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 By me ?r/'i/ij;« Ol^clry. 
 
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 \r^ .A"'' Cletthispleafeornotj ;vill never more. 
 If all the Prefs-OpprefTorsof the Age ■ 
 
 .Would fo Refoivc, 'twould Happinefs prcfaee- 
 He fhou'd as fonn another Voyage take 
 As be Oblig'd another Book to make. ' 
 His Canvtii Boat Ekz ped Seas and \Vii;d 
 He fears this Paper- VeFcI will not lind ' 
 
 Such gentle Gales, when every Keadcrhaih ' 
 
 Povv'r with a puff to fink tlic Writers Faith. ' 
 
 For who fo Prints a Book, goes off fromfkorc 
 
 To hazard that which was his own before • 
 
 As one poor Pinnace Over-marchM, thacfiehcs 
 
 Withan Armado, Co dorh he who Writes • 
 
 If Books C 'ike goodly Merchanr-Ships) fet forth. ' 
 
 laden with Riches of the gfcareft worth; • 
 
 Wirh S°"''"'l'''^^h'^"'TeKt-Mcn.SchooI.Men Mann'd j 
 
 With iiacrcd Cannon Mounted at each Hand ; 
 
 Are hard bcfet, and forc'd to make Defence 
 
 Aga.nrt Arm'd Athcifm, Pride, and Impudence. 
 
 How can this iittle Cock-Eoat hope Efcape, 
 
 When Scripture Suffers Pfracyand-RapeV ■•'- ' ' 
 
 ^^f's Ark f wherein the World Epitomiz'd, '■'■'"■" 
 And Mankind in Oftavo was Compriz'd. ■) '■■ - 
 Though m the Deluge 'twas prcferved found;"' ■ -' 
 By Infidelity ;t fclf lyes drovvn'd. • '■■ '-■ ' 
 
 That ^,/« with a Rod the Sea fhould Cane 
 
 -- --v-- » »>i/u uit Ota inouia Lane. 
 
 And beat the Cowardjlream^pto a PJain / 
 
 Wlcb ^ 
 
~ With the fath: Cane fliould broach a Flint, and bring 
 •>/ . Out of its Fiery Womb a flowing Spring : 
 
 That a dry flick aiTign'd for LevH fharc, 
 ; ■. Should Biid, and Blofibm, and'Ripe Almonds bear ; 
 That Sampfin wirh the Jaw-Bone of an Afs 
 ' ( And Atheifts think Him One that lets it pafs 
 Without a fcomrae^ fhould flay a Thoufand Men, 
 Andbcihgv/eary with the Slaughter; then 
 The kind Jaw-Bone, (hat was his Fauichion firfl. 
 Should tarn a Flaggon, and allay his Thirft. 
 Thefc Miracles, and all the Sacred ftore 
 Which Faith Ihould grafp, and Piety adore, 
 Meet with Arrcfls, Arraignments, and a Doom 
 Wore harfij than Tales of Heathen Greece, or Rome. 
 
 Yet O the Folly of Confounded Man / 
 
 Who cannot Truth believe, but Fables can. 
 
 When Truth that cannot Lye, (hall be bely'd, 
 
 Its Pow'r defy'd, and Weakncfs Deify'd : - 
 
 When our Difeafed Appetite fliall Luft 
 
 For Esypts Leek, or Gibeon's mouldy Crufl 5 
 
 Epbraim will feed on A(l:cs, and difdain 
 
 3"hc Manna Comfits, and the Candy'd Rain. 
 
 'An Heaven-bora truthC 'ike poor Mens Infants} may 
 
 For lack ofGod-FathsrSjunchrift'ned flay, - 
 
 And find no Priefl ; Avhen erery flandcr by 
 
 Will be a Goflip to a Great Mans Lye. 
 
 O Miracle of Love / God-Man was f^n 
 
 Each Miracle he wrought, to make it twain. 
 
 The Faft, and Fuith too, elfe the' Fad in vain.( 
 
 There isa Generation alive, 
 
 .That Live on Lying Miracles, and thrive/ 
 
 ' There is a Guild of Priefts will undertake 
 To make that God who doth all Wonders make : 
 Can make Him, Bake Him, Break him, Eat Him too, 
 And with s Thought can All again undo. 
 
 . HadbutfomcMonk thisHilioiy toDrefs, 
 He would have made the Iron-Tcech of ch' P. efs 
 
 Turrt 
 
 j Turn Edge, andCrin, to chew the fluff and fiilc} 
 I Compar'd vvith which all's Pap in MandevUe. 
 j Had thcfe Five Comrades been good Sons of Aowf, 
 J Nothing but Miracles had brought them home. 
 Okd) had been infpircd ; Jephs had feen 
 An Apron dropt down from Heavens Virgin-Qaeen 
 To ma'<e a Sail ; Carpenter fliould have pray'd 
 Saint Jojepb to aflifl him a: his Trade ; 
 And the next Morn did in the Cellar find 
 The Keel, Rihbs, Pins, all Model'd to hisMInd. 
 An Holy Sea-Calf in St. Peters Coit, 
 '■ Had then appear'd, and danc'd before the Boat : 
 Saint Chrijiofher with a fweet Babe on's back, 
 Had flalkt along to fave from Rock and Wrack: ' 
 Saint Nickolns ("or in his Shape, OU NickJ 
 Had with a flraw fleer'd the Boat Catholick. 
 The Tortoife taken napping in the Flood, 
 ; iHad firfl faid Grace, and then become their Fpod: 
 ; |Yca, and his Sacred Shell had been preferr'd 
 !JTo make fine Combs for W:lgefortk Beard. 
 '&nd who can tell ffor now "tis Thirty Years 
 Since this flrange Expedition from Algiers, ) 
 ,What Ufe the Friarsof Mayork. have made 
 Of the poor Skifif to raife their Legcod-Trade ? 
 
 g ^ut, be it as it will j Buy, or not Buy ; 
 \ This Book is Proteflanr, and hates a Lye. 
 ii ^he Reader fliall find in this Breviary 
 
 ^\\PatSf-Nojlers,nnrone Ave Mary. 
 
 If Gentleman and Chriflian may avail, 
 
 /f Honour and Religion can bebail 
 , For this poor Pilgrims Truth and Faithfulnefs. 
 ■ |r may wi:n Leave and fafety pafs the Prcfs. 
 
 tet hitn who fcorns to Read, or Reads to fcorn. 
 
 jAndthinksthisStory might have been forborn; 
 I ;^irfl, buy the Book, then give Security 
 ITo do the hke ; The Book-Sellerand I 
 
 Will g,ve hjm Bond, when he Returns to Land. 
 
 i pay a Thoufand pounds into his Hand. 
 
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 Mean- 
 
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 Mean-while, tliisNarmive rail plain and True} 
 
 Is worth a Six-pence to a rw'^ or ^ffi'; . 
 
 BuctoaChriliian CweretheScory gone J ; 
 
 The Preface jt a Penny-worth alone: 
 The w^olc hath no Errata's or Miltakes, 
 Siva what the Printer and the Poet makes. 
 
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 •::L5i<'! 
 
 PREF A CE 
 
 To the following 
 
 INARRATIVE^ 
 
 Conrteom Reader^ 
 
 j" DO readily agree with thee, that there is 
 j no fort of Writings more lyablc to abufc 
 L than this of the Narrative : Lying much at 
 the Mercy of the Compfer to be Corrupted; 
 and as much in danger to be mif-improved by the 
 Reader : The Reader therefore I am fure will de- 
 mand foo^ Security that he is not impofed upon in 
 the enf/tif7£ Relation, and the Writer craves leave 
 too, to maintain a modefiyealou/ie^ left the Rea- 
 der fhould mifs the benefit that is defigned to him 
 in it : The Author will engage, and pawn his 
 Credit «oAfo vs>rong the Narrative^ and he would 
 take fome care alfo that the Reader may not wrong 
 hirf)fclf. 
 
 It is very true, that every Narrator is under a 
 
 llrdng Temptation to Seafon his Difcourfc to the 
 
 A ' Cn/}a 
 
ii 
 
 '■h 
 
 The Preface. 
 Giisio of the Time, not impofing a fcvere Law 
 upon himfelf, to Report what is true, but accom- 
 modating his Story to the Liquorifh appetite of 
 others : I have obfcrved that/tf»;e Men are afha- 
 med to Recount mean and humble Matters ; if 
 they bring us any thing below Prodigy and Mt- 
 racUy if 'they fluff riot their Farces with Gordons, 
 Harpies, Ccntaures, and Enchanted //lands , 
 they neither pleafe themfelvcs, nor hope to take 
 their Readers by the Heart- ftrings. Hence is it, 
 that we have fo many lean, barren Stories, lard- 
 ed with the Addit^.mencs of Fruitfullnvention, as 
 if they had been Penn'd by the Pattern of Xetio- 
 vhon's C)rni. No;; ad Idifiorix fdcr/), fed ad 
 jtifti lr',perii Exemplar : "Not for Counter-panes 
 vf "Truth, but Counurfeits of Fancy : They tell 
 us not what was re nly done, but what they n-oidd 
 have haddone, if they might have had the Con- 
 trivance of the Scene, and Tragedy : They firil 
 form Idsea's of IngenioM Romances in their own 
 Heads, and then obtrude them upon the World 
 ioi Hijfoncal Verities. 
 
 JuH as our Hydrographers in the Delineating 
 of Co-jr.trics, with one wanton Extravagant Fro- 
 lick of their Graver can raife Mountains, where 
 Nature left us Falleys; and fink deep ralleys,\v\\erc 
 God has ftretch'd out a, Champagn •,-an create 
 Bays, and Creeks, where the Creator made firm 
 Land; and jut out Prorrtontories,andCapes, where 
 there's nothing in Nature to anfwer them ; and to 
 fill up Vacuities (out of pure good Husbandry, 
 
 that 
 
 The Preface. 
 that not an inch of Ground may be !of^ ) preferit 
 us with Plying Fijhes, Tritons, and Alermnids, 
 which fpcnd their hours inter Peliincm e- Spc- 
 culuM ; and lell Alare del z.ur fhould fiill be a 
 Dcfolatc Wildernefs, have courtcouily itock'd 
 it with the Pcii>iters Wife's JJland, andTcrra In- 
 copnita; at this rate are we dealt with, by this 
 kind of Men, who love to blow up Lanl^Stories 
 into huge Bladders, and then put fomething in 
 them to make them Rattle to pleafe Children, and 
 yet they are but Lkdders fill, though fwelled 
 with the Tyrfipany, and I Vind-Cholicl\^ 
 
 There are alfo a fort of StoriesAvhic'n,/'y the way 
 cfCourtefe,\vc mif-call /-Jijiones^zhat fcorn to give 
 us an Account of any thing but Dreadfid, and ter- 
 rible battles, and how one great Man aoove all 
 the reft, chopt off /fw^/ and ^.-■wj, and cut off 
 fomc (heer by the waftc, and with his Trenchant 
 blade mowed down whole Files of Armed Ene- 
 mies; the Fields all this while running with 
 ilreams of Blood, and purple Gore; and all this, 
 with as much confidence, and exadncfs in every 
 Minute Circttmjlance , as if, like the Familiar 
 Dimon of Paracelfiti, they had been inclofcd in 
 the pon:-/nel of the Generals Sword •, or had ho- 
 vcr'd, like ("^jSiory with her doubtful \Vi)!gs,osex 
 both the Armies, where they might fccurely take 
 notes of all that was faid or done, in Shelton's 
 • Br.ichygraphy : but from what Principles or hi- 
 Krf/?j'thefe Warriours were dieted; by what 
 
 Rules they proceeded, with what Coitnccls and 
 A 2 Intrigues, 
 
The Preface. 
 JntriTues^ defigns were managed-^ and to what 
 |)o;«/all thefe Policies fleered-^ is as muchtWon; 
 their Spirits as above their Abilities-, to inform 
 
 us. 
 
 To fecure the Reader againft the fear of fuch 
 Entertainment in this Narrative, let him know, 
 £h;:t he (hall meet with nothing in Fa[i but what 
 is frccifely true; what of wonderment he may 
 encounter, was of Gods ovtn working, not of 
 Mans inventing; let others make Tragedies to 
 • graiific the ^ook,feller, and cheat ths/ia^ple buyer ; 
 we need not Ftter LilUcrap's Efex-Serpent, nor 
 Liven ell Chaprmns Greater M on ft ers to Aggran- 
 dize our Title Page ; Gods Works need no Joy I 
 tofet them off, x!nQ gxcoXz^beauty of Truth., is 
 Us naked/iefs., and Symr/ietry . 
 
 There is a vaft difference between the moft ela* 
 berate produCts of Arty and the moft homely pieces 
 of Nature ; for though the former will nceds- 
 Ape the latter, yet how pitifully does ]I)e^«;?^/<? 
 in the imitation / Look upon the fubtle point of 
 the fin£ft Needle through a Microfcope, and you 
 will fcon be fatisfied that Art is but a Dunce^ for 
 the Needle will appear as blunt, and dull as a 
 Drum-ftick.; but come and view one of Gods 
 Handy-worksinthefameGlafs, F.G. The fting 
 ■of a Bf^ and you (hall fee it perpetually Acumi- 
 nated till "t ends xnfomething, which the Eye mud 
 either confefs to be a Point, or Nothing : The 
 fame Difference we may obferve between thofe 
 Romances, which arcthclffues oi fine mt, and 
 
 the 
 
 The Preface. 
 
 theferiouj grave Contrivances o^ Divine Provi- 
 dence ; what cl;:m.f:z'd things are the Cajfandra's 
 to one of thofe pieces of proportion, to be feen in 
 Gods Coverm^ent of this lovaer V/orld ! So that it 
 were unpardonable to ftrive to Recommend the 
 wonderful Providences of God to the Genius of 
 this Age, by a Lye, or to talk, deceitfully for him j 
 what-ever therefore fhis Narrative is, yet it's a 
 nailed Account of his own workings , and Gold 
 needs no gilding. 
 
 But now the Refders great danger lies in run- 
 ning over fome of Cods work^, and yet not feeing 
 God in his r^orkj : Little Children, we fee, do 
 hugely pleafe chemfelves with the gtlded Covers^ 
 and Marbled Leaves of Books, but concern not 
 themfelves, what is within; and if they chance 
 to look a little overly upon the forms and Jliapes 
 of the Letters , yet underliand not the fnblir,ie 
 matter, that may be coucht in them : Now, to 
 divide the words from the meaning, is morally to 
 Annihilate them, and fo whilll: they fee Letters, 
 and words oaely, they fee juft Nothijig : There 
 are a great many fuch ■^tS'oyi^rji'i , fuch OlcL 
 Children in the World, that gaze upon the fur- 
 face of Gods Works, but never are led by them to 
 admire the Wifdor,), Power., Goodnefs, and Ho- 
 linefs of God : They deal with the work: of Pro- 
 vidence, juH: as they do with the workj vf Crea- 
 tion : God has engraven his^ own Name in Legi- 
 ble Chara(ftcTs upon the Heavenly Bodies. The 
 Stars in their fmgle beauties , their Combined 
 A3 After ifms. 
 
.The Preface. 
 
 ui(ierifmsy their Mutual ylffcCts^ their Intricate^ 
 yet RegnLir Alotions^ fpeak their Author; nay, 
 .upon the lowell Recreations^ the Leifnre-fyorts 
 of Nature, there is written, -Dew /(fo>. But 
 now the common obferver , whofe thoughts are 
 terminated by his Eye, and his Eye with the vi- 
 fible Heavens, as 'tis befpangled with glittering 
 things, called Planets , and Stars, lofcth quite 
 thdt r/3aif! defign., which is toconducfi: and argue 
 our thoughts up to a firfi Caiife ; for they were 
 not fo much out who cryed up the Alufick, of the 
 Sfhcres to be fo Ravijiiwa : and we fhould con- 
 fcfs it, could we but hear them fing this Antheme, 
 Glory be to God on Htfh. Can we be fo Brutifh, 
 :as once to imagine, that the wife God , who cre- 
 ates fjothuig- little, nor for a little end, fhould 
 •create fuch great, and glorious Bodies only to be 
 •the Objeds of Ignorant, and blind Amazement ? 
 •Surely no ; but that by the contemfLuion of them, 
 >VJe might be led into the yldmiration of Him, 
 .whofe Being, Wifdom, Power mull needs be 
 ■infinitely Glorious, when his very works are ex- 
 cellently fo : Here then will be the Readers dan- 
 ger, left all his Spirits fhould evaporate in a con- 
 fnfed Admiration, that^B^f, a little, aCanvai 
 ^oat fhould, like the Ark, convey fo many Pcr- 
 fons fo many Leagues fafe to fhoar, whiht he mif- 
 fes the true intent, and meaning of it, to behold 
 a watchful Providence (as well as the ^eing of a 
 ■X>«>)',) 'over allAfTairs. Now, that he may 
 potfplit upon this dang^erom Reck.) but improve 
 . '- the 
 
 The Preface. 
 the narrative to his bed Advantage, 1 fhall fub- 
 mifTively lay beTorc him a few Dircdions. • . 
 
 I, Sect. Learn from this Narrative to tru/l, 
 and in all thy ways to ack>io\vledge God, .who by 
 the raofl contempt ib/e means, can effei^ the }>w]i 
 corifdcrable things. Created Beings,a£ they can- 
 not MX beyond the Sfhare of their yllJmty,'^ fo 
 neither can they Operate further than the pita- 
 blencfs of their Jnftritments will enable them ; 
 it were ridiculous to attempt to cut down a For- 
 reft mth a Pen-k>iife, or Lave the Ocean with a 
 fpoon ; but if the great God can make the didlefi 
 tool to cur, can fervc himfelf of the mo ft unfit Jn- 
 ftri'.mcnts, and accomplidi tlie r^.ofi: noble .werki 
 with the molr Wooden Engines, he will furede- 
 ferve ourgreateft triifi and confiJence. As. great 
 Princes are attended with a numerous train of S(Jr- 
 vants, more /or State, th^^n abfolitte'v'eiejfity; 
 fo Godufcs fccond c.iufes, not becaufe he; camm 
 workyithottt them, but to teach us to admire /;/i 
 firength, in ikeir xveakstefs, his AU-ftijficiency in 
 their infiifficiency. ^ , r' 
 
 The Grand Seignior- had .heard of the famous 
 
 . Atchievement of C aft riots Scimitar, and was very 
 
 dcfirous to make an Experiment, whether its 
 
 excellency anfv/ered the Report ; he fendsfor it, 
 
 proves it, it does no Execution; he fends it back 
 
 with fcorn, and indignation , that lying Fame 
 
 . fhould magnihe a forry Amninnition Sword^o ht 
 
 . above its merits, hut Sc^nderbeg j:UmeA?c 
 
 ^A 4 Melfen- 
 
The Preface. 
 
 Mefiengsrs Face, hews in pieces Helmets, Cor- 
 {[tts\ Go now (fays he) and tell your Mafter, 
 though Ifent hint my Sword^ I did not fend him my 
 ^rrn; none can work with Gods means ^ that has 
 not Gods jdrm : Hafi thou an Arm like God ? 
 Job 40. 9. Here then the Reader may fee, (and 
 jf he fees not^ he forfeits his Eyes ) the fame God 
 who in an Arkjf bnlriijlies preferved Mofes,zx\A 
 in another Ark. faved Noah, in a fmall Canvas 
 Skidler ( which was our Ark, though in a lefTer 
 Volumn) waft us over the Ocean, and bring us 
 all fafe to Land : As God is feen in the fmallefi 
 workj of Creation, fo in the fmallefi Jnfirttments 
 cf his Providence. The little Fly, or Ant, ex- 
 ' pref&s Creative power, and Omnipotency in A-li' 
 mature, as well as the great, Cafile-beari?!^ Ele- 
 
 ■ ■phant : I have read fomewhere of a Goldfmith 
 that made a Lock^^and Key, and Chain fo fmall, 
 
 ' and fubtle, that a Fly would draw them all about 
 a Table, and never be flailed; furely the Spe- 
 
 ■ <ri:ator would not predicate the ilrength of the 
 por Fly, but the skill of the Artifl. 
 
 ' Efiintenitibui, (^ Fiifdlis Recutis 
 
 • JLdUi Optimiq; Alaximiq; Alaxima. Caz. 
 ' ■ '■- Pia hilar. 
 
 The Glory of the Great wife King, 
 Shines greatly in the fmallefi thing. 
 
 Indeed our whole paiTage was jyoWirr ; .fuppofe 
 
 ■ we had met with one Ntght of Hary Weather , 
 
 • ■''- ■ we 
 
 The Preface. 
 
 wemJoht have plyed back into the jaws of that 
 Dellrudion v/hich wc had fo far efcaped. Had 
 we met wi:ho«ff Storr/t (and an ordinary p;//" of 
 wind had been a Storm to m ) it had prefently 
 over-fet us; but the fame God that commands' 
 a calm for the Halcyon, commanded Halcyon 
 days and nights for us, till under the wings of his 
 gracious ca're he had hatcht his own purpofes of 
 Mercy, into perfel^l Deliverance. It was a won- 
 der too, that in our fix days Voyage, in the Me- 
 diterranean, the very High Ha ad of Navs- , 
 gation, both for honefi Men and Knaves, Mer- 
 chants and Pirates, wc ftould not meet with one 
 Fe{fel,Frtcnd or Foe: Had we met with <? Friend- 
 
 ly VelTcl, they had pityed us, taken us up, and 
 then the Power of God had not been fo fignalized 
 in our Prefervation •, had we fallen in with an Ene- 
 my, we had immediately become a prey ts> their 
 Tecthy the^jhzA. fwailowed us up (jiiick., we h^d 
 made but one poor Alorfel to their greedy fto- 
 machs, .and thereby defeated a work of God gio- 
 rioufly begun, and rob'd him of the Revenue of 
 his praife. 
 
 If then they that go down to the Sea in Ships, fee 
 the works of the Lord,a»d his wonders in the deep, 
 Pfal, ; 07. 23,24. What Wonders , what Ali- 
 racles of Providence have we feen, and may others 
 fee'mws, vjhowentdown tothe fea, not in a Jliip^ 
 but in a Canoe, which for want of a better Narr.e 
 we call a Bs^r! Le: the Reader therefore rt^- 
 r/iireGod.\i\iS\r/ie; and both of «« with the Pfal- 
 
 mift, 
 
• The Preface. 
 iijift,-?/:?/, 86. 8. Amoiigfl the gods there is noiie 
 like unto thee, Lord, neither are there any 'vjorks 
 like thy rvorks. , r 
 
 He deals unrighteoudy with God who meafures 
 him by thefmallncfs of the means that he ufes, and 
 not by the great ncfs of thofc cjfclis he produces 
 .by thofe means. And therefore, 
 
 " ' ''' Difce n Cymhtda^q acquis es ; & Deo 
 - Da pro tenitibits , cir pitjllli-s R cadis, 
 ■ Latidern Optimoq; Maxit/ioq; Maxirrtam. 
 
 Gaz.. P id hilar. 
 ■ Let this our little Sjiiff thy Spirits raife, 
 •To give to this great God, thy greateft 
 •' Praife. 
 
 ' ••ij-ScH: Let the Reader improve this Relation 
 tofortife his Faith again fe the Utile Cavils of 
 htheiftical Spirits, who lay out their illpLiccd wit 
 "in.forgeing Objeiftions againft Hir/t th.it gave it. 
 .lii-i'c is a Creature famous in Prov. 6. C^i I't^e 
 ■Jldaterno impletiis calcibiu fctit LaU.intcin, that 
 being J?//e^ with the liberal Dug, ungratefully 
 kicks his Da:n. Thus this fort of Mea are ambi- 
 tious to be accounted witty, in creating k^iots and 
 dijfciilties in the Hiilorical paflages of Gods oreat 
 Providences Recorded in Scripture, and particu- 
 larly in his Prcfcrvation of Noah, and his F.imily 
 in the A'kj But he that had feen with m the watch- 
 ful eye of Godfitper-intended^ and the fieddy band 
 of God to hold a poor Canvas Boat.- built- without 
 .■' .. Rcgu- 
 
 The Frefics. 
 Regular proportion, ill Vidualled, without An- 
 cho°r, Helm, Compafs, orTackle and there- 
 bv prefcrve the Lives of five iuconjtdtrable Per- 
 rinl of no great ufc in the World, and after 
 fix days great extremity and diHrefs, Land them 
 ailfafe, may eafily Credit the Report, how the ■ 
 fame God (hould preferve eight ^'^^/f ^j "P<^" 
 whofe Lives the rcpeopling of the whole Wor4d ^ 
 did depend, in a refel of n.-ofi exnCt proportions, 
 il-on<^ built, and well laid in with all wanner of 
 Provlfions. He that can fee h Creator- \n the 
 ' Korh- of Creation, and a G ov cr,i or x\M\\t works 
 I cf Providence, may icafonably believe^// Divtne 
 \ Rcvel.1t ions. 
 
