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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11529	A true discription and breefe discourse, of a most lamentable voiage, made latelie to Tripolie in Barbarie, in a ship named the Iesus vvherin is not onely shevved the great miserie, that then happened the aucthor hereof and his whole companie, aswell the marchants as the marriners in that voiage, according to the curssed custome of those barbarous and cruell tyrants, in their terrible vsage of Christian captiues: but also, the great vnfaithfulnesse of those heathnish infidels, in not regarding their promise. Together, with the most wonderfull iudgement of God, vpon the king of Tripolie and his sonne, and a great number of his people, being all the tormentors of those English captiues. Set foorth by Thomas Saunders, one of those captiues there at the same time.		1587 (1587)	STC 21778; ESTC S101651	18,804	26

which was a ruler in an Iland called Ierbby wherevnto ariued an English ship called the Greene Dragon of the which was maister one M. Blonket who hauing a verie vnhappie boie in that ship vnderstanding that whosoeuer would turne Turke should be well enterteined of the kings sonne this boy did run a shore voluntarilie turned Turke Shortlie after the kings sone came to Tripolie to visit his father séeing our companie he greatlie fancied Rich. Burges our pursser Iames Smith they were both yoong mē therfore he was verie desirous to haue thē to turne Turke but they wold not yéeld to his desire saieng we are your fathers slaues as slaues we will serue him then his father the king sent for them asked them if they would turne Turke they said If it please your highnes christiās we were borne so we will remaine beséeched the king that they might not be inforced thervnto The king had there before in his house a son of a yeoman of our Queenes guard The kinges sonne had a Captiue that was sonne to one of the Queenes maiesties guard that was forced to turne Turke whom the kings son had inforsed to turne Turke his name was Iohn Nelson him the king caused to be brought to these yoong men and then said vnto them will not you beare this your countriman companie and be Turke as he is and they said that they would not yéeld therevnto during life but it sell out that within a moneth after the Kinges sonne went home to Ierbbïe againe being sixe score miles from Tripolie and caried our two foresaid yoong men with him which were Richard Burges and Iames Smith and after their departure from vs they sent vs a letter signifieng that there was no violence shewed vnto them as not but within thrée daies after they were violentlie vsed for that the kings sonne demanded of them againe if that they would turne Turke Richard Burges made a Turke by force then answered Richard Burges a Christian I am and so I will remaine Then the Kinges sonne verie angerlie said vnto him by Mahommet thou shalt presentlie be made Turke Then called he for his men and commanded them to make him Turke and they did so and circumcised him and would haue had him speake the words that therevnto belonged but he answered them stoutlie that hée would not and although they had put on him the habit of a Turke yet said hee Christian I was borne and so I will remaine though you force me to doo otherwise And then he called for the other commanded him to be made Turke perforce also Iames Smith made Turke and circumcised by force but he was verie strong for it was so much as eight of the Kings sonnes men could doo to hold him so in the end they circumcised him and made him Turke Now to passe ouer a little and so to shew the maner of our deliuerie out of that miserable captiuitie The first motion for those Englishmens deliuerie In Maye aforesaid shortlie after our apprehension I wrote a letter into England vnto my Father dwelling in Eauistoke in Deuonshire signifieng vnto him the whole estate of our calamities and I wrote also to Constantinople to the English ambassadour both which letters were faithfullie deliuered But when my Father had receiued my letter and vnderstood the truth of our mishap and the occasion thereof and what had happened to the offendors he certified the Right honorable the earle of Bedford thereof who in shorte space acquainted hir Highnesse with the whole cause thereof and hir Maiestie like a most mercifull Princesse tendring hir subiects presentlie tooke order for our deliuerance Wherevpon the right worshipfull sir Edward Osburne knight directed his letters with all speed to the English ambassadour in Constantinople to procure our deliuerie and he obteined the great Turks commission sent it forth with to Tripolie by one master Edward Barton togither with a Iustice of the great Turks one souldior and another Turke a Greeke which was his interpretor which could speake besides Gréeke Turkish Italiā Spanish English And when they came to Tripolie they were well interteined A Commissiō come from the great Turke for the Englishmens deliuerie And the first night they did lie in a captaines house in the towne all our companie that were in Tripolie came that night for ioy to maister Barton and the other commissioners to see them Then maister Barton said vnto vs welcome my good countrimen and louinglie interteined vs at our departure from him he gaue vs two shillings and said serue God for to morrow I hope you shall be as frée as euer you were we all giue him thankes and so departed The next daie in the morning verie earlie the king had intelligence of their comming sent word to the kéeper that none of the Englishmē meaning our companie should go to worke Then he sent for maister Barton and the other commissioners demanded of the said M Barton his message the Iustice answered that the Great Turke his Souereigne had sent thē vnto him The somme of the great Turkes commission pronoun●ed by a a Turkish Iustice signifieng that he was informed that a certeine English ship called the Iesus was by him the said King confiscated about twelue moneths since and now my said Souereigne hath héere sent his especiall commission by vs vnto you for the deliuerie of the said ship goods and also the free libertie deliuerance of the Englishmen of the same ship whom you haue taken and kept in captiuitie farther the same Iustice said I am authorised by my said souereigne the great Turke to see it doone and therefore I command you by vertue of this commission presentlie to make restitution of the premises or the value therof and so did the Iustices deliuer vnto the King the great Turkes commission to the effect aforesaid which commission the king with all obedience receiued after the perusing of the same The Englishmen released by the king of Tripolie and deliuered to M Barton the 28 daie of Aprill 1585. he forthwith commanded all the English captiues to bee brought before him then willed the kéeper to strike of all our irons which doone the king said You Englishmen for that you did offend the lawes of this place by the same lawes therefore some of your companie were condemned to die as you know you to be perpetuall captiues during your liues notwithstāding seeing it hath pleased my souereigne lord the great Turke to pardon your said offences to giue you your freedom libertie behold héere I make deliuerie of you to this English gentleman so he deliuered vs all that were there being thirteene in number to maister Barton who required also those two yoong men which the kings sonne had taken with him Then the king answered that it was against their lawe to deliuer them for that they were turned Turkes