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A05597	The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayed an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.; Most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1640 (1640)	STC 15714; ESTC S108592	306,423	530

carried along on the Sergeants armes to the end of a Trance or stone-Gallery where the Pottaro or Racke was placed The Encarnador or Tormentor began to disburden me of my irons which being very hard inbolted he could not Ram●verse the Wedges for a long time Whereat the chiefe Justice being offended the malicious Villaine with the Hammer which hee had in his hand stroake away above an inch of my left heele with the Bolt Whereupon I grievously groaning being exceeding faint and without my three ounces of bread and a little water for three dayes together the Alcalde said O Traytor all this is nothing but the earnest of a greater bargaine you have in hand Now the Irons being dissolved and my Torments approaching I fell prostrate on my knees crying to the Heavens O Great and Gracious GOD it is truely knowne to thy allseeing Eye that I am innocent of these fal●e and fearefull accusations and since therefore it is thy Good will and pleasure that I must suffer now by the sc●lerate hands of mercilesse men LORD furnish mee with Courage Strength and Patience least by an impatient Minde and feeble Spirit I become my owne Murtherer in Confessing my selfe guilty of Death to shun present punishment And according to the multitude of thy mercies O Lord be mercifull to my sinfull Soule and that for Iesus thy Sonne and my Redeemer his sake After this the Alcalde and Scrivan being both Chaireset the one to examining the other to write downe my Confession and Tortures I was by the Executioner stripped to the skin brought to the rack and then mounted by him on the top of it Where eftsoones I was hung be the pare sh●ulders with two small cords which went under both my armes running on two rings of iron that were fixed in the Wall above my head Thus being hoysed to the appointed height the Torment or discended below and drawing downe my Legs through the two sides of the three planked Racke hee tyed a Cord about each of my ankles And then ascending upon the racke hee drew the cords upward and bending forward with mainforce my two kneels against the two planks the sinewes of my hams burst asunder and the lids of my knees being crushed and the Cords made fast I hung so demayned for a large houre At last the Encarnador informing the Governour that I had the marke of Ierusalem on my right arme joyned with the name and Crowne of King Iames and done upon the Holy Grave The Corridigor came out of his adjoyning stance and gave direction to teare a sunder the name and Crowne as hee said of that Heretike King an arch-enemy to the Holy Catholike Church Then the tormentor laying the right arme above the left and the Crown upmost did cast a cord over both armes seven distant times And then lying downe upon his backe and setting both his feete on my hollow-pinched belly he charged and drew violently with his hands making my Wombe suppor the force of his feete till the seven severall Cords combind in one place of my arme and cutting the Crowne sinewes and flesh to the bare bones did pull in my fingers close to the palme of my hands the left hand of which is Lame so still and will be for ever Now mine eyes began to startle my mouth to foame and froath and my teeth to chatter like to the doubling of Drummers stickes O strange inhumanity of Men monster manglers I surpassing the limits of their national Law three score Tortures being the tryall of Treason which I had and was to endure yet thus to inflict a seaven-fold surplussage of more intollerable cruelties And notwithstanding of my shivering lips in this fiery passion my vehement groaning and blood springing fonts from armes broake sinewes hammes and knees yea and my depending weight on flesh-cutting Cords yet they stroake me on the face with Cudgels to abate and cease the thundring noise of my wrestling voice At last being loosed from these Pinnacles of paine I was hand-fast set on the floore with this their incessant imploration Confesse confesse confesse in time for thine inevitable torments ensue where finding nothing from me but still innocent O I am innocent O Iesus the Lambe of God have mercy upon mee and strengthen mee with patience to undergo this barbarous murder Then by command of the Justice was my trembling body laid above and along upon the face of the Racke with my head downe-ward inclosed within a circled hole my belly upmost and my heeles upward toward the top of the Racke my legs and armes being drawne asunder were fastned with pinnes and Cords to both sides of the outward plankes for now was I to receive my maine torments Now the Alcalde giving commission the executioner layd first a cord over the calfe of my leg then an other on the middle of my thigh and the third cord over the great of my arme which was severally done on both sides of my body receiving the ends of the cords from these sixe severall places through the holes made in the outward planks which