 ' 3 ScEl Let all that would not abufc this Nar- 
 
 1 rativcbcwarc,leltiT/;;//^rk7^r.^«V/;,V;«^ Provi- 
 
 : dencein tins mftancc cf our prcfcrvation, they do 
 
 i not over-look, thofe eminent appearances of Godto-- 
 
 \ wards thcrrf elves every n.oment , which, thougil 
 
 I perhaps they carry not /a much of Runty in them, 
 
 i yet may have in them as much of real power, wij- 
 
 dom, and (roodncfs. We arc apt to deal with our 
 
 Mercies,^]Mi\ as we do with ourfnsy where tne 
 
 Corny^onncfs andfrcqncncy of either, abatesand 
 
 takes off from the Obf rvatton and Notice which 
 
 we owe them; we gate, M^wonAz: at Cornets, 
 
 and {^6r flaming beards, bat feldom admire t^ie 
 
 Sun, afarmore'glorious Body, becaufe he rifes 
 
 and fcts every Morning and Evening /<?<;» the yfi 
 
 find the iirnnfi ; Dolt thou admire God i>i our pre- 
 
 .. . .. fervation. 
 
The Vnfiice. 
 
 fervatioijy learn to admire him in thy ovaii : Art 
 thou furprized with wonder, that we mre kept a 
 fsvy days J when there was not half an inch be- 
 tween us and Death ? Confider^ God has kept 
 thee /Miiny days, and many years, and every nn- 
 KUte of thofe many days and years, when there was 
 but a hairs breadth between thee and Death : 
 Doftthou then admire God prefcrved us alive in 
 a FeJfeL of Cloath ? Admire that God that held- 
 eththy Soul in Life, and that in a more frail Vcf- 
 fel, a Vejfel of Clay : Doft thou ilill wonder wc 
 were not blown over with every breath of Kind i* 
 Admire alfo that the Lamp of thy Life which thou 
 carriefi: in a paper Lanthorn, is not blown out by 
 every blaft of Sicknefs : But if thou wilt ftill won- 
 der havf fitch a Boat (hould carry us / Then won- 
 der alfo how thy Food nouripies thee , how thy 
 Cloaths keep thee warm, how thy Jleep refrefhes 
 thee : There's not a woment in our Lives but is fil- 
 led with real Miracle and IVonder, I will praife 
 thee (fays the Pfalmill, Pfal. 139. 14. ) /<>r / 
 cr,! fearfully and wonderfully made : Let us all 
 praife God, iot we are fearfully, and wonderfully 
 ^referved. If Prefervation be but a Continued 
 Creation, how fhould we adore that Power that 
 Created usance, hut preferves us a'ways I God 
 expe<fts that we {hould equally magnifie his skill 
 in making us out of Nothing, and fecuring us that 
 wedrop not into Nothing : and as much admire 
 his goodnefs, that we crumble not , moulder not 
 into our dufl., as that we were at fixfl formed out 
 ofdtifi. 4. Sea, 
 
 The Preface. 
 4, Sell. Let the Reader Learn from our Sla- 
 very, to prize, :xnd improve his own Liherty. If 
 we fcrve not our Ccd fincerely, and chcarfully in 
 plenty, he can fend us where wc (hall ferve our 
 Enemies in want. If we glorifie him not with our 
 Liberty, but turn it into Hcenttoifncfs, he can clap 
 us up clofe, v;hcre wc lliall learn to prt^Le it higher, 
 and wifh we had improved it better. It argues 
 great dtf-tnghiuity and bafcnefs in our Spirits that 
 we provoke our God to teach us the worth of 
 Mercies by the want of them : The Lord does 7tot 
 Willingly ajjliEi, nor grieve the Children of men. 
 Lam, 3.33. but we provoke him to take his Rod. 
 into his hand, and lay it fr/iartlyu^on our backs, 
 bccaufe that Folly which is bound up in our hearts 
 will not otherwife by lafht out of us. Thus God 
 threatned his People of old, Dcut. 28. 48. Bj- 
 caufe thou fervedji not the Lord thy God with joy- 
 fulnefs and gladncfs of heart, for the /ibundancc 
 of all things, therefore jliJt thou ferve thine Ene- 
 n.ics, in hunger, tbirfi, and nukednefs, andintus 
 want of all things. Thus he taught Judah by the 
 Captivity ofQabylon,to prize thefreedor^ of Cana- 
 an ; we might learn our Duty much c/3f<jpfr from 
 Gods Word, but we like Truants, will not learn 
 it f/)f/-f, till God fends us to Schoil\y\t\i a Rod at 
 our backj. 
 
 5 .Sect. Let all Learn from hence, in what ftate 
 [oever the Providence ofGedpMlpUce them there- 
 with to be content : Perhaps thou art a Servant to 
 
The Preface: - 
 ^ Chrifiian ; doft thou murmur ? It fhews, thou ; 
 little knoweft what it is to he a SUve to an t>y.te-\ 
 rioM Tnrk. Thou Scrveft him that frr.ys wth' 
 thee.md for thee; doiUhou repine .' God might 
 have made thee Serve one who would ciirfe a?id 
 tortiircthee, andmakehrtleProvifion for thy Bo- 
 dy, and none at all for thy Soul: The Chriftian 
 Religion is furcly the rMjt excellent Religion m 
 the World, becaufc it holds the B.tUancc Jo even 
 between Supertoars, and Jnferioitrs : It cn;oyns 
 the one to give the moft full Obedience, and yet 
 prohibits the other to exerctfe Rtoonr. It is pe- 
 remptory /<)»• Zi;/^ , and yet M^oxs Tyranny: 
 whoever has known T/zr/^'J/^ Slavery, is obliged 
 to become a more Loyal Siib]ca, a more Dutiful 
 Child, a more Fatthfid Servant; and whoever 
 h^snot knovin ^f,isyct obliged to become all thefe, 
 left God make him hmv it, and whip out of him 
 that Reflijfffirit of grumbling, and Difobedi- 
 encewith the'QrUrs, andThoms of the V/Uder- 
 
 • ^God commanded all Mafters among!^ the Jews 
 to allow their Servants a day of Rejf, Deut. 5.14- 
 ■ and lie gives this Reafon for it, Remen.ber that 
 thou mjt a Servant m the Land of Egypt. The 
 Equity of which Reafon holds ftrongcr for the 
 Chriftian : Remember thou waft a Servant to the 
 mrfi of Mafters, a Drudge m the b4'ft ofn-crk;-, 
 and lyable to receive the xvorfi of wages : Has 
 Chrift fet thee free .? And art thou become a Ser- 
 vant to the beft of Mafters ? Employed m the 
 
 moft 
 
 The Preface. 
 moft rerfonahle, and honourable Sfmc«?:And 
 in expe(ftation o'ithe moft Horioiu Rewards ? Let 
 it teach thee if thou beeft ^ M.iftcr, to command 
 gently ; and if a Servant, to Obey chearfutly.^ ' 
 
 6. Sea. Let all Learn to wal^worthy vf the 
 Ccfpcl. It is I hat which five e tens all our mercies, 
 i and mitigates the bittcmefs of all yljfifiions; and 
 1 if we fm away that, we either fin away all the 
 \ reft, or whatever is nfcfid, and dc fir able in all the 
 ! reft' If we enjoy the Licht , and yet walk tfi 
 ' dar^fs, it's righteous with God, to ovcr-fp;:ead 
 our Habitations with Egyptian, or ]iabylo}iift^ 
 Tiirkifth or Pcpijlidarknefs. God can carry US 
 to Rome, or yll'ters ; or clfe fend Rome , and 
 J.'ejers home to"us .• For what fhould a People do 
 w'lihli'^ht, that oncly intend to plr.y , or fght by 
 it f The once Famous C/j/.'rc/;^ o/^i/;./, arenov/ 
 fwallowcd up by the Otto>y-an Sn-crd, and tlis 
 Maht:?nedan unbelief; and thofc fomctiines ra- 
 mous Cities. Carthage,and Hippo, which knew' 
 thofe burning and ftiining Lights, Cypnan, and 
 Juq^iiftme, -are now pofll-ft with Moors, and de- 
 filed with the Abominations of \\\czrcatcp k.i^o-^ 
 (lor that ever fcduccd the N itions, but One. Ana 
 ' thinly ft thou, O Man, O Chrillian, that do' ft 
 ' thefe things, fo Alien from the Gofpclof Ghriltj 
 \ that art drunk in the day, and curfeft that God 
 ^ whom thou VVorfhippei^c, th.it thou p,alt cfcape 
 J the Judgment of God ? I tell thee, nay; and I 
 tell all thofc that read thefe lines, and arc gurty ; 
 
 and 
 
The Prifacc. 
 and I tell my fclf, fo far as I am guilty, that ex- 
 cept v;e Repent, we jhall all likewife perijli. 
 
 The Lord Jefus Chx'A , in his Epiftle to the 
 Church of EphefM, gives her this Memorial, /J w. 
 2.y. Remember therefore from v;he)ice thou art 
 fallen^ and Repent^ and do thy firfinforhj-, or elf e 
 J vill come ui.to thee ^tiickjy, andrer/jove thy Can- 
 dlefiick^ottt of its place, except thott Repent : But 
 E^hefiis vpoidd none of his Coitnfil, none oi his 
 Caution-, and Chrift was as good as his word, he 
 put cutler Candle., andrer/ioved Ircr Candle ft ick^ 
 I have often wondrcd, what fliould be the grounds 
 of their confidence, who fpcak as if the Gofpel 
 ntre entailed upon England^hy vcrtue o^.fome An- 
 cient Charter 5 as if God would make us Excep- 
 tions from his General Ride, which is to take away 
 ab::fed, defpi fed means, and mercies, and we mull 
 own muohoi prerogative in our cafc;hut yct,letus 
 Jlejoyce with trembling, left when Prophancnefs, 
 and Debauchery dogRehgion foclofeat the heels, 
 Ihe flye not thither, where flie may find better 
 garter : It has' made great Imprcfiion upon mc 
 when I read the Divine Herbert , in his Church 
 Militant J 
 
 Religion ftands on Tip-toe in our Land, 
 Ready to pafs to the Arr.erican Strand ; 
 - When height of Malice , and Prodigious 
 Lufts 
 Impudent finningjWitQhcraftSjandDiltrufts, ■; 
 
 The 
 
 The Preface. 
 
 ( The Marks of future bans ) fliall fill our 
 
 Cup 
 Unto the Brim, and make our Meafurc 
 
 up, &c. 
 
 7. SeH: Let it be every 7vlans care to be 
 found in Gods -way : The Promife of Protcflion 
 is annext to Gods way, PfaL 9 1 . 1 1 . Be jliall 
 give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in 
 all thy ways : And the Bleffing of God is annext 
 to his own way too, Pfal. izS.i. Blefed is 
 every one that feareth God, and walketh in his 
 ways. When we are over- taken with the evil 
 of AjfiSHen, let the firft Queftion we propound 
 to our felves be this. Am I not in the way of 
 Tranfgreffion? Did this danger ^nd me in r,oy 
 Duty i Was I in Gods Htgh-way, or in fome 
 h) path of my own ? Was I doing his wor\^ ? 
 Serving hi^ Glory ? If we obferve not the way 
 of his Precepts, I know, no Reafon we fhould 
 plead the promife of his Protedion. There are 
 two things upon which I look upon it as my 
 great Duty to Refled ; firfl, v/hether we were 
 in the way of Gods Precepts when we fell into 
 our Enemies Hands } Secondly, whether we 
 were in the way of Gods Promife when we efca- 
 ped out of their Hands ? For the former, I ara 
 abundantly fatisfied, that we were in the way of 
 our Duty ; for we were fent out by Cominiffion 
 from the Right Honourable, Robert, Earl of 
 Warwick^y the Lord 5^^, and the Lord ^r^c/:., 
 B who 
 
The Frep.ce. 
 wHo by Patent from His Ma jefty King Cj;.:r/n 
 the Firft, were Governors of theljle of Frovt. 
 ■cUnce, whither v^cmreUiini'. For the latter. 
 If the more fevcre Reader (hall make it a Qnelh- 
 on, Whether mcotddin Faith expeli Frotca^on 
 ■inm Mvem^revifiblyfor^h and^r^aptomt 
 ■And fliall determine itagainft us,that m temped 
 ''God by carting our felves apn extraordinary 
 -imcCilort, cxpeaing deliverance without war- 
 rant, m^v^^^ little on thts fide Mrracle: J (hall 
 ■firftfav. Let him fhun that Rock mhis own con- 
 
 .. y' i_!-L. u_ r„,,^r,r<-c «c tn have 
 
 j 'J lie i^rcjace. 
 
 r ' (I Land too, as was like GoJJicn, all Lij^htywhcn 
 \ i the Land of our Captivity was like E>jypr, both 
 1 ! for SUvcry, and Dark^efs, that might both be 
 '•■felt; and wC thought i: below Men, \ox the love 
 '■ if Life, to lofe the Reafonsof our Lives., for 
 
 ^li may have 
 (^Ifthey dare tryyt Cloriom Life, or Crave. 
 Herb. Ch. Porch. 
 
 .Jilm 
 
 tnore Wljuuw, at </»' ~-^- - o n /■ n H 11115 will mJt laLiaiit, JtL iiviit iiim.ai.1. uo H"."'/ i.- 
 
 further fay, let him not difcovcr greater rainneis: ,„ ^^^ y^^/,^^ but rather admire Divine Conde- 
 mn Cc«/«nw^ our Adventure,than he cfedrffJ«;o« , fccnfion, that engaged in our Deliverance, not- 
 our Adventure, but modeftly confder htr^Jei;,\ „,,i,j}^„^,,,^c,,rfaU,np 
 7./k ^//. ^c r.r.pr.^ i and if we were guiUy y I i 
 
 ^ folly, he may thus gain rvifdom by our loiiy ., , g^ ^^^_ ^^^ ^jj ^j^^^ j^^^^ ^^^^ Narrative be 
 "But I ftiall add, Extrermty of Mifery 'f """V^ \vAxv.(Xzd,never to prormfe ther>yjdves orcdt mat- 
 \f the heft Counfellers; let him put himleliun-- ^^^^y^^^ ^,^^^^. j j^^^.j, obfervcdit \x(ih&whole 
 -der'our Circumilances, and if Cov^ardije did; Conrfc of oar Captivity, and conftant Tenour of 
 'not hinder him from making our Attempt, l am j ^j^^j.^ gracious Providences which brought us 
 - confident Con/aVwf would not :OurLives were,, ^j^^^^^^ and the Series of Mercy, Wifdom, and 
 "bitter to us by Reafon of cruel Bondage, ana. ^ Power, that was our Convoy Home, that we 
 .'(though minewas at that time much mitigatcdj|j gygr found >»<;/? 0/ Favour from God when we 
 "yet there, is a fecret Magnetifme m ^ Native ^y^^Q(>^f.^if^ji from Men: and the leafi of kjnd- 
 ■"Soil, with which our Hearts being once y/ro»j/). „fy}fj.om thofe where ivf w/>k, or thoufht we 
 ' toucht, could never admit of the leajl variation,) .^^ .^ j^^^j.^^^ ^^^^ promVed our felves rr-.ofi. 
 'but flill pointed direaiyHoniewards; ixndjuchi , => B 2 - ' ■■■ AVhcn 
 
The Preface. 
 When we met with fiiiexfcaedFrieudpolp^Goi 
 would teach us to own Nir^df. When we 
 met^fJithdtf■appomr.Knt, God would teach us 
 the folly of /^o/»««^''^f Credere : I have leri- 
 oufly admired the Compaffion and Relief we 
 found at ^^v^'ri, and yet we knew them to i^f 
 Momamfis, and they knew us to be Yrotefiams, 
 and how little refpeft we found itomfoy.uoi our 
 ownCountrey, zlAUcant, C/j^;^,_andSt.f «• 
 €(irs> and yet we were tycd together m the ItriCt- 
 eft triple bonds of Vn Diet,, Vn Roy, Vn Ley, 
 One Cod, One King, One Lm: But God was 
 fceninboth. I could Relate a Paffagc during 
 our Captivity in v4/?;fr J, that had more ot bit- 
 ternefs in it, than in dl onr SUvcry; and yet 
 they were C/3»»7?»Vjwj, not Mgennes; Yrote- 
 fiants, mt?apifij; Engli^^r,ie7,, not Strangers, 
 that were the caufe of it : But I have put a force 
 upon my felf, and am refolvcd not to publifn it. I 
 In our Return homewards, we met withfome 
 who would talk to the grief of thofe whor^ God ■ 
 h^dmis>idcd;znAv}asnowina rvaytoheal^g^im 
 Some would Jnterpretativelyhy,v.'iththeChnrl- j 
 i(h Nabal. 1 Sam. 25. 10. Who are thefc .? j. 
 And whence come they ? There are manySer-y 
 vants now adays that break av;ay, every one from ■ 
 ■ his Mafter. But then was the feafon when we j , 
 had moft Experience of Gods Faithfulnefs : And 1 1 j 
 Ihall never ceafe to own before the world the , 
 great Refped we found from fome Engli^' Mer- i^l 
 chants, to whom we v/ere perfed Strangers^ a^d 3 
 
 the y 
 
 The TnfAce, 
 the Civilities of Captain Goodfon,Q.z.-<gfxsi Smitht 
 his Mate, and his Son, are not to be forgot- 
 ten. 
 
 Perhaps , after all this, the Reader will be 
 earned to befatisfied, why this Narrative his 
 lien fo long Dormant, and appeared no fooner 
 in the World? And I (hall herein alfo endeavour to 
 give him all Reafonahle SatisfaBion. 
 
 1 . When we return'd into England , we 
 found our Native Countrey embroylcd in a moll 
 dreadful Civil War, and moil Men had enough 
 to do, to bear their own Perfonal Calamities, 
 and had little need to be troubled with the mfs- 
 rics of others ; they were other kind of Decla- 
 rations that flew abroad then, and that was e- 
 nough to fuperfede a Narrative of this Nature, 
 
 for fome Years. 
 
 2. Thzgreat mercies of Godhive not always 
 their dite weight upon our hearts at frfi; and I 
 have received fignal Deliverances from eminent 
 dangers fince that great one ; and it's well if all 
 the'tiiercies of our Lives , all our Deliverances 
 ptit together, will amount to an Argument ftrong 
 enough to overcome our backwardnefs to maks 
 publtck^ackf'owledgments. 
 
 3 . 1 thought a long while that it was tiot worth 
 the while, to trouble the World \yith my par- 
 ticular concerns, till the Importunity of feverd 
 Minifiers, and others, both in City and Coun- 
 trey, overcame my relu(ftancy, in whofe Rea- 
 fonsldidacquiefcc. 
 
 B 3 4. I 
 
.._,,', ; T/jtf Preface. 
 
 .-,.'4., I was confcious to my felf of grc.it itnft- 
 Ttcfs to recommend it to pub'iick view, in fui h 
 a garb as might vindicate ttfrom Co)itc^?.jn -.. lor 
 .though it has been drawn out mnnv Ycaij v.-rj 
 r/iy own hand, and many have had the pi r-j '■ of 
 ,it,, have approved it, and de fired it ^ yet til! I 
 could prevail v/ith a Friend to teach it 10 fpeak. ■« 
 ■little better Engli^ij I could not be perfwadcd to 
 Xtt'itwalk^abrodd: The Stuff and rMttcr ts my 
 owa, the Trir/iming and Form is u?iothcrs , for 
 whom I mull vouch, that he has done the Truth, 
 jr/iyfelf. And the Reader, Jnftice, 
 
 Having overcome all thcfc difficulties, I do 
 .heje Ereli w.y Ebenez.er, as A frtall Monument 
 qf great Mercy ^ and as an Obligation upon my 
 ' Soul to great Diiiy^ and do pray that it may 
 ftand as an yielding witnefs for God in my Con- 
 fcience ^ that when ever I am tempted to fin, I 
 may have an Anfwer ready to flop the mouth of 
 .the. Tempter with Indignation : Bow can I da 
 ■thU great evil, and ft n again/} my good God} 
 .yvhen I am tempted to dlllrufl:, I may encou- 
 rage my Faith from my own Narrative, , faying, 
 ,' Her^ember that God who delivered thee at the Sea: 
 I when lam tempted to murmur, I may fupprefs 
 -thofe mutinous thoyghts from my own Narra- 
 tive, faying, Remember what thou endnredfi in 
 . Algiers. VVhen my Heart grows cold, and 
 .unthankful, I may chide, and (hame it, from 
 my own Narrative, into gratitude to God j That 
 God, Vfho remembrcd n> in our h\y Eftate j for 
 
 his 
 
 The Trefacc. 
 his mrcy endurethfor ever ! who preferved us ^ 
 it the Sea, the Great Sea; for his mercy cnda- 
 reth for ever ! and fecured us in a Boat, a Gort- 
 temvtible Boat, for his mercy endiirethfor ever L 
 who gave us favour in the Eyes of Strangers , 
 for hti mercy endureth forever ! and opened to 
 us the hearts of Enemies ; ioxhis mercy endi&etk 
 for ever I and taught us to look up to his never 
 
 ■ failing Mercy, when Friends failed, for hus^irr 
 
 ■ cy endureth for ever! who returned us fafe;to 
 , England, ioxhis mercy endureth for ever!, we 
 I called upon him in the day of oiir^ Trouble, .bs 
 I deliver edw, zn'iwe will glorifie him. '■ 
 
 Reader, this Narrative is true, pcrufe it str 
 \ rioufly, and let not Vanity tempt thee to fay; 
 i Things might have been better contrived. Wile- 
 \ Her managed; it was God that did what was 
 ; Good m All; call not his wifdom in Queftion, 
 
 ■ becaufehe did not create more wonders to graU- 
 ' ^c thy itching Humour; perhaps thou wouiut 
 
 have had us been brought over upon a Floaiwg 
 '• J (land, or in a V/hales Belly, buti do not under; 
 ! ftand that the great God is bound to work Mi- 
 \ r.destofiLWCr^ens longings: God has done his 
 
 ■ work well, and none can !:3end it;iot,.woci 
 ] can the tmh do that cor/tes after the King ? Eccl. 
 i 212 For f^jfiw^fr^ro/.f^a Recorded herein, 
 \ I rai«'ht fafely call God to Record i:pon my Sd'-i 
 
 ■ that^J lye not : The thing'is known to. many, and 
 j has been fifted, and fcann'd by fuch Eyes^and 
 
 . Ears as arc not guilty of eafic Credulity y 1 have 
 
The Preface. 
 
 Evidence that may ftorm the mofl: obflinate un- 
 belief: Mr. Thomas Saunders., my Wife's Bro- 
 ther, being in Mayork. not long after we came 
 from thence, faw our Boat hang up/or a Monn. 
 tnsm upon the fide of the great Church there. 
 Vii, Robert Hales, who was there leyi.adures 
 me he faw the naked Ribs and Skeleton of it then 
 hanging in the fame place : Now, I aflure thee, 
 Reader, I Ihouldbe much afliamed of my folf, 
 if Strangers--/;»co»cfr»faf in my Perfonal Deli- 
 verances, fhould be fofar concerned as to pre- 
 ferve a Memorial of them, and yet unthankful 
 I fhould Ereft no Standard or Pillar as an Evi- 
 dence of Gods wonderful appearing for me. 
 . V It's true, I am informed by one, that fome 
 afprm, there are more Boats hanging up in 
 •JtSayork, in Memory ' o^ foT>:e fi:ch like efcupe : 
 .Now, if others have really efcapedthQ fame dan- 
 ger, ■ by the fame means, it greatly confirms our 
 "■Narrative ; and I do heartily rejoyce, that Fro- 
 '.vidence has appeared in the fa>nc jllethod for 
 others,' as for oitr felves : we never intended to 
 ■Mcriopoiize Gods Providences to our fole ufe o- 
 ■ behoof; and we rejoyce rf our Attempt and Suc- 
 ■'cefs may have encouraged others to make the 
 tike anew ft, and have found //;f Ukefitccefs ; but 
 I do afiert it with great confidence, that when 
 ^ we were in Mayork, there was no fisch Boat 
 hangiij^ up, but the Inhabitants there entertained 
 our< Deliverance as fuch whereof they had no 
 'farallH : - But if on the other fide , thefe , or 
 
 fome 
 
 The Preface. 
 feme of t\\dc fiiccceding Boats WCre but Ir):po- 
 fkre, then the goodnels of God appears more 
 rcmayknble towards us, that we really were the 
 Subjesfts of fuch wonder, which others durft 
 oncly pretmd to ; and it fcts a luftrc upon this 
 great Salvation, which Others have thought /o 
 co>ifdcrabU, that they judged it worth the while 
 to tell a lye to entitle thcmfelves to the Credit of 
 it; iox it's Gold .ind Silver, not Ccjiper, or bafer 
 Metats.,t\\2.t they who drive the C ' iyjiing Trade, 
 ftrive to Counterfeit. 
 
