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 IVilliam Okclejf, O John Aathottjii 
 IFilliam Adams ^ \yjohn Jcphs, 
 Johft — • Carpenter, 
 From the Miferabic Slavery oi ALG I ERS^ 
 with the wonderful Means of their Efcape in 
 A Bi,it (./ Cinvas ; the; frcat Diilrcl'i.ai/d utmolt Ex- 
 tremities uhich thc'y endured at Sea for Six Djys arid 
 Nights; their late Arrival at y1/.i>or^: With IcveraJ 
 Matters of Rcniarqite during their long Captivity, 
 and tlicfnllowing Providences of God which brought 
 thcmf^feto ENG LAND. 
 
 By mc Wdlhtm Okclcy. 
 
 Blefs thf Lord, m; Soul, and fir^et nnt all hii Benefits, 
 yvho Redetmeth thy Life fiom DijirHilicn, whoCroveneth 
 thee with Loving Kindneft, and tender Mercies, Pfal. 
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 Upon this Book, and i^^' ^^ 
 its Author. %r- 
 
 THis Author never was In Print before, 
 And C'etthispleareornotJ will nevermore. 
 
 j If all the Prefs-OpprefTorsof the Age 
 
 p Would fo Refolve, 'twould Happinefs prcfage : 
 
 ,j He ftiould as foon another Voyage take, 
 
 3 As be Oblifi'd another Book to make, ' 
 
 ^ KhCanvaf Boat Efcaped Seas and Wind, 
 
 J He fears this Paper- Veficl will not find 
 Such gentle Gales, when every Reader haih 
 Pow'r with a puff to (ink the Writers Faith. 
 For who fo Prints a Book, goes off from/liore 
 TO hazard that which was his own before • 
 As one poor Pinnace Ovcr-match'd, that fight* 
 with an Armado, fo doth he who Writes • 
 i,^ „ ■ .(^i/'I^tgoc^'yMerchant.Ships; fee forth, 
 Laden with Richesofthcgrcateawoftht 
 W th CounceIs,Father5,Text-Men,SchooI-Men Mann'd i 
 With Sacred Cannon Mounted at each Hand ; 
 Arehard befer, and forc'd to make Defence 
 Againft Arra'd Atheifm, Pride, and Impudence. 
 Hew can this little Cock-Boat hope Efcape, 
 When Scripture Suffers Piracy and Rape / 
 A !?M . .<^^*'"'^'n the World Epitomiz'd, 
 And Mankind in Oftavo was Compriz.'dO 
 
 By Infidelity it felf lyes drown'd. 
 
 That ,W,/e/ with a Rod tlie Sea ftiould Cane, 
 
 And br t the Coward nreams into a Plain / 
 
 n7a 
 
 With 
 
Wfththc fam: Cane fTiouId broach a Flinr, and bring 
 Ont of irs Fierv Womb a flowing Spring : 
 That a <iry Hick alViRnM for Levi} flmc 
 Should Bu<!, and Blofcm, and R-pe Almonds bear , 
 That Sampfnn with the jaw-Bon-- of an Afs 
 C And Atheirts think Him One that lets if pars _ 
 Without a fcomnie^ OioiiM flay a Thoufand Men, 
 And being weary with the Slaughter; -then 
 The kind Jaw-Eonc, that was his Fduichion tirft. 
 Should tt.rn a Fiaggon.and allay hfsThirl}. 
 Thcfe Miraclcf, and all the Sarreo (tore 
 Which Kaith Hiould grj!;'. anl Piety adore. 
 Meet with Arrefts, Arraignir n- nnd a Doom 
 More hardi than Tales of Heathen Grccct, or Rome. 
 
 Yet O tiie Folly of Confounded Man / 
 
 Who cannot Truth believe, but Fables cao. 
 
 When Truth that cannot Lye, fhall be bcly d, 
 
 Its k-owV dcfy'd, and Wcaknefs Dcify'd : 
 
 When our Difeafcd Appetite fliall Lull 
 
 For Egylts Uek, or Giheon-i mou'Hy Crult » 
 
 Ephraim will feed on AOies, and difdam _ 
 
 The Mjnna Comfits, and the Candy d Ratn, 
 
 An Heaven-born Truth (like poor Mens Infants; may 
 
 For lack of God-Fathers, unchtilVned Itay, 
 
 And find no I'riea ; when every Itandcr by 
 
 Will be a GolTip to a Great Mans Lye. 
 
 O Miracle of Love/.God-Man wasfam 
 
 Each Miracle he wrought, to make it twain. 
 
 The Faa, and Faith too, elfe the Fatt m vaio.( 
 
 There isa Generation alive, 
 
 That Live on Lying Miracles, and thrive. 
 
 There is a Guild of Priclfs will undertake 
 
 To make that God who doth all Wonders make : 
 
 Can make Him, Bake Him, Break him. Eat Hm too. 
 
 And with a Thought can All again undo. 
 
 Had but feme Monk this Hinoty to Drefs, 
 
 He would have made the Iron-Teeth of th P.efs 
 
 Tt' rn 
 
 '; Turn Edge, and Grin, to chew the fluff and flilc; 
 ' Coinpar'd with which all's Cap in M.mdevile. 
 I Had thcfe Five Comrades bt;n pood Sons of Rome, 
 
 Norhinn Hu: Miracles had bio.iglr them home. 
 ; Okel; bad been infpircd •, Jcpht had ficn 
 ! An Apron dropt down from Heavens Virqin-Qncetl 
 ; To make a Sail; Curprnffr ftiould have pray'd 
 I Saint Jfcleph to --(ria him a: his Trade; 
 w Andrhcn V M -tn Hl.i in -lieCdlar find 
 ' TheKed.rH.S ?. pfn., a'iMo.' J to hisMind. 
 
 An Holy Sca-CaU in S: .''.-,•(■. .f oit, 
 ; Hadthenn)';f..V:\l,au • -lanc'd .tore the Boat: 
 
 Saint C/i .Vf/)?rwi-h a r.ieet Babe on's back. 
 
 Had flalKt '.'one tolavefrorr, Rockand Wrack: 
 ( Saint Nicholas f orin lu' *>hape. Old Nidi) 
 
 Had with a ftraw flecr'd the Boat Catholick. 
 I The Tortoife rakcn n.ipping in the Flood, 
 ,( Had firft faid Grace, and rhcii become the!; Food; 
 , Yea, and his Sacred Shell had been preftrr'd 
 
 To make fine Combs for WdgifnrtU Beard. 
 ; And 'vho can tell ("for now 'tis Thirty Years 
 ; Sincethis rtrange Expedition from Algiers,') 
 : What Ufc the Friarsof M.ijork^ have made 
 . Of the poor Skiff to raife their Legend-Trade? 
 
 : But, be it as it will; Euy,ornotBuy; 
 
 i This Book is Proteflanc, and hates a Lye. 
 ,_ The Reader fhall find in this Breviary 
 , AH Pater-Noflers, not one Ave Mary. 
 . 5f Gentleman and Chriftian may avail, 
 [! if Honour and Religion can bebail 
 ^ For this poor Pilgrims Truth and FaithfuInel^ 
 ji it tray w,th Leave and fafety pafs the Prcfs. 
 I ict him who fcorns to Read, or Reads to fcorn, 
 11 And thinksthisStorym^ght have beenforborn; 
 U Firft, buy the Cook, then five Security 
 y ?^?.,'?°.''"'''>' TneBook-Sellerandr 
 I VViil give l.im Bond, when he Returns to Land. 
 n Jo pay a Thoufand pounds into his Hand. 
 fi ' Me«n- 
 
 JJ 
 
-T^rai 
 
 Mean.T.h;if, this Narrative r.11 ptaitiafldTfuc} 
 Is worth a Six-pence to i Turk OTjen', 
 Buaoa ChriaL ( were the Story gone ) 
 The Preface is a Penny-worth ^'o"*: = . 
 The whole hath no Errata's or Mi»»kcJ, 
 SaTc what the Printer and the Poet makes. 
 
 To the following 
 
 NARRATIVE. 
 
 ■ 
 
 Courteoui Reader., 
 
 ID O readily agree with thee, that there is 
 no fort of Writings more lyable to abufe 
 than this of the Narrative : Lying much at 
 the Mercy of the Com^ofer to be Corrupted ; 
 and as much in danger to be mifimprovcd by the 
 Reader : The Reader therefore I am fure will de- 
 mand ([(^oaf SecHrity that he is not impofed upon in 
 theenf/iinj^ Relation-, and the Writer craves leave 
 too, to malnum a modejtjeahufte^ leit the Rea- 
 der fhould mifs the benefit that is defigned to him 
 in it : The ylnthor will engage, and pawn his 
 Credit wrro xvrcn^ the Narrative, and he would 
 take fome care alfo that the Reader may not ivron^ 
 hmfelf. 
 
 It is very true, that every Narrator is under a 
 
 ilrong Temptatiofi to Seafon his Difcourfc to the 
 
 ■ - A GHJla 
 
 ii 
 
The Preface. 
 CjiBo of the Time, not impofing a fcvcrc Law 
 upon himfcif, to Report what is true, but accom- 
 inodating his Story to the Liquorilh appetite of 
 others : I have obferved that/ywf AIe» are afha- 
 mcd to Recount nuan and humble Alatters ; if 
 they bring us any thing below Prodigy and Mi- 
 racle, if they fluff not their Farces with G organs, 
 Harfics , Centaures , and Enchanted JJlands , 
 they neither pleafethemfclves, nor hope to take 
 their Readers by the Heart-firings. Hence is it, 
 that we have fo many lean, barren Stories, lard- 
 ed with the Additamcnts of Fruitful Invention, as 
 if they had been Penn'd by the Pattern of Xeao- 
 phon's C)rw. Non ad Htftorij: fidem , fed ad 
 y:flt Imperii Exemplar : Not for Counter-panes 
 of Truth, but Counterfeits of Fancy : Thcy tell 
 US not what was really done, but what they would 
 have had done, if they might have had the Con- 
 trivance of the Scene, and Tragedy: They firft 
 form Idcea's of Ingeniom Romances in their own 
 Heads, and then obtrude them upon the World 
 for Htflorical Verities. 
 
 JuH: as our Hydrographers in the Delineating 
 of Countries, with one Wanton Extravagant Fro- 
 lick of their Graver can raife Mountains, where 
 Nature left us Galleys; and fink deep galley s,vj\\erc 
 God has llretch'd out a Champagn ; can create 
 Bays, and Creeks, where the Creator made firm 
 Land; and jut out ProMontories,andCapes,\vhcTe 
 there's nothing in Nature to anfwcr them ; and to 
 fill up Vacuities (out of pure good Husbandry. 
 
 that 
 
 The Preface. 
 that not an inch of Ground may be loli ) prcfcnt 
 us with fljmg Fijhes, Tritons, and Mermaids, 
 which fpcnd their hours inter PeClnicm c- Spc- 
 ciihor. ; and Icll Mare del zur (liould fiill be a 
 Dcfoi.ite Wiidernefs, have courtcoufly (lock'd 
 it with the Painters Wife's J flan d, and Terra In- 
 cofnita; at this rate are wedeait with, by this 
 kind of Men, who love to blowup Lank^Stones 
 into huge Bladders, and then put fomething in 
 thcin to make them Rattle to plcafe Children, and 
 yet thcy are but hUdders fldl, though fwelled 
 with thcTyn.pany, andU'ind-Cholick^ 
 
 There are aifo a fort of Stories, which,^^ the way 
 cfCoiirtefle,we mif-call Hifto>tes,ihit fcorn to give 
 us an Account of any thing but Dreadful, and tcr- 
 tible Buttles, and how one great Man above all 
 therelt, chopt olF y^r^^; and yJ.ms, and cut off 
 fome fheer by the veajh, and with his Trenchant 
 blade mowed down whole Files of Armed Ene- 
 mies; the Fields all this while running with 
 ftrcams of Blood, and purple Gore; and all this, 
 with as much confidence, and exadncfs in every 
 Minute Ctrcumftance , as if, like the Familiar 
 D<trr7on of Paracclfm, thcy had been inclofed in 
 the pommel of the Generals Sword ; or had ho- 
 ver d, hkp TiHory With her doubtful Wings, o\er 
 both the Armies, where they might fecurdy take 
 notes of all that was faid or done, in Shclton's 
 Brachygraphy : but from what Principles or In- 
 terefis thefe Warriours were ^chd; by what 
 Rules thcy proceeded, with what Cciaccls and 
 A 2 fntriqites. 
 
 d 
 
The Preface. 
 Jntrk""^ dcfigns were managed-^ and to what 
 ««•«/ all thcfc Policies fleered' xs as m^c\^bclcw 
 their Spirits as ^bove their Abilities, to .nform 
 
 "''to fccurc the Reader againft the fear of fuch 
 Entertainment in this Narrative, let him know, 
 that he fhall meet with nothing m FaB but what 
 IS precifcly true; what of wonderment he may 
 encounter, was of Gods own tvork.nig, not ot 
 Mans invent inr, let others make Tragedies to 
 cratifie the ^ookfeller, and cheat the fmple buyer ; 
 wc need not Peter Lilltcraps Efex-Serpem. nor 
 Livcwell Chapman's Greater Monftersto^QQxm- 
 dize our Title Page ; Go^s Works need .vc> foyi 
 tofct them off, the gicatcd beauty of Truth, is 
 its mkednefs, and Symmetry. 
 
 There is a vaft difference between the moft ela- 
 borate prodiitls oiArt, and the moft homely pieces 
 cf Nature ; for though the former w-jll needs 
 Ape l\^c latter, yet how pitifully docs /*;f/'««x'^ 
 in the imitation/ Look upon the fubtle point of 
 the Enefl Needle through a Mkrofcope, and you 
 will foon be fatisfied that Art is but a Dunce, tor 
 the Needle will appear as bknt, aud dull as a 
 Drum-flick.; but come and view one of Gods 
 Handy-works in the fame Glafs, T.G. The flt>iz 
 cf a V>ce, and you (hall fee it perpetually Acumi- 
 nated till it ends infomething, which the Eye mult 
 either confefs to be a Point, or Nothing : The 
 fame Difference we may obferve between thofe 
 Rmances, which *rc the Iffues oi flne wlh and 
 
 the 
 
 The Preface, 
 the feriom grave Contrivances of Divine Provi- 
 dence ; what clummz.'d things arc the Cajfandra's 
 to one of thofe pieces of proportion, to be fecn in 
 Cods Government of this lower World ! So that it 
 were unpardonable to ftrivc to Recommend the 
 wonderful Providences of God to the Genius of 
 this Age, by a Lye, or to talk, deceitfully fir htm ; 
 whatever therefore this Narrative is, yet its a 
 nailed Account of his own workings, and Gold 
 needs no gilding. 
 
 But now the Readers great danger lies in run- 
 ning over fome of Gods workj, and yet not feeing 
 God in his workj : Little Children, we fee, do 
 hugely plcafc chemfclves vj\i\\ the gilded Covers, 
 and Marbled Leaves of Books, but concern not 
 thcmfelves, what is within; and if they chance 
 to look a little overly u^on the forms and Jlutpes 
 of the Letters, yet underftand not the fubliMC 
 matter, that may be coucht in them : Now, to 
 divide the words from the meaning, is morally to 
 Annihilate them, and Co whilll they fee Letters, 
 and words ouely, they fee juH: Nothing : There 
 are a great many fuch ■mij^oyie^vni , fuch Old 
 Children in the World, that gaze upon the fur- 
 face of Gods Workj, but never are led by them to 
 admire the Wifdom, Power, Goodnefs, and Ho- 
 lme fs of God : They deal with the works of Pro- 
 vidence, juft as they do .with the worksrof Crea- 
 tion : God has engraven his own Name in Legi- 
 ble Charaders upon the Heavenly Bodies. The 
 Stars in their fingle beauties , their Combined 
 A 3 Aflcrifmsj 
 
The Preface, 
 ^[lerifms^ their Mutual ^fpefls, their Intricate, 
 yet Reoiiiir Motions^ fpcak their Author ^ nay, 
 upon the loweJl- Recreations, the Leifure-fports 
 of Nature, there is written, -Df/«/fc;>. But 
 now the common obfcrvcr, whofe thouj^hts arc 
 terminated by hu Eye, and /;// Eye with the vi- 
 fble Heavens, as 'tis bcfpangicd with glittering 
 things, called Planets , and htars, lofcth quite 
 i\\cumaindcfign, which is to condud and argue 
 our thoughts up to a firft Caufe ; for they were 
 not fo much out who crycd up the Mufck^ of the 
 Sphares to be fo Ravijliimr : and we fliould con- 
 fefs it, could we but hear them fing this Antheme, 
 Glory he to God on High. Can wc be fo Brutifh, 
 as once to imagine, thjtthc wife God, wbocre- 
 ates nothing little , nor for a little end, fhould 
 create fuc'i great, and gloria m Bodies only to be 
 the Objcds of Ignorant, and b'ind Amazement ? 
 Surely no ; but that by the contemplation of them, 
 we might be led into the Admiration of Him, 
 whofe Being, VVifdom, Power mufl needs be 
 ttifnitely Gloriow, when his very works are ex- 
 cellently fo: Here then will be the Readers dan- 
 ger, leit all his Spirits (hould evaporate in a con- 
 fufed Admiration, that ^ Bwr, a little, a Canvas 
 B2<»f fliould, like the Ark, convey fo many Per- 
 fons fo many Leagues fafe to flioar, whilit he mif- 
 ks the true intent, and meaning of it, to behold 
 a watchful Providence (as well as the Being of a 
 ■Deity,) over all Affairs. Now, that he may 
 not fplit upon this dangerous RQck.i but improve 
 
 the 
 
 The Preface. 
 the Narrative to his beft Advantage, I fhall fub' 
 miffively lay before him a few Dire(ftions. 
 
 I, Se[l. Learn from this Narrative to trtijl, 
 and in all thy ways to acknowledge God, who by 
 the moil contemptib/e means, can effedt the moji 
 conjiderable things. Created Beings,as they can- 
 not hCi beyond the Sphare of their j^llivity, fo 
 neither can they Operate further than the fuita- 
 hlenefs of their Jnflriimcnts will enable them; 
 it were ridiculous to attempt to cut down a For- 
 reft with aPen-k>tifc, or Lave the Ocean with a 
 fpoon ; but if the great God can make the didlcfl 
 tool to cm, can ferve himfclf of the moft unfit In- 
 firimcnts, and accomplifli the rr.ofl noble wcrkj 
 with the moit Wooden Engines, he will furcde- 
 ferve ourgreateft truji and confidence. As great 
 Princes are attended with a numerous train of Ser- 
 vants , more for State, than ab folate neceffity ; 
 fo God ufes fecond caufes, not becaufe he cannot 
 workjvithont them, but to teach us to admire his 
 ftrength, in their weak>iefs, his All-fHJfioency in 
 their infiijjicicncy. 
 
 The Grand Seignior had heard of the famous 
 Atchic vcmcnt of Cafi riots Scimitar, and was very 
 defirous to make an Experiment, whether its 
 excellency anfwercd the Report ; he fends for it, 
 proves it, it does no Execution ; he fends it back 
 with fcorn, and indignation, that lying Fame 
 fhould magnifie a forry Ammunition Sword fo far 
 above its merits , but Scanderbeg , before the 
 A 4 McfTen- 
 
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The Preface. 
 Mcflcngcrs Face, hews in pieces Helmets, Cor- 
 flcts; Go now (fays he) and tell your Maftcr, 
 though I /cut Ijim my Srvordy I Hid not f aid him my 
 ^rm; none Can work with Gods means, that has 
 not Gods ^rm: Hafi thou an Arm likj God? 
 Job 40, 9, Here then the Reader m.iy fee, (and 
 if he fees not, he forfeits his Eyes ) the fame God 
 vho in an Ark^of bulnijlies prcferved Mvfes.m'i 
 in another Ark faved Noah, in a fmall Canvas 
 Ski'ller ( which was our Ark, though in a leflTcr 
 "S'olumn) waft us over the Ocean, and bring us 
 all fafc to Land ; As God is fecn in the fmallcfi 
 Workj of Creation, (o in the fmalUfi Inflriimenis 
 of his Providence, The little Fly, or Ant, ex- 
 prcflcs Creative power, and Omnipotency in Mi- 
 niature, as well as the great, Cafllebearina Ele- 
 jihant : I have read fomewhcre of a Goldrmith 
 that made a Lcck^and Key, and Chain fo finall, 
 and fubtlc, that a Fly would draw them all about 
 a Table, and never be flailed ; furcly theSpe- 
 ditox would not prajdicate the iJren^th of the 
 foor Fly, but the skill of the Artifi. 
 
 Eft in teniiibits, & Pufdlis Reculis ■ 
 
 Latu Optimiq; Maxtmiq; Alaxima. Caz.. 
 
 Piit hilar. 
 The Glory of the Great wife King, 
 Shines greatly in the fmalleft thing. 
 
 Indeed our whole paflage was wonder ; fuppofe 
 we had met with one Night of Haz.y Weather , 
 
 we 
 
 r 
 
 The Preface. 
 we might have plycd back into the jaws of that 
 Deilruftion which we had fofar cfcapcd. Had 
 we met witho;;^ Sterm (and an ordinary f//^ of 
 wind had been a Storm to tu ) it had prefently 
 cvcr-fct usj but the fame God that commands 
 a caIn) for the Ha'cyon, commanded Halcyon 
 days and nights for us, till under the wings or his 
 gracious ca're he had liMicht his own pnrpofes of 
 Mercy, into per fell Deliverance. It was a won- 
 der too, that in our fix days Voyage, in the Me- 
 diterranean, the very High Road of Navi- 
 gation, both for honefl Men and Knaves, Mer- 
 chants and Pirates, we fhould not meet with cw^ 
 V(Jfel,Friend or Foe : Had we met with a Friend- 
 ly VciTcl, they had pityed us, taken us up, and 
 then the Power of God had not been fo fignalizcd 
 in our Prcfervation •, had we fallen in with an Ene- 
 my, we had immediately become a prey to their 
 Teeth, they had fwalloxved us up ejiiick., we had 
 made but one poor Aforfel to their greedy fto- 
 machs, and thereby defeated a work of God glo- 
 rioudy begun, and rob'd him of the Revenue of 
 his praifc. 
 
 If then they that go down to the Sea in Ships, fee 
 the rvorkj of the Lord,and his wonders in the deep, 
 Pfal. 107. 23,24. What Wonders , what AH- 
 racles of Providence have wefeen, and may others 
 fee in us , who went down to the feit, not in ajliipy 
 but in a Canoe, which for want of a better Nan-.e 
 we call a haatl Let the Reader therefore ad- 
 TfJireCodmihwe; and both of wwilfa the Pfal- 
 
 mift, 
 
 il 
 
The Preface. 
 ITltft. Pf^l- S6. 8. yimon^ft the gods there is none 
 Itl^Httto thee, Lordy neither are there any works 
 Uke thy works. 
 
 Hedcals iinrightcoiifly with God who mcafures 
 him by the frKalifiefs of the means that he ufcs, and 
 not by the ncatnefs of thofc eJfcCls he produces 
 by thofe means. And therefore, 
 
 Difcc a. Cymbida, ej lipjitis es ; cr Deo 
 J)apro ten.iibiu, O" p'ljillis Reculis, 
 Laudcm Optimofj; Maximocj-, A'faximam. 
 
 Gaz.. Pta hilar. 
 Let this our little SkifT thy Spirits raife, 
 To give to this great God , thy greated 
 
 Praife. 
 
