A T R U E -^ RELATION O F T H E ruelttes and 3uthmtim OF THE FRENCH. U P O N T H E ENGLISH Prisoners of War. BEING A Journal of their Travels from Dinan in Britany^ to lhoulo7i in Prcvence : And backagain- With a Defcription of the Situation,and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road, and their Diflance. Of their Piifons and Hofpitals , and the Number of the Men that died under their Cruelty : With the Names of many of them, and the Places of their Deaths and Burials : With an Ac- count of the great Charity and Sufferings of the Poor Prote- flants of France : And other Material Things that hapned up* on the Way. FaitJ/ullj and Impartially Performed hy l^tCljarD ^tt^UttOU, hein^ an Eye-Wttnefs^ and a Fellow Sufferer. LICENSED June 27. 1690 James Frafer, LONDON: ^ I Piinted for ^itCljarD 1lI5arcUnu , ncir the 3Lck Bull m the h \ ^r,H.aly. MDCXC P hether or no this looks //% the anions of Chrifiians or not , and of thofe n>ho jiile themfelves of the better fort. So that n>hen you have had a dearviexv of fome fart of their rvor}^^ you may the better judg the /Artifices of the Workmen : Ihat whenfoevcr it may fall in your rvay^ as I dottht not hut it mil of many of you ^ then let me dcfire you to re- m:mhir the vcords of the Lar\> ^ (That whofoever iheddcth blood, by man (hall his blood be (bed). Many will he apt to fay, 7 hat thefe words roere fgnifed by Mofes/o the Com- -mon-vpeahb of Ifrael, for the propagating of a Civil Government ; yet notmthjianding, rve fee that this Lapp hath been tranflated and continued in all Jges, and amongli the mojiCivihzed people fmce that time '^ as for example^ all thofe under the Gofpel-Vifpenfation : let [hll many will objcSi and fay, 'thefe rvords are purely meant in cofe of wilful Murther : To all fuch I Jloall humbly dtfire, That they would be pleafed to read^ or elfe at leaft to give ear to this enfu- ing Diary j wherein they will find the Manner and Method that wasufedby them., was to put- men to the worji of Deaths^ ( viz. ) by Travelling , Beatings and alfo jiarving them with Hunger and Cold ; which is no lefs than wilful Murder -^ then pray let thimjudg whether their Deaths was not defigned by them when this work^was frft cut out : True it is^ Nero had his varieties of Deaths., which he was pleafed to impnft: upon the Primitive Chrijhans in hif time., for the which he became famous for Crudty., andwasju{Uy\\iled the Enemy of Mankind, But hadNcio lived in thefe days., he might very well have been contented., before he omn1?nced Mafier of Cruelty and Tyranny.to have become the Scholar of this Moft ( hrifti.ni Tyi3rt,n7;(} would hisve tauiht him better methods to have accompltfhcd his miji 'Bloody D fgn and not have fallen one jot Jhcrt -ef it : For as Nero d/d delight to fee th(fe innocent ChriiUans F'-'d fpih infport in his Theatres, as he did, at that time there ivas no Power upon Earth that n-' f able tojhp him in this his full Career of Blood, until the hand of Divine Jujice had done it, and brought hismifery upon him at home, that he was fore d to fay., when Ik was jo vvj.trajle B and To the Courteous Reader. mdforfakn of dl Men, that he hud not fo much as a Man that roould kill him upon his own nqii^ii : Necamicum habeo, ncc inimicum ; i.e. 1 have never a Friend nor Enany. j7^ifo it had happened with tis, the Peap/e of England, but that it pleafed theAlmigh- iyGod of his great gnodnefs to fettle the Crown of thife Kingdoms upon the Heads of this Royal Fair, William and Miry, in that mutable time when the very breath of the FaCmus had fo vmci} dijiurbcd the Air, that the Seas became dangerous to aJl that Navigated \ that then they p»t ajhp to the fill Career of this Tyrant's Fury, whom nothing elfe muji have fervid, but a Sea of Innocent Blood. Then, fincett hath fo pleafed God to avert that great Jt'Jgment which was hovering over this Land, which tended to no lefs than the abfolute Overthrow of. bath Church and State : and on the other fide, hath given us a NMrfi fig-Fat her and Mother^ to fecme us fafe under their jhadiW\ lei none of us therefore, Engli(h-w;e«, whom the matter doth concern^ tlfat lay ary Claim orTitle to the Heroical Blood of the Britains, whofe Valour hath formerly fun thrmigh the whole World, and hath eclipfed the Glory of France more tl^n cnce ^ let none therefore, that puiteth his hand to this Tlough, look^back^-, efpecially norf they fee the Examples cf (ur Renowned Monarch s revived (viz.) t/?o/e 0/ Edward 7/7. and of Ucniy V. who to re- deem tk dying Hmmr of Enghr\d, expofed themfelves to the greateji dangers, and came not back^empt y- handed ', fo'itisfaid, Audentes fortuna juvat •, ?.e. Fortune helps the Bold. Let us therefore ft God and the Gofpel's Turiiy before us 5 and let Jhat be the chief Mark^we aim at \ and without doubt, by God's A0ance, we may eclipfe the Glory of Louis le Grand, as he is now filed, I do not doubt but it will fare with my poor Endeavours in this Boookj, as it hath fared with thofe often fhouf and times more worth , to be carp'd at by feme of the Criticlq of thisJge^ who can fooner fndlen Fault sin the Anions of another perfon, than mend one in ihemfelves. I have not one word to jay in the praife of it, it being hut a rcugh thing, and not fo well polifhedas if it had been done by a more skilful hand ; and btfides, my great trouble and wearinefsofBody, when the fe things were coMed t ogether -, my right- band being chained^ in Ti^hich I held my Ten , for thirty feven days together : When all thefe things are confidered rightly, it will render me the more excufahle. Tet I huve this to fay. Although it is not put inr to a lofty Stile.as might have been done by another Man-^yet I amfure that what is in it 'a fo trm^ that it U able to contend with Truth itfelf; and therefore 1 hope that Truth is not to he de- fpifed, although (he be but in a plain Tk^efs. I jhall therefore de fire you to take this notice as you read, for your better mderjianding ef fome particulars, which is not known to every Man: The S'lrdQm fignifies afmaUFijh, a little bigger than a Sprat; and as for Beverage, that is meant Vinegar 'and Water, or Wine and Water ; Denires is alfo fpok^n of very often^ 3r>hich is the fnaf Money of that Country, of which Twelve mak^s one Soufe, or Penny Englifh. So wiping yeu more pleafurc in the reading, than! had in the writing, I.tak^ my leave, and fuhfcribe my flf. Yours in all Love, '^^'Isjl^"""'' Richard Strutton., A TRUE C3) A TRUE ACCOUNT O F T H E Cruelties uxm 3mUutitit^ OF THE FRENCH. UPON THE ENGLISH Prifoners of W AK, &c. June 8. i58p. I Then being come from the Canaries^ in the Ship Merry Frigat , Emanuel Dart Commander, right off Portland we met a Privateer of St. Mj/(?i a ft^r what refilknce we could well make, many of our Men not (hewing themfelves fo valiant as did become Englip-Men , but on the contrary ran down into the Hold , and left the Commander , with only Three more, to fight this Privateer; which thing we did to our utmoft endea- vour , killing them feveral Men ; Our Commander being dangeroufly wounded in the Shoulder, and the Gunner (hot in the Leg, we were at laft forced to yield to mercilefs Men, who, after we were taken, treated us like themfelves, by ftrip- ing us almofi: quite naked, and wounding feveral of the Men, The Eleventh of this Month they put us afhore into the Prifou of St. Malo ; the wounded were fent to their Hofpital. In this fame filthy Prifon we remain'd until the 25 th of J:^ly, and then they fent about 180 of us to Roch- fort. July 2 f^, iS^g. die Joviu About Ten in the morning came the Guard a Marine^ with his Company, for to take us out of the Prifon of Dinan\ he having a Roll of our Names, call'd us over two by two, and drove us into an Apartment, where B 2 t^'e (4) we were Hand-cuff M two and two to- gether, with Hand- cuffs made of Leather, and lb lock'd with a fmall Padlock •, That being in this manner done to us all, we Marc!;ed out of the Caftle into the Town, where we found a Hundred or more of our Efiglifh which were the fdme day brought from St. Malo , all in the fame order. Handcuff 'd, two and two ; we no fooner met, but away we marched to- wards Rochfori in a mohmiferable conditi- on, feme almort naked, and many bare- foot and bare-leggM j in this manner we marched from Vinm to a Village call'd Bechcreal:, fourteen Miles diflant i in this place they gave us that Viduals for Sup- per which we were to have had for Din- ner in Dinan: As for our Liquor it was Water ; fo here we flcpt in the Stables, and in Barns, and many were forc'd to llecp in the open Yard in fome Hay that by there. Friday 2$. In the morning before we fet forth, feveral of our Men that were naked almoft, Spun Hay Ropes, and fo Wrapped them about their Bodies, Legs, and Arms, to keep them from the cold by night, and the fcorching The Rmd- of the Sun by day j after they cuf!s galling, ^^^ piven US a fmall bit of Hands were ^^ead and Butter, away we loofed many marched towards the City of of them, lip- Rhemesi Nineteen Miles di- on promife /^a,^j-. gg we were on the way, ''^'^^'' feveral of our Men fell lame, quietly and ^"'^ could not travel j then orderly. were they forced to hire Carts for them. By the way we faw two Country- men at work in the Field, whom the Gitard a Marine com- manded to fetch their Horfes to draw the Carts, the two Men feeing the Belt by which he commanded, ran away j they being in the Fields, and an high Bank be- tween them , thought to get clear of them^ but one of them difmounfed and ran after them, and fo brought them into the Road , where the Guard a Marine drub'd them fo long, that I believe he gave them at leaft Fifty blows, fo that I faw the Pifs run out of the Knees of the Breeches of one of them j and when that was done,he made each of them down on their Knees, and of them take a good lufty heavy Lad, and carry him upon his back at leaft a Mile. When we came into the City, we were brought into a clofe Yard belonging to an Inn, where we were fer- ved with Bread and Water, and our Lodg- ing was in the Stables, and many lay in the open yard, for want of room. The favage people many of them kept heaving of Stones over the Walls at us j and thofe Soldiers that kept Guard over us, would not let us fleep, but kept finging of Songs all night about the Prince of Orange. Saturday 27. About Nine in the morn- ing they gave us our breakfaft, which was the Broath of the Meat they boiled this morning. After our Drivers had bought them all new Whips to drive us along, we began our March, Marching through Two Companies of Soldiers who made a Lane for us, and beat the Drum ; we Marched about Nine Miles, until we came to a lone Houfe, where was a Well un- der a Hedge, by the which we fat down and eat our Dinner, which was but very fmall 5 that done, away we Marched Nine Miles farther, to a Towm called Polonia. When we came near any Town, then our Drivers would begin to fmack theirWhips, and upon the leaft occafion in the World,, whip us too , if we did not keep in even Ranks to very great exadirnefsj fo that Lathes was dealt amongft us very plena- fuJly, ( s ) fully, inibmuch that one of them which took grea.t delight in this Exercifc of Whipping, we nicknamed JVhippkg torn. When we came into the Village of Polonia^ the people appear'd very few, fo that im- mediately the Town was akrm'd by Ringing of the Church-Bells, according to the manner of an Alarm -, then foon, into the place where we were, canie all the people which lived within the noifeof the Bells-, but truly Nine parts in Ten of the people that wefaw, was of the Fe- male Sex, and Children. I never faw a Country Co thin of Men before, which was contrary to what I did exped , for it was ufual in England, to hear people fpeak much of the popularity of France. ^ When they had ferved us our Supper, which was a piece of Black Bread and Water, they put us, fome into a Stable, and the reft into an empty Houfe, where we lay on the Brick- Floor , the Country-people being all in Arms to Guard us , both within doors and without. Sunday, 28. Early in the morning, we were carried out of our Lodgings into the ftreets, where we all fate down on the ground, Ten and Ten together, for fuch were our MelTes. Now they ferved us our Breakfad and Dinner together, which was Broth cut pretty thick with black courfe Bread, which was fo four , that the major part of our Men thought they had put \/inegar into it, until by the taiie of the Bread by it felf, it was difcerned : The Meat, that little there was, they alfo gave us, which was not conliderable ; our Drink was Water. When we had thus eaten, away we marched nine miles, to a Town called Beant: Juft as we came into this Town, the People were all go- ing to Mafs, fo that we had a full fight of the major part of the people of this place ; which were but few, in refpecft to the largenefs of the Town •, and of thofe, the mo(t were Women and Priefts. Here our Guards made us lit down all on a row in the middle of the Ilreets, and fo they commanded the Country-people with their Pails and Buckets to fetch us Water to drink. After we had all drank, away. we marched nine miles farther, to a Mar- ket-Town called Vervalle: When we came into this Town, we were ranged a- long the flreet for the people to behold us •, which were not many, and of them the major part were Women and Chil- dren. After this was over, that the peo- ple began to return to their Houfes, being Tutisfied with the light of fo many E/;^///7^, which I prefumeto think, they never faw before, they put us into two Stables, and' there ferved us a Supper, a piece of brown, or rather black Bread, and a Cup of Wa- ter for each Man. This black Bread was not given to us for the wan- of any b.t- ter to be had ; for this Country abound- eth with plenty of good Corn ; fuch as Wheat, Rye, Barley, &c. but becaufe they ■ would not go to the Price of it, although . it was very cheap. When we had fupp'd, wevventto fleepon the Horfe-dung, not having fo much as a little Litter to cover^ it. Monday, 2p. Early in the morning, wc were ready to march, each Man getting a Cup of Water, but that was all 5 lb a- way we marched feven miles, to a large Town^called Nofce. Now becaufe there was not a Town upon the Road vvi.hin lefs than twenty miles, we continued here all day in an Inn, whofe Yard and Sta&Ls did contain us all ; They gave us here for our Dinner about an Ounce of Meatier Man, with the Pottage it was boil'd in 5 and at night they gave each ^n a piece of CO of brown Bread : Water was brought in to us in a great Kettle, fo that we had e- nough of that, and that u as all our Drink. At night, we were put up •Weather fair, clofe into Stables, and were guarded -by the Country- people , who brought th;ir Arrr.s along with thcmi fuch as wooden Pitchtorks, fome Hedging-bills, and here and there one of the befi of them had a Gun ; to fome of them our Guards gave their Pi- ^ols and Carbines j but , alas , many of them knew no more what to do with them, than thofe that never faw one in their lives. I faw one loolfing iipon his Pidol, holding the Muzzle in his hand, and with the other hand he was tampering with the Lock ; I flood looking on him a good while, thinking by and by to fee the foolifh Dog (hoot himfelf ; and fo he had, if he had not been prevented by one of his Brorher-Clowns, who came to him, and told him the danger of holding the Pirto! in that manner ; and fo fhew'd him which end he (hould hold in his hand ; Another of them in the night 1 faw take the Candle, and becaufe it did not burn bright, he was knocking the Candle in- to the xMuzzle of his Carbine ; which, if Fortune had not certainly favoured Fools, he had without doubt (hot himfelf Here ouif Lodgings were in twoStibles, indif- ferent well littered with Straw. Tttfday^ 30. Early in the morning, we marched out of this Town, the weather being fair and clear, we marched *welve miles to a fingle Houfe, which was an Inn upon the Pvoad. Here we dined ; we had here Meat and Pottage a pretty conlide- rable quantity ^ but no other Drink but Water. U hen we had din. d, we marched •eitht miles farther, to a fmall Village calkd Trcvcrah* When we came thither, there was no Lodging to be had for us, nor any thmg elfe ; fo here they got fome of their Country brown Bread, and gave every Man a bit j and alfo they gave a Pot of Wine of about three Englifh Pints, a- mongli ten Men •, fo we wereajl forced to he down on the cold ground in this open Held, havmg nothing over head, faving the Heavens only, whofe Spangled Sub- urbs entertained our eyes for the moll part of the night. Here they alfo alarm'd ihis flace, that all the Country Boors cam- in with their Pitchforks and Bills to euard us, Wednefday^i, By the rifing of the Sun we began to March towards Nants , which was diftanr ten Miles ; when we begun to come near the Town of Nants^ they began to exercife their Whips upon every loofe occafioa ; he that chaix^ed but to fiir out of the Ranks, was fure to be lafhed , if any of the Guards were near them i fo that with their continual Whipping, they had whipt all their new Whips to pieces , that they bought at Rems^ and fo here they bought more new Whips. When we had paft through great part of tJieTown, we were brought to an Inn, in the which place we were kept backwards in the Yards 5 here they gave us each Man a penny Loaf of good white Bread; and as for Water, it was brought in by a Horfe in Buireco's, be- caufe_ the Water in the Inn was not iit to drink. Here many People came to fee us, but none were admitted, except they were known to be fuch as was like their Grand Mailer. It happened 'that there was a Gentleman came into this Inn to drink, which went up into an upper Room on purpofe to (peak to us out of the window ■•> but as foon as he was heard to fpeak Englilh , he was immediately huj- a 7-) hurried out of the Hcufe", and withal rhrcatned to be put in prifon : our Dri- vers had for a long time promifed to us, That as foon as we came for Nants. they wruli give us a Hogfhead of Wine, but indeai of g vai^ a Hogfhead, they Hop the Money that a Gentleman gave us, e- nough to buy a Hog(head, and then they gave a grand pot of fad forry Wine be- twixt ten men , which was not above each man a glafs j towards night they went into the Market, and bought up a great great deal of the Refuge Flelh in the Marker i fuch as Sheepflieads , Bullocks Livers and Lights, and the like ^ fo that for our Supper we had aboat an ounce and T per man, with the Pottage this fluff was boil'd in ; our want made any thing to go down with a pleafant tafie ; cair lodging was in the Stables. Thurfday, Aug, i. We remained fiill in this place, our Guards had determined to ftay all this day to give us a day of reft : In the morning they gave us each man a foufe Loaf, and at night juft fuch a Sup- per as we had laft night of fuch Flefh and Pottage ; fo after Supper we were put up clofe into the Stables , and .a Guard kept at the door, Friday^ 2. Early in the morning we m*Je ready, being foon dreft, to march, receiving every man a foufe Loaf before for breakfaft and dinner \ fo away we . mjrch'd for a Town call'd Egmille^ di- ftant from Nants 1 2 . Mile ; as we were upon the Pvoad this day, many of us fulfe- red great drought for want of water, the Road being Very dufty,neither did we pafs by any Spring or Wells upon the Road 5 when we came into the Village call'd E- greville^ we were put into two Stables, and ' theire we were fervedwith Breadjaiidas foy.. Drink, we had no other than w hat the Well a/forded ^ after cur Supper was end- ed, we were put up into the Stables to fleep i this afternoon four of our men had contrailed to run away, if any oppor- tunity prefented i the which thing they did accomplifti this night. Saturdjy^ 5. About fix in