 Let then every one that Reads , itnderfland, 
 and ferioufly fit down, and confider with him- 
 f;lf, whether he has not had r/?any emmmt Per- 
 final Deliverances in one kind or other, which 
 this Marvellous Providence of God towards us 
 may not refrefh his memory withal ; and if he 
 (hall hence be taught to blufh at his forgetfulnefs 
 of lapfed Mercies ; if this Narrative (hall recover 
 any lofi: Providences, and fix them on, and rivet 
 into his Soul ; if he fhall find himfelf awakened 
 toducthankfulnefsto 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 
 Almighty, and let him kindly Accept the Afii- 
 ftanceof him, who Hull reckon it amongft his 
 other Mercies, to have been Serviceable to any 
 one in Reviving a better frame of Heart. I 
 
 am, 
 
 Reader, 
 
 Thy Friend and Servant, 
 
 W. Okcley. 
 
£f> 
 
 f^'- -c^r. i^iL r-'- . f-Xt^fi. r^x ^sx^:^ .;^r>^.^fk 
 
 «.;i» «'^ ■ «.}» 
 
 A SMALL 
 
 MONUMENT 
 
 OF GREAT^- 
 
 SECT. L 
 
 j4 JBrkf Jcrount ofthofe Vrovideiices 
 
 which led toivur'ds our Captivity 
 
 in Algiers. 
 
 rrT^H I S Narrative would be too Hafpy 
 if it {hould not meet with iomo-hajiy 
 XL. and impatient Spirits, that grudge the 
 time that's fpent in Preface and IntroduUion; 
 and fuch as thefe^ are wild to come at the Story 
 of tb'. Joat ; all the reft is but one great tedious 
 Jrripcrtinency^ they'le not give a Figg for all the 
 
 other. 
 
ii A Small Mouumetjt 
 
 Other. I fiiall make never the more hafi; for un^ 
 reafonablc Importunity; 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 confiderate,!: will be acceptable to know 
 how oar Foot vias takft in the Sfiare^ as well as 
 how the Snare was brokstt, and we delivered. 
 
 Inthe Moneth oi June, in the Year of Our 
 Lord One Thoufand, Six Hundred Thirty and 
 Nine, in purfuance of a Commifiion from the 
 Right Honourable, the Earl of Warwick.^ the 
 Lord Say, and the Lord Brook., we took Ship 
 tit Crave fend, in the' Aiary of London, carry- 
 ing fix Guns, Mr. Boarder being Mafter, and 
 ^uwei Walker the Mafters Mate ; the Ship was 
 chiefly Laden with Linnen and Woollen Cloath, 
 having in her. Seamen and PaiTengers, above 
 fixty, bound for the Ifle of Providence in the 
 Wefl-Indies. Five weeks we lay in the Downs, 
 wifhing, and waiting for a Wind, and then we 
 fet Sail, and came to an Anchor near the Ijle of 
 'lVi£bt ; 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 for 
 cur Voyage. The next Lords Day we fet- Sail 
 again,' and comini^ between the Iflaad and the 
 Main Land, weftuckfaft inthe Sands, b'Jtthe 
 'Tide coming in, hove us off. Thefe C'ircum- 
 flances feem very inconfiderable to thofe that 
 ^yercnot concerned in the Produds of them; 
 
 - ■••• .but 
 
 OfCrent Mercy. 3 
 
 but God has given us the Advantage and leifure 
 to fee vj\\ii great things were in the Womb oi' 
 thefe little things. Had the Wind flood longer 
 a^ainft us, it had been r/rorf /er w, and the dan- 
 ger had been faft \ had it ftood Ufs vMle againft 
 us, it had been /or i» too, and we had been 
 pone vaji the danger : But God appoints it the 
 fvloment when it fiiould come about to blow us 
 into the Mouths of our Enemies : We fee the 
 Truth of that, Te knov; not what to pray for: 
 We prayed for a V/ind, and we had a Whirl' 
 wind : If we always knew what mifchief the 
 Anfwer of our Prayers would do us, we fhould 
 be glad to eat our words, and pray againft ou? 
 Prayers, Denyal is often the bcft Anfwer, ana 
 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 for 
 us, and make moft for his own Glory : we 
 werealfo taught, that the Sea may fometsmes 
 be ourbeft Friend, and the Earth our worft E- 
 nemy; and that nothing can do 'M goodot^Mtt 
 but by the DireSion and Cornmijfion of ths Al- 
 mighty. '. 
 'We were now three Ships in Conipany, ana 
 one of the other I remember carried Nine Guns, 
 Mr. Church, Madcr. The fixth day after our 
 fettingSail from the Jp of Wight, by break of 
 Day inthe Morning, we difcovered three Snips 
 - about three or four Leagues to Lee- ward : The 
 Mafters of our Ships prcfcntly confulted , what 
 
 was 
 
■Ji SinalL 2\do7JHmeni 
 Hvasmoft advifeablc ; whether to fta^ and fpcak 
 v/ith them, or to make the bell of our way ; 
 ctlafl: ( upon what Rcafons I know not ) it was 
 determined that we (hould ftay : It was not long 
 before we Difcovered thofe other three Ships lo 
 hzTurki Men of War, who efpying their prey, 
 endeavoured to come up with us, which about 
 Night they effeded : Whilll they were com- 
 is!g up, the Mafters of our Ships fecmed refolv- 
 ¥d' 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 Counfels, let their Rcfolutions dye, 
 jirjd agreed to run for it; uncertMnCoimfeU ne- 
 ver fr.odaee better fucccfs j when we might have 
 go«>, then we would //»()' ; and when there was 
 Tio'^ay to efcape, then we mud needs attempt it : 
 Hadwe either at firft refolvcd not to Fight them, 
 or, refolving to Fight, had profccmed our Refo- 
 lutions like men of Courage, we might, pcr- 
 'hzpS,Cit\\<:t\\ZMt avoydedthe danger, or brave- 
 iy Mafier'd it. .l^cTttrks perceiving us be- 
 jgin'to run, fentone of their Number to Chafe 
 us, whilft their other two attended the remain- 
 ;lDg t\vo of our Company till the Morning. At 
 l^re.ak of Day they began to Fight us, and after 
 la.ffiort Difpute Boarded usjand took us all three: 
 "III the Mary, fix were flain,and many wounded j 
 'fo fmall was the difference between Flight and 
 .Fight •■, but that the Death and Wounds of thofe 
 jhat, 'fiye , are difhonourable ; but of them 
 
 Of Great Ma-cy. g 
 
 that Fight., beautiful, and Glorious. _ 
 
 Many weeks they kept us clofe Prifor.eys££ 
 Sea J we found many ^»»/f77^?^?'.'« in their Shipj 
 Slaves, like our felves, from whom we liad no 
 other Comfort, but the CondoL'ng of each o- 
 thers Miferiss, and that from them v/e learnt 
 a fmattering of the Common Langusge, which 
 would be of fome ufe to us when we fhould 
 come to AlgiersyVjWa(^tfi.itcx five or lis weeks, 
 vyc were brought. 
 
 SECT. 
 
A Small Mmament 
 
 II. 
 
 r: ;; •_ . ?ECT. 
 
 Tic Defeription of Algiers 
 ■- ■ Mumier of Bujirtg ^ 
 slaves. ' .— ' 
 
 , ri>ith their 
 and Selling 
 
 A Lgier is a City very pleafandy Scituatcd 
 
 ^ii on the fide of the Hills, over-looking the 
 
 Mediterranean, which lyes North of it; and it 
 
 lifts up it's proud Headfo Imperioufly, as if it 
 
 Challenged a Sovereignty over thofe Seas, and 
 
 expedcd Tribute from all that {hall look within 
 
 she Sneighti, It lyes in the loth. Degree of 
 
 ^Longitude, and hath fomewhat kfs than j 5 
 
 Degrees of North- Latitude': The City is con- 
 
 fiderably large , the Walls being above three 
 
 miles in Compafs , beautified and ftrengthned 
 
 with five Gates : Port-Marine towards the 
 
 "North, and Port Pifcadore not far from thence, 
 
 -andJPc;:f fS Nova towards the South ; built, as 
 
 they Report, by the Spamard^ whilftitwasin 
 
 their PofTefTion: The Wea Gate, which they 
 
 call Bubawite, and the Eaftern Gate, which in 
 
 their Tongue is called Bubaz^oon : They have 
 
 alfo feveral ftrong Caflles befides that upon the 
 
 •point of the Mole, To that the Town is judged 
 
 impregnable. The City is Built very ftately, 
 
 snd yet more ftrong than ftatelyj. and more 
 
 Famous 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 7. 
 
 Famous than ftrong, but not more Famous fox- 
 any thing rhan for infamy, being the Retreat, the 
 Nclt of thofe Tirrktjb Corfairs, which have long 
 Tyrannized in, and been a Terror to the Neigh- 
 bouring Seas. It is fuppofed by fome to con- 
 tain four thoufand Families, by others, four- 
 fcour thoufand Perfons ; but they muft needs bs 
 very fhort in their Reckoning, it having been 
 Judged, that of all Nations there could be no lefs 
 than twenty five thoufand SUves. The Private 
 Buildings are very beautiful, flat Roof'd, Ador-' 
 ned with Galleries towards their Courts, fup- 
 ported by Pillars .• And they may afford to build' 
 ; fumptuoufly, becaufe they build at other mens 
 ; coft, and with other mens hands : Their Tcm- 
 ; pies are alfo very Magniiiccnt , and much too 
 good for their Religion, whofe Pra<f^icc and 
 Converfation fpeaks them to fay, There is no 
 God. And yet we Read of a Religiota Thief, 
 who never went about the workj of his calling' 
 ( for fo he called fleaUng) but he would foletxniy 
 ir/iflore the jijfiflance of his Idol : A ftrange 
 god, fure; that would be acceffary to hisDe-' 
 voro's Robberies: And a firange Worftiipper,- , 
 that either hoped to Flatter his god to become his 
 accomplice in Villany, with the Vow of a good' 
 round ftiare of the Booty, or Vv'ould be fuch a 
 Fool, to think That God worth the WorOiip- 
 ping that fhould be thus flatter'd. They have al-. 
 fo many ftately Baths, to which the Men refort 
 in the .Morning, and the Women in the After- 
 ;'.:;,,■"• ■ c noon; . 
 
 I s 
 
[_■ ' 'A Si'^M Monument 
 
 nodiii'But they want o«f,worffc thc?» all^whcie- 
 ih riiey might by Faith and Repentance wafii 
 awaytheir filthincfs. 
 
 To this fair City we were brought, yet in 
 oar Eyes it was moll: nj^ly and deformed ; for 
 ths French Proverb is univerfally true, Jl n'y a 
 ^jin't de hel Pnz.on. There is na fv.ch thing tu a 
 fidr^ Trifon. I confcfs, for a Goal, it's one of 
 tne-^f)?^.'"/f that 1 havefcen; there's nothing 
 that the Soul of Man bears with more regret 
 than Repaint : The Body it felf is judged by 
 fojie to'bebut the Souls littlc-eafsj or Cage; 
 \7here though it feems to Dwell, yet 'tis but in | 
 flmaiirdble Durance ; and though it dares not i 
 yfhal{,;he Prifony yet it liftens, and longs for 
 dCokUclivery :NTherc can be nothing large j 
 e'nough for a' Soul but God, from whom fince ; 
 ll once at frfi came, 'it muft needs be refllcfs i 
 tili it return to him again ; and furely it has much 
 forgot it felf, and extrad, if it can take up with 
 . latisfadion in any thing on this fide its Crea- 
 
 ■ As (bonas we were put afhore, for the firfi: 
 Nipht we wtx&lochid down in a deep nafly Cellar; 
 fome inconveniences we /f/r,but they were no- 
 thing to what vie feared : The next day we were 
 carried, or led, or rather driven to the Vice- 
 Roys, or Bafhaw's Palace , who according to 
 the'Cuftome, 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.. . 9 
 
 driven tike Bcajls thither, and expofed to Sale j 
 and there is a great deal of God's goodnefsia 
 that one word, that it was not to the Stanghter- 
 honfe to he Bittcher'd, as well as to the Market 
 to be Sold. Their Cruelty is great, but their 
 Covet oil fncfs exceeds their Cruelty ; could they 
 make as much of us Dead, as they make alivey 
 that fo ipoth the Jnterefts , of Cruelty, and of 
 Covetoitfnefs might he fee are d and reconciled^ 
 we are well affured which way it fhould have 
 gone with us. But it muft be a great desi of 
 Tallow and Fat, that will anfwcr two or three 
 Dollars a Moneth. 
 
 Their manner of Selling Slaves is this. They 
 lead them up and down the Fair, or Market; 
 and when a Chapman bids any money, t'ney 
 prefently cx^,a-Rache I a-Rache ! that is. Here's 
 fo ir.iich money bidden, who bids more ? They 
 that cheapen the expofed Slaves are very cir- 
 cimfpeCt Perfons, they carry their eyes in their 
 Heads, as well as their rnony in their Firrfes, 
 and ufc the one in laying out t\\e other; for they 
 are loth to buy a Fig in a poke: Their firft Po- 
 licy isto look^tn their months; andagood,il:rong, 
 entire fet of Grinders will advance the Price con- 
 fiderably ; and they have good Reafon for this 
 PradlHce : for firft, they arc Rational Creatures, 
 and know, that they who have not Teeth, cati- 
 TiOt eat; and they that c/?«;/of c«r, cannot lyor^j 
 and they that cannot r7ork.,^e not for their turn; 
 and they that arc not for their turn'., arc f.ot for 
 : .'.• C 2 their 
 
lo A Srnall Monument 
 
 their money. And SecondIy,thcy intend to keep 
 them at hard v^eat all the Tear, and it muil ncc 
 begums, hntfolid Teeth (nay, if itwcrepof- 
 fible, cafeharden'd Teeth) that mud chew it ; 
 and when all is done, they had need of the 0- 
 firiches Stomach to digcft it. Their next pro- 
 cefs is to feel their Limbs ; as whether there be 
 any Fracture, or Dijlocation in the Bones ; any 
 thing Analogical to Spavin-, or Ring-bone^ for 
 thefe will bring down the Market wonderfully : 
 And to be clean Limb'd, clofe coupled., rvelL joym- 
 ed, will advance it as much. The ^ge i-s very 
 confiderable j but they that fell them, did not 
 i>reedther/t, and therefore they know nothing, 
 more or lefs of that : Two ways they have to 
 find out the Age ; the one is, to ftand to the 
 courtefie of the Slaves, but they are not bound 
 to make any fuch Difcovery, and therefore they 
 go by general conjedures from the Beard , 
 Face, or Hair; but a goodfet of Teeth will 
 make any one ten Tears Tounger, and a broken j 
 one ten Years Older than the Truth; for if they I 
 victc pve hunAredTiars Old7\\\sz Ci^c, if they i 
 could but f<!r<2«^iyflr^5 or if they could «or f.?r, < 
 yet if they could but work.-, or if neither eat nor ■ 
 work., if their Sj^'w^ would but /(?rc/; ;« the mo- j 
 fjey again. You fhall-have the Seller commend i 
 his Goods to the Sky, and the Buyer, on the 
 other hand, as much undervalue them., and the 
 true Market-price commonly lies juft between 
 
 Ojfays 
 the 
 
 them ; bai fb it is all the World over. 
 
 Of great Mercy. 'n; 
 
 the Seller, mark what a back_he has, vvhat<« 
 ; breadth he beurs between the fhouldcrs ! What 
 I a Che/}.' How f rang fee .' Uow fitted on the 
 nonce for Burdens \ He'le do but e'ne too much 
 work. . Pifh, fays the Buyer, He looks like a 
 Ftllard, like a very Meacock,at his Provender ., 
 and one that fcems to be furfeited. But they 
 are very curious in examining the Hands; for 
 if they be callous and brawny, they will fhrewd- 
 ly guefs they have been inured to Labour ; if de- 
 licate, and tender, they will fufped fome Gen- 
 tleman^ or Merchant, and then the hopes of <s 
 good trice of Redemption makes him Sale- 
 able. 
 
 When any are Sold , they muH: be trotted. 
 onocmoretQ\kie Vice-Roys, that he may have 
 the Review of them, and if he likes any of them 
 at the prizes they went ojf at, there's no more 
 Difputc, they are his own. 
 
 As.formyfelf, I was Sold the firft Market- 
 day to a Tagareen ; and that the Reader may 
 not ftumblc at that hard word, he may under- • 
 ftand ; That when the Moors were driven out o£ 
 Spainh^ Ferdinandthe Great, they, upon their 
 return into Africa, aflumed Names that might 
 Argue Gentility , and be an Evidence of their 
 Ancient E.xtra[i, from fuch places where they 
 had been great Dons, and accordingly there are 
 many Families thqs denominated 3 as Tagareen^^ 
 Jarbeensy &c. 
 
 C 3 
 
 SECT. 
 
u 
 
 A Small Monuwent 
 
 SECT. 1 1 r. 
 
 An Account of fome DijfjcuUies that. I met 
 ■ with dnriNg mj Captivity in Algiers. 
 
 1 
 
 ^Hofe Miferics which it is dreadful to endure^ 
 arc yet delightful to be rememhred-^ and 
 there's a fccret pleafure to chcvp the Oid, and 
 ruminate upon efcafed dangers : However, the 
 Reader may afford to run over with his Eye ;>; 
 an hour, that which I ran through tn five Tears j 
 and fuppofing hinnfelf fafe upon the ylmehithea- 
 trcy may behold poor Slaves Con.hating with 
 heafts below. " 
 
 The firft Adventure I met with after I was 
 brought to my Patrons Houfc ( for fo I muft 
 now llilehim) had well nigh coft me my. Life. 
 Ivly Patron's Father being defirous to fee his Sons 
 Tenny-north^ commanded me up into a Gallery, 
 xvhich looked into the Courts he began to in- 
 fultoverme with infupportable fcorn, receding 
 upon me becaufe I was a Omflian^ and cafl out 
 fomc Expreflions which did really reflet upon 
 the Perfen of my Redectur , ( though I have 
 heard wurfefmce.') My Neckjwzs notyet borced, 
 nor my Hears broken to the Take of Bond^tge j 
 I could not well brook,, becaufe ' I had not been 
 Pled tken to fuch Language j and becaufe I could 
 . ' not 
 
 Of Great Mercy. ' 1 3 
 
 not cxprefsmy fclf in //;e Morefco, ax LlngiM 
 Franc, I fupplyed it with Signs ; and imitating 
 the Coblers Tarke, I fignihed both ways as well 
 as I could, That their Frophet was but a Cobler, 
 I confcfs, my meaning was no more, but that 
 Mahomet., by the help of Sergim, a Neflorian 
 Monk^, and AbdalU the 'few, had patch'd up a 
 Cento of Jfiv^y/;, and A/onkiPi foppcrics,vjhch 
 v/SiS now their Religion. But he, without ;/;e 
 preamble of many Ratling words, fell upon me 
 with fevere blows; what ever Rage and Fury 
 his Hands or Feet could Execute, that I felt ; 
 and my intrcaties did but inrage his cholcr, fo 
 that I faw I might fooner blow oi:t the Fire with a 
 pair of bellows, than Icnifie his Pdfjion with pray- 
 ers ; 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 fclf head- long 
 down ever them , and rather chufc to receive 
 my Death from /-/je Paver/ient, tlnnhis Hunds, 
 he prefendy affwages, if «o^ hts Rage, yet the 
 £xeci:t'j?; of it. The Qld Gentleman knew ve- 
 ry wei!, that if I loft my Life, his Son mull Ipfe 
 his prcfent money, and /«f;<rf profit j' (ot there's 
 little made out of a Dead Mans Sks" '• ^^'^ there- 
 fore he rcfpites my further punilhment till my 
 Patron's return, and then, indeed r^tf repnted 
 ^/<2//)fcew^ of mine with full cry was carried to 
 hisEars-j and it lof nothing in the telling,- but 
 . was aggravated to purpo'fe : My Patron being 
 C 4 • Naturally 
 
14 -^^ Smdl Monument 
 
 Naturally a very paffionate Man, faid nothing. 
 
 but without Exammation,drcwoi't/ji 
 
 <"'/'> 
 
 ( \Vhich they conilaiitly wear by their ^\6. i ; and 
 ■made at me ; and had there doubtl-^is put an end 
 to iny life and captivity at once^ had not bi.s :vife, 
 who was there feafonably prefcnt taken mh: in 
 her Arms, and fweetcn'd him into more mode- 
 rate counfels. Some will be ready cnou^ h to 
 fay, that I was but.< I'Linyr to wy own Jr\:ty\ 
 This was not a place for Difpnte^ but Obecltcncc. 
 Well, I learnt from hence twoLclTons : One, 
 That when the Body if a Slave ^ the Re.ifon tiUiSi 
 not expeH to be Free \ and where the whole out- 
 ly-jr^yl/rf;; is in Bondage, the Tongue mn/l not 
 plead Exemption. A Second, That it's fair 
 for Slaves to en/'y tl.e freedom of their own Con- 
 fciencss^ without Reviling another s Reliction, 
 though erroneous; and this wit J bought^ as it 
 fell out, a fretty good Penny-worth. 
 When the Storm was over, my Employmenr 
 
 ■ was affigned me ( for they had ratlier fee a Slave 
 dead than Idle ) and for about half a Year it lay 
 
 ■jn trudging on Errands, b:aring Burdens, and 
 
 ■ difcharging other domefcick Services at Com- 
 mand^ wherein the onely confideratioh was, that 
 it vas commanded.^ and not What vmu comnan- 
 ded. 
 
 At this time my Patron lud n pin tn q Man 
 of War., which carried twelve Guns : She being 
 at Sea ( with fome others of the fanie place ) 
 Bjet with an EngU^i Merchant ; X<r^f« vsith 
 
 ]?Utfj 
 
 Of Great I^£ercy. 1% 
 
 F'i.tte, and other Rich Commodities from Sfain, 
 and i3ound for London., ( one Jftac being Ma- 
 jhr^) and after a very //j^jrf, though _/?j--'rr«;/^ 
 piite, the y}lgerines carried her, and brought 
 her fafc home. The Adventurers divide thtir 
 Booty, and being high flown with thisfuccefs , 
 they Refolve to fit her out again to carry more 
 Gi:ns ; and from hence grew >:-y new Employ- 
 ment. Uiion the C,:rpenieri\2ncudcd, waited 
 on the Smiths, to get the Iron-woxk fitted, and 
 finilhcd j and truly he allowed me more for Por- 
 tage tl an to the ordin.riy Han.mels., or Comxon 
 Porters. 
 
 When this Ship was now fitted for another 
 Adventure, my Patron tells me, 1 rr.nft go in 
 her ; it was a nipping word : 1 pleaded, that I 
 was no Sea-man, underflood nothing of the 
 Mariners Art, and therefore as he could cxpecfl 
 little Service from n.e in that kind, fo I mull 
 cxpe([i mofi rigoroM treatment., bcc.ufe I could 
 not acquit my fclf inthe Service as well as others; 
 he removed my Pleas, ar.d promifed I fhould 
 not be wronged ; but there was more at the bot- 
 tom than r.li this : For here a cafe of Confciencc 
 offered it fclf, Whether J might without Jin in 
 any cafe fight ag.iinfl Chrijitans., on the Port of 
 the common Ener/>y of all Ckrijlianity } The bell 
 Refolution I could give my felf, was this ; that 
 tirft, my employment would onely lye in man- 
 aiding the T<Jc/^/(?,which will kill no body ; but it 
 Was^eplyedjthat without the due management of 
 
 the 
 
i6 
 
 A Small Monument 
 
 the Tackle, all the Guns in the Ship would kill 
 nobody. Secondly, therefore 1 anfwered, That 
 it was not evident that they would engage againft 
 ChrilHans r/tore than all the rcjl of Alwikj^nd , 
 for all the World are their Enemies, who arc 
 Rich enough to iti vite the?», and too weak^to refifl 
 them ; but my Patron had ci foUttion worth all 
 tbefe: Ke told me peremptorily, I rmf}^ and 
 ^Miildgo ; I found my fclf under force, 1 was >t 
 TreJft^AUn : who could not examine the J lift ice 
 of the Cai:fe. In a word, \\\s Commands vjzxc 
 back'd with Compuifion^ and whatever his yla- 
 thoriiy was, he had more /^civv-r than I had Co«- 
 ragc to deny, or flrcngth to refifl \ and go I did. 
 Yet this 1 will fay for him ; he fpoke to the Cap- 
 tain and Officers of the Ship, to treat me civily, 
 that is, Icfs cruelly th.rn other Slaves were treated: 
 He gave mc 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- 
 eut the Streights, Cruifing, and Pickarooning 
 up and down, at laft we met with one poor Hitn- 
 garian French Man of War, whom we took, 
 and fo' returned. 
 
