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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12471	The true travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from anno Domini 1593. to 1629 His accidents and sea-fights in the straights; his service and stratagems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, against the Turks, and Tartars ... After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks, sold for a slave ... and escaped ... Together with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624. to this present 1629; as also of the new plantations of the great river of the Amazons, the iles of St. Christopher, Mevis, and Barbados in the West Indies. All written by actuall authours, whose names you shall finde along the history.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 22796; ESTC S111906	69,204	79

thy Selfe a Souldier true in all parts Thy Armes are deckt with that thy Sword hath wonne Which mallice can't out-weare till day be done For three proud Turks in single fight thou 'st slue Their Heads adorne thy Armes for witnesse true Let Mars and Neptune both with Pregnant wit Extoll thy due deserts He pray for it SALO TANNER THE TRVE TRAVELS ADVENTVRES AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH in Europe Asia Africke and America beginning about the yeere 1593. and continued to this present 1629. CHAP. I. His Birth Apprentiship Going into France His beginning with ten shillings and three pence His Service in Netherlands His bad passage into Scotland His returne to Willoughby And how he lived in the Woods HE was borne in Willoughby in Lincolne-shire and a Scholler in the two Free-schooles of Alford and Louth His father anciently descended from the ancient Smiths of Crudley in Lancashire his mother from the Rickands at great Heck in York-shire His parents dying when he was about thirteene yeeres of age left him a competent meanes which hee not being capable to manage little regarded his minde being even then set upon brave adventures sould his Satchell bookes and all he had intending secretly to get to Sea but that his fathers death stayed him But now the ●uardians of his estate more regarding it than him he had libertie enough though no meanes to get beyond the Sea About the age of fifteene yeares hee was bound an Apprentice to Mr. Thomas Sendall of Linne the greatest Merchant of all those parts but because hee would not presently send him to Sea he never saw his master in eight yeeres after At last he ●ound meanes to attend Mr. Perigrine Barty into France second sonne to the Right Honourable Perigrine that generous Lord Willoughby and famous Souldier where comming to his brother Robert then at Orleans now Earle of Linsey and Lord great Chamberlaine of England being then but little youths under Tuto●age his service being needlesse within a moneth or six weekes they sent him backe againe to his friends who when he came from London they liberally gave him but out of his owne estate ten shillings to be rid of him such oft is the share of fatherlesse children but those two Honourable Brethren gave him sufficient to returne for England But it was the least thought of his determination for now being freely at libertie in Paris growing acquainted with one Master David Hume who making some use of his purse gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames. Arriving at Roane he better bethinkes himselfe seeing his money neere spent downe the River he went to Haver de grace where he first began to learne the life of a souldier Peace being concluded in France he went with Captaine Ioseph Duxbury into the Low-countries under whose Colours having served three or foure yeeres he tooke his journey for Scotland to deliver his Letters At Ancusan he imbarked himselfe for Lethe but as much danger as shipwracke and sicknesse could endure hee had at the holy I le in Northumberland neere Barwicke being recovered into Scotland he went to deliver his Letters After much kinde usage amongst those honest Scots at Ripweth and Broxmoth but neither money nor meanes to make him a Courtier he returned to Willoughby in Lincolne-shire where within a short time being glutted with too much company wherein he took small delight he retired himselfe into a little wooddie pasture a good way from any towne invironed with many hundred Acres of other woods Here by a faire brook he built a Pavillion of boughes where only in his cloaths he lay His studie was Machiavills Art of warre and Marcus Aurelius his exercise a good horse with his lance and Ring his food was thought to be more of venison than any thing else what he wanted his man brought him The countrey wondering at such an Hermite His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne an excellent Horse-man and a noble Italian Gentleman to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances whose Languages and good discourse and exercise of riding drew him to stay with him at Tattersall Long these pleasures could not content him but hee returned againe to the Low-Countreyes Chap II. The notable villany of foure French Gallants and his revenge Smith throwne over-board Captaine La Roche of Saint Malo releeves him THus when France and Netherlands had taught him to ride a Horse and use his Armes with such rudiments of warre as his tender yeeres in those martiall Schooles could attaine unto he was desirous to see more of the world and trie his fortune against the Turkes both lamenting and repenting to have seene so many Christians slaughter one another Opportunitie casting him into the company of foure French Gallants well attended faining to him the one to be a great Lord the rest his Gentlemen and that they were all devoted that way over-perswaded him to goe with them into France to the Dutchesse of Mercury from whom they should not only have meanes but also Letters of favour to her noble Duke then Generall for the Emperour Rodolphus in Hungary which he did with such ill weather as winter affordeth in the darke night they arrived in the broad shallow In-let of Saint Va●leries sur Some in Picardie his French Lord knowing he had good apparell and better furnished with money than themselves so plotted with the Master of the ship to set his and their owne trunckes a shore leaving Smith aboard till the boat could returne which was the next day after towards evening the reason hee alleaged was the sea went so high hee could come no sooner and that his Lord was gone to Amiens where they would stay his comming which treacherous villany when divers other souldiers and passengers understood they had like to have slaine the Master and had they knowne how would have runne away with the ship Comming on shore hee had but one Carralue was forced to sell his cloake to pay for his passage One of the souldiers called Curzianvere compassionating his injury assured him this great Lord Depreau was only the sonne of a Lawyer of Mortaigne in base Britany and his Attendants Cursell La Nelie and Monferrat three young citizens as arrant cheats as himselfe but if he would accompany him he would bring him to their friends but in the interim supplied his wants thus travelling by Deepe Codebeck Humphla Pount-demer in Normandie they came to Cane in base Normandie where both this noble Curzianvere and the great Prior of the great Abbey of S. Steven where is the ruinous Tombe of William the Conquerour and many other of his friends kindly welcomed him and brought him to Mortaigne where hee found Depreau and the rest but to small purpose for Mr. Curzianvere was a banished man and durst not be seene but to his friends yet the bruit of their cosenage occasioned the Lady Collumber the Baron Larshan the Lord Shasghe