the morning we were call'd rut, and counted, as was their conft.nt culiome -, they mift four men •, then they began to couju over a- gain, and fo they did at leaft fix times j but when they ftund that four of our men had defeited themfelves, you would admire to hear how Jack French-man be- gan to fwear , and to abufe all the re/!. Immediately Horfes and Men were fent in purfuit feveral ways, but none of them could have any intelligence of them •, in the mean time we were all carried into a clofe. Barn, and a Guard i^Qt. over us all d ay : about Piight our Guard a Marine came back, and taking his Roll of our namesj caird us over two by two; and as they came out of the B.iru, they were forely drubb'd, until fuch time that he was quite weary, and not able to drub - more , withal commanded them to tell where the four men were which had de- ferted themfelves •, but alas ! no man was able of us to give that account j for^ ," I believe, poor men, they did not know- well themfelves where they were. But as for cur parts we were all hand-cuft a-, gain : aud becaufe they had loft fome of- ' their handcuffs , they bound many of our . men with Cords ; fo away we were car- ried to the place where we lay laif night,.. having a great Guard over us all nigl]t,. giving us nothing but Bread and Wates.j this day. , Stfndof-^ en Snnd.i^.Eixlyin the morning we marcliM out of this Town into a fmall Town, vvhofe name I have lort 5 in this Town we were conduced to a dofe yard, where we were ferved our Dinners, which was brown bread and water; after we din'd, away we march'd to a Town which was dilhntfrom Egreville twelve miles, call'd St. Saravan : now the weather being very -Rainy , we went no farther than this Town, but lodg.d all night in a Stable; our fupper was fuch as our Dinner, bread and water ; fo here we were well guar- ded all night by the Inhabitants of the :placc. Monday, 5. Early in the morning we were ferved v/ith bread and water, fo away we march'd twenty miles to a Town call'd St. Vincean , the Road very _^ood 5 but by reafon of the duftinefs of ;the R.oad , and the want of water, we fuffered great drought -, when we came into Town, we were drove into a great Inn, in which was a great fquare Yard •, here they ferved us our Supper , brown bread and water , but here they gave us each man a fmill bit of Butter ; I am fure the Pot would not hold l^x pound that lerved two hundred , the quantity and goodnefs were both alike, for it had ma- ny colours, and very naliy i\uff ■■> not but that there is good Butter to be had here, znd enougL After we had fupp'd , we went into the Stables to fleep, .where our l^odging was on the dung, having very little or no Litter under us j the Houfe was aUo well guarded by the Inhabi- tants. T'mfd:ty, 6. Early in tTie morning we made ready to march, eating our Break- fall and Dinner boik under oiic,befcie we came forth, which was brown Bread and Water, by the ftren^rh of which we were to march Twenty Miles, before we were to eat any more : In this Town, feveral of the Towns-people came to me, and very kindly asked me , how 1 did , and would, if it had been polliole have perfuaded me, that 1 was a French-mj,i\ , and born in this Village, and therefore defir'd me to fpeak my Native Tongue to them ; they did not flick to fwear , that I was born here , unto our Guards. From hence we marched Twenty Miles, to a Village, called St. Jacque^ when we came into this Town, we faw our Guard a Marine^ who left us at Egreville^ in pur- fuit of the four Men that deferted. He told us, that he had taken them; and withal told its, that he had beat them fo long, that he had broke three Sticks over their Backs, which we after knew to be falfe, for he pretended he had fent them to Kochefjvt before us, which when we came there, we found there was no fuch Men.In this Town they put us all into an empty Houfe, where our Lodging was on the bare Floor. At our entrance into the Town they rang their Bells to larm the People, who by the quantity that ap- peared, would have gave a Man to think, that there had lately been fome Contagion that had fwept all, or molt all away, fo fuw did the People appear. Our Supper was here Bread, and each Man a Glafs of Wine and Water ; fo after Supper was done , wc lay down to Sleep , but were prevented by their beating a Drum at the Door all Night-, and fo like to Negroes they beat and made a noife, as if they had been the fame. The chief Man in this place was upon the Guard to Night, and his Accoutrements were fuch , that for vi^ant of a belt tor his Sword, he was forc'd to make it lait to him with a piece of C 9 ) of an old Hiker } and this Man, our Guard told me , was the Mayor of the piace. JVedmfday 7. AboutNoon we marchM put of this Town j but before we went out of the Town , we expected we fnould have feme Food-, fomc of our Men asked the Gujrd a Marine , if he would give us any Food , for he told him our People were not able to March without; he prefently fell to whipping Iiim with his whip , and told them they ihould have none until Night: So away we march'd twelve Miles to a Village , call'd Sbearone i we crofs'd over a River juft by this Town in a Ferry-boat at twice, all of us ; and when we came in- to the Town , we were put fome into a at work, with other AniHcers, intuilJinf, of Mud'Wails, and digging of Moats, ar.d laying out feveral Lines of Fortification. As ive paffed by the Soldiers, they lefc oil their work, and cjme running at us opei> mouth'd, calling us whai u£,!y names ttiey could, and withal railing againli the Prince, of Orange molt defperately , until fuch time that their Oiticerscame and drubb'd them to their wo- k. When we got into the City, we heard many of the p:ople fpeak good Englijh^ giving us their pray- ers to God for our Deliverance ■, and all that could well come near us, prf- vately gave us their Charity. When they brought us to a round Tower next the water-fide , we fate down in the Street for the fpace of half an hour, in.the which time. the good people of the place brought Barn, and the reft into Stables very us .a great quantity of pure white Bread, ere a piece and would have given us many things elfe. well Litter'd ; our Supper was here a piece of brown Bread , and about half an Ounce of Butter per Man, and our Drink was water : Novi^ we being near the Sea-fide, they were very fearful wc lliould make our Efcapes in fome of their Bur- toons, which lay in fight; for the pre- venting of which, they got at leaft 30 Men very well arm'd with Firelocks to guard us all Night. thurfday^ 8. Early in the Morning we began to march toward Kochel , v\ hich was diftant twelve Miles -, within fix Miles oi Kochel, was a Town in the which they gave us Bread, and feveral heads of Garlick, which they heaved into the road amongft us , to make us fcramble in the dirt for it: here they took off all our Mens handcuffs, and loofed them, becaufe they fiiould not be feen in that manner in the Town of Rochel. About three in the af- ternoon we- came into the Town of Ro- ck/, where we faw many of their Soldiers but were hindred by thofe Fvogues that guarded us. After ^he half-hour Itop, as aforelaid, we were all put into this round Tower. Our Guards here gave us no- thing to eat or to drink , but the good people of this place got leave of the Men that belonged to the Town, that guarded us, to come in and relieve us, and fo they did, for they brought us white Bread and Butter enough, and afufncientqu-ncity of good Wine. At night we lay all down to lleep on the cold Stones. Friday p. About Eight in thq Morning we were brought out of this Tower*, and as we palt along the Streets, the People gave us their Charity. Towards the further part of the Town, we were ordered to lit down in the Street, where we were ferved our Breakfaft, viz^ a fix Venire Loaf, and one Sitdena per Man; that done , away we marched towards Rocheforty being diftant Fifteen Miles, fome G call (lOj cafi it Twenty one Miles -^ but by the way, at a fingle Inn, about half way be- tween Kochel and Rochefort, we fat down jnd were ferved with Bread and Water ; from hence we marched to Kochefort ; a- bout Seven in the Evening we entred in- to the Town, and fo were carried to the Prifoni there we found about 200 of P«/c/j- Men, which were feiied upon, and liopt at Bourdeaux. This Prifon of Kochefort^ is, I believe, as fine a Prifon as any is hiEurope; for without doubt, it was riot deiigned for a Prifon, for the Rooms were very neatly laid out with very fine Chimneys, and curious Giafs Lafti-lights. It is faid, thefe Houfes were built for the King's Officers to live in > within the Gates of the Prifon was a large Square Court, which did not contain lefs than 140 Square Perches, and all over-grown with Grafs. In this place , when we came in, we fat down on the ground , and to every Seven Men we had a Loaf given , and a Can of pretty good Wine j after we had Eat and Drank, we went into the Prifon , where we lay on the Floor. The Vnich-mQii that were there before , had Beds to lye on in very good order ^ neither were they bare of Cloaths, as we were , by reafon they had liberty to fave both Cloaths and Money, being only fiopt and feized in the River of BoMr- deaitx and Sherant, Saturday, i o. About Ten in the Morn- ing the Clerk came in , ai^id took our Names, with the Ships Names we were taken in ; after which, we Meft our felves feven and feven together. Four days in the week they gave us Meat, but it was but very lirtle 5 and at night Beans : The other three days we had Filh, but the quantity did not exceed an Ounce per Man 3 and thofe nights we had Peafe. Three times a day we were ferved Wine about half a Pint per Man for a Meal, and the Wine not much to be found fault with. As for Bread, we had about fix Pound per day for feven Men. Every thing now was ten times better than it was when wc came from 7houlon. Our Lodg- ing was on the Floor for the moft part of us. Saturday J 17. Very near 2co more Englijh-men were brought hither from Breji , who came all the way in Irons ; They told us, they far'd very well upon the Road, in refped to us. About thirty came alfo from Fort-Lexvis^ prefently af- ter. Amongft thofe that came from Breft^ were two of thofe Men that deferted them- felves from us at Egreville, They told me, They had been down at Penbcef^ and there lay a Vane, they got on board of him •, but the Vane was fo unkind to them, he would not carry them out, but put them afhoar again, and would not entertain them 5 and as they werewandring up and down, they knew not which way, they chanc*d to crofs the Road juft as thefe Men were palling by , who came from Breji: now becaufe this Provoft had loft fome of his Men upon the Road, he fei- 2ech thefe two Lads, and put them in Irons, and brought tbem hither. Friday, 23. About Noon, this day of Englijh^ Scots ^ Srvecds^ and Vanes^ were muftered to the number of 200. and were drawn out of the Prifon into a Clofe, oppofite to the Prifon, by twenty Couple together*, when we came there, there was a llrong Guard of Soldiers, and with them feveral Smiths, having all things for their purpofe in rcadinefs ^ fo we were forthwith all put into Irons, HandcutfM two and two together > and aftes C") after this was done , to make as the more fecure to them, they made twenty Couple of us fall together, by ranghig a R.ope , and faftning it to each pair of Handcuffs, giving us about three Foot fpace, )uft to tread clear of one anothers Heels. In this order we were all com- manded to lit down in Rank on the Ground ; that done, they gave Shoes to all fuch as wanted to perform this long Journey; after this they gave us our Dinners , Bread and Sirdena's , with a Cup of fowr Beverage j our Dinner be- ing ended, we began our march, croiling the River of Sherani in the Ferry-boats ; fo away we march to a Town three Leagues dirtant , callM St. Jan EngU , on the outlide of which Town was an old Caftle , and a great Farm adjacent •, in this Clofe we were all rang'd in rank on the ground J fo they ferved us our Sup- per, which was one Egg and one Sirdena for a Man, with a Cup of BeverageVVinej that done, we were all put into a Stable or Barn, wherein was plenty of Straw, where we got a very good nights Rell, the beft I ever got in France, Saturday, 24. Early this morning, we were rouzedtomarch- being foon dreft: fo being roped together, and counted, we marched three Leagues, without eat- ting or drinking, to a Town called Ogua : In this Town they drew us all together into a place which formerly was a Bury- ing- place for Proteftants 5 here they gave us our Dinner , which was a Diih of Broth, as they call it j but it was fuch, that the like I never taikd for nallinefs, having no Meat boil'd in it; I do fuppofe they threw into it a little naliy Oyl, and fo, with fome brown Bread put into it, they gave us this fluff for our Dinner j but this ftuff fell fhort, that it would not ferve all the Men ^ fo they affcrward gave among/t us about thirty Eggs 5 fo with this, and a Cup of {mall Beverage. we made our Dinner : After Dinner, a- way we marched to a fmall Town at the Mouth of the River of Bourdeattx, c-llcd Raan. Entring this Town, they made us all fit down on the Sand by the Sea-fide, becaufe that none of the Inhabitants of tlie Town (hould come near us j in which place we fate until fuch time as they had provided us a Lodging-place; keeping, in the mean time, ilrid Guard over us, to hinder the Towns-people from giving us any thing ; fo that they could only fiand at a difiance, bemoaning our fad condition with (howrs of tears, but durll not come near us, for fear of the Guards. The people of this Town, and likewife of the Town of St. Jan A'lglU^ are known to be the major part of them Proteliants. We fate fo long on the Sand, before they had provided us Lodging, that ihe flow- ing Tide had driven us up to the very doors ; after which, we were driven into an empty Houfe, in which we lay all night, not fuffering one man to go out to eafe himfelf, fo that thofe that had occa- fion, were forc'd to do it where we lay. They gave us for our Supper an Egg, and onefmall Sirdena, with a piece of Bread, and a Cup of Beverage for each Man \ fo here we flept, though moil fadly annoy- ed with the ill fcent of our own Excre- ments. Sunday^ 2 5. We remained in thisTown until Two in the Afternoon, and had our Dinner here, which was one Egg and one Sirdena, with a piece of Bread and a Cup of Beverage per Man. All this morning was not one Man admitted to go out to eafe himfelf ; in which fad manner we contynued , until the two Barques were C 2 read J ( li) ready to take us in. At Two in the Af- ternoon we came all forth •, and as we came our, we vvere llridly (carched for Knives or Razors, notwithftanding our being (b liridly fearchcd at Rochfort : that done, we were all made faft together in two parcels, an hundred Men in each par- cel, tor all we had no further to march than about a Bowe-{hot ; but fuch was their great fear cf our being refcu'd by thcfe 5'roteftant People, or at leaft con- veying us away from them. Many of the people of the Town followed us at a djlhnce, heaving after us Apples, Pears, and Plums, &c. VVevi^alked down almoft as \ow as Low-water-mark , where we cntred into two fmall Barks, callM Bur- toons^ alias Brittoons. When, and as faft ^s we came aboard, we were an hundred cf us forced down into her fmall Hold, flowing one upon the other in a moft miferable condition •, fo that neither with Tongue nor Pen am I able to exprefs the mifery we endured while we were on board the Barque, both for want of Air and Room ; and many times were the Hatches all laid clofe over us for fome time , .until we that were next to them were forced to heave them open, for fear oflliflingall thereftof the Men. At the firli of the floiad, we floated, and away up the River we went, having in our Company the fottajh^ or Guard-fhip of that place, to be our Guard. At night they gave us one Egg , and one Sirdena, with a fmall bit oi Bread and a cup of Waterier Man-, fo here we remained in a mof\ miferable condition, not having joom to fit, ttand, or lie down. Monday^ 26. We continu'd ftill onboard the Barques, anchoring every Tide of Ebb, the Wind being Eafterly, fo upon fhe Flood turned it up the River. Our whole days allowance to day was a fmall bit of Bread, with one Egg, and one Sir- dena, and a cup of Waterier Man, conti- nuing fiill on board the Barque, in a moft miferable condition. Tuefday^ 27. About Noon this day we got up as high as Bourdeaux, anchoring oppofite to the Town. As foon as the News of our being there was got afhore off came the People of all forts and iizcs, both gentle and fimple, and betides a very great number flood on the Shore- iide. Thofe that came off to us were not fuffered to come near us j yet fome of our people did get fome relief by flealth , and did privately convey fome Letters afliore. About Four in the Afternoon, they gave us each Man a Bisket-Cake, and two Sirdena's, and a cup of Wine. Supper being done, feveral of our Men were put into a great flat Boat, to give more room for the reft : but their Lodging was this night very bad, for about Nine at night it began to thunder, lighten, a;id rain, as if Heaven and Eart|i would have met •, in the mean time, our poor people lay in an open Boat, having no fhelter at all j nor In the morning any dry Cloaths to fljift themfelves 5 but if they had, they could make no fliift, by reafon of their Ixons j which would not admit of any fuch thing. Wedmfday, 28. About Eight this mor- ning we were all put into two flat Boats, in order to our pafTage up the River; in thefe Boats alfo we were ftow'd very clofe, but yet not half fo dole as before. Ere we loofned from before the Town, off came an Englijh Merchant, who got per- miffion to (hare amongft us fome Money which he had colleAed for us amongft the xeft of our Englijh Merchants ; He gave C 13 ) gaveamongft us very near Twelve Pound ji^rling^ and alfo feveral Frew^ FVIerchants Friday ^o. Early in the Morning we gave us Loaves of Bread , and Jars of came down to the Boats, being flouted Wine and Brandy, and feveral roaftcd and fcoffed at by the people all the way Gcefe i all of them wiQiing us well. Our Englijh Merchants promifed us, That they would write to England, and give an ac- count of us. About \ Flood, we loofed, and away we went, until the Tide was done 5 then we came to an Anchor oppo- fite to a tingle Houfe on the North-iide of the River , where we ftaid until the Ebb was done. Our Supper was two Sirdena's/'er Man, with Bread and Beve- rage •, fo the firft of the Flood away we went. Sail and Oars. 