were fastned to pinnes and the pinnes made fast with a device for he was to charge on the outside of the planks with as many pinnes as there were holes and cords the cords being first laid meet to my skin And on every one of these sixe parts of my body I was to receive seven severall tortures each torture consisting of three winding throwes of every pinne which amounted to twenty one throwes in every one of these five parts Then the Tormentor having charged the first passage above my body making fast by a device each torture as they were multiplyed he went to an earthen Iarre standing full of water a little beneath my head from whence carrying a pot full of water in the bottome whereof there was an incised hole which being st●pped by his thumb till it came to my mouth he did poure it in my bellie the measure being a Spanish Sombre which is an English Pottle The first and second services I gladly received such was the scorching drouth of my tormenting paine and likewise I had drunke none for three daies before But afterward at the third charge perceiving these measures of water to be inflicted upon me as tortures O strangling tortures I closed my lips againe-standing that eager crudelity Whereat the Alcalde inraged set my teeth asunder with a payre of iron cadges detaining them there at every severall turne both mainely and manually whereupon my hunger clungd belly waxing great grew Drum-like imbolstred for it being a suffocating paine in regard of my head hanging downeward and the water re-ingorging it selfe in my throat with a strugling force it strangled and swallowed up my breath from youling and gro●nong And now to prevent my renewing griefe for presently my heart faileth and forsaketh me I will onely briefe y avouch that betweene each one of these seven circular charges I was aye re-examined

and South-most Towne of the Kingdome of Fez composed of a thousand fire-houses well fortified with Walles and a Garrison of Moores in it subiect to the Emperour of Moroco the French-man long ere day fell sick of a burning Feaver Whereupon wee stayed five dayes expecting his health which growing worse and worse and hee mindfull to returne which I would not I left him in safe custodie and one of our Drudges to attend him And bearing the charges of the other two according to the former condition I set forward for my purpose which ere long turned to sad Repentance Leaving Ahetzo behind us and entring the Countrey of the Agaroes wee found the best inhabitants halfe clad the vulgars naked the Countrey void of Villages Rivers or cultivage but the soile rich in Bestiall abounding in Sheep Goats Camels Dromidores and passing good horses Having an Emeere of their owne being subiect to none but to his owne passions and them to the disposition of his scelerate nature yet hee and they had a bastard show of Mahometanicall Religion Their Bestiall are watered with sources and the pastorable fields with the nightly Serene and themselves with the waterish concavity of the earth In our sixe dayes toile traversing this Countrey wee had many troubles and snarlings from these Savages who somtimes over-laboured us with Bastinados and were still inquirous what I was and whither I went yea and enough for the Dragoman to save my life and liberty Having past the perverstnesse of this calamity upon the seaventh day wee rancountred with another soile and worser tribe of the Hagans or Iamnites most part whereof were white Moors a people more ugly then the Nigroes yet some of the better sort had their members covered but of condition far more wicked then the former The Soyle we daily traced was covered with hard and soft Sands and them full of Serpents being interlarded with Rockey heights faced with Caves Dens the very habitacle of Wilde beasts whose hollow cryes as we heard in the night so we too often sighted their bodies in the day especially Jackals Beares and Boares and somtimes Cymbers Tygers and Leopards against whom in the day time if they approached us we eyther shot of a Harquebus or else flashed some powder in the Ayre the smell whereof no ravenous beast can abide This vast Wildernesse is a part of the Berdoans Countrey one of the foure tribes of the olde Lybrians the Sabuncks the Carmines and the Southerne Garolines being the other three And now to helpe the expression of my grievous distresse and miseries my Muse must lament the jest Ah! sightlesse desarts fill'd with barren Sands And parched plains were huge and hilly la●ds Have stone-fac'd scurrile bounds O monsterous feare What destiny drove my cross'd Fortune here By day I 'me scoarch'd with heate by night the grounds Are clad with beasts whose rage sends horrid sounds Of dreadfull death whence we to shunne their ire Are forc'd to fright them with bright Tara fire For if it were not that they scarr'd at Light No man could walke or rest safe in the night Then next and nigh the crawling Serpent lurke Still under foote some stung-swolne smart to worke Which moove the Sands like Seas in seeking shade Where 'mongst their linking roles I 'me forc'd to wade Whose neckes like legs are round their bodies strong With black-spred backs their length