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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

Run here and there alwhere and none know whether Our way we Know and yet unknown to other And whiles misknown to us before we di●e The hand and compasse that govern the Ruther Do often erre although the Pilots strive With Card and plot their reckonings sometimes fall Too narrow short too high too wide too small To descon this remark when they set land Some this some that do guesse this Hill that Cape For many houres their skill in suspence stand Tearming this sore that head-land points the Map Which when mistook this forg'd excuse goes cleer O such and such a land it first did peer In all which strife stress'd Sailers have the pain By drudging pulling hayling standing to it In cold and rain both dry a●d wet they strain Themselves to toil none else but they must do it We passengers behold with belching throats Only their taske atchiev'd in quivering Boats Then since but aire and water I perceive One's hot and moist the other moist and cold It 's earth that 's cold and dry I longing crave And fire that 's dry and hot I wishing would Then thundring Aeole from thy seven rigg'd Towres Soon wast us o're forth from these glassie Bowres My wish is come I set each bulging sail For pride begins to swell between two sheets She ticklish grows as wanton of her tail And lays her side close where the weather beats Both prone and puppe do answer so the Helme The Steersman sings no grief his joy can whelme By night our watch we set by day our sight And thirle our Sails if Pirats but appeare We rest resolv'd it 's force makes Cowards fight Though none more dare then they that have most feare It 's courage makes us rash and wisdome cold Yet wise men stout and stung grow Lion bold Now we look out for Land now we see Mal● That little famous Isle though sterrile soile Where we 'le some Bay or Creek seek to assault Whence Anchorage and saf●ty Ships recoile Now now let An●hor fall we 're in the Road Safely arriv'd by providence of God This done as time avouch'd I kindly bad My Consorts all adiew then came ashoare Where I such plenty of great favours had That scarce the like I ever found before These white cross'd Knights with their eight pointed crosses Imbrac'd my sight with it my toils and tosses So ends my Verse and so I 'le straight disclose The Isle the Folks their Manners in plain Prose The greatest cause of our Arrivall here was in regard of our fresh water that was spent and therefore constrayned to beare into this Isle Which was my sole desire wishing rather to Land here to see the Order of our Knights of Christendome then to arrive at Ragusa in the Adriaticke Gulfe where I had beene before Our Ancors being grounded and our Boate ready to court the shoare I ●ad farwell to all the Company and in ● singular respect to my generous Captaine who would have nothing for my victuals and trnasportation from Aegypt except a few relicts of Ierusalem The boat being launched and we landed in the haven I accoasted a vulgar Taverne and there lodged This City is divided in two the old and the new Malta from which the Isle taketh the name it is a large and populous place and strongly fortified with invincible walls and two impregnable Castles St. Hermes and St. Angelo S. Michaell being distant from both Heere the great Master or Prince for that yeare being a Spaniard made much of me for Ierusalems sake so did also a number of these gallant Knights to whom I was greatly obliged And withall to my great contentment I rancountred here with a countrey Gentleman of mine being a souldier there named William Douglas who afterward for his long good service at sea was solemnly Knighted made one of their order Whose fidele and manly services have beene since as plausibly regarded by the Maltazes as Monsieur Creichton his worth in learning excellent memory rest admired in Italy but especially by the noble Gonzagaes and dependant friends of the house of Mantua for whose losse accidentall death they still heavily bemoan acknowledging that the race of that princely stock by Gods Judgements was cut off because of his untimely death Malta was called Melita mentioned Acts 28. 1 2. where the Viper leaped on Pauls hand I saw also the Greeke wherein hee was shipwracked This Island may properly be termed the Fort of Christendome yet a barren place and of no great boundes for their cornes and Wines come daily by Barkes from Sicilia but it yeeldeth good store of Pomegranates Cittrons Cottons Orenges Lemmons Figges Mellons and other excellent fruits The Knights of Malta had their beginning at Acre in Palestina from thence to the Rhodes and now exposed to this rocky Isle They are pertinacious foes to Infidels for such is the oath of their order continually making war and incursions against them to their power being strengthned also with many souldiers and their Captaines are surnamed Knights of Malta and so through a great part of Christendome it is a most honourable Order They are not permitted to marry the most part of whom being younger brothers the reason was because not being intangled to wife and children they might bee the more resolute to adventure their lives in the Christian service but therein they were mightily decayed and their valour no way answerable to that it hath been when their ancestours lived in the Rhodes and holy Land having had these eighteene yeares past little or no good fortune at all This Isle was given in possession to these Knights of St. Iohn by the Emperour Charles the fifth and King of Spaine being newly expelled from the Rhodes by Solyman the magnificent Anno 1522. And afterward the Turke not contented therewith and mindfull all utterly to extermine their power came with a huge Armado and assailed Malta Anno 1565. when Valetta was great master who so couragiously withstood their fury that the Turkes were defeated and forced to returne This Island is ten leagues in length and three broad the earth whereof being three foote deepe is the cause why it is not so fertile as the clymat might afford It containeth besides the City forty seven Villages and nine Cassales the peasants or naturall Inhabitants whereof are of the Affrican complection tauny and Sun-burnt and their language semblable to the Barbarian-speech without any great difference both tongues being a corrupt Arrabick And not unlike therein to the Italians from the Latine or the vulgar Greeke from the ancient yet the moderne Greeke is nearer the ancient then the Italian is the Latine These rurall Maltezes are extreamely bent in all their actions either to good or evill wanting fortitude of minde and civill discretion they can not temper the violent humours of their passions but as the head strong-tide so their dispositions turne in the superfluous excesse of affections They follow the Roman Church though