 2. Sef}. Let the Reader improve this Relation 
 to Fortife his Faith agamfi the little Cavils of 
 Atheiflical Spirits, who lay out their illpliccdwit 
 in forgeing Objedlions againli: Hi'n th.it gave it. 
 There is a Creature famous in Prov. 6. ^» Utie 
 Mttterno impletus calcibiu petit Laltantem, that 
 bcin^ filled with the liberal Dug, iingrarefiilly 
 kicks bit Dam. Thus this fort of Men arc ambi- 
 tious to be accounted witty, in creating ki'ots and 
 difficulties in the Hillorical pafTages of Gods c;reat 
 Providences Recorded in Scripture, and particu- 
 larly in his Prefervation of Noah^ and his Family 
 in the j^'kj. But he that had fccn with w the watch- 
 ful eye of Cod fuper-intended, and the fieddy hand 
 cf God to hold a poor Canvas Boat, built without 
 
 Rcgu- 
 
 The Preface. 
 Regular proportion, ill Viduallcd, without An- 
 chor, Helm, Compafs, or Tackle, and there- 
 by prefcrve the Lives of five mconfidir.ibU Per- 
 fons, of no great ufc in the World, and after 
 fix days great extremity and diflrcfs, Land them 
 ail fafe, may cafily Credit the Report, how the 
 fjmc God iliould prefcrve ev^ht Per fans, upon 
 whofe Lives the re peopling of the whole World 
 did depend, maVeffelof moji exalt proportions, 
 ftron;^ built, and well laid in with ail n.anntr of 
 Provifions. He that can fee a Creator in the 
 works of Creation, and a Governi.r\n the workj 
 of Providence, miy rcufonably believe all Divtne 
 Revelations. 
 
 1, . SeEl. Let all that would not abufc this Nar- 
 rative bcwarc,lcit wbtift they are adn.ning Provi- 
 dence in this tnflance of our prefervation, they do 
 not ever -look, thofe eminent appearances of God to- 
 wards themfelves every moment , which, though 
 perhaps they carry not fu much of R.inty in them, 
 yet may have in them as much of real power, wif- 
 dom, a'idgoodncfs. We arc apt to deal with our 
 Alercics, jull as wcdowith our fins, where the 
 Commonnefs and frequency of either, abates and 
 takes off from the Obftrvationand Notice which 
 wc owe them ; we gaze, and wonder at Comet Sy 
 and their flaming beards, but feldom admire the 
 Sun, a far more glorious Body, bccaufc he rifcs 
 and fets every Morning and Evening upon the yfi 
 and the hnjuji : Doit thou admire God m our pre- 
 fervai ortt 
 
 » 
 
The Preface. 
 fnvAtion, learn to admire him »« '/^'civ;;: Art 
 thou furprized with wonder, that we were kept a 
 few days, when there was not half an tmh be- ^ 
 twcen us and Death ? ConfiJer, God has kept 
 thee many (iay J, and many years, and every mt- ■ 
 nmc ofthofc many days and years, when there was 
 hut a hairs breadth hciwccn thee and Death: 
 Doll thou then admire God prcferved us alive in i 
 a Fejfel if Cloath ? Admire that God that held- 
 eththy Soul in Life, and that in a more frail Vtf- 
 fel, a Feffcl cf Clay ; Doll thou liill wonder wc 
 we're not blown over with every b, eath of wind ? 
 /.amirc alfo that the Lamp of thy Life which thou 
 carrie(h« a paper Lanthorn, is not blown out h^ 
 every blaft of Sickncfs : But if thou wilt ftill won- 
 der how ftich a Boat fhould carry us f Then won- 
 der alfo how thy Food nonnjhes thee , how thy 
 Cloaths keep thee warm, how thy feep refre(hes 
 thee : There's not a moment in our Lives but is nl- 
 , led with re J Mtrach and Wonder. J will pratfe 
 thee (fays the Pfahnill, Pfal. 139. H-) fo^ f 
 nm fearfully and wonderfully made : Let US all 
 praifcGod, (ot we are fearfully, and wonder f idly 
 preferved. If Frefervation be but a Continued 
 Creation, how (hould WC adorc that FoW'er that 
 Created us once, but preferves US a'ways ! God 
 expcds that wc fliould equally magnifie his skill 
 In making us out of Nothi,.g, and fecuringus that 
 wcdrop not mto Nothing : and as much admire 
 hisgoodncfs, thsit VJC crumble t]ot , moulder not 
 into our duj}, asfhat we were aifirft formed out 
 cfduft. 4- Seil, 
 
 The Preface. 
 . 4. Sea. Let the Reader Learn from our SU- 
 \ very, to prize, tindmovovc his own Liberty. If 
 i wc fcrve not our Cod fmccrcly, and chearfully tn 
 ; plenty, he can fend us where we (hall fcrve our 
 \ Enemies in want. If wc glorific him not With .;.■''• 
 
 I Liberty, but turn it into Itcentioufnefs, he can r/.p 
 
 II Hs up clofe, where wc fhall learn loprr^e it hiy ' ■■ ■■. 
 : and wi(h we had improved it better. It arg^ic. 
 i great dif ingenuity and bafenefs in our Spirits that 
 \ we provoke our God to teach us the worth of 
 ! Mercies by the want of them : The Lord does not 
 
 I willingly aptl, nor grieve th: Children of men, 
 • I ,am. J . 3 3 . but wc provoke him to take his Rod 
 i into his hand, and lay itfmanly upon our backs, 
 i becaufc that Folly which is bound up in our hearts 
 \ willnotothcrwifc bylalhtoutofus. Thus God 
 \ thrcatnedhisPcopleofold, Z>f«r. :i8.48. B-r- 
 I caufe thou fervedft not the Lord thy Cod with joy- 
 1 fKlnefs and gladncfs of heart, for the abundance 
 !| of all things, therefore flialt thou ftrve thine Ene- 
 tr.ies, in hunger, thirjl, and n.;kcdiiefs, and tn the 
 want of all t'hnigs. Thus he taught Jiidah by the 
 Captivity ofBahylon,to prize the freedom of Cana- 
 an ; we might learn our Duty much cheaper from 
 Gods Word, but wc like Truants, Will not learn 
 itri5)«r<r,till.Godfendsus to Schotlmlhz Rodat 
 ourbackj. ■ 
 
 5 .Sen-. Let all Learn from hence, in what flate 
 foever the Providence of Cod jhull place them there- 
 with to be content : Perhaps thou art a Servant to 
 
The Preface. 
 a Chrijlian ; doft thou murmur ? It (hews, thou 
 little knowcll; what it is to be a Slave to an tr, vc- 
 riofu Turk. Thou Scrvcli: him that frr,ys w.th 
 thee, and fur fhee-, doll thou repine /" Cjod might 
 have made thee Serve one who would curfe t^iiid 
 torture thee, and make httle Provifion for thy Bo- 
 dy, and none at all for thy Soul : The ChriUian 
 Religion is furcly the n.ojl excellent Religion in 
 the World, bccaufc it iwlds theUallance jo even 
 between Supenotirs, diid Inferiours : It cnjoyns 
 the one to give the iiioft full Obedience, and yet 
 prohibits the other to cxerctfe Rt^^our. It is pe- 
 remptory for Duty-, and yet abhors T}ranf/y: 
 whoever has known Turl^jh Slavery, is obliged 
 to become a r.iore Loytil Suhjrll, a more Dutiful 
 Child, a more faithful Servant; and whoever 
 has not k>7own /f,is yet obliged to become all thcfe, 
 lefl: God make himkncivh, and whip out of him 
 that Rcfltjf fpirit of grumbling , and Difobedi- 
 cncewith the briars, andThurns of the Wilder- 
 nefs. 
 
 God comrr.anded all Maftcrs amongT; the Jews 
 to allow their Servants a day of Refl, Oeut. 5.14. 
 and he gives this Reafon for it, RciKerrber that 
 thou xvttji a Servant in the Land of E^ypt. The 
 Equity of which Reafon holds ftrongcr for the 
 Chrillian : Remember thou waft a Servant to the 
 wor/l cf A^f afters, a Drudge <« the bafeftofwrkf, 
 and lyable to receive the worfl if wa^es : Has 
 Chriit fct thee free ? And art tihou become a Ser- 
 vant to the bcjl cf Afaflcrs? Employed in the 
 
 moll 
 
 I The Preface. 
 
 I mofl reafonable, and honourable Servicer ? And / 
 
 p, in expc<flation of the r^oft dorioiu Rewardi .<' Let 
 
 1 it teach thee if thou becll "a Af after, to com;nar,d 
 
 ; 1 gently; and if a Servant, to Obey chearfuliy. 
 
 i 6. SeQ. Let all Learn to watz^worthy vf the 
 A Ciofpcl. \X.\s\\\il\^\\\<:\\ (weetens allourrr.ercies, 
 : ! and mitigates the bttternefs of all j6ftiill:ons ; and 
 ; I if we fin away that, we cither fin away all tie 
 i'j reft, or whatever is itfefal, and dtfrable in all the 
 '] reft. \i ■wc cn)oy the Li <^ht , and yet walk <>« 
 1 darkncfs, it's righteous with God, to over-fprcad 
 t\ our Habitations with Egyptian, or li.ibylonipj 
 I Turkifl), or Poptfti darksiefs. God can carry us 
 |,| to Rome, or Meters; or clfe fend Rome, and 
 ;] A'giers home to us .■ For what fliould a People do 
 '■ with//';/;;, that onely intend to play, or fight hy 
 it .' The once Famous Churches of Jfia, are now 
 fwallowcd np by the Otion.an Smrd, and the 
 Aiahtimedan unbelicj • and thofc fometimes Fa- 
 mous Cities, Carthage, and Htppo^ which kncw 
 ,^1 thofe burning and fhining Lights, Cyprian, and. 
 ^Hgiiftine, are now poflcit with Moors, and de- 
 filed with the Abominations of \\\care«teft Jr.-.^o- 
 y?<?rthatcvcrfcduccd the Nations, hatOne. And 
 thinkeft thou, A/an, O Chriflian, that do' ft 
 thefe things, fo Alenfrom the Gofpcl of Chri i , 
 that art drunk in the day. and curfeft that God 
 Whom thou Worfhippcih that thou ftmlt tfcape 
 the Judgment cf God? I tell thcc, nay; -and I 
 tell all thofc that read thcfc lines, and arc guilty; 
 
 and 
 
 filed 
 
 .M^ 
 
^>t 
 
 r 
 
 The Preface. j 
 
 ThcLofd Jcfus Chrift, in his Ep.ftlc to the . 
 Churchof£p'.M givcshcrthisMcmoruU^... 
 2 <. Rer.cmbcr therefore from whence thou an 
 fallen, and Refe.t, a.d do thy firfl ^orh.orelfe 
 J ^m come umo thee cj^akly, andremove thy Can- 
 dUflUKont cf tts fUce, except thou Repent : But 
 Ehefl would none of h. Counfd, none oi h^ 
 ciJion; and Chrift was as good as his word he 
 put out her Candle, znAremavedher C^ndlefttcK, 
 1 have often wondred, what (hould be the grounds 
 of their confidence, whofpcak as if the Cofpel 
 were entailed iipon £ngla„d,hy vertuc oijowe An- 
 cient Charter; as if God would make us f.vc.p- 
 tionsfrom his General Rule, which iS totake away 
 ahifd, defpifedmeans, andmercus,^nd^vcn^u.l 
 owi muchof .cr.^g.n-.. .« o.r cafe-^ y^t.lctUS 
 Re]oyce wabtrer^hng, \c'\ when Prophanene s, 
 and Debauchery dogReligion fo clofe at the heels, 
 fhe five not thither, where (he may find better 
 Quarter : It has made great ImprcfTion upon me 
 when I read the Divine Herbert , in his Church 
 Militant ; 
 
 ' " Rcligionftands on Tip-toe in our Land, 
 "•Ready to pafsto the American Strand; 
 When height of Malice , and Prodigious 
 
 . Impudent finning iWitchcrafts,andDiftruIls, 
 ;ij>. The 
 
 The Preface. 
 ( The Marks of future bane ) fhall fill our 
 
 Cup 
 Unto the Brim, and make our Meafure 
 
 up, &c. 
 
 7. ScCi. Let it be every Mans care to he 
 found in Gods way : The Promtfe of Proted^iorJ 
 is annext to Gods way, Pfal. 91. 1 1. Be jhall 
 give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in 
 all thy ways : And tlic Blcfling of God is annexe 
 to his own way too, Pfal. 128. i. Blejfed is 
 every one that feareth God, and walketh in hts 
 ways. When we are over-taken with the evil 
 of Affltilion, let the firft: Queftion we propound 
 to our felves be this. Am I not in the way of 
 Tranfgreffion? Did this c anger f\n(i me in my 
 Duty f Was I in Gods High-way, or in fomc 
 by path of my own ? Was I doing his wo>\ ? 
 Serving bis Glory f If we obfcrve not the way 
 of his Precepts, I know no Reafon we fhould 
 plead the promtfe of his Protedion. There are 
 two things upon which I look upon it as my 
 great Duty to Reflc(ft ; firfl, whether we were 
 $n the way of Gods Precepts when wc fell into 
 our Enemies Hands / Secondly, whether we 
 ■were in the way of Gods Promife when wc efca- 
 ped out of their Hands ? For the former, I am 
 abundantly fatisfied, that we were m the way of 
 our Duty ; for we were fent out by Commillion 
 from the Right Honourable, Robert, Earl of 
 Warwick,, the Lord 5<»;i, and the Lord ^rac^, 
 B who 
 
 a 
 
 .jj 
 
^'J 
 
 The Prepce. 
 who by Patent from His Majcfly King Charlet 
 the Firll, were Governors of the Ifle of Provi- 
 deticcy whither we were bound : For the latter. 
 If the more fevcrc Reader (liall make it a QncAi- 
 on, Whether wc coiildin Faith expeli Protdiion 
 tn an j^dvciiturc vifibly fo rap^ and prtccipitoiu} 
 And Hiall determine itagainft us, that we tempted 
 Cod by cafting our fclvcs upon extraordinary 
 protcClion, cxpeding deliverance without war- 
 rant, in a way little on this fde Miracle: Ifhall 
 firJt fay, Let him fhun that Rock, in his own con- 
 vcrfation, upon which he fuppofes tu to have 
 d.ipt : Let our Ship-wrack be a Buoy to warn 
 him of the like prcfur/jption^ and let him learn 
 more W'fdor.t, at our Cofl and Charges. I (hall 
 further fay, let him not difcover greater rafhnefs 
 in Cenfuring our Adventurc,than he charges upon 
 our yidventure^ but modcfily ccnfider hirifelf, 
 Irfi he alfo be to-ptcd ; and if wc were guilty of 
 folly, he may thus gain wifdom by our folly : 
 But I fh-11 add, Extremity of Ahfery is none 
 of thebefiCounfcllers; let him put himfelf un- 
 der our Circumlknccs, and if CowaVdife did 
 not hinder him from making our Attempt, I am 
 confident Co;-/c»>?;cf would not: Our Lives were 
 bitter to us by Reafon of cruel Bondage, and 
 (though mine was at that time much mitigated) 
 yet there is a fccret A^agnetifme in a Native 
 Soil, with which our Hearts being once flron^ y 
 toucht, could never admit of the leafl variation, 
 but ffill pointed dircdly Homewards ; and fuch 
 
 I The Preface. 
 
 \ a Land too, ^swisUkc GoJJjen.aU Li^ht,\vhc:i 
 n the Land of our Captivity was //^f £<;3^;^ both 
 d (or Slavery, and Dark;nfs, that lAtboth be 
 I ! Jell ; and wc thoui^ht it below Men, Un the love 
 -J r/ Lijc, to \ok (be Keajiinj of our Ltvo, ht > 
 
 f ^11 may have 
 
 : Qfthey dare try)x Glorious Life, or Crave, 
 
 ■ Herb.Ch. Porch. 
 
 ' In a word, though Succefs will not warrant 
 an evil Mlton. ycr there's much of Jiijlifcatt- 
 
 , ; on in it, on the behalf of thofe which arc not fo ; 
 
 ' nor did wc tempt God to work Miracles, but 
 trnfledhim to afford US fpccial protection: But 
 
 ,, if this will not fatisfic, let none imitate us where-- 
 
 '. in we failed, but rather admire Divine Conde- 
 
 il fcenfion, that engaged in our Deliverance, r.at- 
 
 I withftandtng our failing. 
 
 '! 8. SeU:. Let all that Read this Narrative be 
 ■' Intruded never to promtfe thc»^felvcs <?reat mat- 
 ^ tersfrom Men : I have obfcrvcd it in" the whale 
 \ Coitrfe of our Captivity, and conitant Tenour of 
 j: thofe gracious Providences which brought us 
 I thence, and the Scries of Mercy, Wifdom, and 
 I Power, that was our Convoy Home, that we 
 I ever found /»<?/? of Favour from God when we 
 \ expcaed leafifrom Men : and the ieafi of kind- 
 ; nefs from thofe where wc might, or thought we, 
 , j might in Reafon have prom'ifed our feives mojL 
 i B i When 
 
 n 
 
 'i 
 
 ..JJ 
 
The Preface. 
 When we met with itnexfeaed Friend^nf, GoA 
 would teach us to own H,mfelf. V Vhen wc 
 mci\v\i\id,f-^ffointmnt, God would teach us 
 the folly of IdoUung the Creature : I have fcri- 
 oufly admired the Compaflion and Relief wc 
 found at Mayoyk., and yet wc knew them to be 
 Romamfls, and they knew US to be ?rotefia>ns, 
 and how little rcfpcd we found from/cwf ot our 
 own Countrcy, at Meant, Cadiz., and St. Lti- 
 c.irj, and yet we were tycd together in the (tridt- 
 eft triple bonds of Vn Dieii, Vn Roy, VnLey, 
 0)ic God, One Kin?, One Law : But God \yas 
 fceninboth. I could Relate a Paflage during 
 our Captivity in Jlt^ten, that had more of bit- 
 tcrncfs in it, than in all cur Slavery; and yet 
 t\\cy wcic Chtifttans, not Jl^crines; ?rote- 
 flants, not?aptfis; Engltjhmen, not Strany^crj, 
 that were the caufe of it : But I have put a force 
 upon my felf, and am refolved not to publifh it. 
 In our Return homewards, we met withfomc 
 who would calk to the grief of thofe whom God 
 had\voiinded;znd was now in 4 rvay to heal again 
 Some would Jnterpretatively (ay, with the Churl- 
 i{h Nabal, I Sam. 25.10. Who are thefe ? 
 And whence come they ? There are many Ser- 
 vants now adays that break away. every one from 
 hu Mafter. But then was the feafon when we 
 had moft Experience of Gods Faithfulnefs : And I 
 fliall never ccafc to own before the world the 
 . great Refpeft we found from fome Engli^} Mer- 
 ^ chants, to whom we were perfect Strangers; and 
 
 The Preface. 
 the Civiliiics of Captain Coodfun,Ca^ta\n Smithy 
 \iiT, Mate, and his Son, are not to be forgot- 
 ten. 
 
 Perhaps , after all this, the Reader will be 
 earneft to be fatisficd, why this Narrative has 
 lien fo long Dormant, and appeared no fooner 
 in the World? And I fhall herein alfo endeavour to 
 give him all Reafonable SatPsfaUton. 
 
 1. When we return'd into England, we 
 found our Native Countrcy embroy led in a moH 
 dreadful Civil War, and moft Men had enough 
 to do, to bear their own Perfonal Calamities, 
 and had little need to be troubled with the mifs- 
 ries of others ; they were other kind of Decla- 
 rations that flew abroad then, and that was c- 
 nough to fupcr fede a Narrative of this Natnre, 
 for fome Years. 
 
 2. Hhz great mercies of Cod\iavz not always 
 their ^«f Wf/V/;: upon our hearts at firfi; and I 
 have received fignal Deliverances from eminent 
 dangers fincc 'that great one ; and it's well if all 
 the mercies of our Lives , all our Deliverances 
 p/it^together, will amount to an Argument ftrong 
 enough to overcome our backwardnefs to make 
 pitbltek^ack/'owledgments. 
 
 3 . 1 thought a long while that it was not worth 
 the while, to trouble the World with my par- 
 ticular concerns, till the Importunity of /jwr^/ 
 Minifters, and others, both in City and Coun- 
 trcy, overcame my reluftancy, in whofe Rea- 
 fonsldidacquicfcc. 
 
 Bj 4.1 
 
The rrcf.ice. 
 
 4. Ivas confcious to my fclf of great unfit- 
 vc[s to recommend it to publick view, in fuch 
 a garb as might vindicate it from Connn-.p \ for 
 though it has been drawn out many Years im^ 
 Ti-y own hand, and many have had the pernj^iloi 
 it, h2\'C approved It, and de fired it. ; yet till I 
 could prevail with a Friend to teach it to fpe.ik^ a 
 little better En^Ujli, I could not be pcrfwadcd to 
 \ct[twalk.abrcad: The Stujf andnmur is my 
 own, t\\<:Trinirr)in7 and Form w another s, for 
 whom I muft vouch, that he has done the Truth, 
 piy felf, 'Wd the Reader, jitflice, ■ 
 
 Having overcome all thefc difficulties, I do 
 here EriU ny Ebcncur, as ^i (rr.idl MoniP'tcnt 
 of q^rcat Mercy, and us an Obligation upon my 
 ,Soul to gre.n Duty, and do pray that it may 
 lland as an AouUu^r n-itiiefs for God in rriy Ccn- 
 fcicr.cc ; that when ever lam tempted to fin, I 
 may have an Anfwer ready to flop the mouth of 
 the Tempter with Indignation : How cm I do 
 this Z_reat evi', and Jin ,!gainjl my good God} 
 When I am tempted to diftruft, I may encou- 
 rage my Faith -from my own Narrative, fayi-ig, 
 Remenibcr that God who delivered thee at the Sea: 
 when I am tempted to murmur, I may fupprefs 
 thofe mutinous thoughts from my own Narra- 
 tive, faying, Remember what that enduredfl in 
 Algiers. When my Heart grows cold, and 
 unthankful , I may chide , and fhame it, from 
 my own Narrative, into gratitude to God^ That 
 God, Vfho rfmcmf>rtd tu tn oftr Ivvf EJfate ; for 
 
 r 
 
 The Preface, 
 hii mercy cnditreth for ever! who prefcrved us 
 it the Sea, the Great Sea; for his mercy eudu' 
 reth for ever ! and fecured us in a Boat, a Con- 
 tempt tble Boat, for his mercy enditrethfor ever I 
 who gave us favour in the Eyes of Strangers , 
 for hts mercy endureth for ever ! and opened to 
 US the hearts of Enemies ; for his mercy endureth 
 for ever ! and taught us to look up to his never 
 failing Mercy, when Friends fatted, for his mer' 
 cy endureth for ever ! who returned us fafe to 
 England, for his mercy endureth for ever I WC 
 called upon him tn the day of our Trouble^ hs 
 delivered tu, and we willglorife him. 
 ^ Reader, this Narrative is true, pcrufc it fc- 
 rioufly, and let not Vanity tempt thee to fay, 
 Things might have been better contrived, wife- 
 Her managed; it was God that did what was 
 Good in All; call not his wifdom in Queftion, 
 bccaufehe did not create more wonders tograti- 
 fic thy itching Humour ; perhaps thou wouldfl 
 have had us been brought over upon * Floating 
 Jfland, or in a Whales Belly, but I do not under- 
 ftand that the great God is bound to work Mi- 
 racles to fave mens longings : God has done his 
 work well, and none can mend it ; for, what 
 can the man do that comes after the King ? Eccl. 
 2. 12. For the matter of FaH Recorded herein, 
 I might fafely call God to Record upon my Soul 
 that I lye not : The thing is known to many, and 
 has been fiftcd , and fcann'd by fuch Eyes and 
 Ears as are not guilty of eafie Credulity; I have 
 B 4 Evi- 
 
 a 
 
The Preface. 
 Evidence that may ftorm the moll obftinatc un- 
 belief: Mr, Thomas Saunders, my Wife's Bro- 
 ther, being in Alayorl^not long after we came 
 from thence, faw our Boat hang up/^r a Mo.ik. 
 went upon the fide of the great Church there. 
 Mr. Robert Hales, who was there 1671. aflurcs 
 me he faw the naked Ribs and Skeleton of ir th-n 
 hanging in the fame place : Now, I afTure thcc, 
 Reader, I ihouldbe much afhamed of my fcif, 
 if Strangers unconcerned in my P^rfonal Deli- 
 verances, fliould be ftifar concerned as to prq- 
 fervc a Memorial of them, and yet itnihankfnl 
 I Hiouid Erecft no Standard or Pillar as an Evi- 
 dence of Gods wonderful appearing for me. 
 