 My Patron having been at ^reat charges in 
 fitting, and manning out this Ship, andtthe Re- 
 prifals fo flenderly Anfwering his great coft, and 
 greater hopes, told me, I mufl: allow him two 
 DoUers per moneth, and Live afhore where I 
 would, and get it where 1 could. This was a 
 
 hard 
 
 Of Great Mercy. i? 
 
 h.ird chatter. That he that cou'd not mahitain 
 hmfcf, Ihould be compelled to contnlnitc to 
 tlr maintenance of .:«^r/^^^ i it was difficult r(7 
 rMfetncrccfeoxiZoinoflocl^, avAtopay Jntcrefi 
 out of no I'nntpal; but there was no contcnd- 
 in-^ .- It coi^ mc much debate with my felt, and 
 1 turn'd my thoughts mto all forms and jhapesy 
 but all projcds that prcfcntcd ihcmfclvcs wxre 
 incumbred with fo many d.jj'.cidties, that they 
 amounted vi ry near to mpoljibrttus. The more 
 \co>:fidted, the further I found my fcU trom^ 
 f o«c/;//?o«,and I could fee no way but one, (but 
 that was worth a thoufand, could 1 have nude 
 the bell of it,) aiid that was to co>n>,ut r,:y [elf to 
 God, who had brought mc into this frait^ be- 
 fccching him that he would bring rr.e out of it. 
 
 But that my tnflmg to Cod might not be a 
 cloakfor Laz.:ncf; or a I'llloivfor SloathtOiC^ 
 upon,l addrefl: my fclf to an Englif^-n^-.n,whoic 
 conduion was that of a Slave , whofe Calling 
 was that of a Taylor.Uc at firft word counfcllcd 
 me to come and ilay with him, and he would 
 i^ach me to work of his Trade. I accounted 
 nothing ^«/r that was hone/}, andnecejjity would 
 ennoble afar meaner Employment, and very rea- 
 dily clofed in my thoughts with his motion, and 
 was fuddcnly elevated into huge hopes that I 
 (hould now be in a capacity to Anfwer my Prf- 
 tro7i-s demands, and efcapc his lajh. But my 
 ftraits were not (itfeems) great enough to 
 clorifie God ; nor my condition mean enough to 
 ° , mag- 
 
iS 
 
 A Small Monument 
 
 magnifie his Power in raifing me;- 1 was not re- 
 duced to ^zx. Extremity which would make an 
 0/';>o/'r«/7;/^ to exalt his app-aring Mercys for 
 when I came to him the nexi'.iv, 1 perceived 
 by his filence that his Mind was cr;;/ir'cd, and I 
 \vas loth, either out of A-Iodeft)\ or L'liJic^ tO 
 give him further trouble ; and therefore Inter- 
 preting his Silence to be a more Civil way of de- 
 ityil, 1 icfi him, and once more Launched out 
 into the widv World. 
 
 In tiiis foi iorn Pofiure I wandred, but neither 
 V-'cw, nor r„uch c^red whither ; though the wife 
 God bothi;'7fiv, anucared-j and his Providence 
 Direcfted mcto another Enjlifii-man., who was 
 fitting in ^ little Shop : He asked me what News? 
 ■ And ( as that which is uppermoft always comes 
 out iirll ) I prefently began the Story of my 
 defperate Condition ; how the Rigid Law of 
 my Patron had impofed two Dollars per Moueth 
 upon me, and I knew not where to levy the leafi 
 Alite of'it: He heard, confidered, Pitycdmy 
 Condition, and invited me to come and fit in 
 the Shop with him ; but feeing nothing but bare 
 V\ial!s, I asked him, to what End'i What 
 Trade (hould we drive there ? There's not much 
 difference between 7?f>-x;«>;^ in the Streets, and 
 in the Shop. Countrey-man (faidhc) 1 drive 
 here an unknown Trade ; here I fell Lead, Iron, 
 Shot, Strong waters, Tabacco, and many other 
 things: ThisMotion was a great deal too good 
 to be refufed j and I think at that time no tole- 
 rable 
 
 OfCre.it Mercy. I9 
 
 rable condition would have ftuck with mc- 
 
 1 acquainted my Patron with my Dcfign, 
 p'eaded I wanted Itock to fct up with ; he knc 
 tucnfmallnwdiciir,i, and with another pittMCt 
 that I had privately referved of my own, I 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 feemed to fmileon us wonderfully. 
 In th s way of Partncr-fhip we continued for 
 fome while, end what we got clear, wcdivided 
 every week according to the proportion of our 
 refpcdtiveiiocks In a while,findingthc world to 
 come in upon us , we ventured upon no Icfs than 
 a whole But of Wine \ fome Money wc had,and 
 fo»ic Credit : This Wine wc drew out, and got 
 confidcrably by it. But it's very difficult to 
 maintain Moderation in an exalted ftate, for cvca 
 oiirflaie was capable of better andworfe; for 
 my Partner being elevated with our good £uc- 
 ceis, grew (I i^ovd Fellow, and ab-oJ htisb.m'l-y 
 ncglcdedhis bufincfs, wcnttipling, andfud'ing 
 up and down, and the concerns of die Shop and 
 Trade lay wholly upon my fhoulders. . 
 
 It fell out, ii\Mtox\zJohnRa>iJ..il, who, with 
 his Wife and Child were taken in the fame Shin 
 withmyfelf, being put to the fane fnifts with 
 my fclf, and, as 'tis very comm.on, having a 
 Moncthly Tax impofed upon liim by hi> Patron, 
 which he mu'l:fcrape up where he could, and 
 befides maintain himfcU", hiiWifc, and Child, 
 
 went 
 
20 -A Small Atonurrcnt 
 
 v/cnt up and down feeking for Relief, at laft 
 the poor Man ilra^glcd to our Shop : His cafe 
 made great imprefiion upon me, I could not but 
 ccnfider the gooclncfs of God to mc, that fhould 
 now be in a condition to advifc^ and help az/othcr, 
 who fo lately wafucd both my fclf; and it had 
 ihis operation upon mc, that I woud not fulfcr 
 a poor diftreflcd Countrcy-man, a Fellow-Cap- 
 tive, a Fellow- Chri; Han to {land begging at th.it 
 door, where I had fo lately llood my felf: Shall 
 I fhut the Door, or my Fleart upon him, when 
 God had opened a Duor of hone to me in the 
 day of my Trouble? Shall I fo ill requite the 
 Lords kindnefsto me? Surely that God who 
 comforts its tn our 'TribnLitiofts., cspedts that rrc 
 fijoiild con.fvrt others in theirs, zCor. 1.4. 1 
 bad him therefore come in, and knowing him 
 to be a Clover by Trade, advifcd him to learn 
 So make Canvas Cloaths for Seamen that are 
 Slaves ; and for my own part , he fhould fit 
 Rent-free ; but if my Partner would infiit upon 
 his Atoiety^t 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 (^aptives to the next .• Our condition 
 was bad J and in danger every day of being 
 
 worfc, 
 
 c 
 
 Cf Great Mercy. 2 1 
 
 v/orfc, as the mutable Humours of our Patrones 
 determin'd upon us, for cur Shop and Trade 
 was no free-hold : The truth is, in time we were 
 fo h.ibitaatcd w Vy^iuligc^ that we aImoll:/''rfcf 
 Liberty., and grew ftupid, and fcnflcfs of our 
 Slaveryj like JJf.:chur., we Couched down be- 
 tween etir burdens., wc bowed oar fioiddcrs to 
 hc.ir, undbccimc Servants toTribr.tc, Gen. 49. 
 14, 15. And were in danger to be like thofe 
 Ifraelttes in B.ibylot/, who being once fettled, 
 forgot Canaan J and divclt with the King fcrhk 
 work^, 1 Chron. 4. 25. Wc fcem'd as if our 
 Ears had been bored., and WC had vowed to Serve'- 
 our Patrones for ever. Long Bondage breaks 
 the Spirits, it fcatters Hofe fjf., and difcoura- 
 gcs all attempts fur Free^'vn:: And there were 
 more evils attended our condition than the bodily 
 torture., which WC were always lyabU to, and 
 for/ietimes endured. 
 
 I. We were under a perpetual temptation to 
 deny the Lard that bo:ight :u, to make cur Souls 
 Slaves., that <?;//■ B 'i^;'f.f >i:n>ht Recover L-berry. 
 As Satan once tempted Job to Ciirfe God. and 
 dye ; fo he knew how to change his note to us , 
 and accommodate his Snare tu our Condition to 
 Curfe Cod, that we rrJght Live. How many 
 have made Ship-wrack^ cf Faith, that they might 
 ViOthcChained to the Galleys} I can never c- 
 nough admire the grace of that Promifc, Ffal. 
 125. 3. The Rod of the \Vicl:s<^ ./'^'■«^-' '-'<^' *='- 
 j nays rcji upon the Lot of the Righteous, left the 
 i . Rt^btC' 
 
22 A Smtilt Monunient 
 
 Right eom fut forth their hands to Iniquity ; nor 
 ever enough adore the faithfulnefs of him, who 
 Vfill not fiijfcr m to be tempted, above that we are 
 able, I Cor. lo. 13. 
 
 And 2. Evil is the imManing, anddifpiriting 
 of the Soul to worthy Adions ; for we arc apt 
 lofHt on the Temper and Spirit of SUvcs with 
 the Habit , and the Chriftians of the Greeks 
 communion , are a very fad mjl^vice of this 
 Truth. 
 
 And 3,' We were very much at a lofs for the 
 Preaching of the Word : And yet herein the gra- 
 cious God ftept in for our Relief. 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 
 
 SECT. IV. 
 
 23 
 
 Hoxo God Vrovidcd for our Souls ^ Ljfeftd^ 
 I 7h-g us an A'ok Minifter Jo Preach the 
 I Go/pel to m in our Botul.ige. 
 
 I 
 
 THE Gracious God looking upon the affli(fl- 
 ion of his poor Servants, and Remcn.bring 
 \ nun onr low EJlate, was pleafed many ways to 
 \ mitigate the load of our Captivity: We have 
 [ Rcafon to fay, with the Church, Ez.ra 9. 9. We 
 1 were Qondffnen., yet our God h.tth not forfikcn 
 ! HI in our Bondage, but hath extended Mercy to 
 ]iis, to give Ma reviving, and a Nail in hii Ho- 
 ly place : And thus he brought about his Dcfioa 
 of Grace and Mercy. There was an £n?lfjh 
 Ship taken by fome of our Algcnne Piratcs^and 
 in her one Mr. Devercux Sprat, a Minillcr of 
 the Gofpel. It dcfcrves our confidcration, and 
 grcatefl Admiration, that the wife God fhould 
 jiippiy our Nccefsittes at the cofl: and charges of 
 others of his dear Servants : But thus Providence 
 fcnt Jofcph into Egypt , where he endured a 
 thirteen Years Slavery, that he might prefcrve 
 the Lives of his Fathers Family, within whofe 
 narrow walls the moft vifible Church of God in 
 thofe days was cnclofcd, Cfw. 45. 5. Now, 
 fomc of usobfcrving this Mr. Sprat to be a Per- 
 D fon 
 
2^^ y^ Sr,)r.ll Monument 
 
 fon of very Sober, Grave, and Religious De- 
 portment, we addrefTed our fclves to him, and 
 humbly entreated him, that we might enjoy the I 
 bcncfitof his Miniltry ; in Order whereto, wc ! 
 defired him that he would compound with his \ 
 Patron at fo much a moneth as he could, and be- j 
 caufc wc were abundantly convinc'd of our Du- 
 ty to adminillcr to him of our Carn^il thtngs, 
 who fhould adminifter to us of his Spiritihih,\\t t 
 engaged to allow him aCcmfetency to maintain 
 himfelf, and fatisfie the expetSations of his Pa- 
 tron : The good man hearkened to us with mucli 
 readincfs \ . and now indeed we found our bur- , 
 dens much lighter, and our conditions not prefs | 
 fo hard upon our Spirits : Thrice a week, this ; 
 Godly painful Servant of Jefus Chrill prayed ; 
 with us, and Prcach'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 1: 
 liowed fomc Goods that were peculiarly my 
 own, when we fell into a greater flroke of Trade. 
 To our Meetings reforted. many , fometimes 
 three or fourfcorc, and though we met next ihc[ 
 Street, yet WC never had the leaft diflurbanccj 
 from the Turks, or Moors ^ for whilft we in- [; 
 tcrmedled not with their Suferjiitions, but paid i 
 our Patrones their demands, we might, without j 
 any difturbancefrom them, iVorfljip our God, \ 
 decor dinn to our Confciences : It's true, that fuch ! 
 were the circumlliances of the Slavery of many ^ 
 poor Chriitians, that they csidd not attend ; aad 
 
 fuch ^ 
 
 I 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 
 -^■i.tl\it^ needed 7iot, perhaps, attend upon 
 Gods Worfhip with us ; but thus was our God 
 pleafed to give ns the vazw^sQi firengthning our^ 
 faith, and Comforting our drooling Spirits. 
 j At length came one Captain Wildy of Rat- 
 df to Trade there, who, with the AfTiftance 
 of the Leghorn Merthants, freed our Miniiier 
 from his Patron, After his freedom from his 
 patron, yet there remained a Duty of fixty Dol- 
 krs, which was a particular charge payable to 
 ;he Publick Treafury, before he- could be fully 
 enlarged from the City .• We Petitioned there- 
 fore the Captain, that he might, and Mr. Sprat 
 'limfelf, that he would ftill continue to be Ser- 
 viceable to our poor Souls, in the work of the 
 uofpel, and we eafily prevailed, and had the 
 ^enefit of his Miniftry whilll I ftaid there. 
 
 D z 
 
 SECT, 
 
26" A SnMll Monument 
 
 S E C T. V. 
 
 Some Kemarkiible Obfcrvations tb.tt i 
 • gleaned up, vokilji I remained in Al- 
 giers. 
 
 'Y'Key that are prcfTed with tkeir own Pcrfo- 
 Ji nal Crieviinccs^ have little leifure to loo{ 
 abroad, and obfcrve tbe Motions of others ; and i 
 indeed our own AfHiflions however fwectncdj 
 lay ilill gnawing, and grating upon our Spirits, | 
 that we muft needs be very ill qualified to trea-] 
 fure up materials to make a Hillory. Such a I 
 Defign required Leifure, Liberty, Privacy,' 
 Retirednefs, Intelligence, and ftrid correfpon- ; 
 dence, to all which we were perfe<fl Strangers. ' 
 Yet fometimes I could make a Truce with my ■ 
 Troubles, and obtain fo long a ceflarion from | 
 my Vexatious preiTures, as to make Obfer-i 
 vation. | 
 
 And, I . The Hypocrifie of their Profefsion i 
 was fo notorious, that he mull: put out his Eyes 1 
 that did not fee it. One Moncth in the Year they j 
 Obferve their Ramedam, which is their Lent ; ! 
 and indeed they Obferve it by d^.y with more than ; 
 A/onksPi yJufterity, impofing upon themfelvcsi 
 a total ylbfiifience : An Obfervation which they ' 
 may be prefuined to owe to that Nefiomin- 
 
 Monk.,1 
 
 ■| Of ^reat Mercy. 27 
 
 , A/o^kj who club'd rvith Adahomet in the cur- 
 i M invention of the yllchorr.n : But fbr all their 
 f demure Qu.tdragefiwal lookj by day, they give, 
 I \ OtfcU themfelves to commit with greedmefs all 
 t manner of the moil execrable Villanies by night 
 • : And they cheat themfelves with this evafion • 
 ji that forfooth Mahorfiet Con-.rr.anded then; to Fa^ 
 l\fo many Days, but not fa many Nights ■ For 
 I now they beat up their Drums, and call their 
 I Friends firft out of bed, then out of doors: they 
 ; provoke, challenge, dare one another to eat\ 
 drink^, andrimintonll exeefs of Riot They 
 : will neither //^^r^^^« inthctr R.v^e, norlVo- 
 man tn their Liifi : The two him^y Aieals of 
 tije DAy, makes the third of the Night an errand 
 iClutton. By Day they create 'themfelves a 
 Jiirgatory, and by Night the poor Slaves find a 
 Hell. Now, when they have eram'd their 
 Guts all Night, and are Mawfck^ in the ,norn- 
 '"/, they put on the:r Lenten fice again ; and . 
 , call that a Fafl, which is bm Phyfickj, and pre- 
 tend i?f/;V,o« for that which they are compell'd 
 to by Nature • that \s, they Faji when they can^ 
 eat and drinks no longer: But indeed their Fafi 
 , by Day is nothing but^ dry Drunkennefs ; for 
 .when they have drunk, and whored themfelves 
 >"to fin, they fancy they fnent a pardon by ab- 
 fnience. A piece of Hypocrifie fo grofs, that 
 whether it be to be fampled any where in the 
 1 world, unlefs, perhaps, by tht Pop tfijCame- 
 valsy I cannot tell. 
 
 P 3 3, I 
 
^■S ji Sr/iall Monument j 
 
 2. I could not but Obferve, that though theyf i 
 
 allow, that every Mm may be favcd m tHat rI\ 
 
 ligion he frofeJJ'es, frovidcd he tv^lkj by «,i 
 •■Rsdej, and therefore that at laft, thejnv.', un-\ 
 
 der the Banner of Alcfa- the ChnfH^ns, m\> 
 ■der the Banner of Chnj}; and the Thrks, under 
 ■ the Banner of Mahomet, fhatl all March over J i 
 ■/airbridge, into I know not what Farad, fc, a^ 
 >-:pIace far beyond ;^f Ehfian Fields; yet ihM 
 ■afiord no mercy to one, who having once profJ-l I 
 fed, afterwards Revolts from Mahurr.ct.vnfm-^ \ 
 
 .an inftance whereof I fhall now prefcnt the Rca'i ; 
 ■der with. I I 
 
 The Sfaniards every Year return a confideral i 
 -ble fum of money to Algiers, to be employee' i 
 in the Redemption of fuch of their own Coun-I I 
 trey as are there in Slavery : Some fay, there i | 
 ■IS a particular Treafiiry fet apart for that Scr-M 
 -vjce; but this I know, that they ufe the CiJ'- 
 ■ ntable benevolence of mil dtfpofd Ferfons, to' j 
 advance it. Now, there u as a Spam}>, Frier,! j 
 .EhatwasaSlave, who being pafled by tn tiA\ 
 ■Redemption that Tear, took it very hawoullyu] \ 
 ±e^ negleded , thought himfelf much woni^edi \ 
 hereupon he grows I) f contented, and the De-| ■ 
 ■ml (who never works with greater fucccfs thar! ' 
 «pon that Humour)takes the Advantage to p„]:n\ 
 htm on; and he in a pett. Renounces the Chn! i 
 ilian Religion, declares himfelf a M»plm^>,,' ! 
 ^nd accordingly appears in his TurkjjhU^biV I 
 } knew him very well by fight, he was afat,! ' 
 ' ■' . - - corpulent' 
 
 Of Great Mercy. " " zo' 
 
 corpulent Perfon ; but after he had turned Rene- 
 g.tdo, I obferved him to become flrangely lean, 
 and dcjeCted in his Countenance, but I little fuf- 
 pL'(fied . thatr/jtf Rcot of his Di/lempcr lay ia 
 his Confcioice : but it feems he had feverely re- 
 flcifted upon his yjpojlacy , for he had not Re- 
 nounced o«f/)'/j;.f Fopery^ hut his Chrtj'rianity : 
 liis own Confcience, which was a thoufind 
 Witncjfcs againll him, was ,i thoufuid Tormcu^ ^ 
 ^ t!>rs to him : Long he bore usfcret and 'Jrhg- 
 \ i>-g Lajhes, but when he could no loiigcr ihnd 
 ; under them, he goes to the Vice-Roys Palace, 
 and there openly declares himfelf a Chriitian , 
 and protcfts againft the Superlticion and Idola- 
 try of Mahomet, as a moft Execrable, and Aim-- 
 nable Impo/lure : Immediately he is convened 
 before the Councei,and there ftridly Exdmined, 
 he perfills refolutely in his ProfcfTion, where- 
 upon he is clapt in Irons, and for feme time there- 
 fecured: Now, they pretended this Rcafon for' 
 their procedure. That there had been fome 
 pradifing and tampering with him, "either A-Io- 
 rally by Argument,- ok Nat urd'y byfumij)ofe 
 of intoxicating Drugs, that had thus Diilem-' 
 peredhim;" for loth they were it ihould- be- 
 thought, that any Man of found r,i,nd, or />;.-.- 
 Jhrofhis Reafon, would ever Revolt from their 
 Religion : But when they faw him fixt in hisRc- . 
 folution,' and that neither what he felt, or mi^rc 
 fear ; what they had ivfiUed, or could ibre.ircn,- 
 did unhinge him from his Profefljon, -they, pro-; 
 '■■"'■ D 4 cecdcd 
 
3o' A Smdl Monument 
 
 ceeded to the lafl Remedy, and inexorably Con- 
 demned him to the Fire : A way of Punifhment 
 which they learnt from the Spaniards thewfclves, 
 who fiyft Jet up the Inqitifition a^atnji the Moors, 
 and have now turned the cd^e of it aoainj} the 
 Trotefiants. And now they proceed to the Ex- 
 ecution of the Sent-encc, which was performed 
 with fome Tomp^ and State. And firil, they 
 formed a Croxvn with a Crofs upon the top of n^ 
 within the Pbtes, and Bars whereof rhcy put 
 Flax; thus Crowned, they Guard him through 
 the City, out of the Well Gate, about half a 
 mile, which was the appointed place of Execu- 
 tion: andfirft, one puts Fire to the Flax in his 
 r/jock^Croivn, to take pofTcflion of his Head, in 
 the Name of the reft of hu Body : at firft he 
 (hook it off, but another put Fire again to it with 
 a Cane, and then the poor man ftood patiently j 
 and prefently they put Fire to the whole Pile , 
 and there burnt him ; I faw fome of his Bones, 
 and fcorched Flefh after he was dead i and the 
 ■fame Evening came a Zealous Spaniard, and 
 carried away fome of his fcorched Flefli, and 
 Bones, zsthe Holy Relicjuss of a Martyr, fay- 
 ing, J have now done enough to maki fatisfaUi- 
 on for all the fins that 1 have comrriitted. 
 ■ 3. It's worth Admiration, to fee in what 
 freat awe they (land of the meanefl Officer, who 
 is known to be fuch by his Turbant, and Ha- 
 bit. If any Affray be made, or a murder com- 
 jTiitted in the Streets, the Chia/iXj or Officer 
 
 Of Great Mercy. ' 3 1 
 
 prefently comes without any Weapon, or Pcr- 
 fon to afiilt him ; and if he fcizcs the Offenders, 
 none is fo hardy as to rcfilt even unani.ed yhuho- 
 rity. 
 
 Reverence which the Afoors 
 
 4- 
 
 The great 
 
 pay to the 1 urkj, though both A'Iahi:z:ctaiis, is 
 remarkable : If a Ahor (hall dare to finke a 
 Tui\, he is punifht with grc^t fcverity : I faw 
 two Moors v/hilil I was there, whofc Right 
 H.viidswcre chopt oft for this one Crime, and 
 hung about their Necks in Irrings ; the one was 
 fct upon an Aflc, the other walkr by on foot, the 
 Common Cryer proclaiming before them their 
 Offence, through the chief Streets cf the City. 
 I faw another alfo with his heels tycd to a Kor- 
 fesTayl-, he was v/hoily naked, onely he had 
 on a pair of Linncn Drawers, and thus was he 
 dragg'd through the Strees: It was a moit la- 
 mentable Spc(ftaclc. to fee his Body all torn with 
 the rugged way, and flones ; the skin torn oif 
 his Back, and Elbows, his Head broken, and 
 all covered v;ith blood, and dirt, and thus was 
 he dragg'd through the City out at Bubax.oon,ot 
 the Eaic-Gatc, where he ended his mifcrable 
 Life. 
 
 Tv/o others of their own Countrcy-mcn I faw 
 Executed in a moft terrible, and dreadful man- 
 ner, ( but either I did not know, or do not re- 
 member their Crimes : ) The one was thrown off 
 from a high Wall, and in his Fall he vyas caught 
 by the way, by one of the great Iharp Haokj^ 
 
 which 
 
3 , A Sm.tll Monurdeni: 
 
 which were falbed intheWaU; it caught him 
 Viflmdcr the Ribs, and there he hung /-..in. - 
 iiunfpeaK^blcf-nnuW he dyed. The other was 
 faft,ud:a a Uddcr, his wnjis, and Ar^kles bc- 
 'ins nailed through with Iron fpkes mi^^z\^o 
 polture as fomewhat rcfcniblcsrk CcUoratcd 
 Crofs of St. Ar,dmv: and Iclt h.s Flcfh and 
 SincVs (hould fail, and the Nails not hold; h.s , 
 Wrills and Ankles were bound fait with Imiil i 
 Cords to the Ladder : Two days I faw Inmal.vc 
 ip^dcr this Tortitrc, how much longer he Lived , 
 under it I cannot tell. • . -m^ 
 
 <;. They are generally great Enemies to De- 
 bauchery in Publick : Ifs a great fcandal to them 
 when they fee any Chriftians, who brought tb.u 
 Bcaiiialuy out of thar own CoimtrUs mth them. 
 to be guilty of it. I have heard them fay, ot a 
 Drunken Slave i A Chrij^Mi } No, He s a 
 Smrte. And though they will indulge them- 
 felvesby Night (efpecially '^^ ^"^^''^^^^f''''' 
 Mon'eth) yet woe be to him, that (hall O Send 
 by Day tn th.it kind. There was ari £«^/«^- 
 m^n, who had brought over with him his Drunk- 
 en Humittr, and his Captivity had not mndehm 
 Sober: and when Religion h.ts mt firm hold of 
 tikHetn, a little matter will make fuchaonc 
 Ictjro his hold of Relvlion: Tms Englip-'^an 
 turS'd a Renegado, and of a Drunken Chnjhan 
 became a Drunken Turk., andwas not able ra 
 keep the Pot from hts He4d,dunng their holytme 
 ?/ Ramedam ; being one day found thus like a 
 
 Of Great Mercy. • 3 5 
 
 Sot, he was brought into f/jfC<?pW, or chief 
 Court of Judicature, wherche was adjudged to 
 receive many hundreds of violent blows; fome 
 :,pon his naked Back, and Rcuu, others upon 
 its naked Belly ; he could not creep from the 
 place of punilliment, but was earned away by 
 ihe Har.irr.ils:, his ^dly, and B.;ci^were^fo ex- 
 coriated, X.\nlSar,>ffoH Rvi;/)-, mEnglii'ii-rnan, 
 who was his Chirurgeon , aflured me he was 
 forced to cut otT abundance of his Flefh before 
 he could be Cured. 
 
