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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

no ill can parallell them But sure this gift from course of nature came Rais'd vp by Heaven to be my nursing Dame For she a Savage bred yet shews more Love And humane pitty then desert could moove Wherein shee stain'd the Spaniards they did nought But what revenge on slaughter'd sorrow wrought Thus they who turn'd her went themselves astray And shee thought ignorant trac'd the Christian way For which great God reward her make her soule As white within as she without is foule And if I might as reason knowes I would Her love and praise my deeds should crowne with gold Now about the middle of Lent Hazier my former Friend was appoynted to attend me agayne suspecting Ellenors compassion but as my miseries were multiplied my Patience in God was redoubled For men are rather killed with the impatience they have in adversity then adversity it selfe And of all men that man is most vnhappy to whom God in his troubles hath not given Patience for as the violent enemy of age is griefe so is the mindes impatiency the arch corruptor of all our troubles But indeede in the weakenesse of judgement when men seeme lost by long affliction to themselves then they are often and ever neerest to God for who would have thought that I who had seene so many sexs and varieties of Religion dispersed over the face of the earth could have stucke fast to any Religion at all Travailers being reputed to be Vbique et ●mnibus parati But I will tell thee Christian it was the grace of God in me and not mine For as fire lying hid vnder ashes and touch'd will flame so I seeming to my selfe carelesse of Christianity then God pricking my Conscience made tryall of my Faith For Christ forbid that every Shippe which coasteth the rockey shoare should leave her ruines there This I speake not for any selfe-prayse but to glorifie God and to condemne the rash censures of opinion and with Phocion I mistrust my selfe because of popular applause Erubuit quasi peccasset quod placuerit But now to abbreviat a thousand Circumstances of my Lamentable sufferings which this Volume may not suffer to contain By Gods great providence about a fortnight before Easter Anno 16●1 there came a Spanish Cavaliere of Grenada to Malaga whom the Governour one night invited to Supper being of old acquaintance where after Supper to intertaine Discourse the Governour related and disclosed to the stranger God working thereby my discovery and deliverance all the proceedings and causes of my first apprehending my confessions Torments starvings their mistaking of the English Fleete and finally the wresting of the Inquisition upon me and their Condemnatory Sentence seeming also much to Lament my mis-fortunes and praising my Travailes and Deserts Now all this while the Gentlemans servant a Flandrish Fleming standing at his Maisters back and adhering to all the Governours Relations was astonished to heare of a sakelesse Stranger to have indured and to indure such damnable Murther and Cruelty Whereupon the Discourse ending and midnight past the Stranger re●urned to his Lodging where the Fleming having bedded his Master and himselfe also in another Roome he could not sleepe all that night and if hee slumbered still hee thought hee saw a man Torturing and burning in the fire which he confessed to Mr. Wilds when morning came Well he longed for day and it being come and hee cloathed hee quietly left his lodging inquiring for an English Factor and comming to the House of Mr. Richard Wilds the chiefe English Consull Hee told him all what hee heard the Governour tell his Master but could not tell my name only Master Richard Wilds conjectur'd it was I because of the others report of a Traveller and of his first and former acquaintance with me there Whereupon the Fleming being dismissed he straight sent for the other English Factors Mr. Richard Busbitch Mr. Iohn Corney Mr. Hanger Mr. Stanton Mr. Cooke Mr. Rowley and Mr. Woodson where advising with them what was best to be done for my reliefe they sent Letters away immediatly with all post dilligence to Sir Walter Aston his Maiesties Ambassadour lying at Madrile Vpon which hee mediating with the King and Counsell of Spaine obtained a straight warrant to command the Governor of Malaga to deliuer mee ouer in the English hands which being come to their great disliking I was released on Easter satturday before midnight and carryed uppon Hazier the slaues backe to Master Busbitches house where I was carefully attended till day light Meanewhile by great fortune there being a Squader of his Maiesties Ships lying in the Road