'thurfday, 2 p. About Noon this day we were trad up as high as the Town of Langoon j a little higher on the North fide was a fmall Village , oppofite to which we DinM j our Dinner was one Egg , and one Siderna per Man , with Bread and Beverage, as at other times ; at night we came to a fmall Town on the North- fid€ of the River, called ^0- dero , here we went afliore all of us, and lay all Night in an empty Houfe, our Supper was Mutton and Broth i but as we we pafTed , calling us Ptebdlious Rogues for Fighting againli our lawtul Hm^ James i, one who, as they fay, was as righteous as a God ; and withal run- ning out Ikangely ag^infr King JV,L'um, calling him Jach^Oraige , and faying, they would cut his Throlt in a fhort time, and make us all Gally-llaves ; yet for all this , we part along , taking no o- thcr notice of them than this, by laugh- ing at their foolilhnefs: We eutred all into the Boats, and away we went; about Noon they gave to each Man of us for Dinner one Sirdma, and one Head ot Garlkh^^ with Bread and Beverage*, and for Supper, one Egg and one Sirdena^ with Bread and Beverage : So we ilept all Night in the open Boats, having no Canopy but the Heavens, the Weather fair and clear, Saturday 31. In the Morning very early , the Boat-men began to work , tracking us up the River 5 fometimes we had at leaft Thirty to a Boat 5 about for the Mutton, the quantity was fo ex- Noon we came oppofite to a greatTown tream fmall, that one Man might with eafe eat Tw^enty Mens allowance , with about Two Gallons of Beverage for Twenty Men : many that had no VeflTels, fuch as Drinking-Pots, &c, were forced to put their Broath or Wine into their Hats; In this favage manner were we often ferved by thefe Bruitifh French- men. Supper being ended , we went all to fleep on the bare floor, the Houfe on the North-fide of the River , called. Marmanda^ and went all afliore, where our Guards, upon fome fufpicion, fearch- ed all our Irons , fome they found had broke their Forelocks, to them they gave a fufficient quantity of drubs with a great ftick -, fo immediately a Smith was fent for to fecure them , and make them falter : That done, we were ordered into the Boats again, where they gave us our being well guarded round , both within Dinner, one Egg and one Sirdena^ with and without. Bread and Beverage ; and for Supper the like. We came to an Anchor clofe by the Shore, near no Towu. where-v^e lay _. ( 14 ) lay all Night in the open Boats, having nothing to cover us : our Bodies being watered with Teveral great " "^ Rain. 'TnefJay 3. We continued full on Board the Boats , not going by Night aihore i (liovi^ers of our poor bodies lay open to the Dewot" Heaven , it Rained on us feveral great fliowers of R.ain this Night. By this time we had about Twenty four Men lick, September, Sunday, i. In the Mornuig ^ — , early we began to put forward, and, a- fome of one Malady , and forac of an o- bout Noon we came oppolite to a Town ther 5 our Diet was to day our former al lowance of Eg§s, and Sirdmas , and Bread, &c. on the North'fide of the R.iver, called La prt 5 this day they pretended we (hould make a very great Feal\ of Fle(h j fo at, or about Noon they gave us about an Ounce of Fat Vorh,', for it is the faQiion of this Country to cut away all the Lean ^ . clean oiT the Poril^, and then eat the Fat nafty greafy Fork^-, and for thofc after it is Salted. They ftop'd us about were fick , that could not eat it TFednefday 4. Wc continued ftill on Board the Boats in this fad condition; our Diet to day was about an Ounce of that they half an hour before the Town, on pur- muft faft j for there was nothing elfe to pofe to make a (how of us to the People, be given to them, although all manner the major part of them Handing laugh- of things fitting for the body of Man, for ing at us, as if fuch foolifh Slaves as they are, were not fubjed to the fortune of War as well as we : Then we went up- wards until night , when they always came to an Anchor, by reafon that there food, was extream cheap all over this Country ; this we had for Dinner and for Supper. At Night we came up to a Town on the South-iide of the River, called St. Jnns, here we Anchored very uaiiik, i-yj ail /\iiv.ii«^», •-'j ,.>--- — i ~- j is no Tracking in the Night, for the ma- near the Shore, about Eight at Night it ny Shoals and Iflands there is in the River. At Night they gave us for Supper one Egg and one Sirdena per Man ; fo we lay all night in the open Boats, the Weather fair and clear. began to Thunder , and Lighten , and R.ain , as if Heaven and Earth would have met ; we got a thin Sail to heave over the after-part of the Boat ; but that did us but little fervice, it not being proof againft Water, we were all defperate wet : Monday 2. This day we pad by feveral The people of the Town kept a ftrong fmail Towns on both fides of the River, Guard all Night on the Shore. About whofe names arc infignirtcant 5 the peo- Eleven this Night died one of our fick pic of one of them, when we put alhore, Men,namcd Thomas Smith^v/ho was lately, brought us down into the Boats to fell. Mate of a Virginia Ship, hewas^put in feveral Roalled Gede ; thofe that had Money amongft us, bought of them very cheap, a good Roafted Goofe, not ex- celling the price of Six Soufc i our Guar- dians gave us for Dinner one Egg and one Sirdena, with Bread and Beverage, and the like for Supper v fo we lay ftill in the open Boats all Night. Irons to one of his Sons, who when his Father was dead, was yet kept in Irons fall to his dead Father, for the fpace of Eight hours; the fight of which was able to melt a heart of ftone to fee a poor Youth weeping and lamenting the lofs of his Father, and at the fame time to be Chained to him. 7hurf Ihurfday, 5- A^out Eight this Morn- ing they carried a(hore the body ot the Dead mail; by Four men j but like thera- felves they carried him, one taking hold of a leg , another of an arm , and fo dog-like, heaved him into a hole by the way-fide : They gave us our Din- ner here before we came from before this Town, which was about an Ounce of rufty Pork with Bread and Beverage, and the fame for Supper : By Night we came to a Town on the South-hde of the River call'd Ratta, at which Town we went afhore , where we lay all night in a Barn, having a great Guard over us all night , quite round the Houfe. Friday, 6. While we lay in this Barn, f^ck and well all together, we were moft fadly annoyed by the ill fcents of our mens Excrements 5 for they were not admitted to go forth to eafe themfelves, the Inhumanity of the Guards was fuch ; much like to the reft of their Countrey-mcn, who are, by all that I can difcern of them in general, the moft uihumane, barbarous Wretches, that e- ver lived fince the Creation. In the Morning one of our Boys fpied a hole in the Wall of the Barn, that Icok'd into another Barn , in which was a Wine-prefs, and abundance of Grapes ready for the Prefs 5 one of our boys crept in at the hole, and handed out to the moft part of our men their hats full of Grapes, which was a great re- frefiiing to us, befides filling our empty ftomachs. About Nine in the morning we came out of this Barn j and as we were marching down towards the Boats , feveral of our fick men com- ^lainsd to the Provo of theii cxtream illnefs } he prcfently'told them in Fnnch^ That they muft pray to God for for- givenefs , for from him they muft not exped any Mercy or Comfort. At Dinner they gave us one Sirdaia , and one Onion betwixt two men 5 and for Supper juft the fame. At night we were brought up oppofite to a Town call'd Burdoon^ on the South fide of the River \ clofe by the Shore fide , we were brought to an Anchor : When the rumour of being there was fpread abroad about the Town, both Gentle and Sim- ple came down to ftare on us, and fb fpend their Verdict, and fo away again. All this night we lay in the Boat, ha- ving a great Guard over us all Night. on the Shore fide. Saturday^ 7. Before it was day , we . weighed from before the Town , the morning being foggy, and the day ve- ry hot? as foon as it began to clear up, we faw the high Granada Hills very plain, the middle of them beaiing South from us. Our Dinner was one Sirdena ^er man, and one Onion betwixt two men, with Bread and Beverage. About two in the Afternoon we came to a Shoal place in the River, where we were all forcM to get out of the Boat to lighten her. So we walk'd about a mile, at the end of which the Boat put afhore, and thofe that were able to walk a mile, came out of the boat ; that done , we took up that little baggage we had, and away we rcarch'd , leaving our fick men on the ftiorc, until fuv.h ,tiiP,e as they could get Carts to carry them. About a mile from the place where we landed, was t Town ^al^d Graiij" - da: clofe by the Gates of, the. Town we fat down until the fick men -were brought to us. We fat there at leaft two i \^ 10 J tvvo hours before the Carts came j in the ;nean time fonie of us joined our itQcks together, and fcnt into the Town ibr fbmc Wine by a Soldier, that was ^s a Spedlator, looking upon us ; he took fev'cral of our Jars, . and brought them full of Wine, and the rcll; of our Money back, when we our felvcs did not expcd: that our Money would have bought a quarter fo much ; but Wine was fo ex- traordinary cheap, that by Retail it was Jpld for Icfs than three hiU-pence/'fr Gal- lon, that is, d^ht. deniers the grand Pot; and the Wine was alfo very good j when our fick men came to us, we all entred the Gates of the Town, aod were con- ducted to the Market-houfe, and by it was an empty houfe, where they ufed to put dry Goods, as Wheat, &c. into this houfe we were all fo clofe cramm''d, that w€.,had fcarcely room to fiand one by the other ; here many of our men got their loids of the Juice of the Grapes, infomuch that they fell to fighting one witii the other i the Guards coming in to part (hem, began to ftrike feveral of them, but they immediately left off fight- ing one with the other, and fell foul on the Guards, but alas! they came off by the worft, being all hand-cufft two and two together. At night they brought us our Supper, Bread and Onions, with fome few Eggs and Sirdena's, but in- ftead of ferving us, they palted us, hea- ving both the Eggs, and Sirdena's , and Onions St us, with all their force-, I had a blow juff on my belly with a great Onion , that truly I thought it had beat all the breath out of my body, atid the Eggs were moft of them broke all to pieces, the reft were thrown on the ground in the middle of the houfe, juil as if they were ferving fo many Hogs. Before we went to fleep, they took many of the Tick men out of the hcufe, and pur them into another, to make a little more room for the reft to lye down ; That being done, we went to fleep, but were moft fadly annoyed before morning, with the fad ftink of our mens excrements ; the Towns Guard being fo like themfilves, they would not fuffer any man to go torth to eafe himfelf. Sunday, 8. After our Guards had been at Mafs, we came forth out of this place, and fo with two Ropes they made us faft' together, about Eighty men or thereabout, in a Ropcj for fome of the fick they had provided two Carts, but two Carts was not fuiiicient to carry all of them; the reft they made faft to us in the Ropes, on purpofe that if they could not march, we might drag them along, which we were forc'd to do by their continual drubbing us with Whips, Swords, Sticks, and with their Guns like wife, it we did but ftop to the cries ot our fick men •, juft as I have feen Car- ters in England do to their Horfes when they were upon a dead pull,, giving each one a lick to mend his pace; fo did the barbarous Frenchmen to us •, many times the fick fell down on the ground, not being able to ftand; ^hen v/cre thefe poor fouls draggM along en the ground by one arm, with a Frenchman following them, drubbing them , crying, March ye bug- gering Dogs, and fo never leave drub- bing, until he had made them to ftand 5 and if by no means they could, then they would ufe them after this manner ; They would take them out of the rope, and {6 heave them into the Carts, like fo many dead Dogs one upon the other ; fo that I think it would melt a heart of ftone to behold it. I faw one of thefe R-ogues drub a poor man that had the Calenture, and (i7) ancl was at the fame time as fenfclcTs and hcifc , to make us amends for as a Stone , mod; defperately , to caufe our Supper , they give us this great him to make more room in the Carf, Dinner, wz. about an Ounce of na- and alas , the poor Man he cried at fry , rufty , greafy Pork , fuch it was , his Blows , but did not conceive what that many of our hungry Stomacks the occatlon of them was > the next day could not away with j but wirhal , the Man died of his Diftemper ; in this wc had a foufe Loaf, and a Cup manner we marched two League?, and of Wine and Water per Man ; Dui- the end of which, we came to a lingle ner being thus .ended, we remained Lm by the B-cad-fide j here we lat in this place to be made a (how of down to eat our Dinner and Break- to the People; the end for which fad, which was always given us at we travelled about the Country > fcr one time , and now it was a piece of the People of the place gave Money Bread, and one Egg per Man , with a to come in to fee us, and the Rogues Glafs of Wine i Dinner be- the Guard told them , that we were Tholure, ing ended, away we marched a Man of Wars Mens Company, whom Languedo. three Leagues further to the they had taken ; alfo allcdging us tubs great City o( tholufe -, a- a pack of Rebellious Rogues, that bout Eight at Night we came clofe to had fought againft Righteous King the Gates of the City, where thou- James-, and that by the King of France fands of People of all forts and fizcs wc were condemned to be made Gal- came out to fee fo many Engli/h-tnen ly-flaves of, and moft of the common as ,we were in that Condition , but fort of People believed it , but the none was fuffered to come near us , ex- better Sort of People were more in- cept by ftealth ; on the out-fide of the quifitive into the truth of the matter j City we were all drove into to a cold, this we underftood by fome of our wet Stable, Sick and Well ail together ; People that fpoke French very well ^ where w€ had neither bit of Bread , who told them, that as yet, they had nor drop of Drink given us ; neither not as we could hear , gained that v.'ould they let thofe that had any point of Honour as to take an Englijb Money buy any^ the place was guard- Man of War ^ but otherwife ed all round by the Inhabitants of the we xvere of us at leall: Ji.^'® °^ °^^ 1 ^1 • oi • 4^ • f Men was place. thirty Ships Companies ot ^^c^ hQT:ein Merchants Ships Men, and their Hofpi- moft of them Ships of no tal. Mondxy , p. This Morning about force at all j feveral of the Ten of the Clock , we were all Gentry feem*d to pity us; but ha- brought cut of the Stable, and ving Information, that we were not as we were counted , fo we were ro- of their Opinion , but on the con- ped together ; we were then order- trary , that we were Calvtnifts ; their cd to fit down on the Ground in Charity to us was barefooted and cold $ the Clofe , ^uft without the Stable i while we lay iii this place , 1 do be- D lievc (i8) Tieve there was not tefs than Twenty feveral Orders of Clergy-men came hi to fee us, tellmg us we were wretch- ed People , for fighting againft God and the True Religion •, withal , tel- ling us , That their Beads which they fhewM to us , and their Prayers in their Cloyfter , was of greater force than our Arms of England-^ they in- quired of us, if there were a- mongft us any Koman Gatholicks > we told them , none of the Englijh y but we had one lri(h-mzn that was, which was a poor iilly Soul , that fcarcely knew Good from Evil » we brought them to him, and when they came to him, he underftood not one word they fpake j they croft him , and that the French had done before by taking him-, and bleft him, and that was but fmall benefit to him •, (o away they went; the poor Soul kift their Sleeves at their departure , to fhew his Obedience to their Church. About Two in the Afternoon , we marched from hence i the People flockM to fee us in a great number , both Gentry and others : For this City is as near as I can guefs , who was born in London , to be very near , if not quite as big as the City of London with- in the Walls ; and befides, the City is very populous, the City is wall'd round with a Brick- wall, with a Trench or Ditch without the Wall , but that was filled up, and Gardens made in the fame » there is little or no Suburbs belong- ing to this City , except it be here and there a ftragling Houfe 5 and a- bout the Town-walls , I could not fee one piece of Ordnance , nor any For- tihcaticn j and 1 am. fure we walkt the Wall three quarters of it Circuit; we had not marched above a quarter of a Mile , but we faw two Men that was broke on the Wheel not long fince ^ as far as I could gather , it was for be- ing Hugonots or Calvinifij ; and we had feveral Men with us that fpoke French naturally ; we marched two Leagues further , to a Town call Cajlinata i when we came there , we were made to fit down on the cold Ground , until they had ferved us our Supper , which was a half-peny Loaf, and a Cup of Wine; that being done, we were put into a Stable , and lay on hot Horfe-dung , like fo many Swine, the Town being all in Arms to guard us. Tuefday , ic Early m the Morning we were counted like fo many Sheep , and we were roped together, and away we marched three Leagues to a Town called Bafiego , juft about Twelve of the Clock we entred the Town ^ juft at our Entrance , we met a great Concoufe of People attendmg a Funeral , which was fo- lemniied after this manner : I taking efpecial notice thereof in all its Cere- monies , which was thus : The Prieft walking before the Corps reading the Service, which was carried on a Bier very neatly dreft , and before him- was car- ried a wooden Crucifix , the Prieft was dreft up in his Pontifical Habit , and after him came one carrying Holy Water , fprinkling the People as he paft ; but that which made me almoft ready to Laugh , was to fee a Woman that came alter , aifiliing the C 19 ) the Ceremony with two Tallow Can- dles burning in one hand, and her Wednefday ^ 11. Very early in the Apron held before the Candles with Morning we were brought forth ba- the other, to keep the Wind from ing roped together, and counted' };k<- blowing them out , the Tallov/ of Sheep , the Sick put into the Carts , the Candles running about her ^ hft, who never milT; of drubs, for that thev the Sun at the fame time ihining had duly paid , and that very often very refpleudently : The Ceremony in a day ; away we marched three was no fooner done, but in comes the Leagues to a large Town called Ca- Prieft into the Town, and pulls off the ftda ; when wc came into the Town old Trumpery of the Pope , and got we fat down in the Streets in three amongli the Crowd (taring on us, and Ranks i here they gave us for Dinner by his Countenance was very well three fmall Sirdena's per Man , with pleafed at the light , to fee fo many Bread and Beverage 5 feveral of our Engli/h-mGii in Irons , and Roped to- People would have bought fomething gether, fitting on the Ground in the elfe of the People, but durfl not, ex- middle of the Street , eating an Egg, cept it were by Stealth •, there' was and one Onion , with Bread and Be- one of our Men went to buy of a poor verage for their Dinner; by this time Woman, a little plate of fry'd Meat, they had followed their drubbing us which was difcovered by the Rogues fo clofe, that they had broke all their the Guards , who took away the Meat Sticks , and moft of their Swords , and from the Woman by force , and hove the Barrel of one of their Guns about away the Meat, Plate, and all into the our Backs: we have now about thir- middle of the Streets, broke the Plate ty of our Men very Sick in the Carts, and fpoil'd all the Meat, and this was who never mift of drubbing fcarcely two their Cruelty, who would not give hours in the day; fome becaufe of us Viduals fcarcely enough to keep their weakpefs, they were not able to Life and Soul together^ neither would get up into the Carts j and fome for they fuffer thofe that ' had Money to ftirring in the Carts, fometimes to get buy any , except it were by ftealth : a little eafe; w^e marched two Leagues we marched from hence three Leagues further to a Town , called ViVa Franks , to a Town , called VtUa PiBa , it was where we fat down in the middle of Eight at Night before we entred in- the Streets , and got our Suppers, one to this Town , we being moft of us Egg per Man , and one Onion betwixt moft defperately tired with this days two Men ; when our Supper was end- Walk , which was fix Leagues , and ed, we were drove into a Stable, every League in Langmdock,, contains where our Lodgmg was on the hot four Italian Miles ; v/hen we came Horfe-dung , the Houfe being guard- into the Town , we were all put into ed all round by the People of the a great Stable, our Supper was one *^^^"' Sirdena per Man, with Bread and Be- verage; our Lodging was on the hot D 2 Horfe- ( 10 ) Horfe-dung, fo in this manner we refted Fortifications I could not fee any Ord- our weary Bones: This Afternoon we faw nance, mounted or unmounted: The the HghUnd of Barcelona in Spaittj very Town feemed to be very populous , plain. but at this time there were no men in Arms in this Town, fuch as Soldiers, &c, Thnrfday^ 12. Early in the morn- ing we began our march , and marched three Leagues to a Town Friday., 13. Before we came out called Villa Sanda , in which place of this Stable , they ferved us our we fat down in the middle of the Dinner , which was a fmall bit of Pork, lUeets in ranks j here they ferved like that lafl night, with Bread and for Dinner , a fmall bit of bread , Beverage. After that was ferved us , with one Egg , and a cup of fad we were roped together , in readi- Beverage Wine , a very poor Dinner, nefs to march h our tick men were Our fick men were this day , as well likewife crouded into two Carts : as others , forely drubb'd with Swords, About Ten of the Clock we marched Whips , and Sticks , becaufe by their hence four Leagues , we march'd to weaknefs many of them were not a Town call'd Porfarick^ i here wc able to help themfelves up and made a Itop in the ftreets for about down j from hence we marched three half an hour j in the mean time feve- leagues farther , to a Town call'd ral, women came to us , and diftribu- Carkafonna \ when we came there, the ted among us their Aprons full of Lihabitants of the Town (hut the Grapes , and took great pity on us 5 Gates againft us , and would not let [ we were often , and in many pla- ns enter until fuch time as the Pro- ces , much pitied by many of the vod, who was our Grand Signior , tender Sex]: At laft we were con- made ufe of his utmoft Authority , duded to a great ftable ^ that held by (hewing his Commiffion, &c. Then molt of us that were well in health, the Gates were opened , and in we and the reft were put into another all e.ntred , where we were condud- ftable with the fick men j they gave ed . to a very large ftable , in which us nothing for Supper, faving one (inall we were all put, lick and well. Our Loaf, worth about Six Deniers^ with- Supper was a bit of fat Pork , about out ever a drop of drink , and if we the bignefs of a Wallnut, and bread call'd for any water , in came the to the quantity of a fouce loaf , and Rogues our Guards , and would fall each man a cup of Beverage. Our to drubbing us with their drawn lodging was on the hot horfe-dung. Swords moft furioufly; I was at this which was as hot as any hoife-dung time moft bitterly inflamed to fee whatfocver. This Town of Car^ifonna their barbarous ufage , and withal be- is a very fine fenced Town, with good ing very thirfty, walked with my Mate Fortifications abput it , yet in all the to the door , defiring them to do that • t fa- C II ) favour , as to give me a little water, my Entry a good view of a Hen. but I partly guefs'd before what would roofi , went with my Mate, and be the effe<9: of it •■> in comes one of each of us got a very good Pul- the Guard, and falutes me over the Head let > that done, down we came and Shoulders with his drawn Sword, to our places , without any noife , and withal gave me a prick on the putting our Poultrey into the knees of Arm ; the lights being all out , 1 took our Breeches s our Guard at the fame him a good box under the ear , and time was faft alleep on the Ground, flruck him down to the ground, and and with eafe might any man have then 1 feconded it with a kick on difarm'd him , but alas his looks did the guts ^ that done, up he gets , fhew him to be a poor Innocent Fel- and away he runs to call in the reft low, and by that means we let him of the Guards ; bit 1 immediately flunk alone, into a hole ; in comes the Guards with Swords drawn, and Guns cockt, looking to fee if they could find who it was Saturday^ 14. Early this mom'ng that ftruck the Corporal , but could we made ready to march , all the not tind him , by reafon it was Town Guards that watcht us lall done in the dark , and I my felf Night , going with us : Before we lay down , as if I had been faft got out of the Town , at the Sta- alleep. This night they were very ble door where the reft of our men feartul of our riling againft them , lay , we faw the dead body of fo the Mayor of the Town was one of our men upon a ladder , brought to us , to examine the bu- whofe name was Alexander Montgome- finefs j to him we made our Com- ry : Away we march'd ^ and .when plaint ; he to appeafe us , . promifed we had opportunity on the Road , that we (liould have a good Supper , we pickt our Fowls. This part of and all things necelTary, as Wine, the Countrey is very mountainous, and Straw to lye on , &c, that and yet abounds with plenty of done, away he goes, and prcfent- Vineyards and Olive-yards: On the ly inftead of performing his promife , very fcraggy Pvocks and Mountains , he forthv\ith orders a ftrong Guard grow great plenty of fweet Herbs, to be fet round the houfe , both fuch as Thyme , and Lavender , within and without , and this was Rofemary , Mirtles , and other odo- all we got of Mr. Mayor , he being riferous Herbs. This morning two very like, the reft of his Country- of our men did get out of the. men, viz. great and notorious Ly- Rope, and fo flipt into the cran- ars , and deceivers of men. Clole ny of a Mountain , and knockt off by my tide was polled a Centi- their Irons, and went away undif- nel , a poor innocent fellow , who covered by any of the Guards, not long after he was placed there. After w^e had marched three Leagues, fell faft afleep , I having juft at we came to a lone Inn by the Read fide, fide , near a Town called Puzola \ came in , we found it to be « moft we were here conducted into our old loathfome place, full of Sheps-dung, and Halls , the ftinking Stables ; here we the Dang full of Maggots j there was got our Fowls drell , and made a no place for any Air to come in to us, threat Fcaft •, we gave four parts in faviiig a fmall hole or two in the hve to the poor (ick men , who be- Wall. Before Morning we were moft caufe they were not able to gee up of us well-near ftifled , what with and down , and help themfclves , they the (link , and for want of air toge- would not fuffer them to come o'.it of ther ; Our Supper here was a piece the Carts from Morning till Night, of Bread and a Cup of Beverage j but fat there all Weathers that blew ; when our Supper was ferved us , the they gave us here for dinner a fm-\ll Houfe was befet all round with a ftrong bit of Pork^, with Bread and Beverage: Guard. As foon as we had Uin'd, we march- ed out , and being counted out , as was their ufual manner , they Sunday 15. About Six in the Morn- mift two of the number , which ing we fat forth out of this place, the were the Two that got away ; they Morning Rainy , with all the Guard counted us over at leaft iix times , that guarded us laft Night, which were but when they found that two about Fifteen in number , befides our Men were gone , the Provoft , with ufual Guard , which were about Four- the rcfi: of them , was in a defpe- teen Horfe and Foot •, we marched rate Rage , fwearing by all their Three Leagues , to a Town called Cr- eeds , that they would travel us pjU^ and all was very foul; when we to death ; and when we could march came to Capijla, which is a fine Walled no longer , they fwore they would Town , we walked almofl: round the {hoot us , and let us lye dead on the Town before they could hnd an empty Road : But ahs ! all their fwearing Stable big enough to hold us i at laft at us was but to fmall effed ; for they found a Stable that held us all , although many of our people faw and would have held as many more , them when they went , yet no Man if there had been fo many more of would fay any thing of it to them , us ; Here they gave us our Dinner , for tear left they might be clofely which was a piece of Bread worth Six purfued , and fo taken -, and if they Veniers , and about half an ounce of should be taken agaui by any of thefe Fat Fork,, with a Cup of Beverage per Rogues , it were better for them they Man. Dinner was no fooner ended , had never been born. Away we but away we marched ; We had been marched one League , to a lone on the Road not much above an hour Houfe, by the which was a clofe before it began to Thunder, Lighten, «lace , wherein they ufed to keep and Rain , as if Heaven and Earth Slieep , into this place were we drove, would have met ^ along we marched iick and well, all together ■-> when we through thick and thin for the fpace of C^3 ) of three hours in this fad Weather: faid : With oiu Bread and Meat , and f the Water running out of the Knees each Man a Cup of .prick'd Wine, of our Breeches) until we came to a we made our Supper ; that done, fine fenced Town on the top a Hill , we lay all down to llcep on the wet called Befias^ Three Leagues diliant from ground. Capijh: When we came near the Town, we that were before ftayed for thofe behind, which were quite found red 5 MmJay 16. The Morning, and all thus in this wet condition we ibyed the rcfl of the Day being Rainy , in the Road near half an hour in the wa continued (lill in this Stable ; a- Ptain , until that they were come up bout Ten in the Morning tr.ey gave to us : That done, we entered the us fome dry Straw , when we had Town, and were put, as near as I can little need of it , our Cloaths bc- iudge , into the Town-Hall ; here we ing almoft dry on our backs by the rtaid near Two Hours in this wet heat of our bodies ; in this Stable- condition , as thick and clofe one by fome of our Men found out a door: another as we could well ftand 5 at that entered into a Wine-Cellar , in laft we were carried out of this place which was a Butt of fpecial itrong through the Rain , the Spouts of the Wine , into which Cellar a little Houfes running, or rather pouring on French -Boy and ethers got in, and our Heads for the fpace of half a Mile, handed out to the Men all their Pots and in this wet condition were we and Jars full of this good Wine ^ drove into a large cold Stable, where which did fo heat and comfort ma-^ we had nothing to lye down on ny of them , that they foon forgot but the cold Ground , and the wet forrow. In fine , before it was dif^ Horfe-Dung, our Cloaths being as wet covered, we had drank out the beft on our backs, as if we had been part of the Wine. Our Dinner was plunged in a River, and could not get to Day, a.fmall Loaf per Man , and one rag off our backs , becaufe of about a mouthful of boiled Guts, and', our Irons. For Supper we had a Lights, and Liver, and half a pint- fmall Loaf of Bread, with about half of fowre Winev for Supper a Loaf and a mouthful of Meat; the quantity of Wine : This day died a Man named the Meat , I am fure , was not fuffi- Francis Evans a Carpenter, cient to give a JacJ^Vavp a meal , and that which was of it was moft part Bullocks-Liver and Lights. The Wo- Tnefday \j. About ic, this Moiningv man that brought it in to us, brought we came out of the Stable into an open-^ it in a Earthen-pan under her Arm, place, and being all roped together, we covered with another Earthen Pan 5 in our ufual manner were ferved- ac- (o that any one may judge whether cordingiy, which v/as Bread and Be=- Meat for Two Hundred Men could verage. Twenty five of our Sick-Mfn.. well be carried in the nature afore- we left here in their Hofpital, and yet C*4) we had at Itaft Twenty Five or Thirty more that were lick and weak. We marched from this place Four Leagu.s, to a Town cali'd Pczeain^ a very Hne waird Town, llandmg in a very hne level place, and well Muated round, into this Town we entred , and were put ■ into a very large Stable , well littered with Straw. For Supper, we had our ufual Allowance of Bread , and Pork , and Beverage ; fo here we had a very good Nights- Lodging. Wedncfljy i8. We being roped to- gether, and counted, as was their ufu- al manner , we marched four Leagues, to a Town call'd Vijhean , wliere we went into a Stable, and had for our -Dinner Bread and Beverage, with a Jittle bit of Pork, of about an ounce weight. From thence we marched three Leagues, to a Town called Tmian ^ where we took up our Lodging in a_ Stable •, our Supper was Bread and leverage : So we flept in the Stable on wet Horfe-Dung. In the middle cf the Night it began to rain ve- ly faft, the Stable not being well covered , the rain came down upon us , and almoft floated us : Thus, and •iiich like, was our Lodging in this Coun- trcy. I'hr.rfday ^ ip. The Weather being iftill rainy , we continued fiill in -this Stable all this day: We had fe- •verai Prie(b and Gentry came to oaze on us ^ who gave us no comfo-rt, tut derided us., our King and R.eliglon : Telling us withaH , that King James had routed General Schomberg in Ireland^ and moreover, that next Summer , England alfo was to be theirs. They faid al(b to us , "Your condition is here very bad, " but if you were in England , your " ca(e would be far worfe ; for "fays they, There is at prefent a "very fore Famine, and no Bread ^ '*^ hardly to be had for any Mo- " ney. By this I did conjedure, that they had in their Countrey a Lying- Oracle, and that Truth to them was a great Stranger. W^e were obliged to give them the hearing of all their Stories, although we did not believe one word they laid. They gave us here for Dinner a piece of Bread , and a fra ill bit of Mutton , with Beverage 5 but fo fmall was the quiutity of Mut- ton, that one Man might very well have eaten twenty Mens Ihares : So that of that little they gave, bread was nine parts in ten of our Provilion: Tlie relt was not worth the naming; our Bev.rage was fometimes pretty good in thofe places where they could get no bad Wine , but many times it was worfe than Water. For Supper they gave us Bread and Beverage ; and the Water they boild their Ru- fty-Pork in, under the Name ot Bon- Supper : This was our Fare ; fo here we flept this Night alfo , in the fame Stable , on the Wet-Hoi(e- Dung. Friday^ ( 25 ) Vriday 20. Early in the Morning the fick Men were put into two Carts, and the reft of us being roped together and counted, began to march, wading through feveral Rivers, whofe Depth took us up to the Belly, the Stream running fo fwift with the Frefhes of the lait great Rain, that it was like to overfet our weak Bodies : but our being forty or fifty m a Rope, the one held up the other. As we paft along by the Road lidc we had leave to enter into the Vineyards and gather Grapes, which we did plenti- fully. Many Vineyards in this Country lie as open to the Road, as many Commons do in England or elfewhere. We marched about four Leagues before we came to Mom- fellicr^ which is as fine a wall'd Town, and as curioufly fituated as ever I beheld a Town in my Life, the bignefs of the City I do verily belive to be about the bignefs of the City of Briftol ■•, but about it is a far more pleafant Landskip, having about it feveral curious Champion Hills, and fine Vine- yards and Olive-yards, and about four or five Mile to the Southward of the Town is the fair Mediterranean Ocean, viz, the Bay of Langnedock: When wc came near the Town, we were put into a very large Siable, without the Walls of the Town. This Country is the beft fitted with large Stables of all the places that ever I was in in all Chriftendom, which have been many. Here it is counted a very fmall Sta- ble that will not hold two Troops of Horfe. And as for their Building, they are built wich very much cort and charge '■> moft of them are built ot hewn Stone, all arched over head moit neatly. In this Stable vvhith we were all put in, I took efpecial notice of one thing that is jull at every Horfes place all round tht Stable : upon the Wall was writ the Name of one Saint or other ; what might be the humour of it I cannot guefs: but this 1 am certain muft be the end of the defign, either for the Horfes to worfhip, or elfe the Ofller i the Letters were large Capitals. They gave us here for Dinner our ufual Quantity of Pork with Bread, and Beverage i that done, away we march'd two Leagues farther, to a fmall Village called CoUtmbeas^ where we were put into two Stablest our Supper was Bread and Beverage ; and our Lodging en wet Horfe-dung. Saturday 2 1 . It being a very dreadful Night all tiie laft Night for Thunder, Light- ning and Rain, and continued until about eleven this Morning, about which time it began to clear up : fo here we had our Din- ner, which was a bit of fat Pork of about three quarters of an Ounce Weight, and a piece of Bread, and a Cup of Beverage : that done, we were roped together and counted, and away we marched four Leagues to a Town called Imergos ^ here we were put into a loathfom place where they ufed to keep Sheep hi : our Lodging was on the Sheeps Dung, having no Straw at all : fome of us got the Hurdles to lie on, fuch as they fold Sheep with, but the moft part lay on the ground : It would grieve the Heart of a Stone to hear the Groans all Night of our lick and dying Men which lay in this fad Condition. Our Supper was a piece of Bread, and a Cup of Beverage, which was far worfe than Water : fo here we lay until the break of Day. Sunday 12. We were rouzed very earlv this Morning out of our Itinking Den, and bfing counted like fo many Sheep, w'e were roped together, not without many Drubs, for thofe we had daily and hourly : ih q,way we marched for Cicile. The People of I- mergcs told our Guards that m.uch of the Country was overflown that we were to j pa6 through to day, and therefore advifed I them to get Carts to carry us over the deep- | eft of the Flouds. According to their advice they got two Carts, which when they came to a fmall place not above Knee-deep, they D carried ( 26 earriedus over in the Carts, and To difmifi the Carts ; And wichin lefs than Piflol (hot of this place, was a Place twice as deep, and ten times the length i over this they made us to wade, which took us up to the middle, and with the flrength of the Stream was like to have carried us off the Ground, but that we were roped together in great quantities, (o we held up one ano- ther •, thus were wc all tantalized with their Carts, making us to wade all the deep Places we came at this d.iy. About two in the Afternoon we came to the Towii of Cic'tle^ being four Leagues diftant from Imergos ^ in which Town we were all put into a Stable, where they gave us for Din- ner, Bread and Beverage, fo we all conti- nued here until Night •, for Supper they gave us Mutton and Broth, but fo fmall a quantity was tlie Mutton, that orx Man might eafily have eat as much as twenty Men had \ the Broth they lerved in fucli a manner, that he that had not a Cup or Difh of his ov/n, was forc'd to take his Broth in his Hat or Cap \ by this m.eans one of our Men got fcalded mofi fadly : At Night the People brought us Straw to lie Oii, lo here we got a good Nights Lodging. Mcnd&y 23. In the Morning, about fix a: Clock, we made ready to march (being {oondrefs'd) to a City called Arlaa, four Leagues diftance ; We paft moftof this day through Fenny Land, that w-as all grown ever with Tamarafs, and by a R.iver fide : Before we came to Arlca^ we crofs'd 0- vcr this River in a Ferry-boat, at three fe- veral times, Sick and Well : On this fide cf the River they difcharged the Carts •which could not pafs over Lo the Ferry- boats J we that were well, march'd about a Mile to the Town, but thofe that were fick lay on the Ground until fuch time as they had got Carts to bring them to the Town. Before we entered the City of ArlaA^ we pafe'd ever a