 6. What Cruelties they Exercife n^on poor 
 Sla-jcs., needs not be mentioned, and there will 
 be an Occafion to fpeak of the n:oft Ordinary 
 way of punifhmcnt e're long. Let it fuffice, that 
 all is Arbitrary, and iirdumtted. If a Patron 
 fhall kil' his Slave., for ought I could perceive , 
 he lufTcrs no more for it, than if he fhould k;.ll 
 Ins Horfe : There was a Dutch Youth, a Slave 
 to a Turk. , who, upon fome provocation, drew 
 his Knife at his Patron ; for this Offer., he waS 
 Sentenced to be dragg'd out at one of the Gates, 
 and there to have his Arm; and Lc^s broken »?/ 
 pieces with the great Stedfe Hammer., which Sen- 
 •tcnce was accordingly Executed, for though I 
 could not fee his Face for the crowd., yet / heard 
 the blows, and the mifcrable Crys of the poor 
 dying Young Man. ^ ■ 
 
 SECT. 
 
34 
 
 A SrMll Monunient 
 
 SECT. VI. 
 
 the grievom Tnmpne»i hifli^ed upon 
 
 John Randal, the Authors Danger, and 
 
 ■ Deliverance from the fane -^ upon prc- 
 
 ' fence that they had attempted to make 
 
 an Efcape. 
 
 TTT is time to rc-aflume my own concerns, and 
 ' i look a little into my own Condition, which, 
 ■ through the food /'rovidence of God, was much 
 better°thanthatof many of my poor Brethren 
 and Fellow-Captives i and yet ! met with great 
 Ebbings and Flowings in my Traivquil ity : whilft 
 I was managing my Trade very ftoutly and luc- 
 cefsfiiUy, ( Jofa« Randal working with me m my 
 Shop.) my Partner having now knockt oh, and 
 leftalko me: One day I changeda Twenty (hil- 
 ling piece of Gold for Silver with a Friend, and 
 bavins the money chinking in my hand, y<^/j« 
 Handd asked me, what I did with fo much mo- 
 ney > I defired him to keep it for me, tillour re- 
 turn, and he fhould know: For he being not 
 very well, we agreed to walk out of the lown 
 to take the frefh Air ; a Liberty , which for fome- 
 whai above a mile, is indulged to the Slaves: 
 When we had walked almolUo the ^"i.^"^ 
 
 Of Great Alercy. 3S' ' 
 
 Tedder, 1 was dcfirous to walk a little further 
 toviewtheCoafts, if, perhaps, any Advantage, 
 might offer It felf afterwards for an Ecapc, 
 though we yiltually dcf^^ned no fiich thing. As 
 we were prying about the Sca-fidc, one of the 
 Spies appointed conihntly to watch, left any oi 
 the Slaves fhould Run away, came to us, and 
 charged us with an attempt to rrnks C'' Efcafe ; 
 we flatly denycd it, but he hid hold on us ; there, 
 was no rcfirting. Obey wc mull, and accord- 
 ingly attended his Mafter-fhip towards the 
 City : As we drew near, 1 efpyed fome EnHijlj^ 
 »»f« at Quoits, (for with fuch Recreations :im 
 Diver fio/is, they are willing now and then to be- 
 gmle the tcdtom minutes of lingring thraldom,) 
 I beckoned to one of them whom I knew, & pre- 
 tending onely to woifper with him, I fecretly 
 conveyed to him my Purfe, wherein wcx^feven 
 Pieces ef eight ; \\z v/crc prefently met by ^«o- 
 ther Spye, andthofc two led us to a httle bhnd. 
 Honfe, where they fearch'd us, they took away 
 the twenty jhilings, which I had put into my 
 Friends hand, and finding nothing upon me, tcok^ 
 aw^^y my Doublet, and then brought us before the 
 Vice-Roy, andhisCouncil : WeWercliraighC- 
 ly Examined, audftrongly charged with an At- 
 tempt to Efcape : Wc peremptorily denyed all, 
 and Hood upon our hnjocency, affirming, that 
 our onely dcfign of walking abroad, was to ta.^e 
 thefrejij Air, occafioncd by my Fellows Sick- 
 nefs. This Purgation would not be Accepted, 
 1 - and 
 
^6 
 
 A Small Monumnt 
 
 andtheB^«o<j«was commanded to be brougut 
 forth, we anfwcrcd, wedurft notfalfcly accufc 
 ourf elves, nor make our felves Criminal, when 
 we were not fo, and therefore if fuch was their 
 wtlUnd pUnfitre, we mufl abide by it, and fo 
 vpe fat dorvff ^y theftkkj. 
 
 The way of Fioitpimeiit by the B^ttocn, or 
 Cydz cL u this. They ha ve ^ firon^Mf'^'"' 
 fix Foot long, in the middle whereof arc bored 
 two holes. Intothefc hoks a Cord is put and 
 the ends of the Ccrdfaftned on the one fide the 
 fiaff with knots, fo that it makes ^ Loop on the 
 ether fide. Into this Loop of the Cord both tU 
 f«/of the Perforf Condemned to this Punilh- 
 ■ ment are put j th?n tw luHy Fellows, one at 
 each end of the ftafT, lifts it up in their Arms,and 
 twiftin? the fi4 ^boitt^ till iM Feet are faji 
 pinch-dwUh the Cord by the ^^>^es, they raife 
 up his Feet with the folcs ur.v/ards, well nigh as 
 high as their fiioulders, and in this pofturcthey 
 hold them,. f/^^P'"'^ ?"''« f^^ ^''^■''" ^^"^^ refitng 
 only with his Neck and Shoulders on thf ground: 
 Tiicn come? ^^nothcr lufty (Inrdy Knave behind 
 him , and with a tough jhort Truncheon cives 
 him as many violent blows on the foles of his 
 Feet as the Council fhall Order. 
 
 But the Vice-Roy, with his Council, gather- 
 ino from circumftances,- and induced to behevc 
 us^by ourconftant, and refolute denyal Oi the 
 Taa, omitted at prefent any further puniih- 
 ment, and only commanded us to be laid in chains 
 
 tn 
 
 I,' 
 
 ■ Of Great Mercy. 3 7 
 
 in the Vice-Roy's Trifon till our Patrones ihould 
 demand our Liberty, and fetch us out. And 
 the next day we were both delivered, though 
 with differing Fates i As Pharaoh's Chief But- 
 ler, and Chief Bak(r wcrc both taken from Pri- 
 fon, the one to be Advanced, the other to be 
 Hanged: For fohn Randal's Patron being rf 
 zery Termagant, ufed that abfolute and unlimit- 
 tcd Sovereignty which they pretend to, over 
 their Slaves, and Commanded him to receive 
 three hundred blows upon the Soles of his Feet 
 Kith the Battoon, in manner before defcri. 
 bed : As for my felf, when I wjs brought home, 
 the Spye that feizcd us, came and demanded 
 Money of my ?iironfor bis ?ood Seri'ice (nor 
 reckoning that he hadany th'ingof me) which 
 put him into a moil dcfperate fit of Pafrion,and 
 callingme Dog and Jew, and a! I to naught, com- 
 manded me togo'work^ in the Looms with two 
 other Englifii-r<ien that were Slaves, and Lin- 
 nen-cloaTh Weavers : But alas, 1 was a very 
 bungler, and underflood nothing of the Craft 
 ' and Myftery of Weaving more or Icfsj but 
 ! there I wrought till I had Ipoyled all that I laid 
 I my Hands on : Now, when he faw that my b- 
 I bour this way would not' turn to Account, ht*, 
 i rated me for a Logger-head, and bad me fiii 
 ; Qnills for the other two ; being now degraded^ 
 j from a bungling VVe.tvcr to an excellent filler if 
 >^ills, I continued about a Moneth •, my Shop 
 ' all this while lay at fixes andfevens, what v. us 
 ' beccir.c 
 
3 8 -^ SimII Alonnr.iont 
 
 become of it I knew not, and durft not for my 
 Life difcovcr any dcfirc to return to that em- 
 ployment. At laft, my Patron asked me for 
 the Money that he had lent me when 1 finT: began 
 to Trade : I /mfwcrcd fubm (Tivcly, that I had 
 not a farthing, all my fmall Eitate lay in a 
 few Goods, and till they were Sold, I could not 
 pofiibly repay him : He calls one of his Slaves, 
 a Dutch 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, there 
 Xyas the Ncft indeed^btit all the Birds wcrejluwts • 
 for in my abfcncc, (poor John Rand.ii being 
 Lame, and not able to work, my Partner fome- 
 time before having leftmc, and -I confined to 
 another Employment, ) foa?.- of thefe Rafcals 
 had broken open my Shop, and thence carried 
 the befi of my Goods^ though my Cellar was Ilill 
 fafe, and fome of my Goods I heard of, and re- 
 covered ; what Money I had was hid in the 
 Ground, as it was my confrant way : That night 
 the Dutchtmn and my felf returned to our Pa- 
 tron, and told him we couldfell nothing \ where- 
 upon he re-manded me to my Shop, there to 
 Trade, paying him the two Dollars a Moneth , 
 as I had done before.' 
 
 SECT. 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 
 
 SECT. VH. 
 
 5^ 
 
 the Authors Tatron grorving poor^ he ii 
 Sold ^ or Mortgaged to another-^ the 
 veonderful kjndncfs that he found frotH 
 his fccond rutron* 
 
 KlEre Was nothing yet working towards a 
 i Deliver aticey nor could I yet fee the leafl 
 glymmcringofpofTibility which might fo much 
 as flatter my willing mind with a hope of efca- 
 -■-- But it's Obferved, thztthe Night is al- 
 darkiji tow^trds Day-bre.ikj, and God h 
 
 ;P"ig: 
 . ways 
 
 .often drawing nearer to us in Mercy, when we 
 ;Conceive he is departing further off" in Difplea- 
 
 ; fure. 
 
 , My Patron had been finckina in his Eftate a 
 
 pretty while, the laft Ship he had put to Sea 
 
 oroke his hacks- At iaft-he was grown (infenfibly) 
 
 fo low, that it could nO longer be daubed up 
 
 n-ith his Repute, but he mufi: be forced to fell all 
 
 ,his Slaves to pay his Debts : It was not much to 
 
 jme whither I was chopt a>td changed; I might 
 
 jChange my Go.iler, and my Goalj but ftill I 
 
 .;was like to be n Vrifoner : I might be bought and 
 
 fold, and fold agiiifj, but flill my Condition was 
 
 \Sl.vJcry 5 yet one thing raechough; was comfor- 
 
 i ■ - • E tables 
 
4e Ji tir/itJll Mo^iifiseui 
 
 table, that the Ufi Infintment of n.y Bondage 
 
 was come into Mifery as well as my fclf. 
 
 In the partage of his Slaves, it fell to my Lot 
 and another! to be Aiortgaf^edior a certain fum 
 of Money , joyntly to tvio Perfoiis , the one a 
 Cap- maker, the other a Grave Old Gentleman, 
 who amongft his own People had the Repute of 
 a cood Natur'dand moderate Perfoff., (as^oo^ 
 Nature, and A'hderation go at ^l^ter. ) The 
 Day of Payment c^wc,the Money was not paid; 
 the Cap maker and the Old Gentleman /e;;:? on 
 ui, and hold us ;« Common^ but in a while they 
 refolved to divide m , that each of therf migh; 
 know his proper Goods and Chattels^ and each o 
 Hi might know nhom to call Mafttr, and lahofe 
 vphifile we were hound to Obey : We are both 
 fummcned to appear in a certain place at mid- 
 day,and much ado there was about our Dividing : 
 At laft they agreed to Cafi Lofisfor /«, onely be- 
 caufe I ^as in a handfome way of Trade, it was 
 accorded, that he to v/hofe fliare I fhould fall , 
 {hou!d pay the other fifty Doubles, which, if I 
 ■ Compute aright, is fomething more than fifty 
 fliillings Sterling. I was exceeding fearful I 
 fhbuW fall to this Cap-maker, for he had the 
 Chsra<Ser of a brtitip, ill-humonr'd Creature, 
 and therefore I was concern'd to lift my Petiti- 
 on to God, that feeing, when the Lotjhould be 
 ca/i into the lapt yttthevjhole Difpofitio» there' 
 of is of God, he would give mt forth agrr.ciom 
 Lof.VJ hateycr there is of Contingency as to us, 
 
 there's 
 
 I Of Great Mercy. Vj- 
 
 there's nothing accidental to God. Well God 
 Delivered me from that Tyrant, and I was ad- 
 judged by the dccifion of the Lotto the Old Gen- 
 •tUman: Andif I fhouldbefilent here, I fnould 
 bethemoft ungrateful wretch Living: I found 
 not oncly pity and compafsion , hut Love and 
 Fricndfnp from my New Patron; had I beerf 
 his Son, I could not have met v/ith more refpeCty 
 nor been treated with more tendernefs • I could 
 not m{haFrienda better Condition than I v/as 
 ihcn in, except my Bonds. If any thing could be 
 :ningled with BoWrt^ff to make it /ww; if any 
 ;hing could Reconcile Slavery to Nature ; if any 
 ■hing could beget an y]cq:iiefcence in fuch a ftate, 
 I did not, I could not want i r. 
 ■ And indeed the Freedom that I found in Ser- 
 vitude, the Liberty I enjoyed ir^ajy Bonds was 
 .0 great, that it took off m.nch of the Edge of my 
 iehre to obtain, and almofl blunted it trora any 
 vigor om attempt after Liberty, thst carried haz- 
 ;^rd in it's Face ; till at laft I was awakened upon 
 :his Occafion. 
 
 , My Patron had a fair Farm in the Countrey , 
 ibout twelve miles from the City, whither he 
 pok me along with himj he had me to their Mar- 
 :ets,fhewed me the manner of them,& at my re- 
 nrn, he loaded me home mth allmatmer of good 
 frovifions,that 1 might make merry mth my FeU - 
 m-Chrijlians j &I had fome Reafon to conclude 
 rom his great kjndnefs to me, that he intended t<y 
 .■nd me thither to manage the Farm for him. i 
 i E 2 fav/ 
 
Taw pow evidently, thatifl once quitted my [Ik^^ 
 \ (hould iofe with it all means^all helps, and there- 
 fore'^// hofes to rid myielf out of this Slavery; 
 Andtbough I might have been there a petty Lord, 
 and Balliaw'dit over the relief my Fellow-Ser. 
 •vants, yet Slavery had in it fomething of I know ^ 
 not what har^wefs that I could not brook.. Fetters j 
 of Coldd^omtMctheir Nature, they are t'et-\ 
 tcrsfiUl: Had Brtj<t^et's Cage been of did, as 
 'twasiof Jro!:, yet it was <? Ca^e., and that was 
 provocation enough to a haughty Spirit to beat 
 out his own Brains againft it's Bars. This there- 
 fore quickned my dull temper, and I began to 
 Refolve to make an Attempt once for all. Now 
 therefore mullering thofc few Wits Captivity 
 had left me, I fet them on work, and ran through 
 all thin2S pofstble, and ir/ipofstble ; he tku will 
 findwhathehoiloj}, mitfl lool^ where 'tis not, m 
 well its where ^tis; and forming ftraSagems in my 
 Head, fomc Idle, 2nd Fain; fome Defperate, 
 others impofsible ; at laft I pitcht upon one, that 
 iccmsdtome feifabky and praUicabte, 
 
 ■'-■1 
 
 SECT, 
 
 .-,'• ' 
 
 < : r. : 
 
 Of great Mercy. 45. 
 
 SECT. VI I L 
 
 \ The Contrivance for our Efca^e, the.Vcr- 
 
 i fans Acqitaift'ted rcith it, awl alfo 'thofq 
 
 1 that were Engaged in it ; fomc Debates 
 about leavt?2g my Tatron. .:r>:.\ui 
 
 : ■ . •...•:: i:.:;i; 
 
 ; ■ ■ . , , ■ v'.-. ; "':^. 
 
 IQf Aving Formed the Defign, or at leafty'ihe 
 JL ii rude draught, and general Model oi-'it , 
 my firftcare'wastoopcnit to (omc skilful 'and 
 faithful .Counfellers, who might more im^axtil- 
 ally difcover to mc it's inconveniences^; where it 
 was like to ^xovc leaky, or take wii d; And 
 
 jfirft, I acquainted Ut.' Sprat, our AUniJier, 
 with it, and .laid before him the whole of the 
 
 'Contrivance ; and he fofar approved it, that 
 he judged it poffible : Next, I acquainted one , 
 Robert Lake, a very wife and Religious Per- 
 fon, who bellowed his Blcfiing on'it, and wifn d 
 it all good Succefs : And laftly, I acquainted my 
 Friend John Randal, -who approved it t Yet 
 none of thefe co«W, ox would run the rifquc of 
 it's mifcarriage. . Mx. Sprat was already deli- 
 vered from .his Patron, and in a fair way to be 
 abfolutely enlarged, ■ in a morefafe and-ReguIar 
 way, for not long after our Efcapc came Cap- 
 tain PwA, of Lcff^cwvandpaidthefixty Collars, 
 E 3 and 
 
^^4 -^ Sr.idl Monmnnt 
 
 and took him along with him for Enoland : John 
 ^^W^/hada Wife, and Child, and thefe were 
 too dear fledges to be left behind^ and yet too 
 tender things to undergo our Difficulties : Ro- 
 bert Lakewzs an Ancient Perfo?!^ and nuther 
 Qh\^ pajfively to be carried in, nor acltvely to car- 
 ry on a Defignthat required much hardincfs of 
 Body and Mind to endure, and much ftrength to 
 go through with jt j we had nothing more from 
 them than Prayers and CounfeU^ which yet was 
 the main ; and then my next care was, to take 
 p Pafj:ners, and Accomplices inthcDefign 
 
 And herein I had a three-fold Refped: Firft, 
 to fuch as were neeejfarily required xo Jorm the j j 
 Inftrq.-nent of our Efcape and Deliverance : Se- ; j 
 COndJy,' tpfuch, vj\[0^&trycd^ and approved Ft- \ \ 
 delity I.ipight prefume ,v/ould be obfttnately, and ! ', 
 J^eligseiijlyfecret in concsdingit: Thirdly, to| ' 
 fuch, whok Courage of Mmd, andfrcngthoj[ ' 
 JSedy would render them capable to parfue the \ \ 
 ends of it, to pit it in Execution^ and go through ^ '. 
 with it. 1 
 
 But before I would reveal the Projed . to any 1 1 
 of them in particular, I Required an Oath ofj . 
 SzcxC^lt,'..That Vfhereas J jlwidd novf reveal tii\\ 
 him, or them, a matter of great concernment to [ 
 their Hatpinefs and Well-far e.^ they flwnld fo-\ | 
 ls~jmlypromife, andfrvear, that in cafe they did, 
 not r.^prove it, or r;odd not joyn in it, yet thef 
 fjoida, neither direSly'y nor mdirellly ; for fear ^ ; 
 orjkttery^ difeovsr it, er the ferfons engage^\ 
 
 ' ■ ■ ■ if 
 
 of Great Meny. 4S 
 
 in it, to any Perfon xvhatfoever. When a Pro- 
 je(fl was once mentioned , which promifed in- 
 general their Happinefs and Well-fare, I needed 
 not tell them in particular what it drove at, they 
 could fmell out that with cafe ; for what could 
 be Good, or Happy to Slaves mthout Liberty ? 
 This Oath therefore they willingly took : I judg- 
 ed feven Per fans would be enough to manage, 
 carry on, and Execute it j and therefore except 
 the three fore- mentioned, I communicated it to 
 no one Perfon but thefe following, who engaged 
 in it , though all of them did not go through 
 with it. John Anthony, a Carpenter, who 
 had been a Slave fifteen Years ; his Trade fuf- 
 ficiently (hews, how ufeful he would prove in 
 the Defign. William Adams, who, fmce his 
 Captivity, had learnt and ufed the Trade of a 
 Bricklayer; his Serviccablencfs in it will be evi- 
 dent in the fequel ; he had been a Slave eleven 
 Years. John jephs, who was a Sea- man, and 
 mufl: therefore be prefumed one of the Quonm 
 in a Projed of this Nature ; he had endured 
 Slavery about five Years. John — a Carpen- 
 ter, who was a skilful Man in his Trade, Lully 
 of Body, and therefore muft be a good Wheel 
 ii this Engine , and he had been a Slave 
 •five Years: And two others, whofc Employ- 
 ment it was to wafli fmall Ctoaths at the Sea- 
 ^ fide, and thofe had alfo their parts in carrying on 
 the work, though they went not along with us ; 
 and WillimOkfley, who prefents the Readec 
 ■ • ^ E 4 wish . 
 
^^6 ./f. Small JHoKin^iciit 
 
 y/ith this Narrative, who was taken u4ugiiji i t, 
 1639. and Efcaped 7««f 30. 1644. thciemads 
 jup the Number of 7. ' There arofe u ScnrpU, 
 nay/ it amounted to aQneftion, whether to at- 
 tempt anEfcapcfrom my Patron, one that /« 
 dearly J^ovedme, fd co/irtc oii/ly trenred mc-fhad 
 fo fairly bought me.) \verc juftifiable before God 
 and Met] ? 
 
 'And, I. It might be a Queftion in point 
 
 oL- Prudence-^ for, where could I hope /d 
 
 • mend ttiyfelf} Or better my Condition ' I might 
 
 pofTibly (indworfe ^jiarter in En^^Utid, where 
 
 the Civil Wars were now broke out , and to 
 
 that height of cxafperation, that thofc of the 
 
 ,faiT)e Nation J and, perhaps, Blood, would 
 
 .hardly give Ouarter of Lik to one another: If 
 
 the Name of Native Coitmrcy bewitcht me, if 
 
 That dazled my Eyes ; furely ivWf.^'^n- we are 
 
 \velljs fur Coiifitrey^ and all the World is HoKe 
 
 to hiTH tbtt thrives all over the JVorld : And why 
 
 fhoviTd the Nam of ^ondc^e, why fhouid a 
 
 jyo>-i/ grate fcha'rfhly^upon my delicate Spirit, 
 
 Vhentflq.fting of itvyas taken away? Liberty 
 
 .Is^'.^oodivor^^ byt a Manc^«««f kiiy a Meals 
 
 fusrjiwith a word:, And Slavery is a hard word, 
 
 . Eut itbreal^ no r/^ans ba^k. Tboufands are more 
 
 Slaves'thctj] I, who are yet their, own jilaflers, 
 
 an4 Cffs at Liberty than my felf, who have the 
 
 free rakj andrangeoi the whole World. . But 
 
 yetmy Patron's Favour was w«/rff^uW; I held 
 
 'jlQt py Happy time it} feefrnple^ all was ad yo- 
 
 ",;■" T» /««- 
 
 ! I 
 
 i 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 47 
 
 ln>natem Dor/iini ; bcfides , he might dye., and 
 leave me to another j or Live to ScU me to ano- 
 ther, who might be of another CLaratier, and 
 then my Condition woujd be therefore worfe , 
 bccaufe I had known a better. 
 
 2. It might be Qqcflioncd in point of Inge- 
 fjiuty., how I could be fo unworthy to leave him, 
 who had Loved mc ? Would not all that fhouid 
 hear of it, Condemn me if ill N autre, to leave 
 without taking leave, one that had bceri a Fa- 
 ther to mc, who might have ufcd the Right of 
 a Lord ; and ufcd me as a Child, who might have 
 treated me as a SUve } But really I thought 
 there was more of Aianncrs and Coiirt^iip in 
 thcOb)C(riion,thanofivf«j^/jf, andC agency: Still 
 /rtiVf/nv/r/jMpfhech, andh.id n^y Habit atton 
 (ipwugft the Tents e/Kcdar ; and one thought 
 of England, at)d of, its Liberty and GoTppl conr 
 fisted *j thoufand fiich Obyiiions, and routed 
 whole Legions of thcfe /ur/f Scruples. .It was 
 no time to (land upon the' PunClilio's of fionour 
 and Ingenuity; no time to Con;plcrnent ., and 
 firuit} oiirtefic ; here was no Farcwcl Patron ^ 
 in the Cafe, and therefore I foon over-came that. 
 