Sir R●chard Halkins came early ashoare accompanied with a strong trayne and receiued mee from the Merchants whence I was carryed on mens armes in a payre of blanquets to the Vangard his Maiesties ship And three dayes thereafter I was transported to a ship bound for England the Fleets victualler named the good will of Harwich by direction of the Generall Sir Robert Maunsell where being well placed and charge given by Sir Richard Halkins to the ships master William Westerdale for his carefulnes toward the preservation of my life which then was broght so low miserable The aforesaid Merchants ●ent me from shoare besides the ships Victuals a suite of Spanish apparrell twelue Hens with other poultry and a barrell of Wine a Basket full of Egges two Roves of Figges and Rasins two hundred Orenges and Lemmons eight pounds of Sugar a number of excellent good bread and two hundred Realls in Siluer and Gold besides two double Pistolls Sir Richard Halkins sent mee as a token of his loue The kindnesses of whom to bury in oblivion were in me the very shame of ingratitude I being then a lost man and hopelesse of life which argued in them a greater singularitie of kindnesse and compassion Yet I remember for all my lamenes and distraction I intreated Sir Richard Halkins to goe ashoare to the Governour and demand him for my Gold my eight Patents my Booke of Armes and his Maiesties Letters and Seales the which he willingly obeyed being accompanied with Captain Cave and Captaine Raymond but could obtaine nothing at all save blandements and leying excuses And now on the twelfth day of our lying in the Road our ship weighing her Anchors and hoysing her Sailes wee passed through the straits of Gibelterre fretum Herculeum for this was the furthest Land that Hercules could attayne vnto which made him erect a Pillar and indent thereon nilultra but when Charles the fift returned from that untoward voyage of Algier hee caused to bee set vp in the same place Plus vltra Here in this Channell I remarked a perpetuall current flowing from the Ocean to the Mediterrene Sea without any regresse which indeed is admirable the Mediterranean Seas being hembd in and environed with the mayne Continent of South Europe the North and North west coasts of Asia and the Northerne part of Affricke save onely the narrow

for what you Gulls Suspect After this their sequell answere being mortified and I set at liberty by a just favour of the Privy Councell my formalists durst never attempt any further dispute with me neither any passing countenance in our rancounters But what shall I say concerning my grievances Sed qui Patitur vincit Since there is no helpe or Redresse to bee had for wrongs past no neither alasse for any present in either meane or mighty falls for when the Starres of great states decline under the selfe-same constellation of my sorrowes and made the deplored for spectacles of the inconstancy of fortune what shall I then in a priuate life and publicke pilgrimage expect but the common calamity of this age and the irrevocable redresse of my miseries sustained for this Crowne and Kingdom of England which shall be presently cleared yet would to God I might do as Xerxes the Persian King did that when the Greekes had taken Sardis the Metropole of Lydia he commanded one of his servants to stand before him every day at dinner and cry aloud saying the Grecians have taken Sardis whereby he was never at quiet till it was recovered So would I oppressed I by mighty powers though not a King yet the faythfull subiect of a King cry dayly from the heart broken sorrow of my incompatible injuries O barbarous and inhumane Malaga when shall my soule be revenged on thy cruell murther and when shall mine eyes see thy mercilesse destruction but tush what dreame I now a dayes griefe can finde no reliefe far lesse compassion and meaner revenge and so farewell satisfaction when flattering feare dare challeng obsequiousnesse to the alteration of any thing But afterward when death Heavens fatal messenger and enemy to nature had darted King Iames of matchlesse memory who somtimes besides my soveraigne in some respects and for the former cause was a father to me then was I forcibly I say constrayned to preferre a bill of grievance to the upper house of Parliament Anno 1626. which I dayly followed 17. weekes well my grievances were heard and considered and thereupon an order granted me bearing the Lords reference pleasure concerning my suite vnto Sir Thomas Coventrey Lord keeper of Englands great Seale and through whose office my businesse should have passed which order was delivered unto him by Mr. Iames Maxwell Knight of the blacke Rod and one of