what both Church-men and Dissenters must expect if by their unhappy Divisions Popery and Tyranny should return again The Justice of the Parliament in inflicting of Punishments subsequent to Offenders vindicated and the Lawfulness of the present Government asserted An Account of Mr. Parkinson's Expulsion from the University of Oxford in the late Times in vindication of him from the false Aspersions cast upon him in a late Pamphlet intituled The History of Passive Obedience The way to Peace among all Protestants being a Letter of Reconciliation sent by Bp. Ridley to Bp. Hooper by Mr. Samuel Johnson Purgatory prov'd by Miracles collected out of Roman-Catholick Authors With some Remarkable Histories relating to British English and Irish Saints With a Preface concerning their Miracles By Mr. Samuel Johnson A Seasonable Discourse shewing the Unreasonableness and Mischiefs of Imposition in Matters of Religion Recommended to serious Consideration By Mr. Andrew Marvel late Member of Parliament The Revolter A Tragi-Comedy acted between the Hind and Panther and Religio Laici A Collection of Poems Satyrs and Songs against Popery and Tyranny In Four Parts An Answer to the Bishop of Rochester's first and second Letters c. The Intrigues of the French King at Constantinople to imbroil Christendom discover'd in several Dispatches past between him and the late Grand Signior Grand Vizier and Count Teckley all of them found among that Count's Papers With some Reflections upon them Plain English In Relation to the real and pretended Friends to the English Monarchy Humbly offered to the Consideration of his Majesty and his Great Council the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled The Second Edition With a short Preface and an Appendix concerning the Coronation Oath administred to King James the Second The New Nonconformist Or Dr. Sherlock's Case in Preaching after a Deprivation incurr'd by the Express Words of a Statute Fairly Stated and Examined With short Reflections upon Mr. Cook 's Sermon February the 2d 16 89 90. which was Licens'd by the Arch-Bishop's Chaplain The Fate of France A Discourse wherein it is shewed That by the Happy Revolution in England all the Designs of the French King for the Universal Monarchy are disappointed and the Rational Grounds to believe his Downfal near In three Dialogues betwixt Father Petre Father La Chaize and two Protestant Gentlemen The Anatomy of a Jacobite-Tory In a Dialogue between Whig and Tory occasioned by the Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary The Great Bastard Protecter of the Little One. Done out of French And for which the French King put forth a Proclamation with a Reward of Five thousand Louis d'Ors to discover the Author A True Narrative of the Murthers Cruelties and Oppressions perpetrated on the Protestants in Ireland by the Late King James's Agents since his Arrival there Published for the Information of the Jacobites that endeavour his Return again Reflections upon a Form of Prayer lately set forth by the Jacobites of the Church of England and of an Abhorrence rendred by the Late King to some of our Dissenting Bishops upon his present Majesty's Landing A Sermon preach'd before the High-Court of Parliament at Edinburgh on Sunday the 27th of April 1690. And published by their Special Command By George Meldrum a Presbyterian Minister and till of late one of the Episcopal Clergy of that Kingdom
should be thus led They made us answer that they were Hugonots or Calvinists and were going for the Gallies This Report made my Heart to ake to see so many good-look'd Men to be thus treated by a cursed Tyrant of Hell for their acknowledging and professing the Doctrine of Jesus Christ We marched four Leagues to a fine compact fenced Town called Nimes in Languedock When we came near the Town I went with three more of my Consorts to a Tavern just by to buy a little Wine When we came to the Door the good Man of the House asked us of what Nation we were we told him Of the English by one of our Companions that spoke very good French he being a Guernsey-Man away went the good Man of the House and fetch'd a Pitcher of pure good Wine and four clean Glasses he gave to each Man a Glass full of Wine which we drank up he filled the Glasses again so we drank each Man his second the Glasses being large and the Wine very strong we were afraid to venture upon the other Glass We asked the good Man what we were to pay he answered us Nothing but asked if we would drink any more we gave him hearty thanks and answered No He again asked if we were of the Religion of the Church of England we told him Yes With that he took us by the Hands and squeezed our Hands and desired God to be with us we admired at the Humour of this Man not expecting any such kind of People here As we were returning to the rest of our Companions we met with a poor Woman