Bridge made ) with Boats, and fo mored in the River, Head and Steam, over which pafs'd all their Carriage, fuch as Carts, &c. This Town of Arla^ is a very fine Town ^ and dofe by the W^alls runs the River, and in the River is much Craft, fuch as Settees and Tartans, &e. This River is that which divides Langutdock^ from Vro- vence. When we had paft alraoft through; the Town, at the Eaflermofi end, they put us into a Stable, and gave us Brer^d ai^d Beverage for Dinner ^ feveral of our Men that had no Money, being almofi; fiarved with their fad Allowance, did proteft joint- ly, that they would not m.arch out of this Stable, unlefs they would give them more Viduals ^ and if their Law would bear them out to kill them that were their Pri- foners of War, they were willing rather to die by the Sword, than to be llarved and travelled to death. They hearing our Kt- folution, gave us our Supper here j which was pretty confiderable, a Soufe Loaf, and about an ounce and half of Perk, with Be- verage, which was large Allowance to what they uied to give us : So here we lay all Night, being well guarded by the Town Guards, who were iudiffereiit civil to us, admitting us to go forth to ea(e our felves i which we took as a great kind- nefs, being mod an end denied that fm.all Priviledg, but made us eafe our felves where we lay. TuefJay 24. Early in the morning we marched out of the Town of Arlaa-i the way was level, but extream fiony. Juft as we parted witiv the Town, we pafTed through a Bur\ing-place, where we law hundreds of Toiiibs hewn out of folid Stones of a vart breadth and length, mofi: of them betvyeen 8 and 9 foot long, co- vered with a Srone of a vali weight : The People of this place did tell us, that, this Town was anciently the Seat of their Kings ■> and by the infinite quantity of Tombs, ( »7) Tombs, we could conj^durc no lefs : which may Hgnify that much Gentry did attend the Place, as is ufual in the Court of Kings : This is the firft Town we en- tred in Provence •, we marched 3 Leagues unto a lone Houfe, where there was no En- tertainment to be had for us, nor fcarce any thing to be had for Money : Here our grand Driver, or Provod, gave us five Soufe a Man, in a place where nothing fitting for Men was to be had i we were forced to give them their own prit^e, wliat they plea- ied to ask, for mouldy Horfe-bread, or any thing elfe that the Houfe would afford. After our Dinner was ended, we marched full five Leagues to the Town of Sealoon ; the way was extraordinary level, though very (lony \ fo that for the fpace of five Leagues, we pafl by but one or two, Hou- (ts. About (even in the Evening we en- tred the Town of Sealoon -■, our entertain- ment here was vtry bad, not for any want there was in the Place, but through the barbaroufneft of the People ', we were all put into a large Stable, Sick and Well al- together ■■) and for every thing we had, we paid double the price : When we had got what we could, we w^nt to fleep on the hot Horfe-dung, like fo many Swine, having a great Guard both within and without. JVednefday 25. Early in the Morning we made ready to march, the Sick v,'ere put in two Carts ;, many being in a manner dead, thofe they hailed out by the Legs, and by the Throats i many of them were (o weak, that they were not able to feed themfelves •, y^t thefe Wretches would not defill:, but kept drubbing them daily and hourly with tlwsir Swords, and punching them with the muzzle of their Guns. We marched three Leagues to a fingle Houfe by the Pvoad fide '-, the way very mountanous : at this fingle Houfe we fat down,and got our Dinner, which was a brown Loaf, and half a pint of Beverage. From hence we marched three Leagues>to a great Town called Anis v we were no fooner entred into the Town, but were conducted to a very large Sta- ble, the Mobile thronging about us, fcof- fing at us i we were fcarcely entred into the Stables, but feveral Stones were hove in at the Windows, one of them cut one of our Men through the Lip > here we were barbaroujly ufed ^ cur Supper was a Soufe Loaf, and about half an ounce of fait Cheefe, with a cup of Beverage Wine •> we flept here like fo many Hogs on the hot Horfe-dung. Thiirfday 16. About ten in the Morning they put the Sick into the Carts •, thofe that were not able to help themfelves, were moft miferably drubb'd, hailing them aloHg on the ground like fo many dead Dogs, to the Gaits, and there beat them in a molt dread- ful manner-, one of our Men that was thus ferved, died within an hour after he was put into the Cart : We that were well, were roped together after our ufual man- ner •, and away we marched, the People many of them hooping and fcoffing, and the Boys throwing Stones at us : The Rogues, our Guards, had given us fuch a Charadler of Fvebds, that had rebell'd a- gainlt our Righteot4^ King^ as they calPd him, that the People thought verily^ I fuppofe, that we were worfe than Devils '■, and withal told them, that we were going to the Gallies : We march'd about two Leagues and an half to a lone Houfe, where we fate down and eat Bread, thofe that had Money bought Wine, and to thole that had none, our Guardian gave a Soufe-worth of Wine between two Men -, our Bread we brought with us from Ais \ hence we marched 3 Leagues to a Town call'd Reca^ valia ••, the way was very mountainous and bad for Carts : When they came to any fteep Hill, this was their manner, they made faft all the Sick to the Carts- Arfe with Ropes^ D 2 with ( 28) with a Man following them, whipping them along, left they Ihould hang on the Cart to eafe themfelvcF. This was the Me- thod they ufed with our fick Men. About {t^iiw at Night we came into the Town of Recuv-ilia : here we were put into two Sta- bles (here in the Night our Men came a- mongll the Hen-Roofts, and got feveral Hens, &c.) They gave us for Supper a fmall Loaf, and about half an Ounce of fait Cheefe, with a Cup of Beverage. In this place they buried the Man that died that day in the Cart : they gave us in this place a little Straw to cover the wet Horfc-Dung : Thefe People that were our Guard were fb abufeful to us all Night, that we that were near them could not fleep all Night for the Noife they made of flouting and laughing at us, and calling us ill Names. Friday 27. We being roped together and counted, according to ufual manner, we marched three long Leagues to a lone Houfe by the Road fide : the way was very moun- tainous, and the faid Mountahis all over-ran with pine Trees, fo that here much Rofin is made. When we came into this lone Houfe,they gave us Bread with about half an Ounce of fat Pork, with a Cup of four Be- verage Wine. Our Men here pick'd up Sticks i and in their drinking Pots they boil'd the Poultry they got laft Night. After we had dined we marched two long Leagues to a Town called Prnjfia,whexe we lay in two Stables very well littered with Straw : they gave us for Supper a foufe Loaf and one Onion fer Man. The Towns- People were here indifferent civil to us, by admitting us every one, one after another, to go forth and eafe our bodies, which we always took as a great favour, and very (cl- dom obtained. Saturday 28. We fet out of this Town very early in the Morning, and we marched two Leagues to a Town called Olivera^ a fine large Town ■> here wc dined, our Din- ner was a Soufe Loaf and two SIrdenas a Man, with each Man a Cup of Beverage* In this Town died John V/all^ a Lad 0^ about fixteen Years of Age, whom thefe barbarous Villains had been beating not above an Hour before, for no other caufe than tliis^The poor Lad being cramb'd into the Cart amongft the reft of the fick, when the bitter Pains of Death was upon the poor Soul, he feemed to firuggleforeafe, and to get a little more room in the Cart •, this was all the occafion. Now after he was taken dead out of the Cart, for fear left he fliould not be dead, one of the beafts that guarded us, run his Sword into the Belly of him, and fo left him to be buried by the Towns-People. Dinner being ended, away vve marched for "Toloim , being about a League diftant. The Afternoon proved rainy, and the way very bad. About four in the Afternoon we came near the Town, but not fuffered to enter h we were imme- diately fent aboard of an old Man of War of theirs, which lay in the Mold, where we found about fixty EngliftiMen, which were Prifoners of War, who were taken in the Mediterranean Seas, and about twohundred Dutch : When we were got aboard, they gave us orders to knock off our Irons,which we did forthwith, and hove many of them into the Mold : The Sciivan belonging to the Ship took all our Names, and the Ships Names we were taken in, and our places of Refidence : which done, we were meft, fe- ven Men together in a Mefs j and fo for Sup- per we had Bread and good Wine, half a Pint ffr Man, which was pretty confidera- bleto what we ufed to meet with. Our fick Men, which were forty in number, were put aboard of a Fly-boat which was lafh'd aboard the other Ships : and this they called the Hofpital Ship 5 but it were more proper to call it a Slaughter-Houfe i for the poor fick Men the major part of them had no other Lodging but the bare hard Decks. Their (29) Their Food was fomething bettter, although much lefler than the well-People had, viZ' Mutton and Broth every day. The Doctors that had charge of the poor fick Men were the Chyrurgions of the Ships that they took here. Tome EngliOi and fome Dutch i. but whether it were through Ignorance or Idlenefs, or both, or for want of good Me- dicines, I am fure the Men died here ve- ry fall, fometimes two, three, or four a day out of that number aforefaid. Sunday 2 p. It fo hapned that he that was Captain of the Guard for this Day, was one of my Dear Joys : who makes an Oration about the Ship for all thofe that were Ro- man Catholicks to go aboard the Admiral with him to Mafs i, but amongfc our Crew there was but one, and that proved to be the Captains dear Country-Man, which I fpake of before at Thokfe : but amongft the Dutch there were feveral Romans. The Captain promifed great matters to his Country- Man, what he would do for him ioi his Country and Religioit fake ; but to my Knowledg he forgot to perform any thing of if. When Mafs was over, and the Men come aboard, we were fervcd our Break- fart and Dinner, all under one double A- lowance of Bread and Wine, and of Meat only one Allowance, which although it was but fmall, yet was it very confidcrable to what we ever met with yet in France i for the Bread and Wine were both very good •, and as for the Meat, it did exceed the Weight very feldom of an Ounce, or an Ounce and half, or thereabouts ; But this was the Order in the Morning, every Man had a Loaf and very near half a Pint of Wine •, at Dinner the like, and Meat too if it were Flefh-day i and fo the fame for Supper, Bread and Wine, and either Beans Peafe, Rife, or Callavanfis ; and thofe days that were Fi(h-days, becaufe of the Scarcity of Fifh, they gave us either Beans, Peafe, or Callavaniis, inftcad thereof. Our Diet was very \vt\\ amended, but our Lodging was on the bare Decks : But as for thofe Prifoners of Englifh and Dutch that were here before, they had all Hammocks and Ruggs to lie on. The Dutch here feeing of us very poor in Habit, and weak in body, began to infuk over u^^ m pretending we fhould flay till they were ferved their Vidu- als every day, before we were ferved : but as foon as we difcovered their Ambition, we fell to work with them, and for all they thought to have been too flrong for us, yet were they deceived, for we foon put thiem to the Rout, and made them take turns to be ferved, one firrt one Day, and the other the other Day. The Irifli Captain would very often make an Oration fo us, requiring of us to be loving and khid one to the other : and as we were Fellow- Prifoners to bequiet together j but it was foon ordered by the lntendant,that there /hould be another Ship brought alongft this Ship-fide for the Englifli-Men to be in by themfelves i for while the Englifh and the Dutch were toge- ther, the Dutch would neither pump the Ship which was very leaky, nor go in the Boat to fetch Water,or any thii]g elfe aboard; fuch was their Piide, that tho I had ever much Charity for the Dutch before, yetl- wasforry to fee them fo arrogant. But that day^at the Ship was to be mored by the other, which was the the third day of 0^<7- ber^ there came an Exprcfs from Parisy that all the Englifh Prifoners fhould be car- ried back into Weji-France, in order (as theyfaidj to be exchanged. But in the mean time they took thefe Methods to keep our Men at work , that fifty every day they fent aboard of a Fly-boat Man of War, much like the K'wg-Fijher^ there they ferved and fitted f^anding Rigging for their Ships , but as for wages they had none : Others they fent afliore to the Rope- walk, to lay Cables to them ; for their days work they were paid four Souce a day : Another (30 Another Gang was fent aboard of a Mcr- ehant's Ship belonging to fbme of the Grandees of the Place, to heave out her great Stone Ballad:, and make her tit to Careen : Their Wages was three Soufc and a half a day. Another Gang of Carpen- ters were drawn out to go to Calk this Ship's iide ; to tliem they gave fe- venSoufe a day. Thus Neceility forced us to do that, flirevvdly againft our wills. In this place of Toptloiw, Sea-men were fo fcarcc, that by the Report of the People, there were not Twenty in the place ; as for my part, I never faw ten whillt I was there. Their own Carpen- ters were now fitting out ten Sail of Ships to be ready to come down into Wefi- Trance next Spring, and ten Sail is the moft that is here left, which will be any way fit for the Sea. The Ad- miral is a curious fine Ship to look to, but (he is broken-back'd, and not fit for the Seai thofe Ships that are capa- ble of coming to Sea, are Ships of good Force, from Fifty to Seventy Guns. ) We heard, whilft we were here^ that the French had lately forced many of the Dutch Prifoners of War to go to Sea in- the Crufers, by heaving them off their Gunnil into the Boat., if they did not go themfelves into the Boat : And fmce, the Ships which had thefe Meji in them are taken, many of them into jilgier^ and are now made Slaves j which Adion is contrary to the Law of God and Nature, The Weather being very bad as yet, - we could not begin our Journey until the tenth day of Ottober-, in the mean time we buried many of oui (Men, and yet many more left Sick. We Iieard, after our depar- ture, that they lent all our Men, both Sick and welJ, to the Hofpitals, to ftrengthen and refrefh them, led: there ftiould be none left to travel back, which was very true, as 1 heard it repor- ted by many of the Men when they came ■ back to Rochfort : There were two hundred more that came here, ten days after our departure. From < SI ) From Toulon to Rochfort. OMer, THurfday 10. About itw In the Morn- ing, the Weather being fair, all the Bjiglilh that were able to march,were com- manded on Shore : So entring the Town, we were brought to one of the French King's MagaiineSj where we were all cal- led over by Name : In the interim^ in comes the Intendant, and makes an Oration to us, which was Engliftied thus i Swearing by all his Gods, that we were clear Men, only we were to travel to Rochfort^ and from thence to Sr. Malo, where we were to be exchanged. We dcfired him, ( by the way of an Interpreter ) that fmce his Excellency was pleafed to fay we were clear Men, that we might travel back with- out being afilided with Ropes and Irons, which we faw lay ready for us, and about fix couple were already ironed i we pro- mifcd upon our Faith, that we would march quietly through the Country, without running away : He granted our Pvequeil, ailed ging, we were clear Men. Asfoon as we came into V/tft-France^ we all gave great credit to his words, not doubting but that a Man of his Rank and Dignity would (corn to tell us ( who were at prefent his Priiunei?, and lay at his Mer- cy, to do with us as he pleafed) Lies: But we after found his Words to- be like the I'eft of his lying Country-men, ( who arc the greateft Liars upmi Earth ) j I ne- ver heard Word or Promife made by any of them, (ince I have been in the Coun- try, that proved to be true, except it were when they promifed to plague us. The Intendant ordered to thofe that were al- moft naked ( that were many ) to have Canvafe Jackets, and to feme Shirts, and the major part new Shoes. After thefe things were ferved, away we marched, having for our Guard, four of the Guarda-Marine, ( who wears a Belt em- broidered with Gold and Silver, the Flower-de-Luce, and the Crofs Anchors and Cables^ which is their Commiflion") belides the Provolt and two Foot Soul- diers. When we came to the outer Gates of the Town, we ftopt about two hours, waiting for more Company, which were the Men that were taken in the Mediter- ranean Seas, belonging to Capt. Willhonm and Capt. Blake-) their Number was a- bout iixty : So now we werejiear two hundred of us. About three in the After- noon we went out of Toalon-i we mar- ched three long Leagues to a Town call'd Pntjfia 'j it was very near eight at Night be- fore we came into this Town i yet we marched along briskly, although the'Road was hilly and liony, we v.'ere in hopes the Intendant's words would prove true r our Guards were fomewhat civiller than they were before •, neither was there fuch ftrifl Orders given to thofe that guarded us by Night as before, for we were now admit- ted to go forth at any hour of the Night to eafe our felves, if it was required : They gave us here for our Supper each Man a fmall Loaf of fix Denires,, and a cup of Wine 3j C 32 ) Wine \ (o here we flept very well, the Sta- ble being indifferently well littered. Friday 1 1 . About feveii a Clock in the Morning we came out of the Stables, eve- ry Alan receiving a Loaf of llx Denires, ( whicli is half a Peny Englifh ) ; the place we were to dine at this day, being a lone Houfe, where Bread was not to be had for fuch a Company of Men : Three Leagues we marched to this lone Houfe, tlic way very Mountainous •, when we came there, they gave each Man a cup of four Wine, and that with our fraall Loaf we brought with us, we made up our Dinner : After this we marched three large Leagues to a Town called Kacavalia '■> after about an hours flop in the Streets, we were put into two Stables : For our Suppers, they gave each Man a Soufe Loaf, and a difh of Pork- broth : now when they came to ferve us the Meat we expeded, they gave not one Man in ten any h it was my chance to get abitfo fmall, that I could have put twice as much into my Mouth at once : and as for our Drink, it was down-right Vinegar, that no Man was able to drink it: Al- though good Wine was fo plentiful here, and fo cheap, that it was not worth above one Crown the Hogfliead by whole-fale : The Vinegar they gave us, we fet it out at the Door, and drank Water, a Brook- running juft at the Stable-door : We bore all this with patience, hoping once, if it pleafed God, to get out of thefe Rogues hands h fo we went to flcep quietly in thefe Stables. Saturday 12. Early in the Morning we came out of thefe Stables v every Man re- ceived a fix Denire Loaf as he pali, for we were to dine to day at a fingle Houfe : Seve- ral of our Men that were toundred in their Feet got AlTes, fome upon their own cofl, znd fome upon their charge that guarded : fo away we marched two I^eagues to this lone Houfe ^ there with our Bread and a Cup of Beverage we made our Dinner, which was very little for poor Men to travel with fo far as twenty and twenty four Miles a day, and many times more : We faw mofl part of this Morning the ^Ips^ that divide Italy from France very plain, bearing about Ealt North Eart, and North Eaft from us : From hence we marched three Leagues