 It's true, I am informed by one, that fome 
 affirm, there are more Boats hanging up in 
 Jllayork, in Memory of forr.efuch like efcape : 
 Now, if others have rf<?//yf/c(j/;f^ the fame dan- 
 ger, by the fame means, it greatly confirms our 
 Narrative ; and I do hcartily"rejoycc, that Pro- 
 vidence has appeared in the fame A-icthod for 
 others, as for our felves : we never intended to 
 Monopolize Gods Providences to our fole itfe o- 
 behoof; and we rcjoyce if our Attempt and Suc- 
 cefs may have encouraged others to make the 
 like atter,ipt, and have found the hkefuccefs ; but 
 I do aflert it with great confidence, that when 
 %ve were in Afayork, there was no fuch Boat 
 hanging up, but the Inhabitants there <«/rrr<?»wf<i 
 our Deliverance as fuch whereof they had no 
 fara/ht : But if on the oth^r fide , thefe , or 
 
 fome 
 
 The Preface. 
 fome of thdc fucceeding Boats were but Tr>:po- 
 Jliire, then the gooJncfs of God appears >7:ore 
 rcma/Kabte towards us, that we really were the 
 Subje(f^s of fuch wonder, which others durft 
 onely pretend to ; and it fcts a lul^c upon this 
 great Sa.vation, which others have thought /o 
 confdtrabh, that they judged it worth the while 
 to tell a lye to entitle thcmfelves to the Credit of 
 it; {ot it's Cold and Silver, not Copper, or bafer 
 Metals,i\\^i they who drive the Coyning Trade, 
 ftrive to Counterfeit. 
 
 Let then every one that Reads , underftandy 
 and ferioufly fit down, and confider with him- 
 felf, whether he has not had many eminent Per- 
 ' fonal Deliverances in one kind or other, which 
 this Marvellous Providence of God towards us 
 may not rcfrefh his memory withal ; and if he 
 fhail hence be taught to blufh at his forgctfuincfs 
 of lapfed Mercies ; if this Narrative lliali recover 
 any loft Providences, and fix them on, and rivet 
 into his Soul ; if he (hall find himfclf awakened 
 toduethankfulnefsto God for all his benefits to- 
 wards him ; let him joyn with me in afcribing all 
 the Power, and therefore all the Glory, to the 
 Alniighty, and let him kindly Accept the Afli- 
 ftanceof him, who fliall reckon it amongft his 
 other Mercies,* to have teen Serviceable to any 
 one in Reviving a better frame of Heart. I 
 am, 
 
 ■ . Reader, 
 
 Thy Friend and Servant, 
 
 W. Okcley. 
 
 a 
 
A SMALL 
 
 MONUMENT 
 
 OF GREAT 
 
 : ME^CT 
 
 sEcr. I. 
 
 J Brief JcroH/it ofthofe rrovidcncej 
 
 which led torpurds our Captivity 
 
 in Algiers. 
 
 TH I S Narrative would be too Uappy 
 if it fhould not meet with fonlc hajiy 
 undimfatient Spirits, that grudge the 
 time that's fpent in Preface and Introdftitioni 
 and fuch as thefe, are wild to come at the Story 
 f the Boat ; all the reft is but one great tedious 
 ^pertinency, they'lc not give a Figg for all the 
 * Other. 
 
 '/ 
 
a A Small Moimment 
 
 other. 1 fhall make never the more hafT: for un- 
 reafonablc Importunity j but the Remedy is in 
 their own hands, they may turn over a few 
 leaves, and meet with it in it's proper place, if 
 they fit upon Thorns. But to the more judici- 
 ous and conrideratc,it will be acceptable to know 
 \\OVf our Foot Wds taken in the Snare, as well as 
 how the Snare was broks", ^ndwe delivered. 
 
 In the Moncth oi Jitne, in the Year of Our 
 Lord One Thoufand, Six Hundred Thirty and 
 Nine, in purfuance of a Commiflion from the 
 Right Honourable, the Earl of Wamick.-, the 
 Lord Say, and the Lord Brook^. we took Ship 
 at Grave fend, in the Mary of London, carry- 
 ing fix Guns, Mr. Boarder being Mailer, and 
 James Walker the Mafters Mate ; the Ship was 
 chiefly Laden with Linncn and Woollen Cloath, 
 having in her. Seamen and PaiTengers, above 
 fixty, bound for the Ific of Provtdcnce in the 
 Weft- Indies. Five wcek,s we lay in the Downs, 
 whhing, and waiting for a Wind, and then we 
 fet Sail, and came to an Anchor near the Ijle of 
 m^ht ; but by this time all our Beer in the Ship 
 ftunk,and we were forced to throw it over board, 
 and to take in Vinegar to mix with Water tor 
 our Voyage. The next Lords Day we fet Sail 
 again, and coming between the Wand and the 
 Main Land, we ftuck faft in the Sands, but the 
 Tide coming in, hove us off. Thele Circum- 
 ftances fecm very inconfiderable to thofc that 
 were no: concerned in the Products of them; 
 
 but 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 3 
 
 but God has given us the Advantage and Icifure 
 to fee what^rr., thsn^s were in the Womb ot 
 thefe little tLgs. Had the Wmd flood /.^j^.r 
 againllus, it had been r..r./.r ;«, and the dan- 
 ger had been faft ; had it ftood lefs Me againll 
 us, it had been^r h* too, and we had been 
 oone pa[i the danger : But God appoints it the 
 Moment when it Oiould come about to blow us 
 into the Mouths of our Enemies : We fee the 
 Truth of that, Te know not what to pray for : 
 We prayed for a Wind, and we h^d a Whirl- 
 wind: If we always knew what mifchicf the 
 Anfwerof our Prayers would do us, we ihould 
 be glad to eat our words, and pray againft our 
 Prayers. Denyal is often the bcft Aniwcr, and 
 we had need leave all Petitions to the wifdom ot 
 God to be Interpreted , according to his good 
 pleafure, and returned as they may be good tor 
 us, and make moft for his own Glory : wc 
 werealfo taught, that the Sea may fometimcs 
 be our beft Friend, and the Earth our worit L- 
 ncmy ; and that nothing can do lu good ox hurt 
 bntby the Dncihonand CoMWiJfion of the JlL- 
 
 mfhty. ■ " ^„j 
 
 We were now thee- Ships in Company, ana 
 one of the other I remember carried Nine Guns, 
 Mr. Church, Mailer. The fixth day after our 
 fettingSail fromthl J Jle of Wight, hyhrc^koi 
 Day in the Morning, we difcovcred three Ships 
 about three or four Leagues to Lee-ward : The 
 Maftcrsof onr §hips prefcrtly confuitcd, what 
 
 1\ 
 
if. A Small Aioni'.mcnt 
 
 was mod advifeablc ; whether to itay and fpcak 
 with them, or to make the belt of our way ; 
 atlall ( upon what Rcafons I know not ) it was 
 determined that wc fliould ftay : It was not long 
 before wc Difcovcred thofc other three Ships to 
 be Turks Men of War, who cfpying their prey, 
 endeavoured to come up with us, which about 
 Night they efTcded : Whilll they were com- 
 ing up, the Mafters of our Ships fecmcd rcfolv- 
 cd to Fight them, and accordingly made prepa- 
 ration to receive them; but in the Night, the 
 Mafter and Company of the Ship wherein I was, 
 altered their Counfcis, let their Kcfolutions uyf, 
 and agreed to run for it; uncertain Ci.tiij '■Is ne- 
 ver prodnce better fuccefs ; when we might h?.vc 
 gone, then wc would //^^; and when there was 
 jio way to efcape, then we mull needs -itter^pr it : 
 Had we either at firft refolvcd ?iot to fi^ht them, 
 or refolving to Fight, h^d p)afeauc/'c::r Rcfo- 
 lutions like men of Courage, wc might, per- 
 haps, cither have av^ydcd th: duu<rcr^ or h, avc- 
 ly Mitfier'd it. The Turks perceiving us be- 
 gin to run, fcntonc of their Number to Chafe 
 us, whilit their other two attended the remain- 
 ing two of our Company till the Morning. At 
 break of Day they began to Fight us, and after 
 a fhort Difpute Boarded us,and took us all three: 
 In the Mary, fix were flain,and many wounded ; 
 fo final! was the difference between Flight and 
 Fight ; but that the Death and Wounds of tbofe 
 that Jlye ,_ arc difhonourabic j but of them 
 
 tbM 
 
 Of Great Mercy. g 
 
 that Fight, beautiful, and Glorious. _ 
 
 Many weeks they kept us clofc Prifoners at 
 Sea; wefoundmany £«<;/'y?^»'"« in their Ships, 
 Slaves, like our felves, from whom we had no 
 other Comfort, but the Condoling of each o- 
 thcrs Mifcrics, and that from them wc learnt 
 a fmattering of the Common Language, which 
 would be of fomc ufc to us when we (hould 
 come to Algiers, whither ,after five or fix weeks, 
 wc were brought. 
 
 % 
 
.T' 
 
 I 
 
 A StriAll Monnnttnt 
 
 SECT. II. 
 
 T/jf Dcfcriptioij of Algiers , with their 
 Alaftncr of Buying , and Selling 
 Slaves. 
 
 ALgitr Is a City very pleafantly Scituatcd 
 on the fide of the Hills, over-looking the 
 Mediterranean, which lyes North of it ^ and it 
 lifts up it's proud Head fo Impcrioufly, as if it 
 Challenged a Sovereignty over thofe Seas, and 
 cxpc<fted Tribute from all that fhall look within 
 the Streights. It lyes in the -i^oih. Degree of 
 Longitude, and hath foinewhar Icfs than 35 
 Degrees of North Latitude : The City is con- 
 fidcrably large , the Walls being above three 
 miles in Compafs , beautified and ilrcngthncd 
 with five Gates : Tort-A4ari>ie tov/ards the 
 North, and Vvn Ptfcadorc not far from thence, 
 and PorU Nova towards the South ; built, as 
 they Report, by the Spaniard^ whilft itwasin 
 their PofTcfllon: The Weil: Gate, which they 
 call Bnbawite, and the Eaftcrn Gate, which in 
 their Tongue is called Bub.iz.oon : They have 
 alfo fcveral ftrong Caftlcs befides that upon the 
 pointof the Mole, fothat the Town is judged 
 impregnable. The City is Built vcryftately, 
 antl yet more ftrong than (lately j and more 
 Famous 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 7 
 
 Famous than ftrong, but not more Famous for 
 any thing than for infamy, being the Retreat, the 
 Nell of thofe Tmkjjli Corfairs, which have long 
 Tyrannized in, and been a Terror to the Neigh- 
 bouring Seas. It is fuppofcd by fomc to con- 
 tain four thoufand Families, by others, four- 
 fcour thoufand Ferfons ^ but they mull needs be 
 very fliort in their Reckoning, it having been 
 Judged, that of all Nations there could be (jo !cfs 
 than twenty five thoufand Sluves. The Private 
 Buildings arc very beautiful, flat Roofd, Ador- 
 ned with Galleries towards their Courts, fup- 
 ported by Pillars •• And they may afford to build 
 fiiinptuoufly, bccaufe they build at other mens 
 coll, and with other mens hands : Their Tem- 
 ples are alfo very Magnincent , and much too 
 good for their Religion, whofe Pradice and 
 Converfation fpeaks them to fay, 'Ihcrc is no 
 God. And yet wc Read of a Kelij^ions Thief, 
 who never went about the worl^j of hif c^t/linjr 
 C for fo he called /?f.r/;w^) but he would fulcryinly 
 implore the Ajfiftdnce of his Idol : ;\ {Irange 
 god, fure; that would be acceflary to his De- 
 voto's Robberies: And a firange Worfliipper, 
 that either hoped to Flatter bis god to become his 
 accomplice in Villany, withtheVowof agood 
 round fliare of the Booty, or would be fuch a 
 Fool, to think That God worth the Worfhip- 
 ping that fhould be thus flattcr'd. They have al- 
 io many (lately Baths, to which the Men refort 
 in the Morning, and the Women in the After 
 
8 A Small Monument 
 
 noon. But they want oncyworth them (ill, where- 
 in they might by Faith and Repentance wa(h 
 awayilk'r hlthincfs. 
 
 To this /Mr City wc were brought, yet ia 
 our Eyes it was mofl: «?/)' and deformed ; for 
 the French Proverb is univerfally true, 11 n'y a 
 pofnt de bel Prtz.on. There it no fuch thing oi a. 
 fair Prifon. I confefs, for a God, it's one of 
 the btft butlt that I have feen ; there's nothing 
 that the Soul of Man bears with more regret 
 than Reftraint : The Body it felf is judged by 
 fomc to be but the Souls little-eafe, or Cage ; 
 where though it feems to Dwelt, yet 'tis but in 
 HonoHTtibte Durance ; and though it dares no? 
 brc.ik^the Prifon, yet it liftens, and longs for 
 a CouUeUvcry : There can be nothing large 
 enough for a Soul but God, from whom fincc 
 it once at frjl came, it muft needs be reiilefs 
 till it rctnrn to bim again; and furely it has much 
 forgot it felf, and cxtrad, if it can take up with 
 fatisfadion in any thing on thtsfdc its Crea- 
 tor. 
 
 As foon as wc were put afhore, for the firft 
 Night we were Uckiddoxvn in a deep nafty Cellat ; 
 fomc inconveniences wc/(f/f,but they were no- 
 thing to what we/^rf^: The next day we were 
 carried, or led, or rather driven to the Vice- 
 Roys, or Bafhaw s Palace , who according to 
 theCuftome, and his own Right, is to have the 
 tenth man for his Dividend of the Slaves. 
 
 When the next Market day came, we were 
 driven 
 
 Of Great Mercy. g 
 
 ariven Itkr />c.j/ls thither, and cxpofcd to Sale • 
 and there is a great deal of God's goodncfsin 
 thut one word, tliat it was not to the Slaughter- 
 hotifc to be Butcher' d, 2S \v cW as to r.\\c A f arks t 
 to be SoU. Their Cruelty is great, but their 
 Covttoiifncfs exceeds their Cruelty ; could they 
 |) make as much of us Dead, as they make altvey 
 \ that fo both the Interefls , of Cruelty, and of 
 Covet oiifnefs might he. fe cured and rcconctledy 
 we are well affured which way it fhould have 
 gone with us. But it muft be a great deal of 
 J'allow and Fat, that will anfwer/ivo or three 
 Dollar} a Afoneth. 
 
 Their manner of Selling Slaves is this. They 
 lead them up and down the Fair, or Market ; 
 and when a Chapman bids any money, they 
 prefently ciy,a-Rache ! a R ache ! that is. Here's 
 fo rr.uch money bidden, who bids n.ore ? They 
 that cheapen the cxpofcd Slaves arc very cn- 
 citiifpeil Perfons, they carry their tyes in their 
 Heads, as well as their mony tn their Piirfes, 
 and ufethe one in laying out ^o. other; for they 
 are loth to buy a Pig in a poke : Their firft Po- 
 licy is to look-in their months ; and a good,lirong, 
 entire fet of Grinders will advance the Price con- 
 fiderably; ani they have good Rcafon for this 
 Pradice : for firft, they are Rational Creatures, 
 and know, that they who have not Teeth, can- 
 not <•-«/; andthcy that cannot eat^ camot n>or k,; 
 and ihzythit cannot work., ate not for their turn; 
 and they that arc not/or their turn, are not for 
 ') C z their 
 J 
 
 ^ 
 
 u 
 
 u 
 
■jo . j4 Small Moniment 
 
 their money. And SccondIy,thcy intend to keep 
 them dt hard meat M the Year, and it mull not 
 he ^itKS, but folid Teeth (nay, ifitwcrcpof- 
 fiblc, cafe'lMrJeii'd Teeth) that muft chew it ', 
 and when all is done, they had need of the 0- 
 Jiriches Stomach to digcft it. Their next pro- 
 ccfs is to feel their Lin.bs ; QS whether there be 
 any frail itre, or Difloctttion in the Bones j any 
 thing Analogical to Spavin, or Ri>{^-honc, for 
 thcfc will bringdown the Market wonderfully : 
 And to be clean Limb'd, clofe coupled, well joynt- 
 ed, will advance it m much. The yi^^e if very 
 confidcrable ; but they that fell them, did not 
 breed them, and therefore they know nothing, 
 morcorlefs of that: Two ways they lave to 
 find out the Age ; the one is, to ihnd to the 
 courtefic of the Slaves, but they are not bound 
 to make any fuch Difcovery, and therefore they 
 go by general conic(nures from the Beard , 
 Face, or Hair; but a goodfct ef Teeth will 
 make any one ten Tears Toiin^er, and a broken 
 one ten Years Older than the Truth; for if they 
 were: five hundred Tfnrs OWall is a cife, if they 
 could but eat and work^; or if they could not eat, 
 yet if they could but work, or if neither eat nor 
 work^, iftheirS/ywj would but/''rc^»« the mo- 
 ney again. You fhall have the Seller commend 
 his Goods to the Sky, and the Buyer, on the 
 other hand, as much vndervalne them, and the 
 true Market-price commonly lies juft between 
 them; but fo it is all the World over. 0,fays 
 
 the 
 
 ^.iC— :, :- ■ ■ ■- - ■ ■■- 
 
 Of great Mercy. 1 1, 
 
 the Seller, mark what a b.uk^he has, what. 
 breadth he bears between the fhouldcrs ! What 
 a Che II ! How jlrong fet ! How fitted on the 
 nonet for Burdens I Hc'le dobut e'nc too r>:uch 
 worki PiHi, fays the Buyer, He looks like <z 
 Ptllard, like a very Meacock, at his Provender , 
 and one that fcems to be furfcitcd. But t'ncy 
 are very curious tn examining the Hands; for 
 if they be callous and brawny, they will fhrewd- 
 ly guefs they have been mured to Labour ; if de- 
 licate, and tender., they will fufpecfl feme CV;;- 
 tleman, or Merchant, and then the hopes of <i 
 good Price of Redemption makes him Sale- 
 able. 
 
 When any arc Sold , they muft be trotted 
 or.ce more to the Vice-Roys, that he may have 
 the Review of them, and if he likes any of them 
 at the prizes they went off at, there's no more 
 Difpute, they are his own. 
 
 As for my fclf, I was Sold the firfl: Market- 
 day to a Tagareen ; and that the Reader may 
 not flumblc at that hard word, he mayunder- 
 iland ; That when the Aioors were driven out of 
 Spiiin by Ferdinand the Great, they, upon their 
 return into Africa, affumed Names that might 
 Argue Gentility , and be an Evidence of their 
 .Ancient Extrafl, from fuch places where they 
 had hcengreat Dons, and accordingly there are 
 many Families thus denominated ; as Tagarecns, 
 Jarbeens, &c. 
 
 C 3 
 
 SECT. 
 
I 
 
 & 
 
 A Small Monumtnt 
 
 SECT. III. 
 
 An Account of foiiie Difficulties that I met 
 rvith during mj Captnntj in Algiers. 
 
 THofe Miferics which it is dreadful to endure, 
 are yet delightful to be remcwbrcd-^ and 
 there's a fccrct picafurc to chew the Cud, and 
 ruminate upon efcafcd d/tn^trs : However, the 
 Reader may afford to run over with his Eye tn 
 an hoitr^ that which I ran through tn five Tears ; 
 and fuppofing himfelf fafe upon the Amphithea- 
 tre, may behold poor Slaves Corr.hatina with 
 hcafii below. 
 
 The firft Adventure I met with after I was 
 brought to my Patrons Houfc ( for fo I mull: 
 now ilile him) had well nigh cort: me my Life. 
 My Patron's Father being ddirous to fee his Sons 
 Penny-worth, commanded me up into a Gallery, 
 which looked into the Court j he began to in- 
 fuk over me with infupportabiefcorn, refleifting 
 upon me bccaufe I was a Qhrtftian, and cart: out 
 fome Exprcflions which did really reflet upon 
 the Perfon of my Redeemer, (though I have 
 heard worfejince.') My Neckjwas notyet bowed, 
 nor my Heart broksn to the Tok.e of Bondage ; 
 I couJd not well brook., becaufe I had not been 
 pfed ttatn to fych Language j and becaufe I could 
 
 not 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 1 3 
 
 not ci'prcfsmy fclf in//)e Aiorefco, ox Lingua. 
 Franc, I fupplycd it with Signs ; and imitating 
 the Coblers Tarkc, I fignifiedboth ways as well 
 &S I could, That their Prophet was but a Cablcr. 
 I confcfs, my meaning was no more, but that 
 Mahomet, by the hclpof 5f/-^//«, a Neflortan 
 Monk^, and Abdalla the Jew, had patch'd up a 
 Cento of Jewijlt, and A/onkip) Foppertes,\vhich 
 was now their Religion. But he, without the 
 preamble of many Ratling words, fell upon me 
 with fevere blows; what ever Rage and Fury 
 hts Hands or Feet could Execute, that I felt ; 
 and my intreaties did but inrage his cholcr, fo 
 :hat 1 faw I might fooner blow out the Ftrc with a 
 pair of bellows, than lenifie his Paffion with pray' 
 crs; I had no Other way but this, to make an of- 
 fer of leaping down out of the Gallery into the 
 Court, and therefore clapping my Hands upon 
 the Rails, as if I would throw my felf head-long 
 down over them , and rather chufe to receive 
 my Death from r/)e Vaverr.ent, than/;w Hands, 
 heprefently affwages, \{not hi^ R<*zc-, yctr^e 
 Execution of it. The Old Gentleman knew ve- 
 ry well, that if I loft my Life, his Son muft lofe 
 hts prefent money, and /«r«rf profit; ior there's 
 little made out of a Dead Mans Skin : and there- 
 fore he refpites my further punifhment till my 
 Patron's return , and then indeed this reputed 
 blafphemy of mine with full cry was carried to 
 his Ears, and it loft nothing in the telling, but 
 was aggravated to purpofe: My Patron being 
 C 4 Naturally 
 
I ^ A Small Monument 
 
 Naturally a very pafTionatc Ntan, faid nothing, 
 but witl.out Exaniination,drc\v out bts lonf kjujc, 
 ( which they conlhntly wear by their fides ) and 
 made at inc ; and had there doubtlcfs put ..n end 
 to my life and Cuptivity rj oncc^ had not his wife, 
 who was there feafonably prcfent, taken him in 
 her Arms, and fwectcn'cl him into more mode- 
 rate counfcls. Some will be ready enough to 
 fay that I was but a A'inrtyr to my own Folly ; 
 This was not a place for Difpitte^ but Obedience. 
 Well, I learnrfrom hence twoLcfTons : One, 
 That irhenihcB'Jciyif aSltive, the Renfon n.uFl 
 vot exfefi to be Free ; and where the whole out- 
 w.ird M^:n is in Bondage, the Tovgue mnfi: not 
 ^icad Exemption. A Second , That it's fair 
 for Slaves to enjoy the freedom of their own Cot,- 
 fcietxesy without Reviling another s Religion,, 
 though erroneous; and this wit I bought, as it 
 fell out, it pretty good Penny-worth. 
 
 When the Storm was ovef, my Employment 
 was afTigned mc ( for they had rather fee a Slave 
 deadihnn Idle) and forabouthalf a Year it lay 
 in trudging en Errands, bearing Burdens, and 
 difcharging other domcftick Services at Com- 
 mand, wherein the oncly confideration was, thiU 
 it wat commanded, and notWh.it wa^ comman- 
 ded. 
 