by her Dress we could imagine no less she had a fine white Cake of Bread in her Apron she held it out to me I imagined it had been for me to buy it but she bad me break and eat which I did so she handed it amongst the rest of our Company until it was all gone I durst to have sworn that by my first sight of this Woman that she had been more apter to ask than to relieve Before we went into the Stable a very brisk young Man came up to me who had lived in England a considerable time and spoke English very proper he asked many Questions concerning our Affairs in England for it seems here the current News is that Schonberg is routed in Ireland and that the French had defeated our Fleet at Sea I told him they had in their Country a damnable lying Oracle and that Knaves they project and Fools believe but I said if he had Faith to believe what I should say I must to tell you the truth tell you quite contrary for in the first place Schonberg hath advanced at a great rate in Ireland And as for your Fleet they durst not shew their Heads at Sea I also told him that it was true the French Fleet were out last Summer but staid but a very little while out and presently ran into their Harbours again I also told him how our English Fleet lay against Brest and sent them in a Defiance The Man was much taken with my Discourse but time would not admit of it for we were drove into the Stables immediately but before he and I parted I asked of him what kind of People the People of this place were he told that not long since the 9 10 of the People were Calvinists and so they were still although they were forc'd to appear otherwise and that you will find says he if you stay here but until to morrow about eight of the Clock as soon as People can have notice of you for as yet we did not enter the Town neither was it designed that we should When this Man and I parted he promised to see me the next Morning but alas he was prevented for we march'd away hence by that time it was well light we were here put into a Stable where we were paid off with a great Supper that they had long promised for our Supper was about a Mouth-full of boild Gut or a piece of Liver or Lights with a Loaf worth no more but three Denires the People of the place report that the old Woman which served us our Meat brought it all in a Dish under her Arm covered with another Dish so that it is easy to judg how much one Man must have when we were to have no more each Man had a Cup of Wine Also the Supper being soon ended we went to sleep the Stable being very well littered the Governor of the Town just as we were going to sleep sent his own Guards to guard us and very suspitious they were what-ever their Humour was I cannot tell of our setting the House on fire Thursday 17. Very early this Morning before scarce any of the Inhabitants were stirring we began to march many of our People got Relief by those People that were up which were generally the poorer sort Away we march'd four long Leagues to a Town called Lunae We came into this Town many of us before our Guards so those walked up and down The People of this place were very charitable to our People by relieving them with such things as they had as Bread Meat Wine Rasins and to some Hats they also told many of us that they were Calvinists The major part of the People of the Town withall praying for the Success of the Arms of our King William who fought the Battle of God this they spoke in private to some of us Many of our Men by the Liberality of the People got mellow with Wine When our Guards came into Town with the rest of our People we were confined into a Yard where they gave us a small Loaf of Bread worth fix Denires and a Cup of Wine for Dinner that done away we marched two Leagues farther to a Town called Columbeas About eight at Night we came into this Town where we were put into four Stables the Stables being here very small The Supper we had was Bread and Beverage and a couple of Sirdenass's a Man which was extraordinary The Stables being very well littered with Straw we slept very well here neither was there any Body to guard us for in this small Town were very few Men. Friday 18. Early in the Morning we came out of this Village the Weather being fair and clear our sick and lame Men were put into two Carts so away we marched two Leagues to the City of Mompelier We walked round the City close by the Walls but were not admitted to enter thereto because here are many well-affected Persons who wish well to our Nation In the Suburbs of this City we were all put into a great Stable where our Dinner was served us six Deniers worth of Bread and about half an Ounce of miserable sad choaky Cheese with a Cup of Beverage for each Man When Dinner was ended away we marched three Leagues farther to a Village called Punian In our way we met several Regiments of Foot Souldiers who came from their