 But, 5. It might be Queftioncd in the Court 
 of Confcience, whether it were not down-righc 
 Theft to with-draw my felf from /;/> Service, 
 who had bought mc, paid for me, enter'' d upon 
 me, pojfcfs'd, and f «]«/;•/ me, as his own pro- 
 per Goods, and now I was«<?;»--y own, had no 
 ri^ht to rr,y felf: Whether might nor a MaTiJac 
 
 . ■ , ' ' ' ■ • ' fcio 
 
48 A Sr/h'.ll AIoiitiKent 
 
 feto de />, in fte.iling himfilf., as well as killing 
 himfelf} And whecher he is not the greater/^//- 
 robber^ that ilcab rfiv.vy himfelf, than he that 
 ilc:L\s:L\Viy from him/elf ? But I much qucfiiion 
 cd their propriety to mc ; my Patron's Title was 
 rotten at the Foundation : ivKin is too Noble^a 
 Creature to be made fubjcd to <t deed of bar- 
 gain and Sale ; and my confent was never ask'd 
 to all their bargains, which is Effenttal., to create 
 a right of Dominion over a KationalCrcatnrc^ 
 v>here he wm not born a fttb]e[l. If I had for- 
 feited m"^ Life or Liberty, the Law mi^ht take 
 it ; but I was not Confcious to my felf of any 
 fiich forfeiture, but that I was at my own Dif. 
 pfal. 
 
 ' Thus all v/as clear and quiet, and we went on 
 with our Defign , which I now fir.t opened to 
 them: That I had contrived the Model of a 
 Boat, . which being formed in parcels, and after- 
 wards put together, mighty by thefuper-inten- 
 dencydf Divine Providence, proves/? Afk.'^o 
 'deliver us out of the hands of our Enemies. This 
 wasfoonfaid, and greedily entertained; to £- 
 fcape was a pleafant word, the Name of Liberty 
 .made Mufick in our Ears, and our wifhing hearts 
 danced to the 'Tune of it •, and a. Boat was as pro- 
 'mifing a, rne.vns 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 
 feemed infu^ernble \ and fome things that had 
 
 pall 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 49 
 
 pafl currant in my ov/n thoughts, and I went 
 clever away with them, without any rub 5 yet 
 when they came to be pierced into withwor^. 
 Eyes, and fcann'd upon more Finger s,'CaQ\j were 
 attended with confiderable impediments : where 
 this Boat fhould be built, was one liaggering 
 Queilion: Where it fhodd be Launched, and 
 where put to Sea, was a choakingObjedion: 
 How we {hou!i efcapc thofe Argw-c^ts, which 
 are always obferving us by Day, was a gravel- 
 ling Quffiry ; or how to get out of the City by 
 Night, whofe Walls are fo high, whofe Gates 
 are fo clofe fhut, and llrongly Guarded, was 
 another vexatious Quarry : How we fhould be 
 Rigged and Vicftualled for fuch a Voyage, wa^ 
 a confiderable enquiry : and whither we fhould 
 defign, v/as not to be flighted. But how fuch a 
 tittle Skijf-) rather than boat, fhould be able tir 
 Weather all the Accidents vf the Sea, was a 
 Netk^QKcjlion, cnov^hto Jlranale Faith, and 
 ftifle HI with Deffair. 
 
 To thefe Obje(fi:ions , I Anfwcred. That I 
 had dcfigned r^y own Cellar^ as the meeieli pkcc 
 wherein to btiiidthe Boat ; that when it was there 
 Built, it might he ukcntn pieces ^^^jw, and car- 
 ried out of the City injiarcels, and beftowed in 
 private places till things were ripe for Executi- 
 on. That for a place where to put to Sea, it 
 would be time enough to determine upon that 
 when we had finifli'd our VeficI ; That A-f^'tyork, 
 was the. moft commodious place to defign to 
 .. "' Land 
 
so \A Small Mo}!Hf:ient 
 
 Land in: Butingeneralltold them to this pur- 
 fofe^ Thfit if wifiever ^ttohpted any thlnguW 
 we had Anfwered a[(Obje^iafiSy\vc mull fit With 
 our Fingers in our IVlouths all our days,and pine> 
 and lahguifh out our tedious Lives in Bondage: 
 Let us bs-^'ip nnd^dain^-,. and God would be with 
 us. 1 he^in it oiie'-k^'Jf' of our work^ : Let us 
 makccnEflay, and Anfwer particular Objcdi- 
 onsas they OlTcr'dthemfelves,. and as we met 
 .wit)i them in our work. That the Proiecft had 
 its difficulties^ was confefTedj but-,- \vhat has 
 not, that is Commaidiible, and Glorioiu ? Yet 
 whatever difficulties and dangers we could meet 
 xvith, Libenytk^^t'moHr Eye^ would fweeten 
 the dangers we might encounter in Attempting. 
 They were all well fatisfied with what was faid, 
 and all engaged to.venrare the utmoft, t^ey.werty 
 ^»<^^<?i!/, toaccompiifhit,; . .-c'j.: v 
 
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 SECT. 
 
 i 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 
 SECT. IX. 
 
 SI 
 
 The Model of the Boat^ Carrfitjg it out of 
 the City., and bcjiowiag it in conveni' 
 c)}t Places. . ,, • , ■ 
 
 'jT^'' the Cellar where we had Worfhip'd God, 
 ji we began our Work ; and it was not the Ho- 
 linefs, but the Privacy of the pl.ice that invited 
 us, and advifed us to it. And firft, we provi- 
 ded a piece of Tin.bcr about twelve Foot lon^., 
 to m.tk^ the Keel : But becaufc it was impoflTible 
 to convey a piece of Timber of that length out 
 of the City, but it mufl be feen ; and of that 
 fhape, but it mail be fuf^ctlcd^ and that Sufpi- 
 on would bring us into E.\\i!,:i>iatio/i , and the 
 Rack., or B-ittoon might extort a Confejjlon out 
 of the moji refohed, and ohjiinate bre.tfi ; we 
 tlicrefore cut it /« two pieces, and fitted it for 
 Joynting, juft in the middle. Our next care 
 was the 'Timbers , or Ribs of the Boat, which 
 we contrived thus ; every one of the Timbers 
 was made of three pieces, and joynted in two 
 places, becaufe a whole Rib at its full length , 
 v.'ould be lyableto the fame inconveniences with 
 the Keel. Now underftand, that the joynts of 
 the Ribs were not made with Mortice ^ andTe- : 
 
 uoiu 
 
^z 
 
 «.i iJ'.'.JiT.il ItIoniX!s;it 
 
 non:, but the flat fide of one of the three pieces 
 was laid over the other, and f^o holes were bo- 
 red at every joy fit, jntb which two Nails were 
 to be put, when V/e fhould joyn the parcels of our 
 Boat together t You muft undcrftand further, 
 that thefe two holes at cviry ]vynt were not made 
 in cfiratt Itne^paral el with the fdcs of the pieces, 
 for then the three pieces, which make one Rib, 
 being joyned together wou'd have made one 
 firait piece ; a Form which would by no means 
 comport with the Ufc and Defign of the Tim- 
 bers; Butfo, thatwhchhoih the Nails were in 
 the holes, each Joynt would make an obtufe an- 
 gle, and fo incline fo near towards <J!5fw;-C/rc«- 
 Ur Figure, as our Occafion required. Alithis 
 while here is no vifibic Provifion 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 
 \VQ , nor was it polTiblc we ftould have any 
 boards in our VefTel: Ylecejfity is thebeft Arti- 
 ficer when all is done, if we except her Sifter 
 Contingency; to which two the World has been 
 beholden for the moll: ufcful Inventions, which 
 at this day do cafe the Labour and Toy 1 of wea- 
 ried Mankind. For the Joynting of thefe boards, 
 and the Nailing of them, to make the Boat Wo.- 
 tertite, would require fuch Hammering, antf 
 that Hammering would mzktfuch a clawouroiu 
 Echo in the Cellar, as muft have drawn upon 
 lis the Jealous Eyes of the Algetines , who 
 
 about 
 
 J i 
 
 ^. 
 
 ' dooiit their Wives end Slaves are infitpportably 
 fufpicioiis : And therefore from the firft Con- 
 ; ception of the Defign, I always refolved upon 
 a Canvas : In purfuance of which thought, be- 
 ing all fatisfied that it was praCiicable;\VQ bought 
 as much ftrong Canvas as would cover our Boat 
 'twice over, upon the Convex of the Carine. 
 We provided alfo as much Fttch, Tar, and 
 Tallow zs would, fcrve to make it a kind oi a 
 Tarpawlm Sear-cloath , to fwaddle the naked 
 tody of onr Infant -Boat : With Earthen Pots 
 to melt done our Materials in; and prefixt a 
 night wherein we might Execute that part of our 
 ■Labour. The two Carpenters, andny fdf were 
 appointed to this Service, and the Cellar was 
 the place where we met. Matters had hither-- 
 jto run on very evenly, and fmoothly, but here 
 we met v/ith fome difcouraging rubs. For when 
 we had ftopt all the Chinks and Crannies of the 
 Cellar, that thefteamcof the melted Materials 
 might not creep out, and betray us, (there be- 
 ing no Chimney, ) we had not been long at our 
 work before I felt my fclf exceeding fick, with ' 
 the ftrong, and unufual fcent of the melted Li- 
 ;quor ; I was forced to go out into the ftreets to 
 ■gifp for breath, where meeting with the ceol 
 yiir, it over-came me, I fwooned, fell down, 
 brake my Face, and there lay : My Compa- 
 nions mifnng me, made out to fcek me, found 
 me in this fad plight, and carried me in again , 
 .though exceeding fick, and unferviceable. They 
 i . ■ had 
 
t i 
 
 [jijl A Smdi Momtment , 
 
 had not proceeded much further before I heard 
 one of them complain he was fick, and ecu d 
 proceed no further , and now our work itood 
 ftill .• I plainly faw that our hop fid Proje^, that 
 had hitherto fo fraoothly proceeded, muft needs 
 mifcarry, and prove Abortive ; for it would be 
 impolTible to finiHi it f^w mght: andil ■we once 
 farted, and fuffered our Spirits to cool over the : 
 Dcfign, they would never ceafc cooling till they [ 
 were [lone cold, and httrd frozen ; and there- ! 
 fore 1 advifed to fet open the Door, and com- j 
 mitourfelves, and our work to Gods Protefti- i 
 on : For I told them they could not but know, | 
 that if any Difcovery were made ^ the burden \ 
 Vfoiddfall heaviefi upon my flioidders; and ?»y j 
 Back, or Feet rmifi fay for all. At length, we j 
 refolved to fet the Cellar-door wide open, and i 
 as foon as that was done, and the ftcame pretty i 
 wellgoneout, wecameto ourfelvcsagain,cou- | 
 ragioufly went on with our bufmefs, and pitched ; 
 one half that Night. The next Night we met t 
 again, fet open the Door, and whilil they plycd ; 
 the work, I Hood Sentinel at the I>oor to give , 
 Notice of approaching danger; butwe happily j 
 finifh'd the whole, and while it was yet dark , j 
 carried it to my Shop, which was about a Fur- | 
 long from the Cellar, and there at prefent fecu- j 
 red it. I 
 
 I fhall notqueftion the Readers Ingenuity fo ; 
 much , but that he will fuppofe there goes a j 
 (ireat deal more to a Bs<tr than I have defcribed; 
 ^ but 
 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 55,' 
 
 but what fhould I trouble him with thofe things 
 that are common to all other BoatSy I mention 
 onely what was peoiUar tooiiroivn-y and I do 
 not intend to trouble him with the Boat-wri^ht's 
 Lecture. 
 
 In our Cellar we fitted all things, wc made 
 
 the Timbers fit to the Keel, and the Canvas fit 
 
 i for the Timbers, and the Seats 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. 
 
 j And fird, for our Keel, we all with unanJ- 
 mous confent judged Will. Adams the fittefl: 
 Perfon to Execute that part of the Defign, for 
 , he had long Exercifed the Trade of a Brick-Iay- 
 ! cr, and his Employment lay much without the 
 Town, and befides he ufed fuch pieces in level- 
 , ling his work. He therefore, accoutred with 
 ; his AfYon before hira, his TrovjelinUs hand.,znd 
 : one of the pieces upon his flmdder, undertook 
 it, and without the leafl Obfervation went cle- 
 verly away with it, and as he faw his Opportu- 
 'nity, hid it in the bottom of a Hedge •, and not 
 long after conveyed out its Fellow, and Lodged 
 icin the fame place. This fucceeding fo hap- 
 pily, we faw no great difficulty in the Timbers^ 
 ior we put one nad into a hole of every jo^«;,and 
 .then you will eafily conceive, that the t\v» ex- 
 treme pieces of one Rib being folded inwards 
 ■'Pon the middlemoj}, will lye i>ith:rao:» of enS 
 
^■5 ^ Smdl MonsiriJCiU 
 
 if the puces fiir Inigth, excepting tbat little that 
 the cmhof cMh j>uce were beyond the holes; 
 Kow, by general confent, the conveying thcfc 
 out of the City was committed to one whofc 
 Employment was to wa(h fmall C'oaths by the 
 Sea fide • He puts them into his bag amonglt his 
 Cloaihs, andfo very orderly carried them out, 
 and hid them where he cou'd firtd moji commdi- 
 cm ftovva^f, but yet wub Rcffca to luarnef: to 
 that p/rtc" where the Keel was laid. 
 ■ But how to convey our TarfaxvUn fare out ot 
 Town Teemed moil difficult; by Night it was 
 knpoSTible, and by Day the diificultics very co,i. 
 fidcrdle, and the danger prop^rw'wWf; tor the 
 Gates are ftridly watch'd, the Streets crowaed, 
 the Svies Ptc'^erin?^ in every corner, and the 
 bulk, of the C.VWM thus drcffed was very great. 
 To divide it had been to ruine oitr [elves, for no 
 .rtitchir?2 together again, could fo cheat the [ear- 
 'chill? water, but it would find out the needh- 
 boicf At lafl we ventured upon this way ^ wc 
 put it into a large Sack, and committed it to him 
 that ufed to w^i Cloaths , and Ictl any Ihould 
 clap a jealous hand upon it, we put a Pillow over 
 our Canvas within tac Bag, that fo itsfoitnefs 
 mioht delude the Inquifitor, and make it pals 
 for^'cloaths. Let none defpifc, or condemn thde. 
 ^ . as /ow,, niean.-Dieces of coinrtvar.ee, for \ve bad 
 V^ozf'-olititians tools to work^ withal ; but the Ic.s 
 <yzs our Policy, the more glorious does tbewij- 
 
 ■ Ur> of Cod fhinc in fucceeding it, and yet even 
 
 1 ■ ^ taat 
 
 Of Great Mercy. ^j 
 
 tbat little Policy we were guilty of, was of his 
 bcflowing'd^o , what of fm was in all of it, was 
 entirely o«r<)iv/7; what of Powfr, Wtfdoir., and 
 Sncccfs, was (ill his : But our Agent cfcapcd 
 happily v/ith it, and Lodging it in a fccret place, 
 returned. 
 
 We had yet raany things to provide, and 
 Oars are abfolutely neceffary, they were of the 
 Qnorurn to an Efcapc by Sea : As Finns arc the 
 Ft^ics Oars, fo Oars are the Boats Finns, by 
 help whereof (he makes her way : Now, to 
 fupp!y this defecft, we took two Pipe-fiaves,ai\d 
 ilitting them a crofs from corner to corner with 
 3 Hand-faw, wc made of each Pipe-ftaff two 
 Rude things, which NecefTity was pleafed to 
 entitle The blades for a pair of Oars, and thefe 
 were eafily conveyed out,without fufpition. 
 ''• Next, we confidered, that Pravifton mufi be 
 i^A'miot onr Foyage; and therefore wcprovi- 
 \cd a f/nall, and hut a fwall (Quantity of Bread, 
 orcfuming our il:ay at Sea muft be but fliort; 
 or either we fhould fpeedily rfcot^fr Land, or 
 fpcedily be dromnd, or fpecdily be broiioht hec'i, 
 :,'.::»: Two Goats skins alfo, ftript off whole, 
 md fo Tann'd ( a kind of Bottle much ufed by 
 he A'gertnes to carry Milk and Water in) v.'e 
 lad, ^vhich we lined with frejh water, and WC 
 '.now that mult needs be ^^r^^r Rarity in the 
 'ilediierranean, 
 
 ! We remembrcd aJfo zhita Sail might be of 
 /ghtgood ufe to us/'>- Expedition, and therc- 
 F :: fore 
 
 ^ 
 
58 A Small Monurfjeni 
 
 fore we bought as much Canvas zs would ^«. 
 j'vyer that End, and when feme Difpute was 
 made about carrying it out, I Offered to under- 
 take that Lif} part of our worhj. I had not gone 
 a quarter of ,a Mile, but as I caft my wary eye j 
 back, I cfpycd the fame Spie, who once before I 
 had feized me, and given me trouble, follow- [ 
 ingme very roundly. My Heartbegan toake;' 
 1 was loth a Defign of fa near, and dear coti- 1 
 ccrnment toallcf in, fhould be brought to tht' 
 Hirth, a)id there flwuld be }io firength to brin^ ■ 
 forth. It's fad, after a Voyage, to Ship- wrack 
 in the leaven, butme- thought it was more fid; 
 tofii.k^a Veffelhcfore it could be Launched: And ' 
 here I firil found the difference between Inm- \ 
 ccnce and Guilt ; for how boldly could I hold up ; 
 my Hc^d to this S pie, andhis^fr/c?'^, (atlcaft.j 
 his Maflers ) when I was not Confcious of any | 
 fuch Defgn in hand? Whereas now the Re-j 
 fle(ftion oi' wj; Confciencewo^s enough to write 
 Guilt mr/.y Countenance, (forfome things are' 
 fin there which are not fo in other places ; ) andi 
 this had betray'd me, had I not fuddenly pluckt: 
 up iny Spirits, and fpying an Engttjli-man waft-; 
 ing Cloaths by the Sea, I went the ready way to 
 him, and dcfired him to help me walh that Can- 
 vas; as we were wafhing it, the learing Sp]t\ 
 cjme, and llood upon the Rock juft over our: 
 Heads to watch our motions : As foon as we had| 
 ^ little formally wafh'd it, to caft a Mift before 
 his Obfcrving Eyes,I took the Canvas and fpread 
 
 I ; Of great Mercy. ^^ 
 
 ; : it before his Face upon the top of the Rock to 
 I : dry; heftaid his own Time, and then march'd 
 I ' off. But I was as Jealous of him, as he could 
 ; ; be of me for his Heart; and therefore fcarin" 
 i \ he might lye in Ambufh for me, rook it when 
 : 'twas dry, and very fairly carried it back in:o 
 the City, and faithfully acquaintcdmy Accom- 
 iplices how the Matter fquared. ThisDifcoura- 
 ged them not a little, for that they feemed timo- 
 ' rousto proceed in the Entcrprize. 
 : Atlalt we comforted, and encouraged one 
 ; another, and entred into clofe Counfel ; where 
 : we fhould meet that Night ? At what time ? 
 Where we (hould put our Boat together, and 
 where put to Sea ? The Time was, an hour with- 
 m Night; the Rendevouz on a Hill, about 
 half a Mile from the Sea; and fo we difperfed, 
 feme one way, fome another; and privily lurk- 
 ing in Hedges and Ditches, lay clofc till the time 
 ; appointed. 
 
 I There is one thing that the Reader will be 
 ready to ask, and I fhall be r,}ore ready to An- 
 her him for a fpecial Rcafon : viz.. What I 
 did with my Shop and Goods? When I had once 
 Refolved upon this Adventure, and faw it go on 
 Hopefully, I gave my Patron my wonted Vifits, 
 ,-<ept fair Correfpondence, paid him his demands 
 3uly, but fecretly I made off my Goods as fafl 
 3S I could, and turn'd all into ready Money.- I 
 ^^ad a Trunk, for which John Anthony made me 
 ^fdfe bottom; into which I put what Silver or 
 F 3 Gold 
 
,5o -A Sr/iall Monmzent 
 
 Gold I had; and into the Body of the Trunk, 
 what ever it would hold^and was worthy holdtig : j 
 This Trunk I committed privately to the fidelity \ 
 of ourdearMiniftcr, Mr. S^rat-^ he took the! 
 charge of it, and he was nov/ ready to receive 
 his foil Difcharge. This Trunk he F^.uhfullj 
 Secured, and carefully brought cver^ and as ho- 
 ne jily delivered to me when he heard I was come 
 fafe to London-^ and I was willing to moye iLu 
 'Quefiion, merely for the Anfxvers fake., whicli 
 yjitnc&shis Fidelity. 
 
 ■':.'■. :i ■ ■ 
 
 Of Great Afircy. 6i 
 
 SECT. X.. 
 
 ths putting of our Boat together^ the Dif- 
 Jiculties rve met voith thercifi i and our 
 putting out to Sca^ June 50. 16^4.. 
 
 AS foon as we were met all together at the 
 appointed place, we began to thinlcof Ex- 
 ecuting our long intended Defign ; but we were 
 Divided in our Counfels, where to begin our 
 work : It had been a Qneltion propounded be- 
 fore, and we thought we had fully Refolvcd upon 
 the pLue ; but at our Meeting we were jir.w^ely 
 dtfcompofed : There were nvs plsices Which Hood 
 in Competition, each pretending good Conve- 
 niences for that end. The one was ^i Hill, al;ouc 
 half a Mile from the Sea ; the other wa$ a f'^^il-. 
 Ity, cncompafTed with two Hedges, about a 
 Furlong from the Hill, but of the fame diftancc 
 with it from the Sea : It was urged for the ya!^ 
 ley, that it was a place of>yiore Secrecy and Prl-, 
 vticy, lefs obvious to view ; but then it was ob- 
 jc(fted, that we might there be fi:rpriz.cd, and 
 fciz.ed by the Clutches of our Enemies, e'rc we, 
 could have notice to fliift for our fclves ; For the 
 Hill, it had been Argued, that we might thcrQ 
 »)a''j better Difcovery of Danger, and wJ,e 
 Frovifiou to avoyd it 5 and in fhorr, wc all agreed 
 F 4 over 
 
^:i - ji Siuall Monument 
 
 over mght^ to put our Boat together iifon tht 
 Hill ; promifmg our felvcs much Advantage 
 from its Scituattcn : But when we were met, 
 we all altered our Rcfolution rvuhout any zijiblc 
 Reafon-f and carried jt for the Valley : God is 
 mnQ\\inthe dark^te ta, but all our wsiys are in 
 the open Light tp him. It s very difficult to give 
 an Account what God is doitig atfrcfcnt^ but \vc 
 Ihall know, if we can but patiently wait till fii- 
 tiue Frovidences Comment upon the former : 
 And in a while we faw the Reafon why God over- 
 ruled our purpofes. 
 
 We had hidfeveralof our Materials near the 
 top of the JJtll, \vhcre alfo grew a fmall Fig-tree, 
 which we had marked with our Eye, as Judging 
 it would be ufeful to ftrengthcn the Keel of our 
 Boat : Two of our Company were immediately 
 difpatcht to farp down this Fig-Trec, and bring 
 it, and the parcels of our Boat there difpofited, 
 away with them : They were hardly come to 
 the place, but we heard Dogs bark about the 
 top of the Hill, and indeed two Men with Dogs 
 came very near them •, but our Men being aware, 
 lay clofe and ftill, and fo they paffed by without 
 making any Difcovery, and then our Men bc- 
 fcirr'd thepifelves, and brought away the Fig- 
 Tree» and the other Materials, and returned to 
 us. 
 
 And now wc had once more brought the fcat- 
 ter'd Limbs of our Boat into one place, which, 
 like thoVe of Jhjytus^. had bccii diff crfcd up 
 
 and , 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 6} 
 
 rnJ down the Fields : It was no time to trifle , 
 and therefore wc all buckle to our work in good 
 caincft : But we were fo nigh fome that were at 
 ' work in the Ne ghbouring Gardens, that we 
 ■ could hear them fpcak, and therefore raufl needs \ 
 , fuppofc they might hear us too; and therefore ■ 
 we A<fled by Signs, and pointed, and pulled, 
 andnoddcd, huiwcxc all Aim es : Itmighthave 
 been an Expedient for the Builders of habel^ 
 when their Languages were Divided, to have [ 
 carried on their great Projccft by Signs ; but cer- \ 
 tainly there was Confufion poured out itfon their 
 Hearts and CoiD/feh, as well as Divifion in their 
 Icngnes and Languages. 
 