full two yards long Yet whilst I cut and crush their warbling wombe I point their death their skin I make their tombe But worst I 'me hungerbit and starving slaine With pinching want a sore-sunke gnawing paine O helplesse ●orture second'd with great drouth And fiery thirst that scab my lips and mouth Wherefor fine lyquor as my my heart would wish Stress'd wandring I am forc'd to drink my pisse So turnes my food to smoake the smoake to ashes Which twice a night we three do spend in flashes Last casts my face the skin my skin the colour And spewing forth fled joyes I drinke in dolour Thus with the Torrid Zone am I opprest And lock'd twixt Tropicks two which mee invest Wherefor reliefe I pierc'd the Heavens with cryes And cut the Clouds to grieve the azure skies With sighs and grones ●et carefull to regard My curious drifts had got their just reward But to shorten my Discourse of barren Wildernesses supposed to be apart of the Lybian Desarts my Dragoma● upon the fourth day of our seven being there falling in despaire and wondring to see me indure such heate such hunger and such toyle did threaten mee with death to make mee seeke backe for our nearest refuge Whereupon holding our course North-east my compasse-Dyall being our guide wee rancountred earely on the eight day with nine hundred Savages naked Lybian Sabunks five hundred whereof were women armed with Bowes and Arrows who with their complices the former night had put to the sword three hundred Berdoanes their neighbour tribe carrying away above sixe hundred Sheepe and Goats besides other bestiall from whom after our sight of their Emeere or Prince wee had first liberty of life and then reliefe of food for hee came up in the Reare with a hundred Horse-men charged with halfe Pikes headed at both ends with sharpe Steele The person of their Prince was onely clothed from his brests downe to his middle thigh with a Crimson vaile of Silke hanging on his naked shoulders with coloured Ribans and on his head a party coloured Shash set like a Garland Both his knees were bare so were his ancles the calues of his legges being girded with Crimson Silke and on his feet yellow shooes his beard was like his face burnt with the Sunne and his age like to my owne of 33 yeares his Religion is damnable so is his life for hee and all the foure Tribes of Lybia worship onely for their god Garlick having altars Priests and superstitious rites annexed to it Thinking Garlicke being strong of it selfe and the most part of their food to have a soveraigne vertue in a herball Diety All his Courters were starke naked saving his Page who was even covered like to the King his Master And now having dismissed his Army for the way and falling in an houres parley with us at his departure he pr●pyned me with his Bowe a Quiver of Ar●owes which afterward I presented to his Maiesty then Prince There is a merry secret heare concerning the women which often I recited to King Iames of Blessed memory showing him also three Certificats of this my Desartuous wandring one of which was confirmed by English Ward at Tunneis upon the Dragomans Report though now they with all my other Patents are lost in the Inquisition of Malaga This former savage Prince sent a Guide with vs for foure dayes journey the condition of his mans Wages being made by himselfe and franckly advised us that Tunneis was our best and nearest recourse Which being forcibly considered I was constrained to renew my bargaine agayne with

each examination continuing halfe an houre each halfe houre a hell of internall paine and between each torment a long distance of life-quelling time Thus lay I five howers upon the Racke between foure a clock afternoone and ten a clocke at night having had inflicted upon mee sixtie severall torments Neverthelesse they continued mee a large halfe houre after all my torments at the full bending where my body being all begored with blood and cut through in every part to the crushed and bruised bones I pittifully remained still roaring howling foaming bellowing and gnashing my teeth within supportable cryes before the pinnes were undone and my body loosed True it is it passeth the capacity of man either sensibly to conceive or I patiently to expresse the intollerable anxiety of mind and affliction of body in that dreadfull time I sustained At last my head being by their armes advanced and my body taken from the Racke the water regusned abundantly from my mouth then they recloathing my broken bloody and cold trembling body being all this time starke naked I fell twice in a founding trance which they againe refreshed with a little wine and two warme Egges not for charity done but that I should be reserved t● further punishment and if it were not too truly known those sufferings to be of trueth it would almost seem incredible to many that a man being brought so low with starving hunger and extreame cruelties cou●d haue subsisted any longer reserving life And now at last they charged my br●ken legs with my former eye-frighting irons and done I was lamentably carried on their armes to the Coach being after mid-night and secretly transported to my former Dungeon without any