 At this time my Patron had /« part in a A fan 
 
 'of War, which carried twelve Guns/ She being 
 
 at Sea ( with fome others of the fame place ) 
 
 met with an EnfUfh Merchant , Li{den with 
 
 •• . Plate, 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 15 
 
 Plate, and other Rich Commodities from 5f ^ 
 and Bound for London, ( one Jfaac being Ata- 
 jler.,) and after a very j/jrfr^, though //;(/rr<!'»/^ 
 piite, the yllgennes carried her, and brought 
 her fafc home. The Adventurers divide their 
 Booty, and being high flown with thisfuccefs , 
 they Kefolvc to ht her out again to carry more 
 Guns ; and from hence grew r>:y new Employ- 
 ment. Upon the Ciirpcnterjlattcndcd, waited 
 on the Smiths, to get the Iron- work fitted, and 
 finilhcd; and truly he allowed mc more for Por- 
 tage than to the ordinary Han.mcls, or Common 
 Porters. 
 
 When this Ship was now fitted for another 
 Adventure, my Patron tells me, 1 muj} go in 
 her ; it was a nipping word : I pleaded, that I 
 was no Sea-man , underftood nothing of the 
 Mariners Art, and therefore as he could expe(ft 
 little Service from r>.e in that kind, fo I mull 
 cxpcCi mofi rigorous treatment, becaufe I could 
 not acquit my A If in the Service as well as others; 
 he removed iny Pleas, and promifed I (hould 
 not be wronged ; but there was more at the bot- 
 tom than all "this : For here a cafe of Confcicncc 
 offered it felf, Whether 1 might without /in in 
 any cafe fight again/} Chrifltans, on the Port of 
 the common Enemy of all Chriflianity ? The bell 
 Refolution I could give my felf, was this ; that 
 firJl, my employment would oncly lye m man- 
 aging the T.iciVf, which will kill no body ; but it 
 was rcplycd,that without the due rr.anagement of 
 
 the 
 
16 A Small MoKiment 
 
 iheT.:ckle, all the Guns in the Ship would kill 
 nobody: Secondly, therefore! anlwcicd, That 
 it was not evident that they would engage againft 
 Chrifbans more than all the reft of Afi'f'kind , 
 for all the World are their Enemies, who arc 
 JRtch enough to invite thew^und too weak^to reffl 
 them ; but my Patron had a fobaion worth all 
 thefe : He told me peremptorily, / «i«/?, and 
 fijouldgo ; I found my felf under force, I was a 
 Prefft Aian : who could not examine thejuflice 
 ef the Caufe, In a word, his Commands were 
 back'd with Compulfion, and whatever his An. 
 thority was, he had more power than 1 had Con- 
 race to d:ny, or ftrength to refijl -^ and go I did. 
 Yet fhis I will fay for him ; he fpokc to the Cap- 
 tain r.i 1 Officers of the Ship, to treat me civtly, 
 that is, lefs cruelly thnn other Slaves were treated: 
 He gave me feme money alfo in my Pocket, 
 bought mc Cloaths, and laid me in Provifion 
 above the Ships allowance. 
 
 Nine weeks we were at Sea, within, and with- 
 out the Streights, Cruifing, and Pickarooning 
 up and down, at (aft we met with one poor Hun- 
 garian French Man of War, whom we took, 
 and fo returned. 
 
 My Patron having been at great charges in 
 fitting, and manning out this Snip, andithe He- 
 frifals fo flenderly Anfwering his great coft, and 
 greater hopes, told mc, I mull allow him two 
 Dolcrs per r/ioaethy and Live afhorc where I 
 wouW, and get it where I could. This was a 
 
 hard 
 
 Of Great Mercy. jj 
 
 hardch.ifter. That he that cou'd not maintain 
 htmfelf, fhould be compelled to contribute to 
 the maintenance of *?«of^fr; it was difficult /<» 
 ratfe tncreafe OMtoi no flock^, and to pay Interefl 
 out of no rrinipal ; but there was no contend- 
 ing .• It coft me much debate with my felf, and 
 I turn d my thoughts into all forms and [hapes, 
 but all projcds that prefented thcmfclves were 
 incumbred with fo many diffciilttcs, that they 
 amounted v^ry near to trrjpofjibtitties. The more 
 Iconfidted, the further I found my felf from « 
 concliifion,ur\d I could fee no way but one, (but 
 that was worth a thoufand, could I have made 
 thebc/l of it,) andzhatwdiS to commit my felf to 
 Cod, who had brought mc into this flrait, be- 
 fceching him that he would bring rr.c out of tt. 
 
 But that my trufling to God might not be a 
 clo.',k_for La-Ltncf, or a Pillow for Sloath to red 
 upon,I addrcd my felf to an Englijh-man,w\\otQ, 
 condition was that of a SLive , whofe Calling 
 was that of a T.iylor.Uc at firft word counfcllcd 
 me to come and ftay with him, and he would 
 teach me to work of his Trade, I accounted 
 nothing ba/e that was honcft, and neceffity would 
 ennoble afar meaner Employment , and very rea- 
 dily clofed in my thoughts with his motion, and 
 was fuddenly elevated into huge hopes that I 
 fhould now be in a capacity to Anfwer my Pa- 
 tron's demands, and efcape his lafli. But my 
 flraits were not ( it fecms ) great enough to 
 gloj-ific God j nor my condition mean enough to 
 
 mag- 
 
H: 
 
 18 J Small Moimmnt 
 
 ma^^ninc his Power in raifing mc ; I \yas not re- 
 duccdto Ih^it Extrcn-.uy which would make an 
 Oppartumtyto exalt his appearing Mercy ; tor 
 when I came to him the next day, 1 perceived 
 by his filencc that his Mind was changed, and I 
 was loth, enhcr out of Modejly, or Pndc, to 
 give him further trouble ^ and therefore Inter- 
 preting his StUnce to be 4 more Civd way of de- 
 nyal, 1 left him, and once more Laimcbcdout 
 into the wide World. 
 
 In this forlorn Pofture 1 wandred, but neither 
 k»exv, nor n„ich caredxvhuher ; though the wife 
 God both ^«c,v, andcared; and his Providence 
 Dircrtcd mcto another Enfhjh-»>.:>,, who was 
 fitting in .. hnle Shop : He asked mc what News? 
 And ( as that which is uppcrmolt always comes 
 out firlt) I prefcntly began the Story of my 
 defpcratc Condition i how the Rigid Law ot 
 my Patron ha^ impofcd tm JhlUnper Aoucth 
 Jon me, and I knew not where to levy ihcleajl 
 Mite of n: He heard, conf.dered, htycdmy 
 Condition, and invited mc to come and lit in 
 the Shop with him •, but feeing nothing but bare 
 Walls, I asked him, to wb.^t End? What 
 Trade (hould we drive there ? There's not much 
 difference between //f>-^»«i »" the Streets and 
 ^ the Shop. Countrey-man ( /^'d ^O I dr.v^ 
 here an unknown Trade ; here I fell Lead, Iron, 
 Shot, Strong - waters, Tabacco, and many other 
 thin&s: This Motion was a great deal too good 
 to be rcfufcd ; and I think at that time no to^e- 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 19 
 
 rable condition would have ftuck with mc. 
 
 1 acquainted my Patron with my Defign, 
 p'eaded I wanted Itock to fct up with -, he lent: 
 mc a f»iHllmodui:m, and with another pittance 
 that I had privately refcrvcd of my own, 1 be- 
 gan to Trade. That very N-ght I went and 
 bought a parcel of Tabacco ; the next Morning 
 we drefs'd it, cut it, and fitted it for Sale ; and 
 the World recmed to fmile on us wonderfully. 
 In th s way of Partncr-fhip we continued for 
 fome while, and what we got clear, we divided 
 every weekaccordin^ to the proportion of our 
 refpecftiveitocks In a whilc,findingthe world to 
 come in upon us, we ventured upon no Icfs than 
 a whole But of Wwe ; fome Money we had,'and 
 forrje Credn : This Winc we drcw out, andgot 
 confiderably by it. But its very diiTicult to 
 maintain Moderation in an exalted ilatc, for even 
 ff«r//<nf was capable o( hmcr andworfe; tot 
 my Partner being elevated with our. good Sue- 
 cefs, grcww ^vodFclUw, andab.id Hndwjdy 
 ncglcaedhisbufincfs, wcnttiphng, andfud'mg 
 up and down, and the concerns of the Shop and 
 Trade lay wholly upon my (houlders. 
 
 It fell out, t\ut one John Randal, who, with 
 his Wife and Child were taken in the fame Shio 
 with my felf, being put to the fame fliifts with 
 my felf, an.l, as 'tis very common, having a 
 Moncthly Tax impofcd upon him by his Patron, 
 which he mulKcrape up where he could, and 
 befides maintain hiinfelf, his Wife, and Ch'ld». 
 went 
 
JO -^ Small Moniment 
 
 went up and down fccking fur Relief, at lafl 
 the poor Man ftraggled to our Shop : His cafe 
 made great impreflion upon mc, I could not but 
 confider the goodncfs of God to inc, that fhould 
 now be in a condition to advifc^ and help anuthcr^ 
 who fo lately wanted both my fcif ; and it had 
 this operation uponmc, that I wou d not fulTcr 
 a poor diilrcflcd Countrey-man, a Fellow-Cap- 
 tive, a FcllowChriilian to iland begging at that 
 door, where I had fo lately itood my fclf: Shall 
 I fhut the Door, or my Heart upon him, when 
 God had opened a Duor of hope to mc in the 
 day of my Trouble? Shall I foill requite the 
 Lords kindncfs to me ? Surely that God who 
 comforts »j f/i our Tribulations, cxpe(fts that tve 
 Jliould con.fort othirs in theirs, zCor. 1.4. I 
 bad him therefore come in, and knowing him 
 to be a Clover by Trade, advifcd him to learn 
 to make Canvas Cloaths for Seamen that are 
 Slaves; and for my own part, he fhould fit 
 Rent-free ; but if my Partner would infill: upon 
 hti Alotety, he muft be willing to fatisfic him, 
 for I had no power to determine of anothcrs 
 Right. 
 
 It were tedious to trouble the Reader how I 
 wore out three or four irkfome Years in this 
 way of Trading ; All this while there was no 
 dawning of Deliverance from our Bondage : As 
 one Year left us, another found us, and deliver- 
 ed us over Captives to the next .• Our condition 
 was bad , and in danger every day of being 
 worfe, 
 
 Of Great Alcrcy. 21 
 
 worfe, as the mutable Humours of our Patroncs 
 determined upon us, for our Shop and Trade 
 was no freehold : The truth is, in time we were 
 fo habfttiated to Bondage, that we a\mol\ forgot 
 Liberty, and grew ftupid, and fenflefs of our 
 Slavery; like IJfachar, wc Couched down be- 
 tween our burdens, we bowed our fioidders to 
 hear, and became Servants to Tribute, Gcn.49. 
 14, 15. And were in danger to be like thofc 
 Jfraelttes in Babylon, who being once fettled, 
 forgot Canaan, and dwelt wit b the Ktn^ for his 
 work^, 1 Chron. 4. 23. Wc fccm'd as if our 
 Ears had been bored, and WC h^d vowed to Serve 
 our Patrones for ever. Long Bondage breaks 
 the Spirits, it fcatters Hope cjj\ and difcoura- 
 ^cs ail at tempt! for Freedom: And there were 
 more evils attended our condition than the bodily 
 torture, which wc were always lyubU to, and 
 fometimes endured^ 
 
 I. We were under a perpetual temptation to 
 deny the Lord that bought tti, to make cur Souls 
 Slaves, t\{dLi our B>dtcs mi^ht Recover Liberty. 
 As Satan once tempted Job to Curfe God. and 
 dye ; fo he knew how to change his note to us , 
 and accommodate his Snare to our CunditionXo 
 Curfe God, that we might Live. How many 
 have made Ship-wracl^ of Faith, that they might 
 not he Chained to the Galleys? I can never e- 
 nough admire the grace of that Promife, Pfal. 
 125.3. The Rod of the IVicked fiall not al- 
 ways refliipon the Lot of the Righteotu, left the 
 Ri£hte- 
 
2Z A Small Monument 
 
 Righteous pit forth their h.tniis to Ininuity ^ nor 
 ever enough adore the faithfulncfs of him, who 
 vpill not fujfer tu to he tempted above th.tt we are 
 Me^ I Cor. 10. 13. 
 
 And 2. Evil is the unr^aning^ and difptnttng 
 cf the Soul to worthy Anions ; for we arc apt 
 to pit on the Temper and Sprit of Sl.ives with 
 the Habit , and the Chrillians of the Greeks 
 communion, are a very fad tnfiance of this 
 
 And 3, We were very much at a lofs for the 
 Preaching of the Word : And yet herein the gra- 
 dous God Ikpt in for our Relief. 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 
 
 SECT. IV. 
 
 >' \\ 
 
 HoTP Cod Trovided for our Sojtls, by fend- 
 ing us an Able Minifter to Vrcacb the 
 Co/pel to m in our Bond./gc. 
 
 THE Gracious God looking upon theaffliifl- 
 ion ol his poor Servants, and Remer/,bring 
 M in our low EJlate, was plcafed many ways to 
 m tigate the load of our Captivity: Wc have 
 Rcafon to fay, with the Church, E;Lra 9. 9. IVe 
 were Bondfmcn^ yet our Cod hati) not forfnkcn 
 us in our Bondage, but hath extended Mercy to 
 us, to give U-'.a reviving, and a Nail in hn Ho- 
 ly place : And thus he brought about his Dcfign 
 of Grace and Mercy. There was an Enghfi 
 Ship taken by fome of our Algermc Piratcs,and 
 in her one Mr. Devereux Sprat, a Minifterof 
 thcGofpcl. Itdcfervcsourconfideration, and 
 grcatcft Admiration, that the wife God fhould 
 jHpp y our Ncccfsittes at the coft and charges of 
 others ofhis dear Servants : But thus Providence 
 fcnt Jofeph into Egypt , where he endured a 
 thirteen Years Slavery, that he might preferve 
 the Lives of his Fathers Family, within whofc 
 narrow walls the moll vifiblc Church of God m 
 thofc days was cnclofcd, Cfw. 45. 5. Now, 
 fome of usobfcrving this Mr. Spntt to be a Pcr- 
 D fon 
 
if 
 
 2:^. A Small Monument 
 
 Ion of very Sober, Grave, and Religious De- 
 portment, we addrefTcd our fclvcs to him, and 
 humbly entreated him, that we might enjoy the 
 benefit of his Miniltry; in Order whereto, wc 
 (iefircd him that he v/oiild compound with his 
 Patron at fo much a moncth as he could, and bc- 
 caufe we were abundantly convinc'd of our Du- 
 ty to aiiminilicr to him of our Carn,il tlrtngs, 
 who fliould adminilter to us of his Spiritiiah,\vc 
 engaged to allow him tt Competency to maintain 
 liimfcif, and fatisfie the cxpccftations of his Pa- 
 tron : 'I he good man hearkened to us with much 
 rcadinefs ^ and now indeed we found our bur- 
 dens much lighter, and our conditions not prefs 
 fo hard upon our Spirits : Thnce <? weeli this 
 Godly painful Servant of Jcfus Chriil prayed 
 with us, and Preach d to us the Word of God ; 
 our meeting place was a Cellar, which I had hi- 
 red at fome diftance from our Shop, where I 
 flowed fome Goods that were peculiarly my 
 own, when we fell into a greater (Irokc of Trade. 
 To our Meetings reforted many , fomctimes 
 three or fourfcore, and though we met next the 
 Street, yet wc never had the lead diilurbancc 
 from the Turkj, or Aifoors-, for whilft wc in- 
 termedled not with their SHperJlitions, but paid 
 our Patroncs their demands^ we might, without 
 ,any difturbancc from them, IVorPup our Cod , 
 according to our Confciences : It's true, that fuch 
 were the circumlbnees of the Slavery of many 
 poor Chriftians, that they cohU not attend ; and 
 
 fuch 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 2^ 
 
 fuch the wretched carelefsnefs of others, that 
 they would not attend, and fuch the Provifions 
 that God had made for others, by other means, 
 that they needed not , perhaps , attend upon 
 Gods VVorfhip with us ; but thus was our God 
 plcafcd to give us the means oi Jlrcnpiming our 
 Jraith, and Comforting our drooping Spirits, 
 
 At length came one Captain Witdy of Rat- 
 cliff to Trade there, who, with the AfTillancc 
 of the Leghorn Merchants, freed our Miniftei* 
 from his Patron, After his freedom from his 
 Patron, yet there remained a Duty of fixty Boi- 
 lers, which was a particular charge payable to 
 the Publick Treafury, before he could be fully 
 enlarged from the City .• Wc Petitioned there- 
 fore the Captain, that he might, and Mr. Sprat 
 himfclf, that he would ftill continue to be Ser- 
 viceable to our poor Souls, in the work of the 
 Gofpel, and we eafily prevailed, and had the 
 benefit of his Miniftry whillt I ftaid there. 
 
 D 2 
 
 SECT. 
 
26 
 
 A Small Monument 
 
 SECT. V. 
 
 Some R€»iark,Me Obfirvatiotfs tbut I 
 gleaned up , whilji I remained in Al- 
 giers. 
 
 THcy that are prclTcd with their own Pcrfo- 
 nal Crtcv.iiccj, have little Icifurc to lool^ 
 abroad, SiWd obkrvc the Motions of others ; and 
 indeed our own Afllidions however fwectncd , 
 lay ftill gnawing, and gratinp, upon pur Spirits, 
 that wc mull: needs be very ill qualified to trca- 
 fure up materials to make a Hiilory. Such a 
 DeGgn required Leifure , Liberty, Privacy , 
 Retircdnefs, Intelligence, and ftrid correfpon- 
 dcncc, to all which we were pcrfed Strangers. 
 Yet fometimcs I could make a Truce with my 
 Troubles, and obtain fo long a ccfiation from 
 my Vexatious prelTures, as to make Obfer- 
 vation. 
 
 And, I. The Hypocrifie of their Profefsion 
 was fo notorious, that he mud put out his Eyes 
 that did not fee it. One Mopeth in the Year they 
 Obfervc their Rar^cdur^, which is their Lent ; 
 and indeed they Obferve it by day with more than 
 A/onkijJi Jnftcrtty, impofing upon themfelves 
 a total Akfiinence : Ao Obfervation which they 
 may be prefumed to owe to that Nefiortan 
 Monk.} 
 
 Of^reat Mercy. Z^ 
 
 Monk., who club'd with Aiahomet in the cur- 
 fcd invention of the yikhoran : But for all their 
 demure Oiuidragcfimal loohj by day., they give, 
 or fell themfelves to commit with orcedtnefs all 
 manner of the molt execrable Villanics by night. 
 And they cheat themfelves with this cvafion ; 
 that forfooth Mahornet Commanded them to Fafi 
 fo many Days , but not fo many Nights : For 
 now they beat up their Drums, and call their 
 Friends firll out of bed, thcnout of doors ; they 
 provoke, challenge, dare one another to cat , 
 drink^, andrun into all excefs of Riot. Thcy 
 will neither f^are Man in their Rage, nor Wo- 
 man in their Lttfl : The two hungry Meals of 
 tae Day, makjs the third of the Night an errand 
 Glutton. By Day they create themfelves a 
 Purgatory, and by Night the poor Slaves find a 
 /Jell. Now , when they have cram d their 
 Guts all Night, and arc Maw fie k, in the morn- 
 ing, they put on their Lenten face again ; and 
 call that a fafi, which is but Phyfick;, and pre- 
 tend Religion for thit which thcy arc compell'd 
 to by Nature ; that is, they Fafi when they can 
 eat and drinks no longer ; But indeed their Faft 
 by Day is nothing but a d,y Drupkennefs ; for 
 when they have drunk, and whored themfelves 
 into fin, they fancy they merit a pardon by ab- 
 ftinence. A piece of Hypocrifie fo grofs, thai 
 whether it be to be fampled any where in the 
 World, unlefs, perhaps, by the Po^tfh Came- 
 vals^ 1 cannot tell. 
 
 D 3 2, I 
 
 i' 1 
 
•ftS A Small Monument 
 
 2. I could not but Obferve, that thoiighthcy 
 allow, that every Man may be faved in that Re- 
 Imon he prcfifjes, frovidcd he rvalkj by tts 
 ji'iiles, and therefore that at laft, the yewj, un- 
 der the Banner of Mofes-^ the Chriftianj, un- 
 der the Banner of C'/;n// ; and the Tariff, under 
 the Banner of Mahomet, fhaH all March over a 
 fair bridge, into I know not what Paradifc, a 
 place far beyond the Elifiaw Fields j yet they 
 afford no mi rcy to one, who having once projef- 
 fed, afterwards Revolts from MahuMetaHifm j 
 an inlbncc whereof I (hall now prefcnt the Rea- 
 der wirh. 
 
 The Sfaniardi every Year return a confidera- 
 blc fum of money to Al/jen, to be employed 
 in the Redemption of fuch of their own Coun- 
 trey as arc there in Slavery : Some fay, there 
 is a particular Trcafury fet apart for that Ser- 
 vice; but this I know, that they ufc the Cha- 
 ritable benevolence of well dtfpofed Perfons, to 
 advance it. Now, there u as a Spanish Frier, 
 that was a Slave, who being paflcd by in the 
 Redemption that Tear, took it very hatnoufly to 
 be negle(fled , thought h\n\h\i much yvronged-^ 
 hereupon he grows Dtfcontented, and the De- 
 vil ( who never works with greater fuccefs than 
 upon that Humour) takes the Advantage to pujii 
 him en-, and heinapett. Renounces the Chrf- 
 ftian Religion, declares himfclf a AfuJJ'ulman , 
 and accordingly appears in his Turktjh Habit! 
 I knew him very well by fight, he was 3 fat, 
 ' ' corpulent 
 
 Of Great Aiercy. ; ; 
 
 corpulent Pcrfon ; but after ht had turned Rene- 
 gado, I obfcrved him to become ihangc'.y lean, 
 and dcjellcdinhis Countcna>:ce, but I little flif- 
 pe(fted , that the Root of his Dijlempcr lay ia 
 iji-s Confciencc : but it fcems he had fevcrcly rc- 
 flcdted upon hti ylpvjiacy, for he had not Re- 
 nounced onely his J'opoy, but his Chrifitanity : 
 His own Confciencc, which wjs a thoufind 
 Witneffes againit him, was;j thoufind Tormen- 
 tors toWm\: Long he bore it's fccrct and fiing- 
 vig Lajhes, but when he could no longer ihnd 
 under them, he goes to the Vice-Roy's Palace, 
 and there openly declares himfclf a Chriltian , 
 and protcfls againft the Supcrltition and Idola- 
 try of Mahomet, iS 3 moll Execrable, and dam- 
 nable Impoflurc : Immediately he is convened 
 before the Counccl,and there fi:ri(ftly Examined, 
 he pcrfilts refolutcly in his Profcfl'ion, where- 
 upon he is clapt in Irons, and for fomc time there 
 fccurcd ; Now, they pretended this Reafon for 
 their procedure. That there had been fome 
 pradifing and tampering with him, either A/o- 
 rally by Argument, or Natural y by fomi Dofe 
 of intoxicating Drugs, that had thus Diftem- 
 pered him ; for loth they were it fhould be 
 thought, that any Man of found mind, or >,:a- 
 fler of his Reafon, would ever Revolt from their 
 Religion : But when they fiiw him fixt in his Rc- 
 folution, and that neither what he felt, or might 
 fear ; what they had nifliUed, or could threaten, 
 did unhinge him from his Profeflaon, they pro- 
 k D 4 cccdcd 
 
30 A Small Alomiment 
 
 cccdcd to the laft Remedy, and inexorably Con- 
 demned him to the Fire : A way of Piini(hmcnt 
 which /k^ /fijrwf /'row r/;f Spaniards thcrr.fciva, 
 who fir [} fct lip the Incjuifition a^ainjl the Moors, 
 and have now turned the ed^e of tt amrijt the 
 Protcjlants. And now they proceed to the Ex- 
 ecution of the Sentence, which was performed 
 with fomc Pomp, and State. And firft, they 
 formed h Crown xvith it Crofs upon the top of n^ 
 within the Phtcs, and liars whereof they put 
 Flax; thus Crowned, they Guard him through 
 the City, out of the Welt Gate, about halt a 
 mile, which was the appointed place of Execu- 
 tion : andfirft, one puts Fire to the Flax in his 
 mockzCrown, to takcpofliiTion oi his Had, in 
 the Name of the re ft of his Body : at firit he 
 fliook it off, but another put Fire again to it with 
 a Cane, and then the poor man flood patiently ; 
 and prefcntly they put Fi'-e to the whole Pile, 
 and there burnt him : 1 faw fome of his Bones, 
 and fcorchcd Flcfh after he was dead ; and the 
 fame Evening came a Zealous Spaniard, and 
 carried away fomc of his fcorchcd Flefli, and 
 Bones, as the Holy Reliqties of a Martyr, fay- 
 ing, Jh.roc now done enough to make fati/'fi^ii- 
 en fur .'[I the f-.s th t I h.tve committed. 
 