 The two parts cf our Keel we foon joyncd ; 
 then opening the Timbers, which had already 
 ]cne Nail in every J oynt, wc groped out for the 
 ether hole., and put its Nail into it : Then we / 
 opcn'd them at their full length, and applyed i . 
 them to the top of the Keel, fallningthem with 
 Rope-Tarn, and fmall Cords ; and fo we ferved 
 all the Joynts to keep ihcm frr/t andjlable ; then 
 Ave bound fr/:all Canes all along the Ribs length- 
 nays'., both to keep the Ribs/row vering , and 
 alfo to bear cut the Canvas vtry fi'ff again fl the 
 'p'i[fing Water : Then we made Notches upon j 
 
 the ends of the Rths, or Ttn.bers, wherein the f 
 Oars rri^ht p'ye \ and having tyed down the Seats, 
 and firengthned our Keel with the Fig-Tree, we 
 laftly drew on cur double Canvas Cafe, already 
 ftted -J and really the Canvas feemcd a Winding - 
 
 fleet 
 
64 -^ Sm.iH /I'fonnfiiCHt 
 
 jheet for our Boar; and our Bout a Ceffijifcr 
 
 ta all. \ 
 
 This done, four of our Company took it upon | 
 ,their fhouiders, and carried it down towards the i 
 Sea, which was about half a Mile off.- It was \ 
 a little Rcprefcntation of ,i Fiuicr.i!., to fee m 
 four B:arers Marching in deep filence^withfomc- 
 thing very Ifkc a Herfe, and Coffin, upon their 
 fhouiders, and the reft of us decently atten.Uu^ 
 the Ceremony, hutwewanted Torches, and be- 
 fides, it's not ufual for any to wait upon their om 
 Coffins : But wc durlt not grudge our Boat that 
 fm.ill, and Lift Office, to carry it hA:f a Altlc, 
 for wc cxpcdcd, it fhould re-pay us that Ser- 
 vice and Civility with Intercll, in carrying us 
 r,:a)iy .i League : We carried it at Land, where ; 
 itcould««/'y'n'!'»:;- that it might carry us at Sea,, 
 where we could not walk^ As we went along, 
 .they that were in the Gardens heard us f/jiTins. 
 by, and called to us, who comes there ? But itj 
 was dark, and we had no mind to prate, and , 
 therefore \rithout any Anfwcr, v/c filently held 
 on our way. , ! 
 
 When wc came to the Sra-fide, wcimmcdi-j 
 ately llript our felvcs liaked, and putting ourj 
 Cloiths into the Boat, carried it, and them, as 
 far into the ^ca as wc could wade ; and this wc 
 did, left our tender Boat (hould be torn .ig.uiJf 
 the Stones or Rcckj; and then all feven of is; 
 got into her: But here we foon found how o'jr; 
 Skill in Calculating the Lading of our Vcflcl fail-' 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 6% 
 
 ed us : For we were no fooner Embarqued, 
 but fhewas ready to fink under us, 'the water 
 coming in over the fides ; fo that once again we 
 mull encertain new Counfels •, at lail:, one, whofe 
 Heart 7,iofi failed hirn, was willing to fhut out, 
 and rather hazard the uncertain Torments of the 
 Land, than certainly be drown'd at Sea ; then 
 wc made a fecond Experiment, but ftill fhe was 
 fo deep Laden, that we all concluded there was 
 no venturing out to Sea : At length, another 
 went afhorc, and then fhe held cp her Head \t- 
 ryfcoutlyj and fcem'd hearty encash for our 
 Voyage. 
 
 It was time now to commit, and Commend 
 our felves, and Vcffel to the Protedion, and 
 Condu<[\ of that God who Jinks the Winds and 
 the Waves, and whofe Kingdont U in the deep 
 Waters, i??.ploring Alcrcy for the Pardon of oi-.r 
 Sins, and refignmg itp our Souls to Cod , .u if 
 we had been prefently to Suffer Death by the 
 Hand of the Executioner. And taking our 
 Solemn Farewell of our two Companions, 
 whom we left behind, and wifhing them aj 
 'tniich Happinefs as could be hoped for in 
 Slavery ., and they to us as long a Life as 
 could L expeded by A'len going to their 
 Graves, wc Launched out, upon the thir- 
 tieth day of June , in the Year of our 
 Lord , One Thoufand, Six Hundred, Forty, 
 and Four : A Niphc for ever to be re- 
 
 mcmbred 
 
66 ji S7;:Ml Mounment 
 
 tnembred by his poor Creatures , who are 
 our felves Great Monuments of Divine Pro- 
 vidence , and do fet up this Little. Monu- 
 ment of his Goodnefs and Mercy, that may 
 furvive us, and bear up the Name of God 
 to after-times , that by us Men way Learn 
 to pitt their Tntjl iv God : And the Bill of 
 Lading is as followeth ; John jinthony , Wil- 
 liam Adams, Johnjcfhs^ John— Carpenter, 
 apd William Oks^t}- 
 
 Of Great Merey. 
 
 SECT. X r. 
 
 i»Z 
 
 7hc great Extremities rvc E/idiired at Sen 
 for Six Days, and Nights, rvith the Co- 
 incidott Frovidettces of Cod. that ap' 
 feared for us in our Extremities , and 
 our Miraculous Landivg rftMayork, 
 'July 6. 1644. 
 
 WE arc nbw cut at Sea without Helm,or 
 Pilot \ without Anchor , Tackle, or 
 Compafs ; but God was thefe, all thefe, and 
 rr.ore than all thefe. Our Number was SinrM, 
 our Work was Great, we could not afford one 
 Idle Hand, not one Idle Fino^er : Four of the 
 Company continually wrought at the Oars ; and 
 indeed we wrought for our Lives , and then j 
 fhall not need to fay how we wrought : But this 
 I [liall fay, I can truly fay it, I never faw flrengtli 
 fo drained, nor the utmofl of' what Naturi 
 could do for Ufe and Liberty, exerted fo much 
 in all my Life. The Employment of the fifth 
 Man was more cafie, but no lefs necelTaryjWhich 
 was to free the Boat of that Water, which by 
 Degrees leak't through our Canvas. 
 
 We Labour d the harder that A'';^tr,bccaurc 
 we would gladly be out of the Ken of our Old 
 
 Ma!kri 
 
^2, A SiTidl Mo7!i!meiit 
 
 Maftcrs hy D^y •^ but when Day appear'd, we 
 were yet within fight of thcirShips.that lay in the 
 Hivcn, and Road, and off the Land : But our 
 Boat being fmall, arid lying clofe, and fnug up- 
 on the Sea, cither was not at all Difcovercd, or 
 elfe fecmed Ibmething that was not worth the 
 takin" up : A Intlc hope in the midO: of ^re^c 
 Fe^rj, n:iadc us double, and redouble our Di- 
 ligence j wetugg'dat the Oars like thofe who 
 are Chain'd to ths Gallics^ beciufe we had no 
 mind td be SUves to our Old Patrones in their 
 Gallics. 
 
 But upon all Occafions we found our want of 
 fore-call, for now our Bread, which was to be 
 thcftaff of our decayed flrength, had licnfoak- 
 ing in the Salt water, like a drunken Toaft fopt 
 Jn Brine, and was quite fpoyled : And our frelh 
 water in the Bottles llarik 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 
 6ne day mend our Commons, fweeten'd all a- 
 gain ; /j lo!i£ m Bread iv.w B ready we com- 
 plained not : Three days with good Husbandry 
 it laltcd, but then pale Famine ( which is the 
 won't fhape Death c m be painted in ) ftarcd us 
 in the Face \ And there was no fubflitutc for 
 Bread at Sea.: At Land, the Roots of Grafs , the 
 tops of Trees, and the vilelr Excrements have 
 fervedtoflopthe chmour of a Ravenous Sto- 
 , mach, but that which Slaves dcfpifedjwe fhould 
 
 hive 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 6cf 
 
 have admired, and prized : Water indeed we 
 ' might have, either cila^ (,r hot \ we had choice, 
 but it was (!■ hard choice : Either the cold [ah 
 \xati.r out of the Sea, or that warmer^ which 
 had been flraincd through our Bodies, and that 
 iwcchofe of the two, but we mull not have that, 
 lifter a n-bi'c, unlcfs we would firii Accept the 
 other : And the Miicry was, thcfe did not iif- 
 fna^e our thirlt, but i>:crenfe it ; nor tvcreafe , 
 oxi-'jlrcngtby btt dir/t>:ijl) it; yet ihcfe were 
 the >rea?is of Life : Strange means, that would 
 'dcltroy the End. 
 
 i Several things added to our Mifcrv; for trou- 
 ;blc fcldom comes folirary, Forfirlt, we had 
 the Wind fur for„e rime full againlt US : And this 
 Avasboth an evil in it flf., an evil in its ejfeCt ^ 
 :ind an evil m its caufc. It was a great evil in it 
 ftlf-y it /wr^/f^ our Labour, :in(il\\cn defeat c<d ^ 
 It : We Rowed harder., to Icfs finpofe j we mo- 
 '■TJed ,but did not advance ^ we fpeut our frenj^th 
 fr noKght-, and in vain. It was an evil in its 
 ifclJ ; for it engaged the Waters againft us, and 
 circw them into as party. The Sea is a perfe[h 
 'Neuter of it felf , and willing to maintain its 
 Neutrality ; but the powerful Winds drcv/ her' 
 'j»to the Failion : And that Sea which fcrves the 
 LVci-r/j to day, fhall comply \\\\\\\\\crriorc pre-- 
 'Vailing South to Morrow ; for the Waves are ' 
 the oreatej^ ti»>e fervers in the World: But it 
 Avas far the greateft evil m its C^uifc-., for the 
 ]Vi>}ds being agairfi «; , Argucd that Cod w.is 
 J again^ 
 
^1 br.-dl j/lonsiniint 
 cgA'm^ ;«; for the Wind we know was h'u'\ \ 
 He brings the Winds out of his M'lgazSncs. Wc ' 
 were now fodifpirited, that we debated , whe- 1 
 therwe jlioiddbear up with the Wind, ormaki^ 
 thebiji of our way, and Row againft it} That I 
 is, whether it were not better to go back to A- j 
 giers with eafe , than painfully make towards ' 
 Freedom ? At lali", like Perfons that though we i 
 knew not what to do, yet refolved not to return; \ 
 we refolved whilll we had Life , and Strength, I 
 and Breath, we would flruggle with it: And j 
 now the great God interpofcd ; he rebuked bu : 
 Wind, it was not againfl la \ nay, he reconciled ! 
 his Wind, and it became our Friend. He that ; 
 can turn the Rivers in the South, could turn ths , 
 Wind out of the North : Here we might have ; 
 had a notable demonstration of Gods Sovereign- 1 
 ty. He determined tVzQaarter of the Wind, ; 
 the Quantity of the Wind, and the Corttinuancc , 
 of the Wind. The Quarter, whence it fhould 
 blow. The Quantity, how much it fhou'd blow, \ 
 and the Continuance, huw long it jhould blo\\\\ 
 The Quarter was our Enemy, the Continuance ! 
 had quite brought us to Dcfpair-, but had he ■ 
 opened his Hand, and let out one blafi more, the , 
 J)roud Waters had gone over our Soitls, we hail ' 
 perilled in the deep; But we fee that our tir/}cs'\ 
 are in Gods Hand ; the Ocean in the hollow of \ 
 the fa>re Handy^ni the V^inds /V; the fme hand, ; 
 ' and Happy it wasTor us, that we, and they , ; 
 were all there. \ 
 
 A 
 
 Of Greai Mercy. 7 r 
 
 j A Second .great Inconveniency \vaif, that ot:r 
 
 i Labour WM without Jnternnjjion J though we £d- 
 
 ' vancedwef/ony^jr^jat manyftroaks, yctcefia- 
 
 tion had driven us backwards. The poor Sen- 
 
 ; tinel thatftands upon the Watch, yet comforts 
 
 : himfelf that another will Relieve him; but we 
 
 had none to take the toyl off our Hcinds, and give 
 
 usRefpite.- Wc might JJnft oitr places^ btnnoe- 
 
 ' our pains. 
 
 I A Third great Evil that lay fore upon us, was 
 
 : the extremity of the heat by day ; the Seafon 
 
 i was Raging hot, being the beginning of July ; 
 
 : the Climate was hot, being under, oraboutthe 
 
 , Fourth Climate ; we wanted frefh Water to 
 
 cool the Heat, and were engaged in continual 
 
 ' Labour to enrage the heat, and all thefe made it 
 
 ; infupportable to oitr Bodies, and our little, or 
 
 '■■ r.o hope, ( which now like a Candle burnt down 
 
 to the Socket, did rather blink, than barn)mada 
 
 ; it^^rievoiu to our Souls. One fmall 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 reft to cool them ; But this was 
 
 ti Miferable -Remedy , for our Bodies were ia 
 
 ; bleached between the fcorching Sun , and tha 
 
 . cooling Water, that they rofe up in Bliicers all 
 
 : over. Great pain we felt, great danger wewerc 
 
 in, great. Mifcries were endured, great wants 
 
 , we were. under, and had nothing little., but hope, 
 
 food, and jlrength. By Day we were all ftark 
 
 Naked,: by Night wc had our Shirts, or loofe 
 
 ■■J.. ..J G Coats, 
 
T- 
 
 jj. u , ^ij.Oi.i'Mi'iii 
 
 Coats,: and that.was all our Cloathing, the reft 
 we left afhore to eafe our Boat. 
 
 If any (hall be fo Inquifitive, as to ask , h-j i 
 vyi!7;3f.i>?>fi?wwiV/e fleered our Courfe, that we j 
 did nottack about infenfibly in tKcdark Night, 
 or Day?- He may know, that for ;k Z^^^, one I 
 of the Company had a Pocket Dya!, which fup 
 piyed the place of the Gompafs, c'ncwclle- 
 nough for fuch a Vefiel, and fuch Mariners. By 
 Ni^ht,. whei) the Stars appeared, we had our 
 advice from them, and when they dif- appeared, 
 . we ghefTed at our way by the Motions of i lie 
 Clouds. 
 
 In this fad and woful plight we continued four 
 Days and Nights;;, on the fifth Day, we were 
 on. the brinl{of the brifik. of defpair ^ and all 
 hope that we fhould be faved, utterly perifhed. 
 And now, asPcrfohsdcfpairingof ;/;e£W, we 
 ceafed to purfue f if matis; laid by our Oars, 
 left off our Labour ; either we had no ftrength 
 left, or were loth to throw away that little we 
 had to no purpofe, onely we kept ftill emptying 
 the Boat; lothto drown, loth to dye, yet knew 
 no ways to avoyd Death.- When the End ts re- 
 moved, all pteatis perzfi with it. 
 
 They that Ad leaft,commonly wi(h the moft ; 
 thus when we had left fruitUfs Labour, we fell 
 upon frttitlefs tvif^es, that we might meet with 
 fome VefTel, fome Ship to take us up : If it 
 .was but a Ship, we confidered no further ; Eng- 
 lijh, or African^ Tros. Tyriifve ; all was a 
 
 Cafe; 
 
 Of Great Mercy, jj 
 
 Cafe : Or if not, yet the worjl was better than 
 our bud cafe ; and therefore rcfolvcd, couldwe 
 have Difcovercd any Ship, to have made to- 
 wards her, though it had been one of Algiers. 
 How many wifht thcmfclvcs again in Egypt , 
 v/hcn they Combated with the un cxpedcd 
 Difficulties of the Wdderncfs ! How oft have 
 the People of God been more afraid o^the means 
 of thctr Deliverance , than of thctr Danger ! 
 When Chriit came to fave his Difciplcs from the 
 Storm, yctbccaufe he came in a way uncouth, 
 and unexpcdcd, they cryed out 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 wc would have accepted Life 
 upon any terms not bafe andfmful, and whether 
 v;c (hould have fluck at fuch or ;;o,I have no fuch 
 fccurity from my own Heart as to refolve 
 him. 
 
 Whiirt we were at this diad ebhe of Hope, 
 the Great God, whofc moil: Glorious Opportu- 
 nity tohc]p, is his Creatures greatej} E.vireini- 
 ty: He that appeared for Abraham in the 
 Alount, and to the three Tottng Alen in the Fie- 
 ry Furnace; he that Delivered //r^f/^f theSe^ty 
 at the Red Sea; he who times all his Mercies 
 for their Advantage ; even He fcnt us fome Re- 
 lief, and a little Relief is great, ingreat exigent 
 ces. As we lay hulling up and down, we Dif- 
 covercd a Tortoife not far from us aflecp in the 
 Sea. Had the great Drake Difcovered the Spa- 
 G i ^ tnjl> 
 
j^ . . A Small Monnr/icnt 
 
 snjb PUte.Fleet, he could not have more Re- t ! 
 ioyced { onec again we bethought our felves of j ' 
 our Oars : and now our little Boat flicwed it | j 
 felf to be of the right breed of Algiers^ made of 
 FiraikkJ'mher, and to its poor Ability would 
 become n Corfair ; v/e filcr-'y Rowed to our 
 Prey, took it into the Boat with great Triumph, 
 we cut off her Head, and kt her bleed into a 
 Pot ; we drank the Blood , cat the Liver , 
 andfuck'dtheFlefii.i rv^rm FUPi, and hot Li- 
 quor (except our own ) had been a great Ra- 
 rity with us a long time, it was a Novelty of 
 Providence ; and really i: wonderfully rcfrefli'd 
 our Spirits, repaired our decayed llrength and 
 recruited Nature^ at Icail, poor exhauiled Na- 
 ture was willing to be chcate'd, and fancy her 
 ielf recruited : But there was no cheat in't, we 
 werereallv refrcfh'd, and with frefh vigour and 
 courage fell to our Work ^ we left our fears be- 
 hind us, vvc pickt up fome fcatter'd crumbs of 
 hope , and about Noon , we Difcovered, or 
 thought we Difcovered Land. It's impofTible 
 .to exprefs the Joy, and Triumph of our raifed 
 Souls at this apprehenfion. The Poets tell us, 
 that as often as Hercules threw the great Giant 
 .againft the Earthy his Mother E.trth gave him 
 mivfirength againftthe next Encounter : It was 
 •new firerigth^ntxv Life to us, though not to touch, 
 yet to fee ; or if not to fee, to tht/ik, vpe faw it. 
 It brought frefh Blood into our Veins, frefh co- 
 jour into our pale Cheeks j we' look'd mt like 
 ' ■ ' Men 
 
 Of great Mercy. 75 
 
 Men awaked from flcep, not like Captives broke 
 from the Chains of Algiers, bur like Ferfons 
 rttifed from the Dead. But Ho^e and Fear 
 made a jhange Medly Ptjfsion incur Souls; like 
 thcRepartiesof two contrary joftling Tides, or 
 the ftruggling of the Eddy with the main Stream : 
 Hopewouldperf -^deus that we faw the Land ; 
 but chill Fear bade us paufe upon it, for as we 
 cafily believe, what we defire to be true, Co 
 we are as ready to fear Icll it fhould not prove 
 true ; for fear had got long poflcfTion of our 
 Souls, and would hardly admit Hope to llir, but 
 was ready to fupprefs it as a diiiurber of its 
 Empire : We bad fecn 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 ImprefTions that fear had 
 made upon us, made it Queftionable, whether 
 ever we fhould fee it. And we durll no: give 
 too much Credence to our Eyes, that had beea 
 ufed to bring fadder llories to our Hearts. 
 
 Yet ftill we wrought hard : Hope did us that 
 kindncfs, it put us upon an earncil defire to fee 
 whether we were deceived or no. After fome 
 further Labour, we grew more confident, and 
 at laft, fully fatisfied that it was Land -■ I hope 
 I fhal! never forget what a fcnfe we had of Gods 
 goodnefs upon that Affurance. Extremes do 
 equally annoy ,• and fometimes infatuate the 
 mind; They tell us, that in Greenland, the ex- 
 tremity of ColcJ will make the Iron ftickto the 
 i C.i ,. Fitiger?, 
 
r\e n^ 
 
 7l4c 
 
 76 A Srrall Alommeiit 
 
 Fingers, as our Experience aflurcs extremity 0^ 
 Heat will do ; for now like Diftrafled Perfons, 
 we all leapt into the Sea, quitting our Boat, and ^ 
 being all good Swimmers, we there Bathed, and 
 cooled our, heated Bodies. An Adventure, 
 which, if well confidered, had as much of the 
 Defpcrado in it as our putting to Sea .• For now 
 we were at the Mercy of the Sharks , which 
 might have {heard off a Leg, or Arm ; and now 
 our over-heated Bodies were open to receive the 
 ImprcITionsof that Cold Element; But as we 
 never confidered our Danger, the great and | 
 good God delivered us from the Ordinary cf- 
 fe<fts of fuch Folly ; we prcfently returned to 
 our Boat, and being both wearied with Labour, 
 and cooled a little with the Sea, we lay us all, 
 down to Sleep in as much fccurity, asif wehadi 
 been in our own Beds .• Nature being aimoil I 
 fpent, mufthave a Truce; fhe will not under- i 
 take to keep our Bodies upon their Legs, if \vc ' 
 will not fubmit to her great ftanding Ordi- } 
 nance of Refl; and here we fav/ftill more of! 
 Divine Goodnefs, that our Leaky VefTel did not ! 
 bury us in the Sea, and we awaking find our { 
 felves in the other World : But he that ^ave 1:1 ■ 
 Skepj meafitredit-, and he meafured it eA-^^/)', i 
 not fuffering us to oitt-pep the Seafon of plying j 
 our Pump, or that which fupplyed theplaceof^ 
 
 '^' • I 
 
 ■ Being thus rcfrefh'd with flecp, we found mxi | 
 
 firenith for oyr Work, and God found us A'f iv ' 
 
 17 
 
 We tugged the harder 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 
 
 work, for our flrength 
 
 at the Oar, becaufc we hoped e're Night to fleep 
 upon a more ftable, and faithful Element. But 
 we made our way very flowly, and when we 
 caftup the Account of our Progrefs, found that 
 we had gone but little miy in a lena; time ; to- 
 wards Evening we difcovered another Ifland : 
 The firll we faw was A^Iayork^^ the fecond, 
 Frowcfitere ; and feme of our Company that 
 had Sailed in thefe Seas, would undertake toaf- 
 furc us of it : Wc debated not long to which 
 of thefe we fhould diredt our Courfe, for the 
 latter being much infelted with venemous Ser- 
 pents, and little, if at all Inhabited, we refol- 
 ved all for Alayork.: All that Night we Rowed 
 very hard, and the next, being the fixth of J.v/y, 
 and from our putting to Sea ; we kept withia 
 fight of it all E5ay, and about Ten a Clock at 
 Night we came under the Ifland, but the Rocks; 
 were there fo craggy, and ilcep, that we could 
 not climb up. 
 
 Whillt we were under thefe Rocks there 
 came a VefTel very near us. Let the Readerput 
 himfelf in our llead, 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 Fiands, wrelled out of them 
 again by (omc Titrkipj Pickaroon, or Corfntry 
 that arc always skimming thufe Seas : It con- 
 cerned us therefore to lye clofe, and when they 
 i. ' G 4 were 
 
i^O A Sm.ill Monument 
 
 were paffed by, we gently crept along the Coaft 
 as near the fhoar as we durft, till we found a 
 convenient place, where we might thruft in our 
 Weather-beaten Boat. 
 
 If thcfe Papers fhould fall into the hands of 
 foraethat are great Clerks in the Art of Kaviga- 
 iion , and have con'd the Mariners Terms of 
 Art, they will fmile at my improper wording of 
 thefe Matters, and fay, 1 amoneof /'^w's iMa- 
 riners. Bat I can be content to be Accounted 
 'One of his Mariners, whilit I have fhared in his 
 Mercies : How many of thofe that fpeak the 
 Language of the Sea, yet have found her Bil- 
 !ows deaf to their Cries and Prayers, and their 
 fiZ-Ay 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 
 have been Strangers, 
 
 '-■;■.:.» SECT. 
 
 • I ! < ( 
 
 Of GrcAt Mercy, 
 
 SECT. XI r. 
 
 79 
 
 7he great ki7idncfs ivc Received. it r^iayork 
 from the Vice-Rcj^ and the hihubitutjts 
 of that IfUfid and City. 
 
 WHcn we were come to Land, we were 
 not unfenfible of our Deliverance, 
 though like Men newly awakened out of a 
 Dream, wehadnotthe true Dmicnfionsof it: 
 We confefTed God had done Grciit things for us, 
 h\iiho\v great thngs he had done was beyond 
 ourComprehcnfion; We had efcafcdthe Sea, 
 but yet Death might be found at Lr^nd; and we 
 were ready to fay, with S.imffon, Judg. 15.18. 
 Lord, thou hufl givcti this great Deliverance 
 into the hands of thy Serv^-.iits, and ficwjlialhve 
 dye for Thtrfi} We had had no Food fincewe 
 cat the Liver, and drank the Blood of the Tor- 
 toifc, and therefore leaving three of our Com- 
 pany with the Boat, the other two, viz.. John 
 Anthony, and my k\( were fcnt out to fcout 
 abroad for frcfh Water ; And the rather were 
 we fcnt, becaufe this johii Anthony could fpeak 
 both the Sp.n.-if), and Jt.dinn Tongues very 
 pcrfedly ; and I had as much of the Sf^nifuas 
 might ferve tocxprefs our wants, anddcfires, 
 if perhaps we might meet with any Perfons thcr?- 
 
 abouis. 
 
