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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25712	An Appeal to all Protestant kings, princes, and states, concerning the apparent danger of the Protestant religion, and the great decay of its interest in Europe with a most awakening account of the unjust and cruel methods for the destruction thereof, that are practiced in several countries.		1700 (1700)	Wing A3567; ESTC R8897	21,558	40

Captain of a Ship bound for Jamaica and was taken on the 29th of August 1692. by a French Privateer and put in prison at St. Malo where he lay Four Months That after neither Promises nor Threats could prevail upon him he was condemned to the Gallies and tied to the great Chain with men condemned for horrible Crimes as Murthers Roberies and Rapes and being ordered to Marseilles there to be put on board which is near 500 Miles ' from St. Malo in that long Journey he with his comfortable Companions was lodged every Night like Beasts in a Stable That at his Journeys End being put into the Gally called the Magnanimous and six other Protestants joyned to him he was loaded with two Chains hereas the rest had but one because God had made him an Instrument of strengthening three of them who had been too timorous and complying and also of Converting a Popish Slave Upon these accounts his Enemies quickly after obtained an Order from the Court to transfer him from the Gallies into the Prison of the Citadel of Marseilles where his Condition was far worse than before And on May 3 1694. he was put into a Dungeon where he lay a whole Year upon the bare Stones and strict Orders were given that no body should speak with him But saith he ☜ God out of his infinite love afforded me here such Comforts that I little regarded the Miseries I was reduced to There he saith he saw no body for near a Year and the Priest belonging to the Governour at last coming to see him he cried out Lord in what a Condition are you But he replied Sir ☜ do not pity me for could you see the Secret Pleasures my Heart experienceth you would think me too happy The Priest was so Compassionate as afterwards to send him a Straw Bed He continued there Twenty Two Moneths without Changing any Cloths Afterwards he was removed into another Prison and on May 20 96 was put into a Hole under ground till the First of July where he was sent with a distracted Man that had been a generous Confessor whose Brains were turned by Cruel Torments to the Castle of Iff about Five Miles from Marseilles where they were put into another Hole on the Twentieth of August It was perfectly dark so stinking and dirty that he saith he verily believes there is not a more dismal place in the whole World That all their Senses were attacqued at once Sight by darkness Taste by hunger Smell by filthy stench Feeling by Lice and other Vermin and Hearing by the horrid Blasphemies and Curses of the Souldiers who brought them their Food Having continued Six Months in that pit his Fellow-Sufferer died and as that poor Man was in his Agony as Crazed as for the most part he was he testified his aversion by making a sign to the Priest's coming to him upon hearing the Souldiers say the Chaplain must be sent for By the way who can express the Barbarities of those who could not be satisfied to Torment a poor Creature to distraction but must after that persist to use him thus Devilishly Then he saith upon the Death of this Confessor he was put into another Pit with Three other Protestants where their Cloths rotted upon their backs with the dampness of the place But through the goodness of God he was released by the means of the Earl of Portland then Ambassador in France on July the Third following having been made in the first Year of King William's Reign a Free Denison of England He next adjoyns a List of the Protestant Slaves aboard the Gallies near the time of his writing this Narrative and the number amounts to 290 besides very many whose Names are unknown it being a difficult matter to write they are so strictly observed He adds that Twenty Two of them were lately set at liberty by the sollicitation of the Dutch Ambassador do●● they have been sufficiently recruited by One Hun●●●d and Forty who came from Orange whither they went to pray to God besides many more afterwards And what the usage of these poor Gally-Slaves is he tells us p. 7 8 9. viz. That they set them upon a Form fettered with heavy Chains of about Ten or Twelve Foot long That they have nothing but Beans for their Food with about 14 Ounces of Course Bread a Day and are devoured in the Winter by Lice and in Summer by Bugs and Fleas and forced to lye one over another like Hogs in a Sty But he adds that he takes no Notice of the barbarity exercised towards them by the Officers of the Gallies which is beyond imagination The sad Story of the Admirable Christian and French Minister Mons Claude Brousson is much too long for us to insert and all we can say of him is that he was at last broken upon the Wheel And a most wonderful Example he gave of Christian fortitude Two Gentlemen called Trouilla and Laborde having escaped from France certified under their hands July 25 98 that in the May before a surrogate sent a young Gentlewoman of about 14 Years Old into the Nunnery of St. Vrsula with orders that no Body should see her or speak with her That she was dragged every day to Mass but not being to be prevailed upon to kneel or turn her face before the Altar the Abbess with the help of some Nuns bound her hands but the Merciless Nuns regarded not her Cries till one of them happened to see her almost dead upon which she was untyed and confined to a dark Chamber where she was exposed to bad Weather seen by none and had no light for a fortnight till she was taken so ill that they began to fear her life And Death was too great a favour to be over freely granted We have a Copy of an Affidavit published by ●n French Protestant Minister to whose Papers we are obliged for several of these Narratives of Catharine de Gaudeul who made Oath before Justice Ellis August 8 1698. That she being put into the Prison at Paris called La Salpetriere for her Religion two Protestant Women born in Meaux were also sent thither for the same Cause and used with great Cruelty And because they could not be perswaded to turn one of them being clad in a wet Sheet was shut into a Room with two Mad Women who fell upon her and dispatcht her by plucking her Bowels out of her Body which was afterward boyled and dissected by Surgeons That her Fellow-Sufferer named Sarah was sent next to the said Mad Women who pacified them a little by giving them what Money she had but she afterward received many blows and wounds from them That when the said Sarah came out of that Room she told the other Prisoners that she trod upon the Guts of her Friend and that the Mad Women threatned her to do as much to her self And that the said Fact was so Notorious in the Prison that many of the Prisoners Papists as well as