 3. It's worth .Admiration, to fee in what 
 ^reat awe they rtand of ihc meaneft Officer, who 
 is known to be fuch by his Turhant, and Ha- 
 hit. If any AiTray be made, or a murder com- 
 mitted in the Streets, the Chiang- , or Officer 
 
 pre. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 3 i 
 
 prefcntly comes without any Weapon, or Per- 
 fon to affill him ; and if he feizes the Oficndcrs, 
 none is fo hardy as to refill even unarr/cd Autho- 
 rity. 
 
 4. The great Reverence which the Moors 
 pay to the 1 urk^s, though both Aiuhim.etans, is 
 remarkable; If a AUur fliall dare to Jlnke a 
 Tm k^, he is punilht with great fevcrity : I faw 
 two Moors whilil I was there, whofe Ri^ht 
 Hands were chept off for this one Crime, and 
 hung about their Necks inlirings; the one was 
 fct upon an Affc, the other walkt by on foot, the 
 Common Cryer proclaimii g before them their 
 Offence, through the chief Streets of the City. 
 I i.\v; another alio with his heels tyed to a Hor- 
 fesTayl; he was wholly naked, onely he had 
 on a pair ofLinnen Drawers, and thus was he 
 dragg'd through the Strees : It was a molt la- 
 mentable Spc(ftacle. to fee his Body all torn with 
 the rugged way, and Hones : the skin torn off 
 his Back, and Elbows, his FIcad broken, and 
 all covered with blood, and dirt, and thus was 
 he dragg'd through the City out at Biibaz.oon,or 
 the Eait-Gate, where he ended his miferablc 
 Life. 
 
 Tv/o others of their own Countrcy-mcn I faw 
 Executed in a moll terrible , and dreadful man- 
 ner, ( but cither I did not know, or do not re- 
 member their Crimes : ) The one was thrown off 
 from a high Wat.', and in his Fall he was caught 
 by the way, by one of i be great fharp Hook/, 
 which 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
; f 32 A SntAll A'lonimcnt 
 
 'l whicliwcre faflncd in the Wall; it caught him 
 \)\ ytJtnnJer the Ribs, an.l there he hung rodrifiif 
 
 ;; if m it/ifi>c,ikjb/cp.ii;: till he dycLl. The other was 
 '■I fajhitdto ,t L.idilcr^ his ivny?j, and yl'iklcs hc- 
 
 iJ I ing nailed through with Iron fpikfs, infucha 
 jj'l poilure as fonicwhat refciiibles the Celebrated 
 
 \yf Crofs of St. jitjdrew ; an'd le/l his Flcfh and 
 '::| Sinews should fail, and the Nails not hold; his 
 Wrifts and Ankles were bound fait with fmail 
 Cords to the Ladder : Two days I f.iw hu^ alive 
 undtr thii Torture, how much longer he Lived 
 under it I cannot tell. 
 
 5. They are generally great Enemies to De- 
 bauchery in Publick : It's a great fcandal to them 
 when they fee any Chri lians, who broi^^^ht th.tt 
 licitjlialtty out uf thrir own Countries with them, 
 to be guilty of it. I have heard them fay, of a 
 Drunken Slave ; A Chn/l-utu ? No, He's a 
 Swine. And though they will indulge thcm- 
 fclves by Night ( cfpeciaily in their Kamciam 
 Moneth) yet woe be to him, that (hall Offend 
 hy Day in th.it kind. There was an EngUfh- 
 man, who had brought over with him his Drunk: 
 en Humour, and his Captivity had not mttde him 
 Sober: and when Rehgton h.is not firm hold of 
 the Heart, a little matter will make fuch a one 
 let go his hold of Religion : This En^ltfi-man 
 turn'd a Renegado, and of a Dntnken"chrt(ltan 
 became a Drunken Tiirk^, and was not able to 
 keep the Tot from his Head,A\ixm^ their holy time 
 «f Ramedam ; being one day foqnd thus like a 
 
 Sor, 
 
 Of Grent Mercy. 33 
 
 Sot, he was brought into the C.ijJ'.ibJ, or chief 
 Court of Judicature, where he was adjudged to 
 receive many hundreds of violent blows, fome 
 upon his nuked JJticI^ and Reins, others upon 
 bis naked Belly ; he could not creep from the 
 place of punifhment, but was earned away by 
 The Harr.rKcls; his Bi/Zy, and B/Jci^werc fo ex- 
 coriated, thzt SarKpfori Baker, ziiEnghlh-man^ 
 who was his Chirurgeon , afllircd me he was 
 forced to cut otF abundance of his Flefh before 
 he could be Cured. 
 
 6. What Cruelties they Excrcifc upon poor 
 Slaves, needs not be mentioned, and there will 
 be an Occafion to fpeak of the mofl Ordinary 
 iv<*)of punifhment c're long. Let it fuffice,that 
 all is ylrbitrary, and tinlimittcd. If a Patron 
 fliall k'ii his Sl.ivc, for ought I could perceive , 
 he fuitcrs no more for it, than if he fhould ksH 
 his Horfe : There was a Dutch Youth, a Slave 
 roa7';(ri;, who, upon fome provocation, ^r^rw 
 his Knife at hts Patron ; for this OJfer, he was 
 Sentenced to be dragg'd out at one of the Gates, 
 and there to have his ^rfns and Legs broken m 
 pieces with the great Sledge Hammer, which Sen- 
 tence was accordingly Executed, for though I 
 could not fee his Face for the crowd, yet / heard 
 the blows, and the mifcrablc Crys of the poor 
 dying Young Man, 
 
 SECT. 
 
 "71 
 
 
 % 
 
34 
 
 yl Small Monument 
 
 SECT. V [. 
 
 The jzriev'>u.f Punipmcnt Tfjjf/^c:! upon 
 John Randal, the Authors Danger, and 
 Dclivcr.wce fro»: thcfiff/ej n'poii prc- 
 tefrcc that they h.ul attempted to niak? 
 tin Ej'cupe. 
 
 IT is time to rc-aflumc my own concerns, and 
 look a little into my own Condition, which, 
 through the good /"rovidcnce of God, was much 
 better than that of many of my poor Brethren 
 and Fellow Captives j and yet I met with great 
 Ebbings and Flowings in my Tranquillity : whilil 
 I was managing my Trade very lloutly and fuc- 
 cefsfully, ( J oiin Randal wioxV^mg with me in my 
 Shop,_) my Partner having now knockt off, and 
 left all tome: One day I changed a Twenty fhil- 
 ling piece of Gold for Silver with a Friend, and 
 having the money chinking in my hand, John 
 Randul asked mc, what I did with fo much mo- 
 ney ? I dcfired him to keep it for me, till our re- 
 turn, and he fhould know : For he being not 
 very well, wc agreed to walk out of the Town 
 to take the frefli Air j a Liberty, which for fome- 
 what above a mile, is indulged to the Slaves : 
 When wc had walked almoltto the end of our 
 Tedder. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 35 
 
 Tedder, I was dcfirous to walk a little further 
 toviewtheCoails, if, perhaps, any Advantage 
 might offer it felf afterwards for an Ecape, 
 though wc ytttnaily dcfijTncdnofuch thing. As 
 we were prying about the Scafiie, one of the 
 Spies appoiitcd conltantly to watch, icftany of 
 the Slaves fhould Run away, came to us, and 
 charged us with .7;; itttcn:pt to r,u kf r.n Efcape ; 
 wc flatly dcnycd it, but he l:.id hold on us ; there 
 was no rcfiiting. Obey we mull, and accord- 
 ingly attended his Mallcrfhip towards the 
 City : As we drew near, 1 cfpyed fomc EngUflt 
 rr.en at Quoits, ( for with fuch Recrcdttons and 
 Diverfions, they are willing now and then to be- 
 guile the tcdiom minutes of lingring thraldom, ) 
 I beckoned to one of them whom I knew, tx pre- 
 tending onely to whifpcr with him, I fccrctly 
 conveyed to him my Frrfe, wherein wcxc feven 
 Pieces if eight ; \ve were prcfcntly met by ano- 
 ther Spyc, and thofe two led us to a little blind 
 Houfe, where they fearch'd us, they took away 
 the iwnty flu lings, which I had put into my 
 Friends hand, and finding nothing upon me, tool^ 
 away my Doublet, and then brought us before the 
 Vice-Roy, and hisCouncil : \Ve were (Ira ighc- 
 ly Examined, and ilrongly charged with an At- 
 tempt to Efcape : We peremptorily denyed ally 
 and itood upon our Innocency , affirming, that 
 our onely defign of walkinq abroad, was to take 
 the frefli Ait., occafioncd by my Fellows Sick- 
 nefs. This Purgation would not be Accepted , 
 
 and 
 
 A 
 
,5 A S trail MonumeM 
 
 andtheB.«/c(j« was commanded to be brought 
 forth, \vc anfvvercd, wcdunl notfalfely accufc . 
 ourfelves, nor make our felvcs Criminal, when 
 we were not fo, and therefore if fuch was thetr 
 •will and plc.ifure., we mull: abide by it, and fo 
 tvefat down bytbeJKckj. 
 
 The way of pHntfinicnt by the B.tttoon, or 
 Cudq^ el, IS thii. They \\zvca jlrong ftajf^aboitt 
 fix Foot long, in the middle whereof are bored 
 two holes. Intothefc holes a Cord is put, and 
 the ends of the Ccrdfajlned on the one fide the 
 flaf, with knots, fo that it makes <r Loop on the 
 ether fide. Into this Loop of the Cord both the 
 Feet oi the Perfon Condemned to this Punifh- 
 ment are put; then two litsiy Fellows, one at 
 each end of the ftaff, lifts it up in their Arms,and 
 twiflinv the fiajf about , till his Feet are fafi 
 pinch' d With the Cord by the Ankles, they raiie 
 up his Feet with the folcs upwards, well nigh as 
 high as their flioulders, and in this pofturethey 
 hold them, the poor man the mean while re fling 
 only With hit Neck and Shoulders on the ground: 
 Then comes another lufty ftnrdy Knave behind 
 him , and with a tough jiwrt Truncheon gives 
 him as many violent blows on the foles of his 
 Feet as the Council (hall Order. 
 
 But the Vice-Roy, with his Council, gather- 
 ing from circumftances, and induced to believe 
 us by our conftant , and refolute denyal of the 
 Fa(fl, omitted at prefent any further punifh- 
 ment, and only commandedus to be laid in chains 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 3^ 
 
 in the Vice-Roy's Pnfon till our Patrones fhould 
 demand our Liberty, and fetch us out. And 
 the next day wc were both delivered, though 
 with differing Fates; As Pharaoh's Chief Hut- 
 Ur, and Chief Baker were both taken from Pri- 
 fon, the one to be Advanced, the other to be 
 Hanged: For John Randal's Patron being a 
 very Termagant, ufed that abfolute and uolimit- 
 tcd Sovereignty which they pretend to, over 
 their Slaves, and Commanded him to receive 
 three hundred blows upon the Soles of his Feet 
 with the Battoon, in manner before dcfcrt- 
 bed : As for my felf, when 1 was brought home, 
 the Spyc that fcized us, came and demanded 
 Money of my VoXion for his nood Service (not 
 reckoning that he had any thing of me) which 
 put him into a moil dcfperate fit of Pairion,and 
 calling me Dog and Jew, andaHto naught, com- 
 manded-mc to go work, in the Looms with two 
 other Enojifi-r/ien that were Slaves, and Lm- 
 nen-cloath Weavers : But alas, I was a very 
 bungler, and undcrftood nothing of the Craft 
 and Myflery of Weaving more or lefs ; but 
 there I wrought till I had fpoylcd all that I laid 
 my Hands on : Now, when he faw that my la- 
 bour this way would not turn to Account., he 
 rated me for a Loggerhead, and bad me fll 
 Quills for the other two ; being now degraded 
 from a bundling Weaver tO an exx client ^ller of 
 Quills, I continued about a Moneth ; my Shop 
 all this while lay at flxcs andfcvens, what was 
 begome 
 
 ^1: 
 
 '\ 
 
3 8 A Small Momimcnt 
 
 become of it I knew not, and diirrt: not for niy 
 Life difcover any dcfirc to return to that em- 
 ployment. At lall, my Patron asked me for 
 the Money that he had k'nt me when I fir{l began 
 to Trade : I Anfwered fubiirrnvely, that I had 
 not a farthing, all my fmall Elhte lay in a 
 few Goods, and till they were Sold, I eould not 
 pofTibly repay him : He calls one of his Slaves, 
 a Dhth Man, and Commands him to go with 
 me, and turn all into ready Money, and bring 
 it him: When I came to my Old Shop, tlnre 
 WM the Neft t»decd,but all the iitrds vrcrcflowfi \ 
 for in my abfence, (poor John Randal being 
 Lame, and not able to work, my Partner fome- 
 time before having left me, and I confined to 
 another Employment, ) fomc of thefe Rafcals 
 had broken open my Shop, and thence carried 
 the beji of my Goods, though my Cellar was Itill 
 fafc, and fome of my Goods 1 heard of, and re- 
 covered j what Money I had was hid in the 
 Ground, as it was my conibnt way : 1 hat night 
 the Dutchman and my (elf returned to our Pa- 
 tron, and told him we could fell nothing ; where- 
 upon he re manded me to my Shop, tVerc to 
 Trade, paying him the two Dollars a Moneth., 
 as I had done before. 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of Crc.n Mercy > 
 
 SECT. VIL 
 
 C n 
 
 i^ 
 
 thi Authors Tdtron grovp'wg poor^ he is 
 Solely or Mortgaged to another'^ thi 
 vpondcrfnl k,wdtiefs that he found front 
 his fecondratrotJt 
 
 HEfe was nothing yet working towards a 
 Deliverance, nor could I yet fee the leafi: 
 glymmeringofpolTibility which mighs fo much 
 as flatter my willing mind with a hope of cfca- 
 ping : . But it's Obferved, that the Night is al- 
 ways darkefi towards Day-break.; and God is 
 often drawing nearer to us in Mercy, when we 
 conceive he is departing further on in Difplea- 
 fure. 
 
 My Patron had hccn finckin^ in his Efiate a 
 pretty while, the laft Ship he had put to Sea 
 broke hts backs At laft he was grown (infenfibly) 
 fo low , that it could no longer be daubed ftp 
 with his Repute, but he muft be forced to fell all 
 his Slaves to pay his Debts : It was not much to 
 me whither I was chopt and ihanged; I might 
 •change my Coaler, and my 'Goal, but ftill I 
 was like to be a Prifoner : I might be bought and 
 fold, and fold again, but ftill my Condition was 
 Slavery; yet one thing racthoughj was comfor- 
 
i(J Ji Small Afomment 
 
 tabic, that the hfi InflrurAcm of n.y Bondage 
 
 was come into Mifcry as well as my fclf. 
 
 In the partage of his Slaves, it fell to my Lot 
 andanothen to bc Aiortgaaediox i certain fum 
 of Money , ]oymly to tw Perfons , the one a 
 C.ip maker, the other a Grave Old Gentleman, 
 who nrtiongft his own People had the Repute of 
 A <-ocd Natur'dand moderate PfrfoN, {as ^ood 
 Natiirr^ and Modcratt'on go at Mgur. ) 1 he 
 Day of Payment c<twf ,thc Money was not paid; 
 the Cap maker and the Old Gentleman /"nj.f»« 
 ,iu aiul hold us in Common, but in a while they 
 rcfolved to divtdc m , that each of them mi^h: 
 know his ;-cpfr Goods and Chattels, and each of 
 ui might know whom \o Call MaJler,,Md vehoj'e 
 vcbijllc wc were bound to Obey : We arc both 
 fiiminoncd t6 appear in a certain place at mid- 
 day,andmuch ado there was about our Dividing : 
 At lai^ they agreed toCafi Lofts for hi, onely bc- 
 caufc I was in a handfomc way of Trade, it was 
 accorded, that he to whofc Ihare I (hould fall , 
 nWildJfiay the other fifty Doubles, which, if I 
 tomputc aright, is Tomcthing more than fifty 
 .(liilli^igs StcrUng. I Was exceeding fearful I 
 niould fall to thisCap-malicr, for he had the 
 'Character of a briitifi, ill-humourd Creature, 
 'and t'hcrfefarc I was cohcern'd to Hft mV Petiti- 
 on to-God; that feeing, yfi\\cnthe f^itftwuldbe 
 cajfirtotheUf, ^^ the whole DiffofitioH there- 
 of 'is' of Cod, hcVduld gi^c rat fsrth a gractoM 
 JUt : Whatever there is ofCtntingency as to us, 
 • * there's 
 
 Of Great Mercy. ^ j 
 
 there's nothing accidental to God. Well, God 
 Delivered ine from that Tyrant, and I was ad- 
 judged by the decifion of the Lot to the Old Gen- 
 tleman: Andifl fhouldbcfilenthere, I fliould 
 bethcmoft ungrateful wretch Living: I found 
 not oncly pity and compafsion , but Love and 
 FriendJJiip from my New Patron; had I been 
 his Son, I could not have met with more refpeCly 
 nor been treated with more tendernefs : I could 
 not \m(haFriendi better Condition than I was 
 then in, except my ^onds. Ifany thing could bc 
 mingled with \iondage to make it fweet; if any 
 thing could Reconcile Slavery to Nature ; ifany 
 thing could begeC an Acciuiefcence in fuch a ilatc, 
 I did not, I could not want it. . 
 
 And indeed the Freedom that I found in Ser- 
 vitude, the Liberty I enjoyed in my Bonds was 
 fo great, that it took off mnch of the Edge of my 
 delire to obtain, and almoft blunted it Irom any 
 vigoroiu attempt after Liberty, that carried haz- 
 ard in it's Face ; till at lafl I was awakened upon 
 this Occafion. 
 
 My Patron had a fair Farm in the Countrey , 
 about twelve miles from the City, whither he 
 took me along with him; he had me to t heir Mar- 
 ketsjfhewed me the manner of them,& at my re- 
 turn, he loaded me home with all manner of good 
 Provifions,that I might make merry with my Fel- 
 low-Chriftians ; &I had fomc Reafon to conclude 
 from his great kjndnefs to me, that he intended to 
 fend mc thither to' manage the Farm for him. I 
 E z faw 
 
 d 
 
• 'jri ji Small Monument 
 
 tdW now evidently, that if I once (Quitted myfliepl 
 I {hould lofc with it all mea>is,all helps, and there- 
 fore all hofes to rid my fclf out of this Slavery : 
 And though I might have been there 4 p«fy Lordy 
 and B4>aw'd it over the reft of my Felow-Ser. 
 vants, yet Slavery had in it fomething of 1 know 
 not what harpwefs that I could not hrooi. fetters 
 cf ColddomtMcthetr Nature, they are Fet- 
 ters ptl: Had B^j.«^ff's Cage been ofCJcld, as 
 'twas of Iron, yet it was a Cage; and that was 
 provocation enough to a haughty Sprit to beat 
 out his own Brains againfl: it's Bars. This there- 
 fore quickned my dull temper, and I began to 
 Refolve to make an Attempt once for all. Now 
 therefore muftering thofc few Wits Captivity 
 had left me, I fet them on work, and ran through , 
 all things pofsible, and impofsihle j he that wtll , 
 findwhatbehasloj}^ mtfi lool^where 'tis not, as j 
 'acll as where 'tis; and forming ftratagems in my . 
 Head, fomc Idle, and Fain; fome Defperate, , 
 o\}ntxs impofsihle; at lafi: I pitcht upon one, that 
 feeme d to mefeifabley and praaieable. 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of great Mercy. 
 
 SECT. VI I r. 
 
 43 
 
 ■^ 
 
 7he ContrivMce for our Efcapc, the Tcr- 
 fans Acquaitttecl tvith it, and alfo thofe 
 that were Engaged in it 5 fome Debatct 
 about leaving my Patron. 
 
 HAving Formed the Dcfign, or at IcaH-, the 
 rude draught, and general Model of it , 
 my firft care was to open it to fome skilful and 
 faithful Coitnfellers, who might more imparti- 
 ally difcover to me it's inconveniences, where it 
 was like to prove leaky, or take w; d; And 
 firft, I acquainted Mr. Sprat, our Mmiftcr, 
 with it, and laid before him the whole of the 
 Contrivance ; and he fo far approved it, that 
 he judged it pofjlble : Next, I acquainted one 
 Robert Lake, a very wife and Religious Pcr- 
 fon, who beftowed his BlelTing on it, and wifh d 
 it all good Succefs : And laftly, I acquainted my 
 Friend John Randal , who approved it : Yet 
 noneof thefe««/^, ot would run the rifque of 
 it's mifcarriage. Mr. Sprat was already deli- 
 vered from his Patron, and in a fair way to be 
 abfolutely enlarged, in a more fafe and Regular 
 way, for not long after our Efcape came Cap- 
 jain Pack, oi London, and paid the fixty Dollars, 
 E 3 and 
 
^ A Small Merwmtnt 
 
 and took him along with him for En>'lar,d: John 
 ;?W./hadaWife, and Child, and thcfc were 
 ,.. dear fledges to be left bchwd and yet too 
 tender things to undergo our Difficulties : ^o- 
 bert Lake was an Jncent Perfon, and nuther 
 able M^vely to be carried in, nor aihvd) to car- 
 ry on a Dclfgn that required much hardmefs of 
 Body and Mind to endure, and much lircngthto 
 CO through with it ; we had nothing niorc from 
 Them than Fraycrs and Connfels, which yet was 
 the main; and then my next care was, to take 
 in Partners, and Accomplices in the Defign 
 
 And herein I had a three-fold Refped: Firlt, 
 £0 fuch as were necefar.ly required to Form the 
 inftrument of our Efcapc and Deliverance : bc- 
 condly, to fuch, whofcrr_yf^, and approved Ft- ^ 
 deltty I might prefumc would be objlmately, and . j 
 J?./,?,.«y2v/f<:m in-concealing it: Thirdly, to ^ 
 fuch! McConragecfMind, and firen^th of , 
 ^<,^v would render them capable to purfae the < 
 ends of ity to put it in Execution, and go through i 
 with It. n. 
 