another Atheisme What mutinies and malice are daily among your Monasteries each enuying an others priviledge anothers preferment anothers welth And y●ur order father by all the ot●er Monasticks is hated and vil●pended to death besides diversities of Doctrine between your professors and the Dominicans and hundreds of like disunities you have both in ceremony and order which now J suspend So J pray you father where your uniformity much lesse your universality and worst of all your antiquity Having thus concluded the fiery fac'd Jesuits with boisterous menacings left mee and the eight day thereafter being the last day of their Inquisition they returned againe in a more milder disposition where after divers arguments on both sides the two Jesuites with Teares distilling from their eyes solidly protested they were sorry from their heart for that terrible death J was to undergo and above all the loosing of my Soule And falling down on their knees cryed Convert convert O deare brother for our blessed Ladies sake convert To whom J replyed that neither death nor fire J feared for J was resolved for both yet thinking my selfe unworthy to suffer for Christ and the Gospels sake considering my vilenesse and my owne unworthinesse yet the spirit of God assureth my faith it is his divine pleasure it should be so that J must suffer Wherefore if J should divert trust mee not for J would but dissemble with you through feare flattery or force to shun present death Whereupon they called the Governour and after their privy consulting hee thus spoke Dear brother my greatest desire is to have thee a good Christian a Romane Catholike to which if thy conscience will yeeld I will shew thee as great curtesie as thou hast received cruelty for pitty it were that such an invincible spirit and endued with so many good parts should perish in both worlds forever Pluck up thy heart and let the love of our blessed Lady enter in thy soule Let not thy former sufferings dismay thee for thy ●ores being yet greene and curable I shall transport thee to a fine Chamber and there thou shalt haue all needfull things for the recouery of thy health and strength Thy money and Patents shall he refounded but thy hereticall Bookes are already burned And lastly sayde he I will send thee with my owne seruant to Court Counsell and King with letters from the holy inquisition and from mee faithfully promising thou shalst enioy a Pension of three hundred Duccats a yeare But hauing satisfied his bewitching policy with a Christian constancy they all three left me in a thundering rage vowing I should that night have the first seal of my long sorrowes And directing their course to the Bishop and Inquisitor for the Gouernour had wrested the inquisition vpon mee to free him of his former aspersion layde upon the English Fleet and my tryall therefore converting it all to matters of Religion the Inquisition I say sat forth with where first I was condemned to receiue that night eleuen strangling torments in my dungeon and then after Easter Holy dayes I should be transported priuatly to Grenada and thereabout midnight to be burnt body and bones into ashes and my ashes to be flung into the ayre Well that same night the Scriuan Sergeants and the young English Priest entered my melancholly staunce where the Priest in the English tongue vrging me all that he could though little it was he could doe and vnpreuailing I was disburdened of mine irons vnclothed to my skin set on my knees and held vp fast with their hands where instantly setting my teeth asunder with iron Cadges they filled my belly full of water euen gorgeing to my throate Then with a g●rter they bound fast my throat till the white of mine eye turned vpward and being laid on my side I was by two Sergeants tumbled too and fro seuen times through the roome euen til I was almost strangled This done they fastned a small cord about each one of my great toes and hoysing me therewith to the roofe of a high loft for the cords runne on two rings of iron fastned above they cut the garter and there I hung with my head downward in my tormented weight till all the gushing water dissolved This done I was let downe from the loft quite senslesse lying a long time cold dead among their hands whereof the Governour being informed came running vp stayres crying Is he dead O fie villans goe fetch me Wine which they powred in my mouth regayning thereby a slender sparke of breath These strangling torments ended and I reclothed and fast bolted againe they left mee lying on the cold floore praysing my God and singing of a Psalme The next morning the pittifull Turke visiting mee with bread and water brought me also secretly in his shirt-sleeve two handfull of Rasins and figges laying them on the floore amongs the crawling vermine for having no use of armes nor hands I was constrayned by hunger and impotency of time to licke one up with another with my tongue This charity of figs the slave did once every weeke or fortnight or else I had long ere then famished After which sorrowfull distresse and inhumane usage the eye-melting Turke taking displeasure fell five dayes sicke and bed fast but the house Spaniards understanding his disease made him beleeve I was a Divell a Sorcerer a Negromancer and a blasphemous miscreant against their Pope their Lady and their Church giving him such a distast that for thirty dayes he never durst looke me in the face being affraid of witchcraft All this time of his absence one Ellinor the Cooke an Indian Negro-woman attended mee for she being a Christian drudge h●d more liberty to visit mee than the slavish Infidell who certainly vnder God prolonged then my languishing life conveighing me for foure weekes space once a day some lesse or more nourishment and in her pocket a bottle glasse of Wine Being no wayes semblable to the soule betraying teares of her Crocodilean sexe which the Spanish proverb prettily avoucheth l●s mugeres engannan a los hombres dellas lastimandoles consus lagrimas fingidas dellas halagardoles con Palagras lesongeras to wit women deceived men some of them grieving them with their fayned teares and other fawning on them with flattering words But Kind Ellenor though black by nature borne Made bounty not her beauty to adorne Her new chang'd Pagan life though vail'd by night Of Romish shades to shine on mee more bright Then Sun scorch'd Aethiope beames Art-glancing spangles Or that Aegyptian Bird mans sight intangles With rarest colours for her loving sight Though black as pitch gave me transparent light Food and stolne-food though little yet enough The finer soile the ebber tilles the Plough Second with Wine a mutchkin thrice a weeke Pack'd in her pocket for it might not speake Thus Females have extreames and too we see Eyther too wicked or too good they be For being good no Creature can excell them And being bad