to the City of An^ the way very moun- tainous, but the Mountains were all over- ran with fweet Herbs, fuch as Thyme, La- vender, Rofemary, Mirtles, and the Hedges cf Pomgianates, which caft a very fweet Odour. When we came near the City, we were put into a large Stable without the Walls: This An is a very fine fcituated Place, and the City laid out in excellent order, being built in a level place, and cir- cumdated with Hills all round: they gave us here for our Supper a fmall Loaf of Bread, and about half an ©uncc of fait Checfc, and to each Man was meafured half a pint of good Wine, for no bad Wine here was to be got, or el(e to be fure we had had it. After we had fupp'd, we laid us down to fleep on the Ground, but many of us got fome Hay and fome Straw : we had here, as at other places, a Guard of the Towns-People that watch'd over us all Night. Sunday 13, This Morning our Guards went all to Mafs, and by that means we were all kept in until eleven of the Clock, at which time they gave us our Dinner of Bread and Wine. When our Dinner was ended, away we marched five long Leagues to a Town called Sealoon. The Afternoon proved rainy, and the Road very foul. Before we got into Town it was eight at Night. Mofl part of us being wet through thofefew Rags r n ) ^Rags we had. This Town is a very fine wall'd Town, fckuated at the bottom of the Provencial Hills, having on the South, Weft and North part of the Town a great Plain near thirty Miles long, which in comparifon ^ 'of Land, is as level as the Sea , yetnot- • withftanding tlie Land is very ibny and full of large peble Stones, much like a Beach,and by that means very barren : yet fweet Herbs grow wild upon it, fuch as Thime and Lavender ^ and in the Plain fome Wood of the ever- living Oak. We were here put all into one Stable, where they gave us for Supper Bread and Winei and the Stable was very well littered^ with Straw i fo we flept very fweetly all Night, having a great Guard about us. Monday 14. Early this Morning we came out of this 'Stable, every Man received a fix Denier Loaf as he pafs'd, becaufe we were to dine at a fingle Houfe upon the Plain: We marched five Leagues over this Plain, before we came to this lone Houfe, at the end of which they gave each Man a Cup of Wine and Water to our Bread. When Dinner was ended, away we marched three Leagues farther, to the City of ArUa. Before we entred thisTown,we heard that there were in the Town two hundred of Englifli and Dutch Prifoners of War, onward of their March Tor Toulon. This News ftruck ma- ny of us into a damp,thinking that this was not the way to be exchanged. When we came into Town, we were all cramb'd into a Stable, where we lay defperate thick, one almoft upon the other. One of our Men got leave of the Guards to go where thefe other Prifoners were, to fpeak to them ■> who when he came there, he faw feveral of our fick Men which we left upon the Road, which were re- covered? they were all in the fame drefs as We wei'e in, as we went for To viz.. m Irons, two and two together • They alfo reported, that they were far worfe pinch'd for Victuals than we were : and as for their fick Men, they were worfe ferved ; for when their weak- nefs was (o great that they could not fit upon ^n Horfe, or Afs, then were they thrown thwart a Horfe's back, like a Calf, with their Heads downwards, un- til fuch cime that they died. Our Sup- per here was a fix Denier Loaf, and a Cup of Beverage a Man. So here we flept upon the Horfe-dung, for want of Li'ter ■■) for except it were the Charity of the People to give it to us, we very feldom had any. Tuefday 15. About ten in the Morning we faw the Englifli and the Dutch Prifoners which lay in this Town laft Night pafs by here : So we fpoke to feveral of them which were of our Company which we left fick upon the Road, they march'd near the manner as we did formerly, as we were going upward towards Tonlon : VVe remained in this Town until two in the Afternoon *> at which time they gave us our Dinner, which was a fmall Loaf of Bread, and an Onion, with a Cup of Beverage a Man. This place of ylrlna is a very fine fenced Town, fianding on level Ground > and in it are verv ftately Buildings. On the Eafi fide of the Town is a molt famous Aquaducft, which fiands up- on abundance of Arches •, and for the length of it, I fuppofe it may be near a Mile. At this time the Land about the Town was much, overflown with the Frcfhes that came lately down out of the Hill-Country s fo that in the green Fields that were, as we pafi: by here before, we faw many Boats and Nets fet to catch Fi(h, E for for the Water was confwlefabk deep •, and lies, befide, the l\rcngth of the Floods had car- ded away the Town-bridg that was built upon Boats, as 1 (aid betore j now the Land being thus drowned, we were forc'd to march round the drowned Land, ( oin lick Men came after us by Water in a Boat ) vipon a very fine Caufey, which was made on purpofe : for it fecms thefe Floods are i-iot unufual, but common, once a Year in the time of Rain. We marched three Leagues to a fine Town called Jirrafcoon •, there we croft the River in two Ferry - Boats, toaTownoppofite, call'd Boucaroy in the Province of Lan^nedock^s for this Pviver, as I have (aid before, divides Pro- vence from Languedock: This Boucaro is a very large Town ', when we were cntred into it, we were conduced to a great Sta- ble, which was both wet and nafty : Our Supper was a fmall Loaf of Bread, with a Cup of Beverage •, and as we were ferving, in comes our Sick and Lame People to take part of our hard Night's Lodgiiog : the Ground was fo wet and cold, that we were forc'd to walk up and down the molt part of the Night, to keep our fclv£S warm, the Weather being very cold. Wednefday l6. About Eleven in the Morning we had our Dinner ferved us, which was a Loaf of Bread worth iix Denires, and one Oni- on betwixt four Men, with a Cup of Beverage h which, as foonas wc had cat and drank, away we march'd. Jufl as we came without the Town, we met about twelve M««,who were pinioned and bound together, going towards BoueAre^ with a Guard with them. We asked the Peo- ple of the phce, what their Fault was that thty fhould be thus led ? They made us anfwer, that they were. HHgonots^ or Gdvtrjjis^ 2nd were going for the GaU This Report made my Heart to ake, to fee fo many good-look'd Men to be thus treated, ( by a curfed Tyrant of Hellj for their acknowledging and profc^ fmg the Dodrine of Jefus Chrift. We marched four Leagues to a fine compadt fenced Town called Nimes in LiitigtiC'. dock. When we came near the Town, I went, with three more of my Conforts, to a Tavern ju(t by, to buy a little Wine : When we came to the Door, the good Man of the Houfe asked us of what Nation wc were? we told him, Of the.Englifli, (by one of our Companions that fpoke vejy good French, he being, a G uernfey-'Mzn ) j away went the good Man of the Houie, and fetch'd a Pitcher of pure good Wine, and four clean GlafTes ^ he gave to each Man a Glals full of Wine, which we drank up •> he filled the Glaffes again, fo we drank each Man his {ccond \ the Glaffes be- ing large, and the Wine very ftrong, wc were afraid to venture upon the other Glafs I We asked the good Man, what w* were to pay ? he anfwered us. Nothing i but asked, if we would drink any more ? we gave him hearty thanks, and aufwcred. No : He again asked, if we were of the Religion of the Church of England ? we told him. Yes. With that he took us by tJie Hands, and fquceied our Hands, and defired God to be with us : we admired at the Humour of this Man, not expeding a- ny fuch kind of People here. As we were returning to the reft of our Companions^ we met with a poor Woman, ( by hef Drefs we could imagine no lefs ) (he had. a fine white Cake of Bread in her Apron j (he held it out to me, I imagined it had been for me to buy it h but fhe bad me break and eat, which I did i fo ftie handed it amongft the reft of our Company, un- til it was all gone : I durft to have fworn, that by my firft figlit of this Wo- man, that flie had been more apter to ask ( J5) ask tlian to relieve. Before we went in- where we to the Stable, a very brisk young Man came up to me, who had lived in Eng- land a confiderable time, and fpoke Eng- lifh very proper i he asked many Que- ftions concerning our Affairs in England^ for it fcems here the current News is, that Schonherg is routed in Ireland, and that the French had defeated our Fleet at Sea. I told him, they had in their Country a damnable lying Oracle ^ and> that: Knaves they froje5l^ and Fools be- lieve i but I faid, it he had Faith to be- lieve what I (hould fay, I raufl, to tell you the truth, tell you quite contrary i for in the firft place, Schonberghdxh. advanced at a great rate in Ireland: And as for your Fleet, they durft not (hew their Heads at Sea. I alio told him, that it was true, the French Fleet wfte out laft Summer, but flaid but a very little while out, and prefently ran into their Har- bours again, I alfo told him how our Englifh Fleet lay againft Brefi^ and fent them in a Defiance. The Man was much taken with my Difcourfe, but time would not admit of it, for we were drove in- to the Stables immediately : but before he and I parted, I asked of him what kind of People the People of this place were> he told, that not long fince the -^ of the People were Calvmjis i and fo they were ftill, although they were forc'd to appear otherwife \ and that you will find, fays he, if you flay here but un- til to morrow about eight of the Clock, as foon as People can have notice of you \ for as yet we did not enter the Town, neither was it defigned that we fhould. When this Man and I parted, he promifed to fee me the next Morning •, but, alas, he was prevented, for we march'd a- w^ay hence by that time it was well light, wc were here put into a Stable, were paid off with a great Supper that they had long promifed i for our Supper was about a Mouth-full of boild Gut , or a piece of Liver or Lights, with a Loaf worth no more but three Denircsi the People of the place report, that the old Woman which ferved us our Meat, brought it all in a Difh under her Arm, covered with ano- ther Difh ^ fo that it is eafy to judg how much one Man mu(\ have, when we were to have no more > each Man had a Cup of Wine: Alfo the Supper being fboii ended, wt went to fleep, the Stable be- ing very well littered : the Governor of the Town, jufl as we were going to fleep, fent his own Guards to guard us i and very fufpitious they were, what-evet their Humour was I cannot tell, of our fct- ting the Houfe on fire. thftrfday 17. Very early this Morning, before fcarcc any of the Inhabitants were llirring, we be- gan to march: many of our People got Relief by thofe People that were up, which were generally the poorer fort : Away wc march'd four long Leagues to a Town called Lm and by reafon that no body came near us, we found out the place where the Straw lay, we took what we thought hf, and made our Lodging v^ry good : this made well on our fid^s. Sunday 20. Early in the Morning we put our jfick and lame into two Carts, each Man receiving a fix Denier Loaf as we came out. We marched one League and half to a very (57) fmall Village 5 there we fat down and dined. Im ^w^ ^^^^ ^^'^ Man a. Cup of new thick Wine, and that with our Bread made up our Dinner ; fo away we marched two Leagues and a half farther, to the Town J^ejia^: both this days Journey , and that ydierday, the Land was moil curiouily^i^ ^Tu'r^'^ Vineyards and OJive-yards, and belides moft of this Province is fo like- wife When we came into the Town, we law fcVeral of our iick Men which We Mf here behind us, that were fomewhat reco- vered i they were quartered in private Houfes, yet kept fo clofe, that what they ipake to us was out of the Windows : We asked the reafon why they were put out of the Hofpitalsi they told us becaufe fo^ 1 many of their own People, both (ick and wounded came into the Town, who came iiom the Gamp againft the Spaniards, that they filled the Hofpitals and more Places belides,; they told us of the Defeat the bpanlards had given them, killing theii¥^> I Soo Hoife one Morning, befides Foot. • liiis 1 heard to be verihed by one that' was m the Fight, which I (hall make men> tion of m its place. They told us alio tnat the SpaniOi Army was advanced wuhin four Leagues of that Place- and tliat the Spanith Army did conlid of eighty Thoufand Men Horfe and Foot and that of the French fixty Thoufand: And moreover they told us, of thofc Men we left here, three were dead,, and two more lay a dying, and the reft that were recovered were carried to Ton- Ion m the Jaft Company that part this way. We paft quite through the Town towards the outfide ; there we were put into a Stable where we were moft inro^ lerably throng'd for want of room, yet was there no fuch Guard over us as \\\ fome of the other Towns, tlie People here being more humane,, and better. (38) knows the Fortune of War: Our Supper here was very inconfiderable > for unlets it were Bread, fome got nothing at all j them that had any more, it was about an Ounce of Liver or Lights, and a Cup of four Wine 5 fo we lay moft defperately throng'd, not having any room many of us to lye down. Monday 11, About feven in the Morning we came out of the Town of Bepas^ taking along with us three lick Men of ours, which were fomething recovered : Away we marched two Leagues to a fine fenced Town called Capifla^ in which Town we dined j our Dinner was a fix Denier Loaf, and about half an Ounce of fad choaky Cheefe, with a Cup of Beverage a Man. When Din- ner was ended, away we marched four Leagues and a half to an Inn by the Road fide near the Town of lnzola. In cur way we both crofTed and marched a- long the Banks of the cut River. In our way we faw a number of Women at work, in banking and repairing the Slufes of the River ; The Women feeing fo ma- ny Men p^fs by, began to gaze at us, but immediately comes their Overfeer, and drives them to work with a Blow over the back. Thus are the People of this Coun- try plagued by their King who Tarqttin- like ftudies Torments , for the Men Gal- lies, and for the Women the new River: fo that he comes but little fhort of a Plague to all Mankind within his Verge: About eight at Night we came into our Lodging, where we found our Stables well littered with Straw, but I fuppofe it was not done for us, but for the Souldiers which part by here lately, for the Straw was very lou7y. Our Supper was a fmall Loaf of fix De- niers price, and about half an Ounce of Cheefe, like the former, and a Cup of fad Beverage ; With this and fuch like was our Fare, very feidom exceeding the price of two pence half penny a day. ^inefday 22. Before it was day we began our March, every Man receiving a half penny Loaf, as he paft out of the Stables: away we march- ed three Leagues to a Town called Tor fa- ricks' we no fooncr entred the Town, but we were conduced into a large Stable i where with our Loaf that was given us in the Morning, and half an Ounce of Cheefe, and a Cup of Beverage, we made up our Dinner. Our Men this Afternoon began to be difturbed at their fhort Feeding ^ they did pr oteft to the Guards that ferved us, they would go no farther, neither were they able^ except they gave us more Food. The Guards go and tell the Provoft that the Prifoners would not march without more Viduals : Prefently in comes the Provoft with fome of the rert, with Swords drawn, and Piftols cock'd, fwearing he would be the Death of that Man that did but refufc to march : up ftands two Men and deiired to be heard by the way of an Interpreter : he feeing two Men fpcak, he immediately cuts one of them over the Head, and the other he takes away and commanded to be pinion'd. So in fine both of them were pinioned and made faft to the Carts Arfe : and after this he began to difplay his Sword over the back of all near him : I my felf was one of the two that was made faft to the Carts Arfe, and Henry Robinfon the o- ther, he had his fead cfut : and I was made faft with my back towards the Cart, (b clofe, that I could not turn my Face, but was forc'd to follow the Cart backwards % and with the fudden fall of the Cart into Holes, I thought verily with the Jerks, it would would at Ofice have broken both my Arms and Back : Moreover my Arms were pini- oned fo ftraight, that my Veins in my Hand were ready to burll: : for the fpace of a League was I forced to walk backwards until we came to a fmall Town called Mar- cheletto : When we came to the Town they loofed both me and the other Man •, fo we were all put into a Stable, fick and well to- gether i and for our Supper they gave us about an Ounce and half of brown Bread, and that was the moft of it, with a Cup of Beverage ^ and they pretended they could get no more i but this was all great Lies, for when they cam.e to never fo plentiful a place, it did not much differ. In this Sta- ble was a door that opened into a Wine- Cellar, which our Men found a way to open") and fo went in and filled all their Pots and Jars, and had they not been difeo- vcred by chance, by a. Woman that came and catch'd a Man at it, without doubt they had made, dear work, Wednefday 23.. Before the Sun rifing we began our March : our fick and lame were put into two Carts •, but to thofe that were the moft hclplefSjthe Bcafts would lay them on ftoutly in their getting up into the Cart. From hence we marched two Leagues to a Town called Tr^vi^^ in which Town we were put into a Stable, where we were ferved our Dinner, a fmall Loaf, and about half an Ounce of Cheefe like the former, with a Cup of mufty Beverage, far worfe than Water. From hence we marched one League farther, to the Town of Carkafona : And from thence we marched two Leagues farther, to a Village called f^i/U Sanf^o^ in which Village we were put into a. molt loathfom ftinking Stable: Our Supper was a Piece of Bread and one Onion a Man, ai^ a Cup, of fad Beverage : (0 here, we . 