 But before I would reveal the Projedt to any , 
 of them in particular, I Required an Oath ot\ 
 Secrefie: Thatyvbereas J flwuld now reveal to 
 htm, or them, a matter of great concernment \o 
 their Happinefs and Well-fare, they pM Jo- 
 lemnlypromife, andfwear, that in cafe they did 
 not approve it, or Xfould not ]oyn tn ttj yet they 
 (Iwtild, neither direaiy, nor tndireaiyjor fear,, 
 crfiatteryy difcover ih or the Perfons engage A. ^ 
 
 Of Great Mcrey. 4S 
 
 in it, to ar.y Perfon whatfoever. When a Pro- 
 iea was once mentioned, which promitcd in- 
 Seneral therr Happ,nefs .ndlVell-fare, I needed 
 not tell them in particular what it drove at, they 
 could fmcU out that with cafe ^ for what could 
 he Good, or Happy to Slaves withoHt L>b^''y, 
 This Oath therefore they willingly took -. I judg- 
 ed fcven Perfons would bc enough to manai^c, 
 carry on, and Execute it ; and therefore except 
 the three fore-mcntioncd, I communicated it to 
 no one Perfon but thcfe following, who engaged 
 in it, though all of them did not go through 
 with it. John Anthony, a Carpenter, who 
 had been a Slave ffteen Tears ; his Trade fu - 
 ficicntly(hews, how ufeful he would prove in 
 thToein. IVUUam Adams who fmcc h.s 
 Captivity, had learnt and u^ed ^he Trade of a 
 Bricklayer : his Serviccablcncfs in it w ill be evi- 
 dent in L'fequeU he had been a Slave eleven 
 Years, hhn jcphs, who was a Seaman, and 
 muft therefore be prefumed one of the ^™ 
 in a Projea of this Nature; he had cndur.d 
 Slavery about five Years, lohn--. a Carp n- 
 tcr, who was a skilful Man m h.s Trade, Lully 
 of Body, andthcreforemuftbe a good Wheel 
 I this Engine , and he had been a Save 
 five Years: And two others, whofe Employ- 
 ment it was to walh Onall Cloaths at the Sea- 
 fide, and thofe had alfo their parts in carrying on 
 the work, though they went not along with us ; 
 and W'lt'^'"Okjley, who prefeots tbc Rc^er 
 £4 ^'i" 
 
 T\\ 
 
46 A Small Moniimtnt 
 
 with this Narrative, who was taken jiugufl 1 1.' 
 1659. and Efcapcdjwwe 30: 1644. thefemade 
 up the Number of 7. There arofe a ScmpUy 
 nay, it amounted to a ^e/lton, whether to at- 
 tempt an Efcape from my Patron, one that fo 
 dearly Lovaime, fo coHrtcou/ly treated mc,had 
 fo fairly boHobt me^ were juftifiable before God 
 and Men/ 
 
 And, I. It might be a Quertion in point 
 of Prudence -y for, where could I hope to 
 mendmyfelf} Or better my Condition.' I might 
 poflibly find worfe Qnarter in England^ where 
 the Civil Wars were now broke out , and to 
 that height of cxafpcration, that thofc of the 
 fame Nation, and, perhaps, Blood, would 
 hardly giyc ^wrrrr of Life to one another : If 
 the Name of Native Coumrey bcwitcht me, if 
 That da7.1ed my Eyes ; furely jv^f-fwr we are 
 Well is our Coumrey, and all the World « Home 
 to him that thrives all over the World : And why 
 (hould the Name of Bondage, why fhould a 
 jvor*/ grate fo harfhly upon my delicate Spirit ^ 
 when the fting of it was taken away ? Liberty 
 is ^good word; but a Man cannet buy a Meals 
 meat with a word: And Slavery is a hard word, 
 but it breakj no mans back, Tboufands are more 
 Slaves than I, who are yet their own Alafters, 
 and left at Liberty than niy fcif, who have the 
 free raks^ndran^eof the whole World. But 
 yet my Patron's favour was no free hold; I held 
 pot tny Happy time in fttfrrfit, all was advo- 
 
 Inn: 
 
 Of Great Mercy, 47 
 
 luntatem Domini ; bcfides , he might dye, and 
 leave me to another ; or Live to StU me to ano- 
 ther, who might be of another Charailer, and 
 then my Condition would be therefore worfe , 
 bccaufc I had known a be tar. 
 
 2. It might be QueHioned in point of Jnge- 
 nitity, how I could be fo unworthy to leave him, 
 who had Loved mc? Would not all that (hould 
 hear of it, Condemn me if ill Nature, to leave 
 without taking leave, one that had been a Fa- 
 ther tome, who might have ufcd the Right of 
 it Lord ; and ufcd mc as a Child, who might have 
 treated mc as a Slave ? But really I thought 
 there was more of M^mners and Conrtjlitp in 
 thcOh]c{i\or\,zh!iT\oiwci?ht , and Cogency : Stijl 
 I dwelt with 'SAcihcch, ai/dhad my Habitation 
 ar^on^fi the Tents ^/Kcdar ; and one thought 
 of England, and of its Liberty and Gofpcl con- 
 futed a thoifand fiich ObyHtons , and routed 
 whole Legions of thefe little Scruples. It was 
 no time to lUnd upon the Pimfliho's of Honour 
 and Ingenuity ; no time to Complement , and 
 Jhatn coiirtcjie ; here was no Farcwcl Patron, 
 in the Cafe, and therefore I foon ovcr-came that. 
 
 But, 3. It might be Qucftioned in the Court 
 of Confcience, whether it were not down-right 
 Theft to with- draw my felf from hts Service, 
 who had bought mc, pAid for mc, enter'' d upon 
 mc, pcffcfs'd, and en]oy''d mz, as his own pro- 
 per Coodsi and now I wits not mv own, had no 
 right to rpy flfi Whether mignt not a M^n be 
 ' • ' fth 
 
h^4 
 
 48 -^ Small Monument 
 
 felo de fcy in jlc^ilin£ hiwfelf, as well as killing 
 lArrJcip And whether he is not the greater /«//- 
 robber^ that Ikals (iw.'iy hnnfe/f, than he that 
 fteals awiyfrom himfclf ? But I much qucftion- 
 cd their propriety to me ; my Patron's Title was 
 rotten at the Foundation : Man is too Noble a 
 XHreature to be made fubjcd to a deed of bar- 
 gain and Sale ; and my con/en t was never ask'd 
 to all their bargains, which is Efentialytoacztc 
 a right of Dominion over a Rational Creature, 
 where he was not born a fiibjecl. If I had for- 
 feited my Life or Liberty, the Law might take 
 it ; but I was not Confcious to my fclf of any 
 fiich forfeiture, but that I was at my awn Dif- 
 'pfal. 
 
 Thus all was clear and quiet, and we went on 
 with our Dcfign , which I now fir.l: opened to 
 them : That I had contrived the Model of a 
 Boat, which being formed in parcels, and after- 
 wards put together, might, by the fupcr-intcn- 
 dcncyof Divine Providence, proves;/ ylrk^zo 
 deliver us out of the hands of our Enemies. This 
 wasfoonfaid, and greedily entertained; to E- 
 fcape was a pleafant word, the Name of Liberty 
 made Mufick in our Ears, and our wifhing hearts 
 danced to the Tune of tt ; and a Boat was as pro- 
 rniftngameans as any thing could be imagined : 
 But when once their thoughts cooled, and came 
 more fedately to look into the difficulties of it, 
 they appeared innumerable, and fome of them 
 |[J:emcd infuDenfble j and fonje things that had 
 - pad 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 49 
 
 nail currant in my own thoughts, and [ went 
 clever away with them, without any rub ; yet 
 when t'-cy came to be pierced into with more 
 JEyes, an:. fc-nnM upon more Fingers, they were 
 attended with confiderable impediments : where 
 this Boat fhouU be built , was one daggering 
 Queition : Where it (hould be Launched, and 
 where put to Sea, was a choaking Objc(ftion : 
 How vvc fhould efcapc thofe y^r^/«-eyes, which 
 arc always obfcrvingus by Day, was a gravel- 
 ling Qucery ; or how to get out of the City by 
 Night, whofc Walls are fo high, whofe Gates 
 arc fo dofe fliut, and firongly Guarded, was 
 another vexatious Quxry : How we fliould be 
 Rigged and Vi(ftuallcd for fuch a Voyage, was 
 a confiderablc enquiry : and whither we Oiould 
 dcfi"n, was not to be ilighted. But hov/fnch a 
 littUSkjfi rather than Bout, (Tiould be able 10 
 yVeathcr all the Accidents of the Sea, was 4 
 Netk^Qj*eflion, enovghto Jirangle Faith, and 
 flifle Hi with Defp.-'ir. 
 
 To thefc Objedions , I Anfwered. That 1 
 had dtCgncd r,y own Cellar, as the mcetcll place 
 wherein to bialdihe Boat ; that when it was there 
 Built, it might be taken j^p/Vm ^^^.w;, and car- 
 ried out of the City m parcels, and beflowed m 
 private places till things were npefer Executi- 
 on. That for a place where to put to Sea, it 
 would be time enough to dctennine upon that 
 when we had finifh'd our Vcflc! : That M^york, 
 ^vas the mqft commodious place to defign to 
 
50 ^ SmAll Aioiiument 
 
 Land in : But in general I told them to this pur- 
 fofc ; That if wc never attempted any thing till 
 we had Anfwered tfllObjeiHons,\ve muit fit with 
 our Fingers in our Mouths all our days,and pine, 
 and languifli out our tedious Lives in Bondage: 
 Let Hi be up and doings and God would be with 
 iu. To bey in w one half of our work^ : Let US 
 make an Eflay, and Anfwer particular OhjcCii- 
 onsastheyOfTcr'dthemfclves, and as we met 
 with them in our work. That the Projed had 
 it J difficulties J was confclTcdj but what has 
 not, that is Commendable, and GlortoM ? Yet 
 whatever difficulties and dangers we could meet 
 with, Liberty^ kept in our iye^ would fweeten 
 the dangers wc might encounter in Attempting. 
 They were all well fatisfied with what was faid, 
 and all engaged to venture the utmoil they were, 
 *iw<^^rf</, toaccomplifhit. 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 
 SECT. IX. 
 
 II f: ' 
 
 The Model of the Boat ^ ^Carrying it out of 
 the City^ And bcfiomng it in conveni- 
 ent Places. 
 
 IN the Cellar where wc had Worfhip'd God, 
 • we began our Work ; and it was not the Ho- 
 linefs, but the Privacy of the place that invited 
 us, and advifcd us to it. And firfl, we provi- 
 ded apiece of Timber. about twelve Foot long, 
 to maks the Keel: But bccaufe it was impolTibIc 
 to convey a piece of Timber of that length out 
 of the City, but it mull be feen ; and of that 
 Ihape, but it muil be fufpe^ed, and that Sufpi- 
 on would bring us into Examination , and the 
 Rack., or B-ntoon might extort a Confeffwn out 
 of the moft refolved, and ehjlinate breaji y wc 
 therefore cut it in two pieces^ and fitted it for 
 Joynting, juft in the middle. Our next cue 
 was the Timbers , or Ribs of the Boat, which 
 v/c contrived thus ; every one of the Timbers 
 was made of three pieces, and joyntcd in two 
 f laces, bccaufe a whole Rib at its full length , 
 would be lyablcto the fame inconveniences with 
 the Keel. Now undcrftand, that the joynts of 
 the Ribs were no: made with AUrtice, andTe. 
 
 a«n. 
 
^ ^ A Small Monument 
 
 ifotty but the flit fide of one of the three pieces 
 was laid over the other, and two holes were bo- 
 red at every joynt, into which two Natls wcxd 
 to be put, when wc fhouid '^oyn the parcels of our 
 Boat together : You mult undcrfland further , 
 that iheje two holes at every joynt were not made 
 in AJfrait line^parttLel With the fides of the pieces, 
 for then the three pieces, which make one Rib, 
 being joyncd together would have made one 
 Jirait piece; a Form which would by no means 
 comport with the life and Dcfign of the Tim- 
 bers; But fo, that when hoth the Nails were in 
 the holes, each Joynt would make «« ebtiife tin- 
 gle, and fo incline fo near towards a Semi-Circu- 
 Jar Figure, as our Occafion required. All this 
 while here is no vifible Prcvifion made for 
 hoards, to cloath the naked Ribs of our Boat, 
 without which, the Keel and Timbers looked 
 but like an ufelcfs Anatomy ; but neither had 
 we , nor was it pofTiblc we fhouid have any 
 boards in our Veficl: t^cccjfny is the belt Arti- 
 ficer when all is done, if we except her Silter 
 ContiJigcncy ; to which two the World has been 
 behoMen for the molt ufeful Inventions, which 
 at this day do eafe the Labour and Toyl of wea- 
 ried Mankind. For the Joynting of thefe boards, 
 and the Nailing of them, to make the Boat Wa- 
 tertite, would require fuch Hammerings and 
 that Hammering would make fwh a clamcurom 
 Echo in the Cellar, as mull have drawn upQn 
 us the Jealous Eyes of the jilgerints, who 
 al/oHt 
 
 Of Great Mercy. J % 
 
 about their Wives and Slaves are infiipportably 
 fiifpicioiu .• And therefore from the firlt Con- 
 ception of the Dcfign, I always refolved upon 
 a CanvM : In purfuancc of which thought, be- 
 in" all'fatisfied that it was praatcMe;\vc bought 
 aslnuch ftrong Canvas as would cover our Boat 
 twice over, upon the Convex of the Carine. 
 We provided alfo as much Pitch, Tar, and 
 Tallow as would ferve to make it a kind of /« 
 Tarpawltn Sear-cloath , to fwaddle the n^ked 
 body of onr Infant-Boat : With Earthen Pots 
 to melt done our Materials in ; and prcfixt a 
 night wherein we might Execute that part of our 
 Labour The two Carpenters, and my fclf were 
 appointed to this Service, and the Cellar was 
 the place where we met. Matters had hither- 
 to run on very evenly, and fmootlily, but here 
 we met with fome difcouragmp rubs. For when 
 we had ftopt all the Chinks and Crannies of the 
 Cellar, that thefteame of the melted Materials 
 might not creep out, and betray us, (there be- 
 ing no Chimney, ) we had not been long at our 
 work before 1 felt my felf exceeding fick, with 
 the ftrong, -and unufual fcent of the melted Li- 
 quor ; I was forced to go out into the ftreets to 
 oafp for breath, where meeting with the cool 
 ^/r, it overcame me, Lfwooned, fell down, 
 brake my Face, and there lay : My Compa- 
 nions miifing me, made out to feek me, found 
 me in this fad plight, and carried me m again , 
 though exceeding fick, and unferviceable. They 
 
 f\ 
 
 I ■ 
 
5+ 
 
 A Small Aionument 
 had not proceeded much further before I heard 
 one of them complain he was fick, and cou'd 
 proceed no further , and now our work Itood 
 ftill .• I plainly faw that our hopeful Pro]e[ly that 
 had hitherto fo fraoothly proceeded, mud needs 
 mifcarry, and prove Abortive; for it would be 
 impofTible to finifh it thif mght : and if we once 
 farted, and fuffcred our Spirits ro cool over the 
 Defigtty they would never ceafc cooling till they 
 were jhnecold, and bard frozen \ and there- 
 fore I advifed to fet open the Door, and coni- 
 mit our felves, and our work to Gods Prutecfti- 
 on : For I told them they could not but know", 
 that // any Difcovery were made , the burden 
 would fall heaviefi upon rr.y JJjoulders. ; and my 
 Mack, or Feet mnfi pay for all. At length, we 
 refolved to fet the Ceilar-door wide open, and 
 as foon as that was done, and the fteame pretty 
 well gone out, we came to our felves again,cou- 
 tigioufly went on with our bufinefs, and pitched 
 one half that Night. The next Night we met 
 again, fet open the Door, and whilft they plyed 
 the work, I ftood Sentinel at the Door to give 
 Notice of approaching danger ; but wc happily 
 finifh"d the whole, and while it was yet dark , 
 carried it to my Shop, which was about a Fur- 
 long from the Cellar, and there at prefent fecu- 
 red it. 
 
 I fhall notqueftion the Readers Ingenuity fo 
 much , but that he will fuppofe there goes a 
 Meat deal mere to a ^oat than I have defcribcd j 
 
 but 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 55- 
 
 but what (hould I trouble him with thofe things 
 that are common to all other Boats, I mention 
 oncly what was peculiar to oiir own; and I do 
 not intend to trouble him with the Boat-wri^ht s 
 LcUure. 
 
 In our Cellar we fitted all things, we made 
 the T'mbcrs fit to the Keel, and the Canvas fit 
 for the Timbers, and the Scats fit to the whole, 
 and then took all in pieces again, and laying our 
 Heads together, plotted how to convey all out 
 of the Town, and lodge them in fecure and tru- 
 fty places. 
 
 And fird, for oar iCeel, wc all with unani- 
 mous confcnt judged IVill. yid.^ms the fitte't 
 Perfon to Execute that part of the Dcfign, for 
 he had long Excrcifcd the Trade of a Brick-Iay- 
 cr, and his Employment lay much without the 
 Town, and befiJes he ufcd fuch pieces in level- 
 ling his work. He therefore, accoutred with 
 his Apron before him, his Trowel tn his hand^anc 
 one of the pieces upon his (lioulder, undertook 
 it, and without the lea(l Obfcrvation went cle- 
 verly away with it, and as he faw his Opportu- 
 nity, hiJ it in the bottom ofa Hedge ; and not 
 long after conveyed out its Fellow, and Lodged 
 it in the fame place. This fuccceding fo hap- 
 pily, we faw no great difficulty /« ih: Timbers, 
 for we put one nail into a hole of every jopr,and 
 then you will eafily conceive, that the two ex_ 
 treme pieces of one Rih being folJcd inward^ 
 upon the middlcmojl, will lye tn the room of on ^ 
 F ./ 
 
 u 
 
e6 A Small Monument 
 
 of the pieces for length, excepting that little that 
 the oidscf I'ich piece were beyond the holes: 
 Now, by general confcnt, the conveying thefo 
 out of the City was committed to one, whofe 
 Employment was to wafh fmall C!oaths by the 
 Sea-fide : He puts them into his bag amongit his 
 Cloaths, andfo very ordcrlycarried them out, 
 and hid them where he could find moj} commodt- 
 oiti fiowaf^e, hut yet wtih Refpe[i to nearnefs to 
 ih.it p/,rcc\vhcrc the Keel was laid. 
 
 But how to convey our TarpawUn fafc out of 
 Townfeemcd molt difficult ; by Night it was 
 impolTible, and by Day the difficulties very con- 
 fidcrable, and the danger proportionable ; for the 
 Gates arc ftri(fHy watch'd, thc5rrm; crowded, 
 the Spies Pickeertno in every corner, and the 
 bidk^ of the CarwM thus drcffed was very great. 
 To divide It had been to nune our fclves, for no 
 pitching together again, could fo cheat the fear- 
 chin^ water, but it would find out the needle- 
 hole). At laft we ventured upon this way ; wc 
 put it into a large Sack, and committed it to him 
 that ufed to wafi) Cloaths , and left any fhould 
 clap a jealous hand upon it, we put a Pillow ovet 
 our Canvas within the Bag, that fo its foftnefs 
 might delude the Inquifitor, and make it pafs 
 for Cloaths. Let none defpife, or condemn thcfc. 
 as low, n.ean pieces of contrivance, for we had 
 not Polititiaris tools towork^ withal:, but the Icfs 
 wzs our Policy, the more glorious docs tbewif 
 (torn of God Ihine in fucceeding it, and yet even 
 
 that 
 
 Of Great Aiercy, ej 
 
 that little Policy wc were guilty of, was of i 
 beftowin^'Mo ; what of fin was in all of it, was 
 mtixc\y our own; what of PotVf r, Wifdoni,and 
 Siiccefs, was all his : But our Agent cfcaped 
 happily with it, and Lodging it in a fccret place, 
 returned. 
 
 Wc had yet many things to provide, and 
 Oars arc abfolutely ncccHary, they were of the 
 Quorum to an Efcape by Sea : As Finns arc the 
 fijhes Oars, foOars are the Boats Finns, by 
 help whereof fhe makes her way : Now, to 
 fupply this defed, wc took two Pipe-flaves,mA 
 flitting them a crofs from corner to corner with 
 a Handfaw, we made of each Pipc-ihft" two 
 Rude things, which NccefTity was pleafed to 
 entitle The blades for a pair of Oars, and thefc 
 were eafily conveyed out,without fufpition. 
 
 Next, we confidcred, that /'/-ot////o« mufl be 
 laid in for o//r AVy.?^f ; and therefore wc provi- 
 ded iz/w<j//, and but a fmall cjHantity of 'heal, 
 prefumingour Itay at Sea mufl be but fhort; 
 for cither we ihould fpccdily /-^cowr Land, or 
 fpccdily be drown'd, or fpecdily be brouq^ht back^ 
 affain: Two Goats skins alio, itript off whole, 
 and fo Tann'd ( a kin i of Bottle much ufed by 
 the Al^erines to carry Milk and Water in ) we 
 had, which we lined with frejh water, and we 
 knowr^^rr mu.t wccdsbe a ^reat Rarity in the 
 Afedtterrancan. 
 
 We remeinbred alfo that a Sail might be of 
 
 right .good ufe to us for Expedition, ani thcre- 
 
 F 2 fore 
 
 V} 
 
^ g A Small Monument 
 
 fore \vc boiigl t IS much Canvaas would y^3- 
 Jwer ih.it t"d, and when fonie Difputc was 
 mule about can yiiig it out, I Offered to under- 
 take r/j.jr /.i.*/pr; .;/ owr work^: 1 had not gone 
 a quarter of a Mile, but as 1 cafr my wary eye 
 hjck, I efpycd the f^me Sptc, who oace before 
 \ id feizcd me, and given me trouble, follow- 
 i.i^inc very roundly." My Heart began to akcj 
 I was loth.! Defignof fo near, ard dear con- 
 icrn^r.an to alt of m, (liould be brought, to the 
 Bpth, .ind there jlionld be no jhength tobnn_'T 
 forth. It's fad, after n Voyage, to Ship- wrack 
 in the Haven, butme-thought it was n.ore fad 
 tofiuk^n reffel before it could be Launched: /,nd 
 here 1 firil found the difference between hwo- 
 cciice and Ctnlt ^ for how boldly could I hold up 
 my Headtorfcw5p/f, andhis^f/rfr;, (atleaft, 
 hs Maftcrs) wheni was not Confcious of any 
 ■fuch Difgn in hand ? Whereas now tl c Fc- 
 flcaion of tny Confcicnce was enough to write 
 a ink mtry Coiuitcn.ince, (forfomc things arc 
 fin there which arc not fo in other pbces ; ) and 
 thij had betray 'd me, had I not fuddenly pluckt 
 up mv Spirits, and fpyingan En/It jh-ma?i wafh- 
 ing Cioaths by the Sea, I went the ready way to 
 him, and defii ed him to help me walh that Can- 
 vas ; as wc were wafhing it, the learing Spye 
 cnme. and flood upon the Rock jufl over our 
 Heads to watch our motions : As foon as we had 
 a little formJIy wafh'd it, to caft a Mill: before 
 his Obfcrving Eycs,I took the Canvas and fpread 
 
 Of great Mercy. 5 j 
 
 it before his Face upon the top of the Rock to 
 dryj he ftaid his own Time, and then march'd 
 off. But I was as Jealous of Iiim, as he could 
 be of me for his Heart-, and therefore fcarinc* 
 he might lye in Ambufh for mc, took it when 
 'twas dry, and very fairly carried it back in'o 
 the City, and faithfully acquainted my Accom- 
 plices how the Matter fquared. Th'S Difcoura- 
 ged them not a little, for that they fccincd timo- 
 rous to proceed in the Enterprizc. 
 
 Atlalt we comforted, and encouraged one 
 another, and entred into ciofe Counfel ; where 
 we fhould meet that Ni^ht ? At wh.'.t time ? 
 Where we fhould fitt our ^oat together., and 
 where fut to Sea ? The Time was, an hour with- 
 in Night; the Rendevoux on a Hill-, about 
 half a Mile from the Sea; and fo wc d fperfed, 
 fome one way, fomc another ; and privily lurk- 
 ing in Hedges and Ditches, lay clofc till the time 
 appointed. 
 