his Majesties Bed chamber in behalfe of the Lords of the upper house the order thus being reserved then with the Lord Keeper for a moneth he appointed me to fetch him because of a Warrant to his State office the Certificats of Sir Walter Aston Sir Robert Maunsell and Sir Thomas Button to cleare my sufferings and the causes wherefore which I gladly obeyed and brought all their three Certificates unto him yea and Sir Walter Aston besides his hand writ spoke seriously face to face with him there anent Meane while the house breaking up abruptly because of soveraigne disliking their order for my suite could take none effect as then nor yet since in regard it was no Session of Parliament and so my order and relief lyeth suspended till some happy time But now to confound the calumnious and vituperious Papists the miscreant and miserable Atheists the Peevish and selfe opinionating Puritans the faithles misbeleeving Mungrells of true Religion and of this trueth And the very obiections have beene sayd sometimes in my face by irreligious and disdainfull Nullifidians who have said and thought that I could neither be so constant nor they so cruell I thinke it not amisse to set downe verbally one of their Certificates here being all o● one stile and to one purpose and thus it followeth To the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Coventry Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England c. MAy it please your Honour I have taken boldnesse to certifie your good Lordship of the trueth concerning the grievous sufferings of this heavily injured man William Lithgow true it is that this bearer being bound for Alexandria in Egypt having with him Letters of safe conduct under the Hand and Seale of his late Majesty King James of blessed memory rancountred with us and our Fleete at Malaga Whereof I was imployed as Vice-Admirall against the Pyrats of Algier where he repayring a Boord of us and frequenting our Company ashoore was presently after we had set Sayle apprehended by command of the Governor and Magistrates there as a Spie whom they suspected had of purpose beene left behind by our Generall and us of the Counsell of Warre for the Discovery of that place and other adjacent parts Whereupon being secretly imprisoned in the Governours Palace and after serious examination of our intention he was without any cause done or offered by him most uniustly put to the cruell Racke and tortures besides all other his vnspeakable miseries which for a long time he sustained thereafter whereof I was credibly and infallibly informed by Mr Richard Wilds to whom he was first discovered and by other English Factors of good note then resid●nt there In my repayring diverse times to the Roade of that towne with my Squadron of shippes during the time of his long imprisonment and after his deliverance And afterward the Governour there beeing better informed of our loyall proceedings in those parts and to colour their former cruelties and suspition had of us hee did wrest the Inquisition vpon him where being condemned to Death he had doubtlesse vndergone as I was likewise truely informed by the afore-said Merchants the finall Sentence of their Inquisition if it had not beene for the Religious care and speedy prevention of Sir Walter Aston then Leiger Ambassadour there By whose earnest mediation he being delivered and afterwards sent home by direction of Sir Robert Maunsell Generall I now commend his grieuous and lamentable cause vnto your Lordshipps tender and Religious Consideration Resting From Fulham this tenth of Iuly 1626. Your Lordships Command to serve You Thomas Button Knight and Vice-Admirall And now to conclude this Tragical discourse the Religious eye may perceive Gods compassionate love foure wayes here extended First his powerfull providence in my long and admirable preservation in Prison hunger Vermine and Tortures being my comfortlesse Companions Secondly the pittifull kindnes of his All●seeing Eye in the miraculous Wonder of my Discovery when the perverted policy of subtile Serpents had sceleratly suggested my concealement Thirdly his vnspeakable mercy in my vnlooked-for deliverance beeing by hopelesse me not thought nor sought and yet by his munificence was wrought And lastly his gracious goodnesse in the recovery after some large measure of my health and vse of my body againe all praise and glory be to his infinite Majesty therefore ANd finally merit beeing masked with the darkenesse of ingratitude and the morning Spring-tide of 1627 come I set face from Court for Scotland suiting my discontents with a pedestriall Progresse and my feete with the palludiat way where fixing mine eyes