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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13516	A valorous and perillous sea-fight Fought with three Turkish ships, pirats or men of warre, on the coast of Cornewall, (or Westerne part of England) by the good ship named the Elizabeth, of Plimmouth, she being of the Burthen of 200 tuns, which fight was bravely fought, on Wednesday, the 17 of Iune last part. 1640.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1640 (1640)	STC 23809; ESTC S103252	7,755	26

Turks againe and dared them to come on againe and try the other bowt But they had had such proofe of his courage and knowledge before in the fight being so shattered torne and gauled That they could neither boast of Victory nor durst then venture any more to gaine it for they perceived the Gunners resolution was never to yeeld and so they fell to their sayles and tacklin and very much discontented slunk away making their moanes to Mahomet There were certaine Hogges and Powltrey in the Elizabeth And in the heat of the fight the Ship being much rent and torne with the Shot of the enemy the poore Swine and Pullen were killed partly with the Bullets but most with the shatters and splinters of shivered Planks and timber of the Ship Wherefore in derision and scorne of the Turkes who doe abhorre and hold all manner of Swines flesh in abhomination The English marriners lifted up the Hogges and shewed them to the Turke as it were in a merry or jeeringway to invite them to come aboord of their Ship to eate some Porke Thus by the mercifull assistance of God this one poore Ship so weakely man'd and so meanely furnished with Artillery or Ordnance against so many and so great a multitude as were 3. Ships 500. Men and 56. Peeces maintaine a fight almost 8. houres and with the losse of 3. Men not onely kill and spoyle a great number of their enemies but also to escape them and come off with reputation as it were with Conquest Tryumph and Victory It is almost to be thought miraculous and beyond beliefe but that the truth of the matter is so plainly manifested that all oposing unbelief is vaine and frivolous For after the Turkes had quite left them they began every man to worke hard some to lay the dead corps as decently and coole as time and place would give them leave some others who had escaped hurts or had not received great harmes in the fight did their best to helpe dresse and comfort their wounded men And some of them with all speed and diligence fell to mending their Ropes Cordage Rigging and Sayles which were cut broken spoyl'd and burnt in the fight So that no one was Idle every man imployed in doing something necessary that by Gods guidance the Ship and goods arrived safe in the harbour or port of Plimmouth The next morning which was Thursday the eighteenth day of Iune last 1640. The bodies of the foure men that were slaine aboord the Elizabeth were brought on shore and in seemely manner buried And at their funeralls they had two Learned Accute and Gratulatorie Sermons the one of them was preached at the Master of the Ships funerall by the Arch-deacon of Exeter who is Vicar of Plimmouth and the other was preached at the Masters-mates funerall by Master Thomas Bedfourd Batchelour in divinity and Lecturer of Plimmouth and this may suffice for sufficient testimonie of the certainty of this former Relation But if there be any that be yet doubtful or diffident in this case let them for their further satisfaction read this following examination of John Whiddon the valiant and well deserving Gunner whom my Pen cannot praise enough nor these ingratefull times gratifie him Read but his examination as followeth and be confirmed in the Truth for this is a true Copie of it which was sent up from Plimmouth to London to the right Honourable the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable privie Counsell The examination of Iohn Whiddon of Plimmouth in the County of Devon Gunner had and taken at Plimmouth aforesaid before Robert Gubbs Merchant Major of the Borough of Plimmouth aforesaid and one of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace within the said Borough the nineteenth day of Iune 1640. THe said Examinant saith that on Wednesday last about two of clocke in the morening being the 17 of this instant Iune hee being Gunner of a Ship called the Elizabeth of Plimmouth of two hundred Tuns burthen or thereabouts having ten pieces of Ordnance aboard her and comming from Virginia bound for Plimmouth two leagues off of the Lizard they met three Turkish men of Warre who weathred and kept the said Elizabeth from the shoar and gave her chase and saith that the Admirall was a ship of 250 Tuns burthen or therabouts and had 22 pieces of Ordnance aboard her and the Vice-Admirall was a shippe of 300 Tuns and had 26 pieces of Ordnance and the Rere-Admirall was a ship of 200 tuns and had eight pieces of Ordnance aboard her and believeth that heretofore shee was a prize and at first they all shewed both Dutch and English colours and had at least 500 men aboard them who betweene three and foure of the clocke in the morning came up with them and boarded them and continued fight with them untill eleven or twelve of the clock that day during which time the company of each of the said Turkish men of warre boarded them three times and fired their round House killed their Master Masters Mate the Pylate and Quarter-Master and hurt eight other of their Company fired their maine sayle cut downe all their riggin and with their great Shot did them and their Shippe a great deale of hurt and dammage and afterwards did leave them presently after within two Leagues or thereabouts off of the shoare this Examinant and the Company of the said Elizabeth discovered eleven small Vessels floating on the streame without sayles or any men in them at all which this Examinant the Gunner of the Shippe doth very certainely believe were taken by the said Turkish men of Warre and their Company carried away by them and doth say that upon the eighteenth of this instant moneth of Iune about foure of the clocke in the morning they came into the harbour of Plimmouth A Friendly true deserv'd Commendation and encouragement of all Mariners and the noble Art of Navigation with the most excellent and necessary use of Shipping THe use of Shippes and shipping is of most worthy and memorable Antiquitie For the blessed Patriarke Noah built an Arke by the Commandement of God of which Arke Noah was Admirall Master and Pilot. That Arke was then the Militant Church the whole Congregation being but 8 persons and yet though they were but few they were not all sound in Religious Piety there was a Cham amongst them All the people of the world that had not grace to cōe aboord of the Arke were drowned wherein was prefigured that as many as will not come and be of Gods Church are like to be cast away And as the Arke was tost and weather-beaten upon the troublesome waves of the All-Sea World or Universall deluge till such time as she happily grounded on the mountain of Ararat in Armenia Gen. 8.4 And so shall the Church be continually turmoyl'd with tempests of tribulations Seas of sorrow stormes of strife she being like a good peaceable Ship most inestimably richly laden is daily assaulted by 3. wicked Pirats the World the