 There is one thing that the Reader will be 
 ready to ask, and I ihall be r^ore ready to An- 
 fwer him for a fpecial Reafon : viz.. What I 
 did with my Shop and Goods ? W hen I had once 
 Refolved upon this Adventure, and faw it go on 
 hopefully, I gave my Patron my wonted Vifits, 
 kept fair Correfpondence, paid him his demands 
 duly, but fecretly I made off my Goods as fall 
 as I could, and turn'd all into ready Money .• I 
 had a Trunk, for which John Anthony made me 
 I fal ft bottom; into which I put what ii'.veror 
 F 3 Goli 
 
 m 
 
 ^1 
 
 LJ 
 
^o A Small Monnment 
 
 Gold 1 had • and into the Body of the Trunk , 
 what ever it would /jcW,and was worthy holding : 
 This Trunk I committed privately to the Fidelity 
 of ourdcarMinilkr, Mr. Sprat -^ he took the 
 charge of it, and he was now ready to receive: 
 his full Difcharge. This Trunk he F^uhfully 
 Secured, and carefully brought over, and as ho- 
 neflly delivered to me when he heard I was conic 
 fafe to London-, and 1 was willing to move that 
 Quejiton, merely for the Atifvuers fttke-, whicli 
 Witncflcs/;«f»Wr/>7, 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of CrtAt Mercy. 
 
 SECT. X. 
 
 The putting of our Boat together, the Dif- 
 ficulties vpc metwiththcrcin-i and our 
 putting out to Sc.i, June 30. 1644. 
 
 AS foonas wc were met all together at the 
 appointed place, wc began to think of I'.x- 
 ccuting our long intended Dclign ; but wc were 
 Divided in our Counfels, where to begin our 
 work : It had been a Queftion propounded be- 
 fore, and we thought wc had fully Refolved upon 
 the place ; but at our Nketing wc were lir.wgcly 
 dtfcompofed : There '^cxc two pUccs which fl:ood 
 in Competition, each pretending good Conve- 
 niences for that end. The one was .(//<//, al.out 
 half a Mile from the Sea ; the other was it ral- 
 ley, cncompaflcd with two Hedges, about a 
 Furlong from the Hill, but of the fame diftancc 
 with it from the Sea : It was urged for the Val- 
 ley, that it was a place of r/}ore Secrecy and Pri- 
 vacy, lefs obvious to view \ but then it was ob- 
 je(fted, that we might there be furprizcd, and 
 feiz.ed by the Clutches of our Enemies, e'rc wc 
 could have notice to fhift for our felvcs .• For the 
 Hill, it had been Argued, that we might there 
 make better Difcovery of Danger, and nutke 
 Provifwi to avoyd it ; and in (horc, we all agreed 
 F 4 ovit 
 
 i_J 
 
62 u4 Smiill Afoniimcnt 
 
 ncr mgl:t., to put our Boat together nfon the 
 J Jill ; promifing our fclvcs muth Advant.igc 
 Uomiti Sitti.iiitou : But when wc were met, 
 wc all altered our Rcfolution wuhcut any rijitle 
 ilajon, and carried it for the Valley : God is 
 nnieh/w//;f d.i)k^tett)^ but all our ways «^f /« 
 the open Light to him. It s very ditTicult to give 
 an Account \vh,:t Gcdis dumg at \ rcfcnt, but wc 
 fhall know, if wc can but patiently wait till fit- 
 t;i c I'rovidthccs Comment upcn the firn.ir: 
 And in a while wc faw thcRcafon why Cod over- 
 ruled our purpofcs. 
 
 We had hid fcvcral of our Materials near the 
 top of W;f/y///, where alio grew a fma II Fig-tree, 
 which wc had marked with our Lye, as Judging 
 it would beufeful to (IrengthentheKcelof our 
 Boat : Two of our Company were immediately 
 difpatchtto faw down this Ft^-Trcc, and bring 
 it, and the pare Is of our Boat there difpofited, 
 away with them : They were hardly come to 
 the place, bi;t we heard Dogs bark about the 
 top of the Kill, and indeed two Men with Dogs 
 came very near them ■, but our Men being aware, 
 lay clofc and ftill, and fo they palTed by without 
 making any Difcovery, and then our Men be- 
 itirr'd thcmfelves, and brought away the Fig- 
 Tree, and the other Materials, and returned to 
 us. 
 
 And now wehadonccmore brought the fcat- 
 tcr'd Limbs of our Boat into one place, which, 
 JUve Uiole ot AIH)niUj had been diffcrfcd up 
 
 Of Great Mercy. (, 5 
 
 and down the Fields : It was no time to trif c , 
 and therefore wc all buckle to our work in good 
 carnefi: : But we were fo niih fomc that were at 
 work in the Ne ghbouring Gardens, that wc 
 could hear them (peak, and therefore mull needs 
 fuppofe they might hear us too; and therefore 
 wc /(Tied by Signs, and pointed, and pulled, 
 andno.lded, but were ^/Z yJ-Z/./f^ : Itmighthivc 
 been an Expedient for the Builders ot Babel, 
 ■ when their Languages were Divided , to* have 
 carried on their grcit Projed by Signs ^ but cer- 
 tainly there was Confufiun poured out nfon their 
 Hearts and Cvunfels, as well as Divifion in their 
 Tongues and Languages. 
 
 The tu'o parts of our Keel wc foon joyncd ; 
 then opening the Timbers, wh.ch had abeady 
 one JS/ailtn every Joynt, wc groped out for //;(? 
 ether hole, and put its Nail into it : Then wc 
 opcnd them at their full length, and applyed 
 them to the top of the Keel, failning them with 
 Hope-Tarn, and fmall Cords; and fo we ferved 
 all the Joynts to keep thcm/jrw andftable ; then 
 we bound f,jall Canes all along the Ribs length- 
 ways, both to' keep the Kihsfrottjvering, and 
 alfo to bear out the Camas very fltff again fl the 
 frefftng Water : Then WC made Notches upon 
 the ends of the Ribs,' or Tttr.birs, wherein the 
 Oars night plye ; and having tycd down the SeatSi 
 and flrengthncd our Keel with the Fig-Tree, we 
 lalily drew on our double Canvas Cafe, already 
 fitted :,znd really the Convm kemdilVtnding- 
 
 t'\] 
 
 m 
 
 u 
 
64 
 
 A SmAll Monument 
 
 jheet for our Eoaf^ and our ^oat a Coffin for 
 tu all. 
 
 This done, four of our Company took it upon 
 their flioulders, and carried it down towards the 
 Sea, which was about half a Mile off.- It was 
 a little Rcprcfcntation of a Funeral, to fee the 
 four'Qcarers Marching in deep fiiencc.withfome- 
 thing very like ,! /^fry?, a>id Coffin, upon their 
 flioulders, and the rcfl of us decently attcnauig ■ 
 the Ceremony, huiwew.inted Torches, and be*- 
 fidcs, it's not ufual for any to wait upon their own 
 Coffins : But wc durit not grudge our Boat that 
 ffy.^ll, and Lift Office, to carry it half a Affile, 
 for we expeded, it fhould repay us that Ser- 
 vice and Civility with Intercit, in carrying us 
 ?rany a League : We Carried it at Land, where 
 it could Hotfwim ; that it might carry us at Sea, 
 where we could not walk, As we went along, 
 they thit were in the Gardens heard us pifling 
 by, and called to us, who comes there f But it' 
 was dark, and we hid no mind to prate, and 
 therefore without an, AnlVcr, wc filcntly held 
 on our way. 
 
 When wc came to the Sca-fidc, wc immedi- 
 ately itript our fclvcs naked, and putting our 
 Cloaths into the Boat, carried it, and them, as 
 far into the Sea as we could wade ; and this wc 
 did, led ct4r tender Boat fliould be torn again ft 
 the Stones or Rockj ; and then all fcven of us 
 got into her : But here wc foon found how our 
 Skill in Calculating the Lading of our V'efTel fail- 
 ed 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 6$ 
 
 cd us : For wc were no fooncr Embarqued, 
 but fhc was ready to fink under us, the water 
 coming in over the fides ; fo that once again wc . 
 mult entertain new Counfels •, at laft, one, whofc 
 Heart mojl failed htm, was willing to fhut out, 
 and rather hazard the uncertain Torments of the 
 Land, than certainly be drown' d at Sea ; then 
 ■ we made a fecond Experiment, but ftill fhe was 
 fo deep Laden, that wc all concluded there was 
 no venturing out to Sea : At length, another 
 went afliore, and then flic held up her Head ve- 
 ry ftoutly, and feem'd hearty enough for our 
 Voyage. 
 
 It was time now to commit, and Commend 
 our felves, and Veflelto the Protedion, and 
 Condud of that God who Rules the Winds ay:d 
 the Waves, andwhofe Kingdom is in the dcip 
 Waters, irr.ploring Alercyfur the Pardon of oi-.r 
 Sins, and refigntng itj> our Souls to Cod-, •« '/ 
 we had been prefently to Suffer Death iy the 
 Hand of the Executioner. And taking our 
 Solemn Farewell of our two Companions, 
 whom wc left behind, and wifiiing them as 
 much Happinefs as could bc hoped for in 
 Slavery , and they to us as long a Life as 
 could be expcded by Men going to their 
 Graves; we Lannched out, upon the thir- 
 tieth day of June , in the Year of our 
 Lord , One Thoufand, Six Hundred, Forty, 
 and Four : A Night for ever' to bc re- 
 mcmbrcd 
 
 .t:|" 
 
 rt| 
 
(i<3 A Small Monument 
 
 mcmbrcd by his poor Creatures , who arc 
 cur fclvcs Lrcc.t Monuments of Divine Pro- 
 vidence , and do fct up this Little Monu- 
 rrent of his Goodncfs and Mercy, tharmay 
 furvive us, and bear up the Name of God 
 to after-times , that by us Men may Learn 
 to fut their Trufl in God : And the Bill of 
 Lading is as followcth; John Anthony^ WU- 
 ham Adamj, John Jephs, John-— Carpenter, 
 and Wtllmm Ok^ley. 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 
 
 SECT. X r. 
 
 67 
 
 7/.1C grcctt Extrcvtitics nv Endured at Sea 
 for SixD.tjif, tinci Sights, iviththcCo- 
 jnctdcfit Providences of Cod that ap- 
 peared for its itionr Extremities, and 
 our Mir ant lo Its Landirg rff Mayork, 
 'July 6. 1644. 
 
 WE arc now out at Sea without HeIm,or 
 Pilot ; without Anchor , Tackle, or 
 Ccmpifs ; but God was thfe, all tbcfe, and 
 more than. ill thefc. Our Number was Small, 
 our Work was Creat, we could not afford one 
 Idle Hand, not one Idle Ffocr : Four of the 
 Company continually wrought at the Oars; and 
 indeed wcir>-o//.;/;f /i/r o;(r Lrjcj , and then I 
 fhall not need to' fay how m n-roKfIn : But this 
 1 IJutll fay, I an trnly fay it, 1 never faw ibength 
 fo drained, nor the utmolt of what Nature 
 could do iorL-fe ^W L^im>, exerted fo much 
 >n all my Life. The Employment of the hfth 
 Man was more eafie, but no Icfs nece(rary,which 
 was to free the Boat of that Water , which by 
 Degrees leak'c through our Canvas. 
 
 We Labourd the harder thit Nig^t,hcai\x\c 
 we would eladly be out of the Ken of our Old 
 
 "I 
 
 :tU 
 
C 8 A Small Monument 
 
 Maflcrs ^^ Z).7 ; but when Day appcar'd, wc 
 were yet within figh: of thcirShips,that lay in the 
 Haven, and Road, and off the Land : But our 
 Boat being fmall, and lying clofc, and fnug up- 
 on the Sea, cither was not at ail Difcovercd,or 
 clfc fccmed fomcthing that was not worth the 
 taking up: A httlc hope in the midft oi great 
 Fears^ made us double, and redouble our Di- 
 ligence; wctugg'd at the Oars like thofe who 
 zrcChjin'dto the G allies^ becaufe we had no 
 mind to be Slaves to our Old Patrones in thctr 
 ijiiUies, 
 
 But upon all Occafions we found our want of 
 fore call, for now our Bread, which was to be 
 thc/lafi of our decayed ftrcngth, had lien foak- 
 ing in the Salt water, like a drunken Toafl fopt 
 in Brine, and was quite fpoyled : And our frefh 
 water in the Bottles itank of the Tanned Skins , 
 and Owze, having lyen fobbing in the Salt water, 
 which made it naufcous : But yet that hope that 
 hovcr'd over us, and flatter'd us that wc fhould 
 one day mend our Commons, fweetcn"d all a- 
 gain ; fo long as Bread was Breads we com- 
 plained not : Three days with good Husbandry 
 it laftcd, but then pale Famine (which is the 
 worft fhapc Death cm be painted in ) ikred us 
 in the Face ; And there was no fublitute for 
 Bread at Sea: At Land, the Roots of Grafs, the 
 tops of Trees, and the vileft Excrements have 
 fcrved to flop the clamour of a Ravenous Sto- 
 mach, but that which Slaves dcfpifcd,wc fhould 
 
 hivc 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 69 
 
 have admired, and prized : Water indeed we 
 might have, either cdd^ or hot ; we had choice, 
 but it was a hard choice : Either the cold fait 
 rvatir out of the Sea, or that warmer, which 
 had been drained through our Bodies, and that 
 wcchofe of the two, but we mull not have that, 
 after a while, unlcfs wc would firrt: Accept the 
 
 ' other : And the Milcry was, thefe did not af- 
 ■fwage our thirll:, but axreafe tt ; nor mcreafe 
 oar ftrength, but dir/.f/.-iJli it; yet thefe were 
 the means of Life : Strange means, that would 
 deflroy the End. 
 
 Several things added to our Mifery ; for trou- 
 ble fcldom comes folitary. For firil , wc had 
 the Wind for fame time full againfl: us : And this 
 was both an evil in n felf, an evil in its effcli , 
 .and an evil in its caufe. It was a great evil in it 
 felf; it ;«frf<j/(ri^ our Labour, and then defeat eJ 
 tt: We Rowed h.irder, to Icfs fiirpofe ; we mo- 
 ved ,but did not advance ; we f;^e»t our flrcngth 
 for noui^ht, and in vatn. It was an evil in tts 
 efefl ; ""for it engaged the U'.-.tcrs againfl us, and 
 drew them into us party. The Sea is a per felt 
 
 ' Neuter of it felf , and willing to maintain its 
 Neutrality; but the powcilul Winds drew her 
 into the Fadion : And that Sea which fcrves the 
 North to day, fhall comply with the m,ore pre- 
 vailing Soittio to Morrow ; for the Waves arc 
 the grc.it efi tune fervirs in the World: But it 
 was far the greatc;!: evU m its Caufe; for the 
 Winds bemz nzamlt tu . Argued that Cod was 
 again jt 
 
70 ji Small MonKtnent 
 
 agaitift /;/; for the Wind wc know was his: 
 He brings the Winds out of his Af'if/izJ>:es. We 
 were nowlbdifpiritcd, that wc debated , whc- 
 thtrwe jboitldbe.ir up with the Wuid., or rfujke 
 the be jl of our way^ and Row againfl it? That 
 is, whether it were not better to go back to ^Z- 
 gicrs with eafc , than painfully make towards 
 freedom? At Li f, like Pcrfons that though wc 
 knew not what to do, yctrefolved not to return; 
 wc refolved whilll we had Mfc , and Strength , 
 and Breath, we would itrugile with it: And 
 now the great God interpofed ; he rebuked his 
 IVinJ, kwas not tiyin/l M ; my, hc reconciled 
 his Wind, and it became our friend. I Ic that 
 can turn the Rivers in the South, could turn the 
 W.nd out of the North: Here we might have 
 had a notable demon "tration of Gods Sovereign- 
 ty. He determined i\\cQ_n.irtcr of the Wind, 
 the Qu.iniityo{ the Wind, andthc Cor,tinu4nce 
 of the Wind. The Quarter, whence it fhould 
 blow. The Quantity, bow much it fhou'd blow, 
 and the Continuance , how long it jliould blow. 
 The Quarter was our Enemy, the Continuance 
 had quite brought us to Dcfpair •, but had he 
 opened his Hand, and let out one blaft iwre, the 
 proud Waters had gone over our Souls, we had 
 fcripiedin the deep: But we fee that our times 
 are in Cods Hand ; the Ocean in the hollow of ' 
 the fane Hand, and the Winds in the fame hand, 
 and Happy it was for us, that we, and they , 
 were f.ll there. 
 
 A 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 71 
 
 A Second great Inconveniency was, that our 
 Labour wat without Jnterniijfton, though we ad- 
 vanced not forwards at many ftroaks, yet cclTa- 
 tion had driven us backwards. The poor Sen- 
 tinel thatihnds upon the Watch, yet comforts 
 himfeif that another will Relieve him; but we 
 had none to take the toyl ofFour Hands, and give 
 us Refpite .• Wc might)/;/// our places, but not 
 our pains, 
 
 A Third great Evil that lay fore upon us, was 
 the extremity of the heat by day; the Scafon 
 was Raging hot, being the beginning of July -^^ 
 the Climate was hot, being under, or about the 
 Fourth Climate; we wanted freOi Water to 
 cool the Heat, and were engaged in continual 
 Labour to enrage the heat, and all thefe made it 
 infupportable to our Bodies, and our little, or 
 no hope, ( which now like a Candle burnt down 
 to the Socket, did rather blink, than burn) made 
 it grtevoiti to our Souls. One iinall help we had 
 (if it was a help ) that the fifth Man, who cmp- 
 tyed the Boat of the Salt Water, threw it upon 
 the Bodies of the refi: to cool them ; But this was 
 a A'liferable Remedy , for our Bodies were fo 
 bleached between the fcorching Sun, and the 
 cooling Water, that they rofc up in B!i:krs all 
 over. Great pain we felt, great danger wewere 
 in, great Miferies were endured , great wants 
 we were under, and had nothing little, but hope, 
 food, kndflrength. By Day vVe were all ftark 
 Naked, t>y Night we had our Shirts, or loofe 
 ■ ', G ■ Coats, 
 
 I,. 
 
-2 A StmU Monument 
 
 Coats,.andthat wasallour Cloathing, the reft 
 we left aliiore to cafe our Boat, 
 
 If any fliall be fo Inquifitivc, as to ask , hy 
 what Direclioris wc fleered our Courfc, that we 
 did not tack about infcnfibly in the dark Night, 
 or Day ? He may know, that for theD^j, one 
 of the Company had rf Pocket Dyal, which fup 
 plycdthe place of the Compafs, e'nc welt e- 
 noiighforlucha VcfTcl, and fuch Mariners. By 
 Night, when the Stars appeared, WC had our 
 advice from them, and when they dif appeared, 
 weghcflcd at our way by the Motion of the 
 Clouds. 
 
 In this fad and woful ph'ght we continued four 
 Days and Nights ; on the fifth Day, we were 
 on the brinl{ of the brink, of defpair , and all 
 hope that we fhould be favcd, utterly pcriOicd. 
 And now, as Perfons dcfpairing of the End, wc 
 ccafcdto purfue/k means-, laid by our Oars, 
 left oil our Labour ; either wc had no flrength 
 left, or were loth to throw away that little wc 
 had to no purpofe, onely we kept ftill emptying 
 the Boat i loth to drown, loth to dye, yet knew 
 no ways to avoyd Death .• When the End is re- 
 n-.ovcd, all means perijli with it. 
 
 They that Ad leaft,commonly wi(h the mod: ; 
 thus when we had left frmtlefs Labour, wc fell 
 upon frmtlefs rvifies, that we might meet with 
 fome Vcffel, fome Ship to take us up : If it 
 was but a Ship, wc confidered no further ; Eng-- 
 lijhy or African, Tros, TyrihfX/e; all was a 
 Cafe .• 
 
 Of Great Mercy. yj 
 
 Cafe : Or if not, yet the worjl was better- than 
 ottrbadcifc; and therefore refolvcd, could wc 
 have Difcovcrcd any Ship, to have made to- 
 wards her, though it had been one of v^/^/;f >v. 
 How many wiiht tlicmfcivcs again i>i £c')pf, 
 when they Combated with the un cxp'c^ed 
 Difhcultics of the Wtldcmefs I How oft have 
 the People of God been more afraid of the means 
 of their' Dcltvtrance , than of their Danger ! 
 When Chriil came to favchis Difciplcs frorn the 
 Storm, yctbccaufc he came in a way uncouth, 
 and uncxpe(ffcd, they cryed ot-.t for fear. Mat. 
 14. 26. Whether the Reader will pity, or con- 
 demn us, I know not ; but to that pafs were we 
 now brought, that we would have accepted Life 
 upon any terms not bafe andfi>,fiil, and whether 
 we fhould have ftuck at fnch or w, I have no fuch 
 fccuriry from my own Heart as to rcfolvc 
 him. 
 