19 ) flept like fo many Hogs in this ftinking place. At Night we were (hut up fo clofe, that not one Man could go out to eafe him- felf, whatfoever Neceflity he had : this Pri- viledg we were not denied ever fince we came from Tohlon until now : I fuppofe it was out of Revenge for yelierdays work at Forfaricky in denying to march. Thtrfday 24, About Eight this Morning we bcgair our march, according to our ufual man- ner, without Eating or Drinking. Our Sick were put into two Carts, many of them now almolt famifhcd with Hun- ger. Away we marched towards FHU Pi5ia^ two Leagues diftant: Upon the Road we met with a Flock of Sheep j and fo our Men managed their Bulinefs, , that they fingled one Sheep from the refi, and hove a Rug upoii him, and carried him away undifcovered, both from the Shepherd and our Guards. In our way alfo we met feveral fine Troops of Horfe going towards Beajias. When we came into Town, we were put into a Stable i and fo well our Men managed their Mutton, that it was not difcovered, tho the Men were told in one by one. Now when they had the Sheep fafcly in, they foon kill'd it, and buried the Intrals in the Litter i and fo cut it into Qirarters, and fharcd it amongft thofe that were of the Cabal : Our Dinner here was a piece of Bread and a cup of Beverage^ S3 away we marched three Leagues farther, to a Town called CafileUdor \ when we ■ came into this Town, it was fo full' of Souldiers, that there were no quarters to bo had, fo that after we had fat down on the Ground for the fpace of an Hour in the cold, they got an order to put us into an : Hofpital without the Town : Thofe Men ^ of ouis that wcre-lkk, Jay upOH Bcd5,here, , but. I but as for the refr, they lay on the cold Stones. Our Supper here was a piece of Bread and two Sirdinafles, with a Cup of Beverage a Man : Our Men got ibn-ie part of tli^ Sheep dreit here, with fever al Pul- lets they pick'd up on the Road •, fo the Broath they diUributed amongft our poor lick Men. After we had tupped, we laid us downto fleep, but were not able to lie long, foupwe^otand walked about mod part of the Night to keep our felves warm. Mr. George Win^^aft was a dying all this Night. ; 'Eriday 25. About eight this Morning w^e began to march, every Man receiving half a Soufe Loaf. As we came out, our fick Men we put into two Carts. This Morning joli^^.Mr. George Win^iift^ as foon as he was ; put into the Cart. Away we mar- ched three Leagues, to a Village call'd Vinmnt ■•> here we dined \ our Dinner was a Cup of very good Wine, which was fo extream cheap, and no bad Wine to be had, that they were in a manner forc'd to give good Wine againfi: their will; for in my hght they went all over the Village to fee if they could get any Trafh for us, but could not : So with our Bread and Wine we made up our Dinner. After Dinner we went fe- veral of us to w^ork, where they appoin- ted us to dig a Grave to bury the Man that died this day i fo we made his Grave, juft by the Way fjde, whilft 0- thers were imployed in fowing him up in his own Blanket. After we had bu- ried him, away we marched, two Leagues ^ther, to a Town called Villa Nova^ where we were lodged in two Stables \ our Supper^was a piece of Brown Bread, and a Cup of Beverage. The Priert of this place came to us, and difcourfed one of our Men in Latin : He told hiru, he had Charity for aJl Meii that were Chriflians, and therefore he did » jt dif- refpedt us for .our Opinion. He fhewed his Charity to us more tlian ail die Clergy-mej3 in the Country : He told us, he had no Money, but he would fend us a Pitcner of Wine amongft two or three of us ^ the which he did. The Stables being well littered, we flept ve- ry well : This Night died Henry Fullfione^ Gunner of the Levantine. SatHrduy 26. Early in the Morning we began our march leaving the dead to be buried by the people. Hence we marclied three Leagues to a Tovy-n called Caftinata * Here we dined •> our Dinner was a fmall piece of Bread, and two fmall Sirdenafles a Man, with Beverage as at other times ; Here they took the Horfes out of the Cart, and laid our lick and dying Men m the High- way, until we were ready to go. After we had dined, we put our Men up into the Carts \ and away we marched, two Leagues further, to the City of Tholonfe : When we had furrounded a great part of the City Walls, we were put in the fame Stable without the Town that we were in before. Here were wc put, Sick and Well altogether , in this cold wet Sta- ble. Our Supper here was like our Lodging, a half Soufe Loaf, and one Onion a Man, with a Cup of fad Beve- rage. When we laid down to fleep, we could not for the Sick and dying Mens Groans. The Rogues that guarded us kept the Door (hut, that we could not get out to eafe our felves, many of our Men having the Flux ; but twice this Night we broke open the Door, and made way for our Sick Men. About twelve this Night died Peter Hole, Car- penter of the Levantine, Wc ( Sunday i-j. We ftaid herein this Sta- ble until near two in th^ Afternoon, hear they gave us our Dinner, which was a Soufe Loaf and about an Ounce of fat Vork, with a cup of Wine : af- ter we had dined, we made read}' to march , fix Men more were brought into our company, which were left fick upon the Road, and fo put into the Hofpital here. When we marched hence we left two Men dying in the Stable, viz. Richard Vincent Carpenter, and Veter Rofe : from this Place we inarched about three quarters of a Mile, to the River-fide, to take Water ; when we came there, there was two Boats provided for us, the fick went all into one Boat and had the advan- tage of lying in the Stern ; after they had placed themfelves, the red of the Men went in and fiU'd up both Boats, fb full that there was not room enough for them all to lie down ; yet, not- withftandingj we could have no reme- dy : after we were all Imbarked,away we went fwiftly with the Stream, a- bout eight at Night we came to a Town on the South- fide of the River, call'd Blewnacky where we put afhoar, here we lodged in two Cellers ; the People of this place were llruck into a panick fear of us', for as (bon as we were got into the Cellar they would not let one Man come out to eafe him- ielf, and many of our Men had the Flux ; but when they faw that the Door was almoft broke in pieces by us, they came upon Tearms with us ; that was, that wc fhould come out onely one at a time, and ib when he was return'd then another might come, io they went and guarded each Man with three Men, one taking hold of each Arm, and another ftood to hold the Candle to him, and fo in this manner 40 they held them out i our Men would (it and laugh at them, and were mightily plealed to (ee themfelves \o attended. Our Supper vi^'as a fmall four Denier Loaf and a Cup of Beverage ; fb here wc flept until Day-break. Mmday 28. Early in the Morning we went aboard the Boats, the Morn- ing fair and clear, by Noon we were fall'n down as low as Burdoon, there we got our Dinner, which was Bread and Beverage, and one Onion pr man : From thence we fell down as low as St. Anns^ at which place we laid the Boats along the Shoar, where they gave us our Supper, which was a Loaf of three Deniers or one Farthing Price, with one Sirdena and one Onion per man ; here we remained all Night in the Boats, not having fcarce room to /it; and much lefs to lie down ; over the after part of the Boat they fpread the Boats-Sail, which Was lb thin, that if any Rain had fallen it would have i\g- nified no more, in comparifon, than a Cobweb ; and as for all thofe which lay before the Maft , they had no- thing at all over them but the Heaven- ly Canopy, which was very cool and fharp. Tuefday 19. About fix in the Morn- ing, before the Boat put off, they fer- ved our us Dinner, (which was) a Loaf of three Deniers Price, with about an Ounce ot nafty rufty Pork, and a Cup of Beverage : From hence we fell down as low as the Town call'd La Vortt which was about Eight of the Clock at Night ; as we went out of the Boat every man received a Loaf of fix De- niers^ and one Sirdena ; and when we were got into the Stable, where we were to lodge, they gave each man of <4J r.s a CuTi of fpecial good Wine : fo af- which was a piece of Bread and about three quarters of an Ounce of rufty fat Pork, with Be- verage, as at other times. After we had dined the Boats put off, and down we went to a Town on the North- fide of the River, call'd Rtma : at this Town we went all afhoar, and as we went out of the Boats we were lerved with Bread ; fo into the Town we went, and becaufe the Stables here were full of Soldiers Horfes, they lodged us in a CoUedge, or a School ; here they gave us Wine to our Bread, our ufual quan- tity : our Lodging, for the major part of us, was on the cold Stones ; but to oar fick Men they gave a little Straw stoo. Here being in this Town now a great many Soldiers lying upon tree Quarters, two of them, being Germans, came to fee us : It fo happened that we had a German amongft us, who was not only one of their Country-men, but was alfo born in the fame Town where one of thefe two Men was born, after fome mixed ceremony was paft between them, both of Joy and Sor- row, the one for Joy to fee tlie other alive ; and the other with Sorrow to ieehis Country- man in fuch a mifera- ble ftatc ; he asked of his Country- man how he came to be in Arms for the French King ? ( h3 thus replied, ; ) Out of the defire I have to be in Ger- many -, for, fays he, when it is Spring we (hall be drawn out to go againft the Emperor, and then my defign is to make my efcape home. He told his Country- man, that when the Imperial Forces lay againft Buda-t that he and feveral other, being Scouts, were taken by the Turks , and \'o carried to Ccn^an- timple^ and from thence fent to Smyrna, and from thence to Scandtroon , and from thence to Gra?id Cairo, and from Grand Cairo they came down to the SeaTide, to Jmbark for Conftantimpk ; but in their way they were happily met and took by a Maltefe Gaily, and fo got his freedom. Afterwards he came over into Sfain^ and there he lifted himfelf in the Spanifli Army, and was in the Army when the Spaniards gave the French that Defeat I fpoke of before ; and told us the number of Men in each Army, and of the great lofs the French had. After we had ta- ken our leaves of them both, we went and laid down to fleep, but what with the coldnels of the Stones, and of the Weather together, we were forc't to walk all Night long to keep ourfelves warm. Thurfday 3 1 . Early in the Morning, by the break of Day, we went aboard the Boats , making no flop, but as loon as we were all aboard put oiF, fo down v^/e went towards Langoovy the Morning very cold and foggy; when we came oppofite to Langoon they ferved us our Dinner, ( which was ) a piece of Bread and one Onion, with a bit of Pork like the former, and a Cup of Beverage, making no ftop with the Boats at all ; by that time it was Night we came to a Town on the North-fide of the River cali'd Tano ; here. C 4 JT Here we came to an Anchor ; but we remained in the Boat all night in great mifery, for want of room, and by rca- fbn of the Cold. Our Supper was a piece of Bread and one Head of Gar- lick per man. The Night was very foggy. Novemher^ Friday the Firft. About eight in the morning it was here High- water^and prelently after we weighed, and about eleven of the clock we came down as low as Burdeaux : The Boats were brought to an Anchor here,a good (pace off the Shore, very near oppo- fite to the middle of the Town. They ierved us our Dinner here, which was a fmall piece of Bread and about an ounce of fat Pork, with a Cup of four Beveridge. For all that Wine is Co ex- tream cheap here, yet could they not afford us any thing elfe but four Stuff, and the meer Lees and Trafh. Many People came off in Boats to us ; but the mofl part came to feoff at us. We were told here, That all our Englijh Merchants were gone home that lived here. We remained in thefe Boats un- til about five in the Afternoon, about wliich time we were put aboard of three Burtoons^ in order for our Paffage to Roan. Our Supper was a piece of Bread and one Sirdena fer man, with Beveridge > and our Lodging was on the Stone Ball aft ; fbme had a little Straw to lie on, but very ^qw. Saturday, 1. This morning we had the Wind Eafterly, and the Weatlier fair; and this morning died Edward "Davis of Bofion in Ne'iv- Engl and. About leven of the clock we were under Sail, and fell down about three Miles be- low Blots \ at the laft quarter of the Ebb our Boat ran aground there, and there we !.iy until the hril of the Flood : The other cwo Barks kept far- ther to the South waid^ and went clear. As fbon as we fleeted away, we ftood galing a head upon the Tide; about High- water the Wind began to frefhen at N. E. fo away we went briskly : A- bout eleven at night we came down to Ro^n : Our Dinner and Supper were both alike, 'viz,. Bread and Beveridge, and one Sirdena per man ; fb we re- main'd in the Burtoms until morning. Sunday .^ 3. In the morning our Guards went afhore to Mafs, and at their return they gave us our Dinner, a piece of Bread and a Sirdena.-with. Be- veridge, as at other times ; after we had eatj we went aOiore, the Boats ly- ing dry : They had provided two Carts to carry our Sick men, which came to the Boat fides. The People of this Place are in general poor Fifher- men , and Pilots, and the like ; but great was their Love and Charity to- wards us, whom they relieved with a bountiful Hand, both with Money and Food ; but when the Rogues our Guard faw it, they drubb'd the poor Women forgiving, and us fot receiving, for no other reafbn, as I judge, but becaufe the People of this Town are known to be the major part Proteltants. From hence we marched three Leagues, to a Town called Ogua , m which Town we were lodged, fbme in a Stable, and the refl in a Bakehoufci Our Lodging was on the cold Ground, and our Supper was like our Lodging, a piece of brown Bread and one Sirdena per man. We that lay in the Bakehoufe lay fb cold all night, that fbme of our men made a Fire, and burnt all the Ba- kers Tools they could lay hands on. F a fi/unJay. \ ^t ^ Mundaj; '4. . This day , b«ing the laft day that the Rogues our Guard expeded to have us under their Juiif- didion, they pretended to give us a very good Farewell ; fo they bought a whole Sheep, which they boil'd, and gave us the Broth amongft us, and the Meat they carried with them to the next Town, where we were to dine this day. Our Sick and Lame being put into two Carts, away we marched two Leagues^ to a Town called St.Jan Anglla: xhQ major part of us got into this Town above an hour and half be- fore the Carts came in with the Sick men, by reafon they were drawn by flow- paced Oxen *, in the mean time we remain'd in the Market-houfe, where we found fuch Charity of the Inhabitants as wa^ not expected ; for they gave us great quantity of Bread, and Wine, and Butter, and fuch other things as they had in their Houles,with a moft liberal Hand. They told us the Name of this Town was derivM from one of our own Country- men, which was a Preacher in this Church, when there was but one Houfe built befides the Church ; and now it is a pretty large Town. They alfb told us, That for a hundred Years together there did not a Popifli Prieft preach in their Church. They gave us their Prayers, beleeching God to blefs us in our Un- dertakings, and profper our King. Thefe Words they ipake to us in their own Houfes, privately. I muft needs fay this of the Frejuh Proteftants, That I do verily believe they are the moft faithful and charitable People that Lay any claim to the Title of a Proteftant upon the Earth. When the Carts came into Town, they ferved us our Dinner, Bread and Mutton > but very little of the laft en me to our (lure, not above an ounce per man ; and there was above twenty of us that had none at all. Af- ter we had dined, away we marched towards Kochfcrt, diftant from hence three Leagues. Juft as we came to crofs the River of Sherant, it began to rain, when the moft of our PalTage, efpecially the laft twenty days, we had no Rain, fo favourable have the Hea^ vens been to us. About four in the af- ternoon we c.ime into the Town, and fo into the Prifon, where- we found of Englijh and Dutch Prifoners to the num- ber of Four hundred. When we firft went out o^Rochfortt we had Two hun- dred, and when we came from Toulon Sixty more, and at Toloufe Six more; and now we had no more but One hun- dred leventy three, the reft being dead and fcattered about tlie Country. Tuefday 5. This morning the Scri- 'van took all our Names that came in laft night, with the Ships Names we were taken in ; alfb two of our Men that were not attentive to give in their Names, were moft lorely drub'd. Now I fliall defcribe the manner of the Pri- fon-Diet. In the morning the Men were told out, and to every ieventh Man a Seal was given to him to go to the Cookj who gave him upon the re- ceipt thereof a Loaf weighing about llx Pound, and that is the moft, and a Can of Wine, but more fitly to be call'd Be- vcridge, for the better half was Water, and the other part four Wine ; of this we had to the quantity of leven half Pints ; and m: noon were we thus told out again, and theie Seals given in the fame manner , to be carried to the Cook , who upon receipt of it gives them a Bowl with about leven ounces of Meac^ and a Can of. Beveridga. Now Q45; Now the Meat was moft an end either Liver, or elle Lights or Milrs ; and if there was any other fort of Fle{h, to be fare it (hould be the worft that could be had, and that often would ft ink moft defperately. The World The eleventh of this Month they gavi us Straw Beds, but nothing to cove: us ; the Weather now was very cok and frofty. On the 13th of this In ftant there came hither 110 Men from St. Maloy of our English Nation, Hand may very well imagine what good Stuff cufft and Roped together ; this gave us it was; for it was common tor a Man to fell his whole Days Allowance of Meat for three Denier s, and that is but one Farthing : Their Drink they Ibid all they had at a Meal for two Venters^ and that was thought a great Price; and truly io it was j for whofoever but fmall hope of Redemption, when io many Men were brought from the Place where the Exchange was to be made. December the firft here came al- io from Brefi 130 Men, which did be- long to the Vortfmouth and to the Li'vely. December the fourth they gave us Blan- bought any of the aforefaid Trade at kets ; but after fuch a manner they gave thefe Rates , paid more than it was worth. Their Bread was molt an end very good, for that was all we had to keep us alive. As for Food at night, they told them out in the fame manner, giving them a Seal to go to the Cook tor Beans and a Can of Beveridge. The Beans were moft an end Horfe-beans, and the quantity of them was lb fniall, for all three fourth parts of it was Wa- ter, that when every Man got iQ'^Qn. Spoonfuls^ we reckon'd we had large Allowance. I have ieveral times taken this efpecial notice of them. Fi(h-days are all one with them as the Fielhdays, only this, they have fzY^n ounces of Fifli for Dinner^ and this is the moft. When they give their full Allowance, they give them to their Fifli a litde Oil and Vinegar alfo ; but Fith foon be- came fo icarce, that they would give us none, fb the room of that v/as Yup- plied with Horle-beans. Every thing here is now ten times worfe than it was before Vw'e went for Toulon: Our Lodging is upon the bare Floor, many of usj for thefe ihvQn firil days , in which time our Men fell fick lb faft, that fixty went to the Holpital in two dayS; ajid but very few came back. them, that the better half of the Men had none at all : Some had a Blanket for four, and fome for fix , and fome for ten, and to above 500 Men they gave none at all. And moreover, al-^ though they divided them among the aforefaid men in fuch a manner , yet were the Blankets very near all of a bignefs, and would not well cover a> bove three men ; the meafure of them was about fix Foot fquare, and fix Foot and a half was the biggeft. The Wea- ther now was very froity and cold, and for want of Food , Clothes, and Co- verings, our poor men fell fick at a. ftrange rate, and died in the Hofpital^ feven or eight in a night, and many times more : We had an account ona night of twenty one EngUfmm that died in the Hofpital , bslides many that perifhsd in the Prilon meerly for want. December the fourteenth here cama eighty four men more, moft of them belonging to the Fire-drake^ from Ereft. Before we went for Toulon, we were guarded by the Towns-people ; but now were we guarded by Soldiers, who like cowardly Rogues did tyrannize o- ver us.at a very ih-ar.ge rare, every pi- , tifuTj Hfu! Rogue carrying a great Stick in brought to the utmoft perfecTtion , it his Hand, to drub the poor Prifoners at their pleafure. Many of the ragged Villains, if they chanc'd to be coming along, and v/ere to pafs by us, if there was not a Lane made for them to pafs, immediately would fall to flourifhing their Sticks amongft us, laying on about might m.ore fitly have been termed a Slaughter-houfe. I (hall, as near as I can, dcfcribe the manner of it. In the firft place thefe Rooms were an Apartment from the reft of the Prifon ; yet were thefe as ftrongly fitted with Iron Bars in the Windows, as the them Threfher-like. Tlie occafion of reft ; and in thefe Rooms all round by all this fprang from a young foolifli the Walls they laid Straw Beds as dole Fellow, that was their Major, who did raoft defperately hate all thofe of the Ejjgiijh Nation, Fool like, for he knew not what ; io by