So A Small MoMimeiit 
 
 abouts. Wc were not far gone, before we fell 
 into a Wood, aiid we were in a WilJernefs in 
 our thoughts, which way to take : He will needs 
 go his way, and I mine. Good Lord .' what a 
 frail, impotent thing is Man ! That they whom 
 common dangers by Sc^, common Deliverances 
 from Sea had United, (hould now about our 
 own wills fall out at Land. And yet thus wc 
 did: He gave nic reproachful words, and it's 
 well we came not to blows ; But I went my own 
 way. and he feeing me rcfolute , followed m, j 
 and the Providence of God, not dealing with us [ 
 according to our frowardnefs, followed mboth: \ 
 This way led us to a Watch-Tower of the Sfani- \ 
 ards, many of which they keep upon the Sea- i 
 Coaih, to give the Countrey timely notice of j 
 any Pickaroons that come afhoar to Rob, and , 
 Spoyl. I 
 
 When we came within call, fearing he might ! 
 
 Difcharge at us , wc fpokc to him upon the \ 
 
 Watch, told him our Condition, what we | 
 
 were, whence we came, howweefcaped; and 
 
 earneflly begged of him to dirc<n us to fome frcfh 
 
 Water, and in the mean time to beftow upon us 
 
 fome Bread. He very kindly threw us down 
 
 ^n old moiddy Cake-, but fo long as it was a Cakf, 
 
 and notaftone, nor tt Bullet, Hunger did not 
 
 confider its Moiddinefs : Then he direfted ui 
 
 to frefii Water, which was hard by : We fliood 
 
 "pot telling Stories j wc remembrod our filves, 
 ... , ^^.j 
 
 Of Great Mercy. Si 
 
 wcremembrcd our Eretkren left with our Boat, 
 and Obferving the Sentinels Direcftions, ca.me 
 to a Well, where there was a Pot with ilrings. 
 to draw with : Wc drank a little Water, and 
 eat a bit of our Cake, but the paflage was fo 
 difufcd, that we had much ado to force our 
 Throats to relieve our clamourous Itomachs : 
 But here we ftaid not, but, with the four Le- 
 pers in the Tents of the Syrians, z Kings 7. 9, 
 Rebuked our fclves, We do not well, wc have 
 glad Ttdtngs to carry, and do we bold our peace ? 
 We return to our Boat, are welcomed by our 
 Companions, acquaint them with the good fuc- 
 cefs of our Embafly, and all prepare to make 
 to the Well. 
 
 And now we rr.iifl leave oiir Boat ; that faith- 
 fid liijlnment of Gods Providence, which had 
 fo triijlily fervcd his furppfe to deliver us : Ic 
 was not without foine Recoylings upon our Spi- 
 rits, that wc fhould fo much as in appearance 
 irr.itate the inoratniide of thofL', who having fer- 
 vcd their private ends on their Fv:cnds, and have 
 now no further ufe of them, moll: ungratefully 
 fhake them off.- That we (hould be like the wa- 
 ter.do?,\y\{iz\\ ufes the water to purfue hisGamc, 
 and when he comes to Land, fhakes it off as 
 trouble fome , and bf.rdc^ft^me. But it was no 
 time to ftand upon Complements; Hunger, 
 Thiril:, Wearincft, Defire of Refrcfhment.and 
 llcll, thok irr.portitfjate Duns, Commanded us 
 
 away 5 
 
82 -A Small MouHnient 
 
 away; and tying our Boat as faft as we could 
 to the Shoar, we left her to Mercy ^ which had 
 been fogoodto us. 
 
 As wc were going, or rather creeping, or 
 crawling towards the Well, another Qyarrel 
 ftarted amongft us , the Memory whereof is 
 fo ungrateful, that I fliall give it a Burial in fi- 
 lence, thcbcftT'ow/'/i;/- Controverfiei. 
 
 And now wc are at the ]Vcll, and the Well is 
 provided of W^tcr, and wc have fometlntig to 
 draw ; all thcfc helps God has given us, but he 
 inuft give us one more, even a throat to fwdlow 
 it, without which, all the reft figf^'^e mthing. 
 This was the evil Difeafe Solomon had Obferved 
 in his Days, Ecclef.6. 2. yi Man to whom 
 Cod had^iven Riches, Wealth, and Honour, 
 fo that he wanteth nothing for hts Soul, of all 
 that he defrcth ; yet God giveth him not Power 
 to eat thereof: He that gives us vtater to drin^^, 
 and meat to eat, mud give us Power to eat and 
 drink-nKo. How totally do we depend upon 
 -him for Life, and Breath, and ail things ! One 
 of our Company, WdU.tm Adar^s , attempting 
 to drink,after many EfTays was not able tofwal- 
 Jow it, but ftill the water returned, fo that he 
 funk down to the Ground, faintly faying, I am 
 a dead Man ; we forgot our felves,to remember 
 'f}ir,t, and after much ftriving , and forcing, he 
 look a little ; and when he and we were refrcHi'd 
 
 with 
 
 Of Great Mercy. 83 
 
 with our Cake and water, wc lay down by the 
 Well-fid-; till the Morning, None of us could 
 natch for ihc reft, but One Cod watched over 
 ui all : There wc lay lockt up, and buried in 
 Sleep : The Heavens covered us, when wc wan- 
 ted a Canopy .• Each might iliy in the Morning, 
 with Daviii, Pfzl. 3.5 1 laid nse down andfept ; 
 J aw^ksd, for the Lord fufraincd me. 
 
 When it was clear Day, wc addrcfl; our 
 fcK'cs once more to the Man upon the watih- 
 Towcr, entreating him to Dircift us the ready 
 way to the next Houfe, or Tov/n, where we 
 might find Relief. He civily points us towards 
 a Houfe about two Miles otf^ whither, with 
 wearied ftcps , and joyful Hearts, v/e now 
 began to Travel : Our Feet had been fo par^ 
 boyled, and qiiodled with the Sttns heat , in the 
 Salt water-pickle , thac they were very raw ^ 
 and more blilter'd ; and long it was • before we 
 could over-come the tedioufncfs of thofc two 
 Miles. When we approach'd the Houfe, the 
 Owner efpying us, and concluding by our_/7;<?i'- 
 hy garb, that we were fome Pilfering Rafcab, 
 Prefcnted a Fowling Piece at us, and charged us 
 to Hand. The forcmoft of our Company, who 
 could fpeak that Language well, meekly told 
 him, he might fparc that Language, we were 
 not able, if we had fo wickfda will; nor willing, 
 if we had hecnablc, tooffcr him the Icalt injury; 
 That we were a Company of poor Creatures, 
 whom the wonderful Providence of God had 
 
 Refcu- 
 
■ g^ A ^..uill Alont'.ment 
 
 Refcucd from the Slavery of Jl:_icrs^zn6. hoped 
 he would fhew Mercy to the Affiidcd. The 
 Honclt Faimer, moved without Rdation, fcnt 
 us out Bread, VVatcr, and Olives, with which 
 when wc had rcfrcfh d our felves, wc lay down, 
 and Relied three or four hours in the 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 Houfe, and gave us good warm 
 Bean Pottage , which icemcd to me the moll 
 Pleafant Food that ever 1 eat in my Life : Our 
 Leave once more taken, wc Advanced towards 
 the City of Mayork.^ which from this place is 
 about ten Miles : Ko water could we meet with 
 . upon our way, but towards Evening , we dif- 1 
 covered one drawing Water at a Well, ^Vc i 
 haftedtb him, and he drew for us \ that was out ; 
 Supper, and there was our Lodging that Night, 
 '1 he next Morning we came into the Suburbs 
 of the City, the ftrangenefs of our Attire, being 
 bare foot, bare-leg'd, having nothing on but 
 loofe Coats over our Shirts, drew a croud of en- 
 quirers about us, who we were .? whence we 
 came ? whither we went ? Wc gave them a 
 particular Account of our Deliverance, with its 
 Circumftances \ and they as willing to fity. as 
 roi^cvvourEftate, and as ready fo Relieve, as 
 fity-, accommodated us for the prefent with food; 
 they gave us Wine, and Strong-waters , inJ 
 whatever elfe might »ecoverour exhaufted Spi- 
 rits i 
 
 j Of Great Mercy. 85 
 
 ; ritSi but told us, wc muft be obliged to tarry 
 
 : in the Suburbs, till tlje Ficc-Roy had notice that 
 
 ! liich Strangers were Arrived: He had {oonln- 
 
 ' j'ornuitto)} of US, and wc as ^oorni C on.rr: at: d to 
 
 appear bclorc him : He Examined us about ma- 
 
 * ny Affairs; what. Men of War the yihcrities 
 
 : had at Sea ? what ftrcngrh they were of at 
 
 , Land ? i3ut above all, he was molt curious,and 
 
 cxad in fatisfying himfelf about our Efcapc, our 
 
 ibjt, our Hazards at Sea, wherein when we 
 
 had fully Obeyed him, he Ordered we fhould 
 
 be maintained at his own Cofl till we could have 
 
 paffage to our own Countrey. 
 
 In this while the People gathered us Money 
 lobuy us CloathsandShooes, and we w.nted 
 , nothing that Nature called for , but th.it.kfid 
 : Hearts to God. And they endeavoured to help 
 to tb.'it Mercy too : As I was walking in the 
 Streets viewing the City, a Young Man fleps to 
 ' me , Friend ( faid he ) arc you one of thofe that; 
 came lately Over in the Canvas Boat / I An- 
 fwered. Yes, I was one of them : well (reply- 
 edthe Young Man ) Jttv-^not the little Eoaty 
 but the Great God that brought yon Over. I 
 muft needs fay, I often think cf 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 concerned to 
 ; Write of the great things G od has done for me. 
 
 SECT. 
 
8(5 
 
 A SiYiall Monument 
 
 SECT. XIIL 
 
 f 
 
 T^e Providences of God ivhich altcttdcd 
 us-, and Conduced US-all fafe to Eng- 
 land. 
 
 I 
 
 T may not prove ungrateful to the Reader, 
 to fee how the great God, who begun to work 
 for us, pcrfclicd hia \rork^ couccriiin'i lu : How 
 he that had, anddiddehvcr, would llill deliver 
 us; as /;«»/« 5;.«-j have their Glories, yetCuw- 
 flelLuiorss are more Glorious : So each Provi- 
 dence of God is Admirable; but taken together, 
 as one ferving another, and thU helping forwards 
 that, fo indeed they are inoll; Admirable ; when 
 the Creator viewed his each days work, it {o 
 punctually anfwercd its JcUa according to 
 which, and Obeyed the Power by which it was 
 Created, that he pronounced it Good-^ but when 
 he re-vicwcd the Producft of the fix days, he 
 pronounced all to be very cood : Eich Letter ia 
 a Book fpeaks skill, but when t'hofe Letters form 
 words, thofe words, fentciiccs^ t'ncrc is a grea- 
 ter Excellency, and more skill Difcovcrcd : Sr- 
 parate Providences fpeakout eminently yowc of 
 Gods Attributes ; but when wc put them toge- 
 ther, all the Attributes of God thine forth in 
 
 them, 
 
 ! Of Great Mercy. 85 
 
 ■ them, and one Illuftrate another, which reflefts 
 ; a light upon the former. 
 
 Mayor li is a City where our Englip} Ships 
 did feldom Trade, and we being full of defire to 
 fee our Native Countrey, preferr'd our humble 
 Petition to the Ftce-Roy, Th-n we might Live 
 P^tjfage tnthe King 0/ Spains Gdlies., which 
 mre then tn the Road, bound for Mkaxit in 
 Spain, v/hichhe graciouily granted us : What 
 cold Entertainment we met with there from 
 fome of our own Countrey, I fhall draw a veil 
 ; over ; yet even there we found the Mercies of 
 
 ■ God. One Merchant took CompafTion on' us , 
 and Conduced us to an EngUjl,.mans Houfe, 
 where we Lodged, andgave us half a Dollar 
 to defray ourCharges.The nest day,underlland. 
 ing that there was an £«f/;77;.;»;,„ in the Road, 
 bound for England, we went aboard to fee for 
 PafTage; we made our Condition our beil Ar- 
 gument to prevail : TheMaftertoldus, he had 
 out little Provifion, but if we would be contenc 
 with Bread, and Beverage, we might go. We 
 accounted that , Royal Eare, and accordin^lw 
 waited till he fet Sail : Whilft we were aboard, 
 two Erjghfl, Merchants came thither a'lfo , and 
 were very earncft that we would give them the 
 inort of our Adventure: We gratified them,and 
 ,one of them faid •, Countrey-men, wc have heard 
 your ftory: After a few days, we fet Sail, and 
 ,when we were at Sea, were hotly Chafed by 
 two Turkijl: Men of War, but being near Cible- 
 
 i>7 
 
 H 
 
 tore. 
 
 '/• 
 
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 ic 
 
 8 1 A Small Monument 
 
 tare, wc got in there, and efcapcd. We had 
 known Slavery too much <twJ loiig^ to- be an.hi- 
 tioiu of it again; and thercfoic three of us, 
 John jinthony^ John— Carpenter^ and >r.y fcif 
 went afhoar, and there flayed ; Our other 
 Companions ventur'd along with the Ship, and 
 qame into England before us, VVhilll we 
 WfXCoX.GtbUtore^ l\\cSfdmards undcrlhnding 
 our Condition, much pityed us: and one told 
 us, th.it if we would accept it, we might have 
 l^od^inginhisVclTd, and he had Fi(h enough 
 that wc might make ufe of: There we ftaid till 
 •our Money was gone, and then refolved to go 
 withtheFoot-Po.tby Lm^to Cadiz,, which is 
 about fixty Miles : Butwhihlmy two Compa- 
 nions were gone to enquire for the Courier, 1 
 ftaid upon the fhoar, and faw a fmall 5p.t»:]!i 
 yefTcl coming from Mdr.ga^ bound for C.-.da\ 
 I went aboard him, ^odclirc Pafil.ge, he freely 
 granted it, and the nexi Morning early we fct 
 Sail, and in little time came into C«W;x.-Road,j 
 tut not nigh enough to go afhore, the Capraia; 
 told usjour Paflagc was p iid,we might freely goi 
 afhore when we would.Now, becaufewefoundj 
 ;io. Ship here bound for England, and hearing 
 that there was one at St. Litcarsy we Tra- 
 velled thither by Land, which is about twelve 
 Miles; After a fhort ftay there, I met with the 
 Maftcrs Mate , of whom I earneftly entreated^ 
 •^orPaffagc; he told me, he had very little Pro-j 
 -vifion, and that it would be hard to be Obtained :j 
 • ■ ■ whipii 
 
 I, \ 
 
 I \ 
 
 Of great Mercy. Z% v 
 
 whilll: we were talking, the Boat came to fetch 
 hlmaboard, and in her there was a Youth, who 
 was the Mailers Son : He asked his Fathers 
 Mate, who was alfo his Uncle, who we were ? 
 He told him, we were poor Men EfcapcJ from 
 yjlgttrs, but for want of Provifion, he doubted 
 we could not go for England. No .' ( faid the 
 Youth) do you think my Father will deny paf- 
 fagetopoor £ff^//j'/;-».T;7, that come from yJl- 
 gierj} Come Countrey men (faid he) come 
 into the Boat, you (hall have PalTagc : Ke pre- 
 fcntly 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 : we continued in his Ship till we came 
 away : In the time of our ilay, I went aboard 
 one Captain Good/on, who lay then in the Road, 
 he was extremely civil to me ; at my departure 
 he gave me twenty fhillings, and fet mc aboard 
 our Ship , in his own Eoa:. We met with 
 contrary winds, and were very near Engaging 
 with a Hamburger -it was five weeks before we 
 could reach t'le Downs:whcre we arrived in Sep. 
 1644. Tne Commander of the Ship was Captain 
 Smithy of Red' iff. 
 
 H 2 
 
 TO 
 
 f 
 
y 
 
 
 
 ^ohis Ingenious Friendy Mr, 
 
 William Okeley, Jipott his Miraculous 
 Deliverance in his Canvas Boat. 
 
 ^-rr«HY Boat J thy Cr?/^« call ; and Greet 
 
 ii The Canvas as thy Winding-Sheet : 
 trom Coffin, Shrowd Delivered, 
 Cs\\\ RefurreQion from the Dead! 
 And fince thy Life's the Great , thy Lines 
 
 prefent 
 As God's Great Mercies Leffer MonHwent. 
 
 FJNIS, 
 
 
 iiS-ii 
 
 ^ Catalogue of fame Bookj Printed, and Sold l>y 
 Nar. Ponder /jt :bi Peacocl(_ in Chancery- Lane, near 
 Fleec-flreet. 
 
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 .""Xercitations on t!ie Epirtle to the Hebrew sszUo con- 
 ^.cerning the Meffiab: \vhercin the Promifes concern- 
 ing Him to he a Spiritual Redeemer of Mankind, are ex- 
 plained and Vindicated, g^c. With an Expofition of,and 
 Difcourfcs on the two firft Chapters of the faid EpiAle CO 
 the Hebrews. By John Owen, D. D. in Folio, 
 
 Exercitations on the Epiftle to the Hebrews, concern- 
 ing the Prief^hood ofChrifl ; wherein the Original Cau- 
 fes, Nature, Prefigurations, and Difchargeof that Koly 
 Office are Explained and Vindieared. The Nature of the 
 Covenant of the Redeemer, with ihc Call of the Lortl 
 Chrift unto his Offire,_are declared -, And the Opinions 
 ofiliei'Kiwanx about it are fully Examined, and their 
 Oppofitionsuntoit, refuted. With a Continuation of 
 thcExpofitioncnthe third, fourth, and fifth Chapters 
 of the faid Epifllc to the Hebrew!, being the Second Vo- 
 lumn. 'Ey John Qwen,D.X). m Folio. 
 
 ■ nNETMATOAOriA.-Or.ADifcourfeconcern- 
 ' ing the Holy Spirit. Wherein an Account is given of his 
 I Name, Nature, Pcrfonality, Difpenfation, Operations, 
 ; and EfTefts. His whole Work in the Old and New Crea- 
 [ tion is explained; the Doftrine concerning it vindicated 
 
 : from Oppofltions and Reproaches. The Nature alfo, and • 
 j NcccflTity of Gofpel-Holinefsi the difference between 
 ' Grace and Morality ,or a Spiritual Life unto God in Evan- 
 ( gelical Obedience, and acoutfc of Moral Vertues, arc 
 ' (lated and declared. By John Owen, D. D. in Folio. 
 A Praftical Expofition on the 130 Pfilm : wherein the 
 
 ■ Nature of the Forgivenefsof Sin is declared i the Truth ' 
 Und Reality of it afiertedi and theCafeof a Sou! diHref- / 
 J fed with the Guilt of Sin, and relieved by a Diicovery 
 
 , of Forgivenefs with God, is at large difcourfed. By _7o/« 
 I Oa-en, D, D, in S^arto. A 
 
■ Books frimedy and fold by N. Pondcf. 
 
 A Prafticjl Difcourfe of Gods Sovercignry, with otiicr 
 Material poiats deriving thence. 
 
 Londons.Lamentationt ; or, a fober, ferious Difcourfe 
 concerning the lare Fiery Djfpenfation. By Mr. Thomn 
 Brnoh, latePreaclierofthe WoiinSu Margarets New- 
 FifiJireet.LenJin, in Qjiarto. 
 
 Liberty of Confcience upon its true and proper 
 grounds aliened and vindicated , (6"''. To v.hich is added 
 the Stcond Pare, vi^. Liberty of Confcience tlic Mjgi- 
 ilra'es lutereft. Bv a Proieftam, a Lover of Truth, and 
 the Ptare and Profpcrity of the Nation; in Qit.irto. Ibt 
 Secnnd Edition. 
 
 A Difcourfe of the Nature, Power, Deceit, and Previ- 
 lencyof the Remainders of Iniradlin^-Sh in Believers. 
 Together with the ways of its working, and means of 
 prevention. T>y John Owen, D.M. in 0!}.2vc. 
 
 Truth And Innacency -uiniicited: In a Survey of a Dif- 
 courfe concerning Eccl^(iajlic.d ^diiy,inA\hc Authority 
 of the Civil Magifirarc over the Coiifciences of Subjefti 
 io marterj of Religion. By Jahn Owcr., D. D. in Oc-av:. 
 
 Exercitations concerning the Narae>Origir,al, Nature, 
 Ufe,and Continuance of a SacrcdD.iy of Refl ; wliereini 
 ■the Original of the S^WjfA from the foundarion of the f 
 World.the Morality of rhe fourth Cominandnienr, tti:h[ 
 the change of the Sabbath- Day, are enquired iiiro : To-j 
 gether wi h an Af^ertion of thi-- Divine Inditiuion of tbe 
 Lords Day. By JobnOrven, D. D. in OiLrjo, Tli<: St- 
 and Imprejftcn. 
 
 Evangelical Love, Church-Peace and Unity. Ey/j. 
 Or^en, D. D. 
 
 T!-e Unreafonablenefs of Aiheifm m.idc manifeft ; ii 
 a Difcourfe to a Perfon of Honour. By Sir Ch.uks W'jlp'f;, 
 Earoiier Thud Impic(Jkn. 
 
 The Reafonablenefs of Scrij-turc-Relkf. A Difcourf: 
 giving fome Account of ihofe Rational Grounds upo: 
 which the Bible is received as the Word of Gqc^, Writtcf 
 : by Sir Charlet WolfeLy, Baroner, 
 ,. The RehearlalTranfpros'd, or Animadverfions uponi 
 iatc Book, intituled, A Preface, flicwiog wluc groumli 
 
 tlicri 
 
 Bookj pri/ited, andjoid by N. r'ondcr. 
 
 there are cf fears and icaJoufics of Vopcry. The Jirjl Part. 
 By Andrew Mirvcl, Elq. 
 
 77.'e /;e'!'?.ir/',i.'rr,(r/j»'oi'.'/; the fecond Parr. Occjfi- 
 oncdby two Letters : thetirrt Piintedby a namelels Ad- 
 thor, ir;:it!.iled,j4Kffroo/,(Z^i-. ihcfccond, ALctterJtfc 
 at aFriendsHoufc, dnttd A'ov. 5. 1573. fubfcribed J. (?. 
 and concluding with thefe words, // th/w dure!} to Print 
 er Pi.'Hrjh ,iny Lye or Libel ng.ur.ji Dr Parker, by the Zter- 
 lu-.l God I Trill cut thy Tbroat. Anfwercd by Andrew 
 AfMvel. 
 
 r'W;.r>')/<V,orche Cityof Gcd, Ncv Jaufalim; inop- 
 pofition to the City ot the Nations, dcf.tr B.ityjn. By 
 Henry D'uniiers^in OH.ix"). 
 
 A Guide for the Praftica! Ganger ; with a Compendi- 
 um of Dccinial Arithmetick. Sh'.wing brittly the whole 
 Art of Gauging of Brewers Tuns, Coppers, Backs, ((yc. 
 Aifo the Maili or Oyl-Cask ; and Sybrant Hnntr^ his Ta- 
 bleof ArcVs of St gmcnrs of a Circle; the Mcnfuration 
 of all manner of Superficies. By WHliam Hunt, Studenc 
 in (he Mithematicks, in OHavo. 
 
 IS, 
 
 Hoc cit Domus Mofaiccc Clavis : five Legis' 
 Scpimentum. 
 
 Auihore Jofepho Copper Anglo, in OUavo. 
 
 A Viud'cation of fome Pafages ina Difcourfe concern- 
 ing Communion with God. from the Exceptions oiWil. 
 liamSherlocl^, Rc^or of St. George Bkttolph-Lane. By 
 John Ojven. D. D. in OHavo. 
 
 A Brief Inftruftion in the Worfnip of God and Di- 
 fcipljneof theChurchesof the New Teflaraent, by way 
 of Q^uellion and Anfwcr, with an Explication and Con- 
 firmation of thofe Anfwers. By J oh. Otven, D. D. 
 _ i4/if/-5(i^^o,y;t.'eSherlocifmusEncrvatus : In Vindica- 
 tion of fome Great Tru:hs Oppofed, nnd Opp^ifition to fome 
 Great errors M-tintaioedby Mr> Williasn Sherlock. 
 
Books grimed. And foldhy"^. Ponder. 
 
 A Brief DecFaration and Vindication of the Doftrine 
 of the Trinity. By John Oven, D. D. in 12. 
 
 Eben-E^er : Or, a Small Monument of Great Mercy , 
 Apptarinn in the Miraculous Deliverance of VMiam 
 Ci^ckyjWiUiam Adams, John Anthony, Johnjephs, John — 
 Carpenter, From the Kifcrablc Slavery of i^/^/^r/, with 
 the wonderful Means of their Efcape in a B'^at of Canvas; 
 the great Diftrefs, and utmofl Extremities which they 
 eptiuredatSesforSixDays, and Nights; their fafe Ar- 
 rival at /.layorki With feveral Matters of Remarque du- 
 ring their long Captivity, and the following Providences 
 of God which brought them fafe to England. By William 
 Okeleji la oSaw. 
 
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