 Whilil wc were at this dead tbbe of Hope, 
 the Great God, whofe mofl Glorious Oiportn- 
 mty tohclp, is his CxaXuxcs^rcateft Exircmi- 
 ty: He that appeared for Abruhar^ in the 
 Mount, and to the three Toung Men in the Fie- 
 ry Furnace ; he that Delivered Ifrael at the Sea, 
 at the Red Sea; he who times all his Mercies 
 for their Advantage : even He fent us fome Re- 
 lief, and a little Rehcf is great, \n great exigen- 
 ces. As we lay hulling -up and do\vn, we'Dif- 
 covered a Tortoife ?iot far from us aflccp in the 
 Sea. Had the great Drake Difcovered the Spa. 
 G 2 v,jh 
 
"j^ yi Small Afonitn-.ent 
 
 tiijlj riate.Fleet, he coul4 not have more Re- 
 joyced ; once again we bethought our fclves of 
 our Oars : and pow our little Boat. (hewed it 
 fclf to be of the ri^ht breed cf yil^ters^ made of 
 firaiicliTfn:ber.\udto its poor^Ability would 
 Iccomc ti Corf.iir ; wc filcntly Rowed to our 
 Trey, took it into the Boat with great Triumph, 
 we cut oif her Head, and Kt her bleed into a 
 Pot V wc drank the Blood , cat the Liver , 
 and fuck'd the Flcfli ; Wtjrm flepi, and hot Li: 
 ^itor ( except our own ) had been a "/cut Ra- 
 rity with us a long time, it was a Novelty of 
 Providence ; and really it wonderfully rcfrclh'd 
 our Spirits, repaired our decayed llrcngth and 
 recruited Nature; at leaf!-, poor cxhaulted Na- 
 ture was willing to be cheated, and fancy her 
 lelf recruited : But there was no cheat in'f, wc 
 were really rcfrcOi'd, and with frclh Vigour and 
 courage fell to our Work ; wc left our fears be- 
 hind us, wc pickt up fomc fcatter'd crumbs of 
 hope, and about Noon, we Difcovercd, or 
 thought we Difcovercd Land. It's impofTihlc 
 roexprcfsthc Joy, and Triumph of our raifed 
 fiou'jatthis apprchenfion. The Poets tell us, 
 that as often as HercnUj threw the great Giant 
 agair. t the Earth, Vis. Alother Earth gave him 
 veKv [trength againft the next Encounter : It was 
 vcw jirerigth^nnv Life tp us^though not to touch, 
 •<jettofee; or if per /<? /Vf, ;p think, we f.iw it. 
 Iz brought frefh Blood into^^ur Veins, frefh co- 
 lour into our pale Cheeks;, we look'd not like 
 , • Men 
 
 Of great Merc'y. . 7 j 
 
 Men awaked from Hcep, mt like Captives broke 
 
 from the Chains of Algiers, but like Hcrfons 
 
 raifed from the Dead. But Hoi)e anr! Fedr 
 
 made a (Irange Aicdly Pafsion in our Svids-^ like 
 
 theRepartiesbf two contrary jolHing Tides, or 
 
 the lirugglin;? of the Eddy with the main itrcam : 
 
 Hope would pcrlVadc uv that wc faw the Land ; 
 
 but chill Fear bade us paufe upon it, for as wc 
 
 cafily believe, what wc defu-f to be trul% . fo 
 
 wcare as ready to fear Iclt it (hould not prove 
 
 true ; for fear had got long poffcfFion of oyC 
 
 Souls, and would hardly admit Hope to (Hr, but 
 
 ■was ready to fupprefs it as A dillurbcr of its 
 
 Empire : Wc had feen nothing but Air , and 
 
 •Sea; Sea, and Air in five Days, and Nights; 
 
 that though our Reafon told us there was fuch a 
 
 thing as Land, yet the ImprcfTions that feSr had 
 
 made upon us, made it QueiUonable, whether 
 
 cvcrwc fhould fee if. And we durll not give 
 
 fob much Credence to our Eyes, that had been 
 
 ufed to bring fadder itories to our Hearts. ' '' : 
 
 ■ Yet ftillwc wrought hard : Hope did us that 
 
 kindncfs, it put us upon an 'carncit defirc to fee 
 
 whether wc were deceived orno, ■ AftcV fome 
 
 further Labour, wc grew rhorc confident, and 
 
 at laft, 'fully fatisfied thjic it was Land .• I hope 
 
 I fhall never forget whatafcnfe we had of<5Ms 
 
 goodnefs upon, that Afrurancc, Extremes 'ido 
 
 equally annoy, and fometimes. infatuate the 
 
 mind: They tell us, that in Greenland,^ th^cx- 
 
 trcmity of Cokl will make the Iron (tick to the 
 
 C 3 Fingers, 
 
 ~-^ 
 
 fi ' 
 
■76 jA $rrall ■Ji'fonurr.att 
 
 fingci-j, as our Experience alTurcs extremity o» 
 ;Hcat\villdo; for now like Dirtra(ftcd Pcrfons, 
 wc all leapt into tlic Sea, quitting our Boat, and 
 being all good Svvimn-.crs, wc there Bathed, and 
 cooled our heated Bodies. An Adventure, 
 .which) if well confidercd, had as much of the 
 Defpcrado in it as our putting to Sea .• For now 
 wc were at the Mcri-y of , the Sharks, which 
 might have (hear d off" a Leg, or Arm \ and now 
 our ovcr-heatcd Bodies were open to receive the 
 Imprcllion? of that Cold Element: But as wc 
 never confidercd; our Danger, the great and 
 good God delivered us from the Ordinary cf- 
 . feds of fuch Folly ^., we prcfently returned to 
 , our Boat, and being both wearied with Labour, 
 and cooled 4 little with the Sea, wc lay us all 
 down to SlcJep inqs much fecurity,' as if we had 
 becnrm our own, Beds •■ Nature being almolj: 
 fpeut,fmulVhave,a:Xruce; (he \v';ill not under- 
 take to keep our ^cdics upon their Legs, if we 
 will not fubmit to her great ftanding Ordi- 
 nance, of Rell; and here we fawftill more of 
 DiviqcGoodncfs, 'that our Leaky VefTcl did not 
 ■bury us. in the Sea, .'and wc awaking find. our 
 felvcs. in the other World : But he that gave u-f 
 Sleepy we/tfitredit, and he meafured it ^ A-<?f//)', 
 not.fu[rer)ngusto/7«r-y?«/) the Sf^/qw of plying 
 our Pump, or t"hat which fupplycd the place of 
 
 it.- -,•■.. ■ r- 
 
 Being thus refrcfh'd with fleep, we found new 
 fircn^thiox our Work, and God found us New 
 
 Work. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 77 
 
 «'(j?-i^ for our ilrength: Wc tugged the harder 
 at the Oar, bccaufe we hoped c re Night to flcl'p 
 upon a more ftablc, and faithful Elcmcut. Bat 
 wc made our way very flowly, and when we 
 call up the Account of our Progre(s, iburid ,that 
 wc had gone but Uulc w^y in a len(r tir^r • to- 
 wards Evening wc difcovcred another ■ Iflmd : 
 The firfl we faw was AI.iyoi\, thc'Xccond, 
 Fromentcre-, and fomc ."of our Gompapy th^t 
 had Sailed in thefc Seas, vyould undertake -to^af- 
 ■furc us of it : Wc debated hot long to:,\vhich 
 of thefc wc fhouia dircd 6ur Courfc,' for the 
 latter being much infellcd with' vcncnWU'i Ser- 
 pents, and little, if at all Ii^hahitcd^ wc^;rcfoJ- 
 .'vcdall for Miyorkj. All that Night wc'Tlp.U^ 
 'very hard, and the nexf, 'beiligth^ itJvtn ^^If'ly-, 
 and from our putting to isp^t'j; we'l^^lu'Vithin 
 fight of it all Day, and about T<:n£( -Clock at 
 Night wc came under the Ifland;, biir the '/locks 
 were there fo craggy, andftccp, thanv^C tbuld 
 not climb up. 
 
 Whilll we were under thefc Rocks there 
 came a Veflel very near us. Let the Reader put 
 himfelf in our rtead, let him but Copy out our 
 Thoughts, let him imagine how loth we" Were 
 to lofe all our toil and Travel, to forgo our De- 
 liverance, to have this Rich Mercy, which God 
 had put into our Hands, wrefted out of them 
 again by fome Turkt^i Pickaroon, or Corf'.ir, 
 that arc always skimming thofc Seas : It con- 
 cerned us therefore to lye clofc, and when they 
 G 4 \vcre 
 
 i:i 
 
yS . . . -A S Willi Monument 
 , were p'afled by, \vc gently crept along the Coaft 
 as near the fhoar as we durft, till we found a 
 convenient place, where wc might thruft in our 
 Wcafher-bcatcn Boat. 
 
 If thefe Papers fhould fall into the hands of 
 fome that arc great Clerks in the Art of Naviga- 
 'tion^ and have con'd the Mariners Terms of 
 ' Art, they will fmile at my improper wording of 
 thefe Matters, and fay, I am one of Paul's Ma- 
 riners. But I can be content to be Accounted 
 one of his Mariners, whilftlhavc fhared in his 
 Mercies : How many of thofe that fpeak the 
 Language of the Sea, yet have found her Bil- 
 lows deaf to their "Cries and'Prayers, and their 
 ftately Ships made the Scorn of Winds, and the 
 Reproach of Waves, when we, who had none 
 '.of their Ships, and little of their skill, have had 
 .Experience of thofe Providences, to which they 
 • Jiave been Strai)gers. . 
 
 
 SECT. 
 
 v--.:vt:^ 
 
 f ^■- ••<• -> 
 
 of Great Mercy. 
 
 SECT. XII. 
 
 79 
 
 The great kJncJnefs wc Received at Mayork 
 ''■ froffi the Vicc-Rpy., andthe hrhabitunts 
 ofthatTpud and City. 
 
 WHcn we were come to Land, we were 
 not unfcnfible of our Deliverance', 
 though like Men newly awakened out of a 
 Dream, wchadnotthe true Dimcnfionsof it: 
 We confeiTed God had done Great thtnos for us, 
 hut hew great th ngs he had done was beyond 
 our Comprehcnfion .• Wc had efcafcd the Sea., 
 but yet Dca'th might be found at L.ird; and wc 
 were ready to fay, withS^w^/ow, judg. 15.18. 
 ^Lord , thou h^Ft given tlnf gritU DcliVcrMce 
 'tnio the hands of thy Si rv^, nts., and now jhall w_e 
 dye for Thirji ? We had had no Food fince wc 
 eat the Liver, and drank the Blood of thcTor- 
 toife, and therefore leaving three of our Coni- 
 pany with the Boat, the other two, viz.. Joh'n 
 yinthony, and my'fdf were fent 6ut to fcout 
 abroad for frcfli Water .• And the rather were 
 we fent, becaufe this Jt^H Anthony could fpeak 
 both, the Spanijli , and Jtallan Tongues very 
 ^exkCily., and I had as much of the 5f.'«'j?3as 
 might ferve toexprefs our wants, anddefires, 
 if perhaps we might mcetwith any Perfons there- 
 abouts. 
 
 n ' 
 
8o A SmM Monumnt 
 
 abouts. Wc were not far gone, before we fell 
 into a Wood, aiidwc were in a Wilderncfs in 
 our thoughts, which way to take : He will needs 
 go his way, and 1 mine. Good Lord/ what a 
 /rail, impotent thing is Man ! That t^cy whom 
 common danger? hy Sci., common Deliverances 
 fromSci hail United, fhould now about our 
 ow.i wills fall out at l.and. And yet thus wc 
 did: He give mc rcproachfiil words, and ifs 
 wellwccuiic not to blows; But I went my own 
 way, and he feeing me refolute, followed me , 
 and the Providence of God, not dealing w;ith us 
 according to our frowardncfs, foil, wed w both: 
 This way led us to a VVatch-Towcr of the Spani- 
 ,arJty many gf whi,;h they keep upon tbe Sca- 
 Coails, to giveth^ Countrcy timely notice of 
 any Pickaroons that come afhoar to Rob, and 
 Spoyl. 
 
 When we came within call, fearing he might 
 Difchargc at us, we fpoke to him upon the 
 Watch , told him our Condition , what wc 
 were, whence wc came, howweefcaped; and 
 . carncftly begged of him to direO us to fomc frclh 
 -Water, and in the mean time to beftow upon us 
 .feme Bread. ; He -very kindly threw us down 
 jt;! old mouldy Cukc^ but fo long as it was a Cak^^ 
 and not a /i.onf, nor a Bullet, Hunger did not 
 -confidcr' its Mjiddincfs : Then he direded us 
 ^ofrefh Water, which was hard by : Wc flood 
 not telling Stories j W;C rcmcmbrtd our fdvesy 
 
 we 
 
 Of Great' Mercy, 8i 
 
 wc rcmcmbrcd our Brcikrcn left with our Boat, 
 and Obferving the Sentinels Dircdticns, came 
 to a Well, where tlicrewas a Pot with Jtrings. 
 to draw with : Wc drank a little Water, and 
 cat a bit of our Cake, but the pafCigc was fo 
 difufcd, that wc had much ado to force our 
 Throats to relieve our clamourous (tomachs ; 
 But here wc (laid not, but, with the four Le- 
 pers in the Tents of the Syrians, i Kings 7. 9. 
 Rebuked our fclves, We do not wcll^ wc h,:ve 
 j^Ud lidin^s to curry, and dvyvc hvld our pace ? 
 Wcretyrnto ourBout, are welcomed by our 
 Companions, acquaint them with the good fuc- 
 ccfs of our Embii]V> ^""^ ^" pr'^T-^''^" ^o make 
 ;o the Well.. • .., . ,; .. 
 
 ; -And now we rr.ufl leave our Boat ; that /"./;//;- 
 fnl Injirmtent of Gods Providence, which hacj 
 fo trufiily ferved his purpofc to deliver us : It 
 was not without foine Recqylings upon our Spi- 
 rits, that wc HiQvild fo much as in appearance 
 ir/:it'iie :hr oioratitiide of thofc, who having fer- 
 ved their privstc ends on thcirl rlcnds, and have 
 now no further ufc of them, rpoll ungratefully 
 ftiakc them off.- That we fhoulcj-bc like the war 
 /fr-fl'(??-,which uftjs the water to purfuc his Game, 
 on4 when he comes to Land , (hakes it off as 
 iroulilefome , and t}itrde»fo>r,e. But it was no 
 time to /land upon Complements j Hunger , 
 Thir/l, Wcarinefs, Dcfirc of Rcfrclhment and 
 Rcllj thokirrforinnfiff Pitnst Commanded us 
 i away J 
 
 ^ 
 
S :i A Smitll Monument 
 
 away; and tying our Boat as fad as wc could 
 totheShoar, wc left her to Mercy, which had 
 ^jcen fogoodto us. 
 
 ' As wc were going, or rather creeping , or 
 crawling towards the Well, another Qyarrel 
 flatted amongd us, the Memory whereof 'is 
 fo ungrateful, that I Hull give it a Burial in fi- 
 \cnQQ, \\\Qht[\Tombfur Controverftes. 
 
 '■ And now we are at the Well, and the Well is 
 provided of IVarcr, and we have fomething to 
 drmv ; all tbcfe helps God has given us, but he 
 mull give us one more, even a thrown to fwitllow 
 it, without which, all the reft f^mfie mthtn^^. 
 This was the evil Difeafe Solomon had Obferved 
 in his Days, Ecclef.6. 2. yi Mn>i to whom 
 God had given Riches, Wealth, And Honour y 
 fo that he xvantcth nothing for hn Soul, of all 
 lljat he dcfireth ; yen God giveth hir/> not Power 
 to eat thereof: He that gives us water to dnnk^, 
 and meat to eat, muft give us Power to eat and 
 drink^alh. How totally do we depend upon 
 him for Life, and Breath, and all things ! One 
 of our Company, William Mams, attempting 
 to drink.after many EfTays was not able to fwal- 
 low it,' but ftill the water returned, fo that he 
 funk down to the Ground, faintly faying, lam 
 H de4d Man ; we forgot our fclvcs,t0 remember 
 him, and after much ftriving, and forcing, he 
 took a little ; and when he and wc were rcfrclh'd 
 , ■ with 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 83 
 
 with our Cake and water, we lay down by the 
 Well-fide till the Morning. None of us cou'(| 
 watch for the refi, but One Godwntchcdovtr 
 m all: There we lay lockt up, and buried in 
 Sleep : The Heavens covered us, when wc wan- 
 ted a Canopy .- Each might fay in the Morning, 
 with David, Pfal. 3.57 Lud me down andjlept ; 
 J awaked, for the Lord fujiatnedrrje. 
 
 When it was clear Day, we addreft 0U15 
 fclvcs once more 10 the Man upon the wat.h; 
 Tower, entreating him to Dircd us the ready 
 way to the next Houfe, or Town, where we 
 might find Relief. He civily points us towards 
 a Houfe a!)Out two Miles'otf, whither, with 
 wearied ftcps , and joyful Hearts , we now 
 began to Travel : Oor Feet had been fo pa;-' 
 boy led, and ^tiodled with the Sans heat, in the 
 Salt water-pickle , that they were very raw , 
 and more bliiler'd ; and long it was before wc 
 could over-come the tedioufnefs of thofc two 
 Miles. When wc approach'd the Houfe, the 
 Owner efpying us, and concluding by our//wi'- 
 l>y garb, that wc were fomc Pilfering Rafcals, 
 Prefcnted a Fowling Piece at us, and charged us 
 to Hand. The foremoft of our Company, who 
 could fpcak that Language well, meekly told 
 him, he might fparc that Language, we were 
 not abU, if we had fo wicked a will:, nor willing, 
 if we had hcenable, tooffcr him the lead injury j 
 That we were a Company of poor Creajturesj 
 whojj) t]ie \^'onderful Providence ofGoU.h^d 
 '. .^.|j -' ■ • " - Refcii- 
 
S.j. ji Strati Montmcnt 
 
 kcfcucd from the Sl-ivcry of .-//^/f>-.<-,and hoped 
 he would (hew Mercy to the i\inictcd. 'i he 
 llonc'l lamer, moved with our Rdation, fcnt 
 us out Bread, \ Vatcr, ani Olives, with which 
 w!icn we had rcfrefh d our fel vcs, we lay down, 
 an i Kel'tcd three or four hours in tlie Field \ and 
 returning thanks for his Charity, prepared to 
 crawl away at our lame rate. He feeing us 
 thankful Bcggers, enlarged his Civility to us, 
 called us into his Ifoufe, and gave us good warm 
 Bean Pottage, wliich feemed to me the mod 
 Pleafint looJ that ever I eat in my Life : Our 
 Leave once more taken, we Advanced towards 
 the City of Af'iyoil^, which from this place is 
 about ten Miles : No water could we meet with 
 upon our way, but tuwards Evening, we dif- 
 covercd one drawing Water at a Well, wc 
 hafl-ed to hiiri, rind he drew for us ; that was our 
 Supper, and there was our Lodging that Night. 
 1 he next Morning we came into the Suburbs 
 of the City, theftrangcnefsof our Attire, being 
 bare foot, barc-Icg'd, having nothing on but 
 loofe Coats over our Shirts, drew a croud of en- 
 quirers about us, who we were/ whchcewc 
 came? whither we went ? Wc gavcthcin a 
 particular Account of cur Deliverance, with its 
 Circumftanccs; and thvty as willing ro pity; as 
 to li>iow our Eilatc, and as ready r* Relieve, Vi'$ 
 fit)\ accommodated us for the prefent with food', 
 they (gave us Wine,. andStrong-Avaters, ind 
 il'hatisyer elfe might recover our e^hauftedSpi- 
 '^- rits ; 
 
 Of CrcAt Mercy. 85 
 
 rits^ but told us, wc muft be oblif cd to tarry 
 in the Suburbs, till //;f ru^-iJojhifd notice that , 
 fuch Stranf.crs were Arrived: Me had foon /«- 
 ftrrratiou of us, and wc as foonw Ccn.rr^ndio 
 appear before him : He Examii-.td us about ma- 
 ny AtTairs- what Men of VV:ir the Jherincs 
 had rit Sea ? v.'hat llrtngth they were of at 
 Land ? Llut above all, he was molt curious,and 
 cxad in farisfying himfclf about our Efcape, our 
 Boat, our Ha2ards at :ca, wherein when wc' 
 had fully Obeyed him, he Ordered wc Ihould 
 be mainta'ned at his own Coll till we could have 
 palTagc to our own Countrey. 
 
 In this while the People gathered us Money- 
 to buy us CloathsandShooes, and we w nted 
 nothing that Nature called for , but ibanlful 
 Hearts to God. And they endeavoured to help 
 to that Mercy too : As I was walking in the 
 Streets viewing the City, a Young Man fteps to 
 me , Friend ( laid he ) are you one of thofe that 
 came lately Over in the Canvas- Boat ! I An- 
 fwcred. Yes, I was one of them : well ( reply- 
 cd the Young Man ) It wm not the little Loat , 
 but the Gre.n God that brought you Over. I 
 mu/l needs fay, I often think of' this Young mans 
 words, and as often as- I think of them they 
 chide me, that I have not hitherto more pub- 
 lickly owned God in his Gracious and wonder- . 
 ful Deliverance. However, others may be con-"' 
 cern'd to Read I know not yet I am cobcern'd tO'' 
 Write of the great things God has done forme. 
 SECT. 
 
26 
 
 A Small Monnment 
 
 SECT. xrii. 
 
 the TrovidcHca of God rchkh attended 
 uf^ and Conduced us all ftfe to Eng- 
 land. 
 
 IT may not prove ungrateful to the Reader, 
 to fee how tlic great God, who beirun to work 
 for us, pcrfciled htf werk^'conceri/i/i" ttr. I low 
 he that had, and did deliver, would llill deliver 
 us; as /7«j/ir5r.trj have their Glories, yet Con- 
 y?r//rfr/ow/arc more Glorious : So each Provi- 
 dence of 'God is Admirable; but taken together, 
 as one ferving another, and this helping forwards 
 that, fo indeed they are moll Admirable ; when 
 the Creator viewed his each days work, it fo 
 puncftually anfwercd its Jdjeu according to 
 which, and Obeyed the Power by which it was 
 Created, that he pronounced kCood; but when 
 he rc-viewed the Produ(ft of the fix days, he 
 pronounced alt to be very food : Each Letter in 
 a Book fpeaks sl^ll, but when thofe Letters form 
 wordsy thofe words, fentences, t^ere is a grea- 
 ter Excellency, and more skill Difcovered : S?- 
 farate Providences fpcakout eminently/ow^ of 
 Gods Attributes ; but when wc put them toge- 
 ther, alLthe Attributes of God rtiine forth in' 
 them. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. Sj 
 
 th«n, and one Illuftratc another, which refle<fts 
 a light upon the former. 
 
 Afayork, is a City where our En^lifli Ships 
 did feldom Trade, and we being full of defirc to 
 fee our Native Countrey, preferr'd our humble 
 Petition to 'the f^tce-Roy, That we might have 
 Pajfage in the King 0/ Spains G allies, whicht 
 were then in the Road, bound for Alicant in-- 
 Spain, which he gracioufly granted us : What' 
 cold Entertainment we met with there from 
 fomc of our own Countrey, I fhall draw a veil' 
 over ; yet even there wc found the Mercies of 
 Cod. One Merchant took CompafTion on us , 
 and Conduced us to an Englijh mans Hout-, 
 where wc Lodged, and gave us half a Dollar 
 to defray ourCharges.The next day,undor;iand- 
 ing that there was an £»^/»y/;w.'.v in the Road, 
 bound for England, wc went aboard to fee for 
 PaflTage; we made our Condition our bcft Ar- 
 gument to prevail : The Mafter told us, he had 
 but little Provifion, but if we would be content 
 with Bread, and Beverage, we might go. We 
 accounted that , Royal Fare, and accordingly 
 waited till he fet Sail : Whilft we were aboard, 
 two EngUjh Merchants came thither alfo , and 
 were veryrcarneli that we would give them the. 
 (hort of our Adventure : We gratified them.and 
 one of them faid ; Countrey-men, we have heard 
 your ftory. After a few days, we kt Sail, and 
 when we were at Sea, were hotly Chafed by 
 fwo TnrkiP] Men of War, but being narCible- 
 H tore^ 
 
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 tore, we got in there, and efcapcd. We had : 
 known Slavery reo much andloitg^to be amhi- . 
 tioiu of it again i and therefore three of us, 
 John J>ithony, John— Carpenter , and my fclf 
 went afhoar, and there ftayed : Our other 
 Companions ventur'd along with the Ship, and 
 came into EngLind before us. VVhilll wc 
 wereat 6';Wefo>-e, \.\\z Spaniards undcrllanding 
 our Condition, much pitycd us : and one told 
 us, that if we would accept it, we might have 
 Lodging in his Vefibl, and he had FiHi enough 
 that wc might make ufe of: There wc ftaid till 
 our Money was gone, and then rcfolved to go 
 wit{i the Foot- Poll by hmdto Cadiz.^ which is 
 about fixty Miles : Butwhildmy two Compa- 
 nions were gone to enquire for the Courier, I 
 ftaid upon the (hoar, and faw a fmall Sfam^i 
 VclTcl coming from Malaga, bound for Cadiz. ; 
 I went aboard him, todcfirc Pafljge, ho freely 
 granted it, and the next Morning early, wc fct 
 Sail, and in little time came into C(i^/z,-Road, 
 but not nigh enough togoafhore, the Captain 
 told us,our PafTagc was p3id,we might freely go 
 aOiorc when we would. Now, bccaufc we found 
 no Ship here bound for England, and hearing 
 that there was one at St. Lucars, we Tra- 
 velled thither by Land, which is about twelve 
 Miles : After a fliort itay there, I met with the 
 Ma(tcrs Mate , of whom I earneftly entreated 
 for Paffage ; he told rac> he had very little Pro- 
 yifioiiv and that it would be hard to be Obtained : 
 whillt 
 
 Of great Mercy. 85 
 
 wbilfl we were talking, the Boat came to fetch 
 him aboard, and in her there was a Youth, who 
 was the Mailers Son : He asked his Fathers 
 Mate, who was a! fo his Uncle, who we were? 
 He told him, we were poor Men Efcapcd from 
 Algiers, Jbutfqr Want of Provifion, he doubted 
 Avc could not go for England. No .' '( faid the 
 Youth) do you think my Father will deny paf- 
 fage to poor £/;^//y/;-wf «, that come from AU, 
 gtcrj?- Come Countrey- men (faid he) come 
 into the Boat, you fliall have Paffage : He pre- 
 fently acquaints his Father with us and our Con- 
 dition : He treated us with great kindncfs, he 
 prevailed with the Merchants to lay in Provifion 
 for us : wc continued in his Ship till we came 
 away : In the time of our ftay, I wen; aboard 
 one Captain Good/on, who lay then in the Road , 
 he was extremely civil to me j at my departure 
 he gave me twenty fhillings, and fct me aboard 
 our Ship , in his own Boar, Wc met with 
 contrary winds, and were very near Engaging 
 with a Hamburger ; it was five weeks before wc 
 could reach the Downsiwhcrc wc arrived in Seo. 
 1 644, The Commander of the Ship was Captain 
 Smtth, of Redriff. 
 
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