knowledge to the towne saue onely these my lawlesse and mercilesse Tormentors where when come I was laid with my head and my heeles alike high on my former stones The latter end of this woefull night poor mourning Hazier the Turke was set to keepe me and on the morrow the governour entred my roome threatning me still with more tortures to confe●●e and so caused hee every morning long before day his Coach to be rumbled at his gate and about me where I lay a great noise of tongues and opening of doores and all this they did of purpose to affright and distract me and to make me beleeve I was going to be racked againe to make mee confesse an untrueth and still thus they continued every day of five dayes till Christmas Upon Christmas day Mariana the Ladies Gentlewoman got permission to visit me and with her licence shee brought aboundance of teares presenting me also with a dish of Honey and Sugar some confections and Reasons in a great plenty to my no small Comfort besides using many sweet speeches for consolations sake Shee gone and the next morning of Saint Iohns day come long ere day the Towre was in Armes the Bells rin●ing backward the people shouting and Drums beate whereon my soul was ouer joyed thinking that the Moores had seazed upon all and in the afternoone the Turke comming to mee with bread and water being by chance the second day I asked him what the fray was who reply●d be o● good courage I hope in God and Mahomet that you and I ere long shall be set at liberty for your Countrey-men the English Armado and mine the Mooes are joyned together and comming to sack Malaga And this morning post came from Allagant to premonish the Governour thereof whereupon he and the Towne have instantly pulled downe all the Coppet shops and dwelling Houses that were builded without the shore side adjoyning to the Townes Wall But yet said hee it is no matter the Towne may easily be su●prised and I hope wee shall be merry in Algier for there is above a hundred sayle seene comming hithtr and therewith kissing my cheeke he kindly left mee Indeed as for such news from A●lagant the detriment of twenty eight houses the shoar-planted Cannon the suspition they had of the English and the Towne foure dayes in Armes were all true save onely the confederacy of the English with the Moores that was false Witnesse Sir Richard Halkins and the Captains of his Squader who alittle after Christmas comming to the Road went to the Governour to cleare himselfe and the Fleete of that absurd imputation laid to their charge The twelfth day of Christmas expired they began to threaten me on still with more Tortures even till Candlemasse In all which comfortlesse time I was miserably afflicted with the beastly plague of gnawing vermin which lay crawling in lumps within without and about my body yea hanging in clusters about my beard my lips my nostrils and my eye-browes almost inclosing my sight And for a greater satisfaction to their mercilesse mindes the Governour caused Areta his silver plate keeper to gather and sweep the vermine upon me twice in eight dayes which tormented me to the death being a perpetuall punishment for mine armes being broke my hands lucken and sticking fast to the palms of both hands by reason of the shrunke sinewes I was unable to lift mine armes to stirre my fingers much lesse to avoid the filthy Vermine neither could my legs and feet performe it being impotent in all Yet I acknowledge the poore Infidell some few times and when opportunity served would steale the keyes from Areta and about mid-night would enter my room with sticks and burning oyle and sweeping them together in heapes would burne the greatest part to my great release or doubtlesse I had beene miserable eat up and devoured by them And now some eight dayes before Candlemasse the slave informed me that an English Seminary Priest born in London and belonging to the Bishops Colledge of Malaga and a Scotish Cowper named Alexander Ley borne in Dunbar and there married were in Translating allmy Bookes and Observations out of English in the Spanish tongue bringing every other dayes numbers of wrot Papers to the Governour and for their paines had thirty duccats allowed and that they were saying I was an Arch-Hereticke to the Pope and the Virgin Mary Having re-dounded him concealed thanks I was assured of their bloody Inquisition preparing my selfe in God with Faith and patience to receive and gain-stand it for my spirituall Resolution was surely founded being sightlesse of Company and humane faces I had intirely the light of my Soule celebrate to God Almighty And hereupon the second day after Candlemas the Governour the Inquisitor a Canonicall Priest entered my dungeon accompained with two Jesuites one of which was Predicator and superior of the Tiatinean Colledg of Malaga Where being Chaire set Candle lighted and doore locked the inquisitor after diverse frivolous questions demanded me if I was a Roman Catholik and acknowledged the Popes Supremacy To whom I answered I was neither the one or did the other And what power said I have you to challenge me of my Religion since it is a chiefe Article of the former concluded peace