that means he toUe- rated all manner of Villany that was the one to the other as they could lye, and to every Bed was a Straw Bolfter, and one fingle white Blanket j then to every Bed was two Men appointed, who. were laid down molt an end afled upon us, both by the Cook and with all their Clothes on they had, or Guards. This lame Major was fo Fool- like, that his Perlbn and his Actions declared him more fit to have kept Geele upon a Common, than to have had the Command over fb many Pri- ibners. About the latter end of this Month elle they could not be warm, their co- vering was Co thin ; now they lay Co thick in a Room, that a Room of a- bout Seventeen Foot fquare (hould have Thirty eight and (bme Forty Men > their Excrements annoy'd one the other Co ladly, that when a Man was newly there came in here a great many of come out of the Prifon to be laid their Ships, which were fo full of Sick there, they were _almoft ready to dye men, that they filFd up all their Hofpi cals, fo that thofe few E7jgli[Jj that were alive, they fent away to the Ifle of Ole- roon de Shattu, where thofe good People did relieve them with a liberal Hand i and in the Hofpital they were alio very kind to them, as it did appear by them at their return. I have heard our Peo- ple fay, when they came back^ That the People of this Place have taken off their Clothes from their own Backs, and given to them i and the Women have pluck'd off their own Stockings in with the fmell : This I fpeak by my own lad experience, their Excrements lying open in Buckets ; fo that what with the Unell of fome having the Small Pox, and fbme who would foul under them, with the Flux, and fo by one means or another, there was fuch a ftink that cannot be exprelfed by Tongue nor Pen : Yet was not this all their Annoiance, for in the next place was Lice, with which many of the fick did fo fvvarm, that I my fdf have feen a Man lye dead, and his Face this cold Weather, to give to fome of lo covered with Lice, that until they our poor Lads. But to return to our Prifon at Roch- fort : Our Men, by the hard Ufage here, fell fick fo faif, that they preten- ded to make an Hofpital for the Sick in the Prilbn j which when they had were fwept off I could not difcc'-n what man it was, although he was my familiar Acquaintance ; no man- ner of Shift had they here, whatfoever occafion they bad. In the next place, their actendandce was fame of the Pri- foners, (47) foners, generally either Gmmfey or Jer- of his Hand, and afterwards ^&s put fey men, who tpr the coveniency of into Irons, fuch Irons as Gally-flaves their French Tongue were thought moll are chain'd to at their Banks, where he fit •, of thefe there were about Six, remain'd for Eight days with nothing whofe builnefs it was to empty the but Bread and Water, in a place where Buckets, and to help the weak Men to they kept their own Countrymen Stool, and to ferve the Sick with Vidu- Slaves, fuch who were Malefadors, for als : As for their ViAuals I cannot fay they hang but very few here ; if a Man but that it was very good , and the commits any conftderable Fad, he is Wine likewile, which they gave the fentenced forthwith to be a Gaily (lave fick men ; for truly fome of their Do- for Seven or eight year ; if it be for d:ors, who had the chief ordering of Theft, Murder, or Rapes, chey cut off thefe matters, were good tender heart- a Piece of their No(e, and a piece of ed men, and would have done more for us if it had lain in their power ; poor men the beft of them was taken fick, and Ibme dyed, fo at laft our men had no body to come near them. Here was aa account of above One their Ear, and {o burn two Flowerde- luces, one in each Cheek, and (have his Head, and (b he is Condemned to the Gallies &r his Life. Their Soldiers that defert their Colours are lerved in the fame manner, and Seamen that hundred and fifty men that died out of leave their Ships. Thefe things I this Slaughter- houfe, not one in five that went there that ever came out a- gain alive ; it was common to fee Ten or Eleven, fbmetimes more and fbme- times lefs, lye dead under an Arch in the open Prifbn yard : Then as for their Burial, it was much like their end. write not by guefs or hear-fay, but to my own knowledg and fight. This is the manner of the Fretich Tyrant, who is Cofin to Death ( the King of Ter- rors) but yet after all the Law is paft upon thefe Malefadors, they after that take fuch methods, to the beft ot their for if any of the Soldiers buried them, endeavour, to preferve thefe their Slaves they would heave them into a hole like in Life and Health, by giving them a Dog, if they fell on their Face fo Clothes to keep them from cold, good they lay , or if on the Side ; and if Shooes and Stockings, and good Food the Grave did fall out to be too (hort, to eat, and Covering to keep them as fometirnes it did, that the Flead of the nun would not go down, thefe Beafts would beat down their Heads with the B'jtt ends of their Muskets; the Ground was fo full of Water, that they were not able to dig above two Foot deep. The fafter and the more our men dyed, the more we were ty- rannized over by the Soldiers, who would drub us, and put our Men into Irons upon the leaft occanon. I iaw a Man drub'd once by one of thefe warm ; and when they are fick, great care is taken for them in their Ilofpi- tals , both for good Bedding, clean Sheets, and Linnen to (hift, and both the beft Food and Phyfick, and careful W^omen to look after them as is to be be had j which is far different to what we have heard of them, it being quir( contrary. I fnall now mention on< more of their moft horrid Ac'^iions to w at the latter end of January, which wn thus ; at this time the Weather w;is vc Rogues only for lecting^ a Can fail out jy Tempeftuous,, blowing a meer Ilur' (48) cane of Wind, it fo happened that a Stone fell oflF the Houfe top, where there was many laid to keep the Tiles from blowing off, and fo ic was, that this Stone fell near to the Sentry Box, out came the Sentinel, and fwore that the Priibners hove Stones out of the Window at him : It now being late, and all the Prifon Doors (hut, and molt of the Men afleep, they came not in that Night, but Itaid until the next Morning i then they came into the Room , where I my felf lay , and demanded of us who it was that hove Stones laft night out at the the Sentinel ; we all protefted that we were altogether Innocent of the thing, and knew nothing of the matter, which was really fo : Yet for all we laboured to perfwade them to the contrary, by all the means we could ule, all pro- ved in vain. So forth they took Ten Men out of our Room, I my felf was one of the Ten, being at that fame time very weak and lately recovered of a great Fit of ficknefs. 1 being very well acquainted with their Cruelty, did my belt endeavour to give them the flip, which thing I did when we came down amongft the thickeft of our Peo- ple, and (b I hid my felf : Now they not having any great knowledg of mc^ I put off my Coat, and altered my felf fo much, that they did not know me when they faw me ; the other Nine they carried away, and put them into fuch Chains as the Gally-flaves were kept in, until about Night > then in comes the wife Major, according to his accuftomary manner, fo to him they told their Tale ; he comes imme- diately to the Men in Irons, and bids them confefs who it was that did heave the Stones, or elfe he would whip eve- ry Man that lay in that Room, vvhich were Forty in number ; our Men {lil^ procelted that they knew nothing of the matter ; then he told them that fhould not ferve their turn ; fb he or- dered one of them to be ftript naked to the Wafte, and fo laid dovvn upon the Floor on his Face, with two Men to hold his Hands ; that done, he com- manded a Slave to give him Tvi^enty Stripes with a double fnartllope, that cut him in every Itroke molt fadly : That done, he was fent into the Pri- fon to us ; he told them withal, that he would ferve them the like, and every Man in the Room, if they did not con- fefi. But his Fury ended in this, fo that the reft that were in Irons was to be kept there during his Pleafure i fb that if they had not taken feveral of them out , and carried them to the Holpital, they had died there, the reft remained there Fourteen days, and had nothing but Bread and Water; the Man that was thus whipt, his name is Mathew Aiilbourn of Scarborough, and came well over to England in the begin- ning of June. At the latter end of January leveral of our Men broke the Prifon, and got away, and where there was One got away Ten might, had not a parcel of Dutch meii, who were well heated with Drink, made fuch a noife that alarm'd the Guard, and by that means were prevented, and fome of them taken and cut moft pitioufly , and put in Irons Legs and Arms, whereof one dyed of the Wounds they gave him. About this time we had an Account, that from the Fourth of No-vemkr 89. to the latter end of January 90. Three hundred EngliJJ} men had dyed in the Prifon and Hoipital, befides a great many Dutch. At this time the PiOteftants of Rockll lent both Money C49) and Cloaths, a confiderable quantity, to be diftributed amongft us, and for leveral Weeks together they lent every Lords day neer Ten Bufiiels of good Bread, which was fliared amongft us by one Mr. Hofea, who was Interpreter to the Intend ant of Rochefort^ by reafbn they durft not be feen in doing of it themfelves. If I fliould defcribe all the Ads of Charity that we have felt from the Proteftants fince our firft being in France J would defer ve of it lelf a par- ticular Treatife > fb I (hall fay no more but this, that I wifli all Englijli People, who live under the Iweeteft umbrage of the moft wholfbmeft Laws upon the Earth > where the moft Interlucent Beams of the moft Holy Gofpel of Chrift are fpread abroad ; where every Man holdeth in Right and Property all they ufed, that in a fmall time they had all the Men by turn out to work. One day they call'd a Lift of Fifty Men, and two days after call'd another Lift, and {b by this method moft of the Men got a little Money v now whether this working of the Men on this nature were purely for their own Intereft or no, which I believe it was, becaufe their great Expedition required more Men than they could have ; but yet I am fure that it ended alfb in the Intereft of our Men, for now our Men were more healthful^ and of a better Countenance. I'ebruary the iGth. Several of our Men made an attempt and got over the Wall, but were difcovered, and feve- ral of them taken ; about Twenty got away clear ; thole that were taken that he poflelTeth ; thefe People, I wifli were forely drub'd ; and after all that, they had but the Charity and Faith as Ibme of the diftrelTed Proteftants of France have. February. The beginning of this Month leveral of our Carpenters were by the Pithy perfwafidn of the Inter- preter, for their health lake, perfwad- ed to go lorth to work upon their Ships, and wjthal they were promifed more Vi(^uabj and Twelve Soufe fer day, which they imbraced^ and went out to work ; fo that in a little tim.e they were bravely refreftied, when as before they look'd like fo many Objeds of pitty, both for want of Food and good Air they were put into Irons, and faftned to the Wall, where they lay expoled to the Weather night and day > their Fare being only Bread and Water, except it were any thing they got from their Fel- low Prilbners : No Men were admitted to come near them, except it were by ftealthj thofe that did/un the hazard of being drub'd ; this was fome part of the Majors love to us. Not long after this fome of our Men found a convenience to make their efcapes , by cutting through a Wall, and then after lowring themfelves out of a Window Three Stories high; fo by this means Three and forty of them made their elcapes ; and Clothes, which now many of them and by the neglecft of thole that ftay*d got; fb they were imployed only in Caulking their Ships upper and lower Decks. Soon after they got a Com- pany of Seamen to go forth to work as Labourers in the Yard, giving them Twelve Pence per day, which was a great comfort to them : This method behind, which did not hail the Rope in , they were difcover'd , and the whole Country allarm'd , and Men fent every way in the purluit of them, all Rodes and By-ways, and the Woods fearcht : ieveral of them were taken at feveral times and places j and as faft as G they (50) they were taken they were brought back that filled much of the Rent up, fte had and put into Irons, and ib faltned to a Wall -under an Arch, where they lay in a moft miferable Conditioa : and if they had got no other luftenance but what the Freftch gave them, they with- out doubt had the better part of them periflit, if not all. Thefe are the names of feveral of the Men that fufFered in this kind, William Deacons , Benjamin Guy^ James Ingle, John Hutchins, Wil- liam Tunton, Jacob Williams, James Ellis, and feveral others ; and a Declaration was made about the Country, That if any Perlbn was found to give entertain- ment to any EngliSii Piifoner , they fhould be put in the Gallies. Much a- bout this time they began to Lanch fome of the Fifteen Sail of Gallies that were built here, and fo kept lanching One, Two,or Three a Week, fo that by the latter end of Afnl they were all lanchr. Before they lanch either Ship or Gaily, this is their method, about a dozen of their Infallible Dodors goes aboard, with their Crucifixes and other Popifh trumpery to blefs the Ship or Gaily, and when that is done, they are fure all things muft needs go well with them. I obferved this at the lanching one of the two Ships that was built here, whereof one was a Three Deckt Ship of Ninty odd Guns, and the other a Two Deckt Ship of Sixty odd Guns ; the lealt of thefe two, before fhe was lancht, had a great number of the Po- pi(h Priefts went aboard to give her a thorough Blefling, with at leaft Five hundred People after them : The next day this Ship was lancht, and in her lanching (he broke her Scag, and (ha- I ■ tered the After Part of her Keell, fo that they had enough to do to keep her above Water ; and if with the ftroke fhe had not atter run over fome Mud, without doubt funk. Now thefe Ships were lancht long before they werefiniQi- ed their upper Work being built a flote : When they had near finifhed this Ship, they fitted for the Careen, and io hove her down, and cut out Fifteen Foot of the After part of the Keell. Our Men that remained here in the Prifon, and would not go out to work, were by the Intendants Order kept hear to work, wheeling RubKh into the Prifon Yard to raife it, having Soldiers to be their Overfeers, continually following them which way foever they went. One of our Men, named Thomas Fenwick, who refuled to work in this kind for them, the Major and a Serjeant immedi- ately fell upon , beating him with their great Sticks in fuch a barbarous manner, that it was thought by all the men that beheld it, that they defigned nothing elfe but to murder the man. After all this, they made him u ork with the Wheel barrow feveral days toge- ther. Slave like i nay, far worfe then Slaves were we treated by them in eve- ry refped: ; for, as for the Slaves, the French King alloweth them very con- fiderably for the work they do on Shore, by which they get both good Victu- als and good Drink ; but all the Re- ward our poor men get of them for their work in the Prifon, is nothing but ill Words, and many a blow on the Back. March the Sixth Two hundred of our men were lent away hence fw Dinan, in order to be exchanged ; this added to us new Life, thinking it might come to our turns once to be Redeemed of this cruel Place, if it pleafed God to fpare us our Lives, when as juft bef-'* fore our hopes of getting clear was quite worn Thread-bare. In ( In the beginning of Jpril here came an Exprels from PartSf for the fpeedy fitting out of Five Sail of Ships of Sixty odd Guns a Piece : bat the laft Ships that went away from this Place carried away all their Seamen, that they had not 16 many left as was able to Rig thele Ships ; lb that Orders was given by the Intendant that they (hould take the Englif] Prifoners out of the Prilbn, and put them aboard thefe Ships, and make them rig them, which was done accord- ingly ; and when Ibme oi their Commif- lion Officers, with other Soldiers came into the Prifon to us ; our Menrefuled to go out at their Command, Co forth with they drew all their Swords, Cowards-like, and begcin to lay on > and (b by force they drove aboard One hundred and nineteen of them, and divided a- mongft thefe Five Ships, where they continued Twelve days, working ma- ny times both night and day ; and when they had any time to deep, their Lodging was on the hard Deck : their Victuals alfo was very little, but yet they faid they gave to them as much as they did to their own People, which by the Defcriptions of it, is not half fb much as the King of England al- io weth his Men, for Bread is the three fourths of their Provifion. After they had rigged thele Ships, they alfo help- ed to carry them down the River_, un- to the Place where they ufed to take in their Guns i one of thele Ships taking in her Guns with our Men. After this was done, the Captains of thefe Ships ask- ed our Men if any of them were wil- ling to lerve either the French King or King James ; they all anfwer'd, they would not willingly lerve either of them, but that they would rather dye in Pri- j(bn, if King TFilliam would not Re- deem them. Upon thele Anlwers they 50 were all of them lent to Prilbn again, and this was all the Reward they had for their work. ^pril 5. here came Eleven hun- derd and fifty Gaily- Slaves from A/^r- fetllesj who gave us this account, That as they were crofTing the Bay of Lan- quedocj in leveral Galliesand Settefts, they were chafed by feveral Ships either Englijh or Vutcb , or both ; and they were of this Opinion, that if they had had but two hours day light more they had took them every Man ; for it feems they came up with them io fairly, that they took the Stern of moft of them which were ladex with Provifions for the Slaves, fuch as Clothes, and Covering, c^c. This gave fuch encou- ragement to the Slaves, that they did not fear to lay before the Face of their Patroons, that they did not doubt but that the EngUjli would fet them at liber- ty, if ever they went out to Sea in their Gallies, The major part of thele Slaves were Turks and Moors, and the reft were French men. The Turks and Moors had alfo Contraded, that if ever they came but near an EngliJJ} Man of War, they would do their ucmoft en- deavour to give the Gaily away to the EngliJT}, in hopes thereby to get their freedom : But 1 rather think thefe Gal- lies will not venture to go out in thele Sea,but rather keep them in Harbour on purpole to plague his poor Subjeds up- on every fmall Offence. Thefe Gal- lies are much lels then the Gallies in the Mediterranean Seas, but in Form al- together like them, being about One hundred and twenty Foot long, and about Eighteen Foot by the Beam, and not above Seven Foot deep in the Hold, which when they have all their Men, and other Provifions aboard, a 'i. rhfiu- _ (50 they will be fb deep, not above Two Foot from the Water edge in the Midfliips, only their Oars and Banks lye higher above the Body of the Gally,as is their manner (b to do. Thefe Gallies carry Four Guns right for- ward in their Prow, and in the Mid- ftiips right forward in time of Service they have a Cuftie Piece of about Six thouland weight, which runs in a Trunk , and lo lyes when Service is done near the Mall for Ballaft. Thefe Gallies that were here built at Kochfort, will Row with about Fifty four and Fifty fix Oars a piece, having fix Men to an Oar ; fo thax thefe Gallies will carry Three hundred thirty fix Slaves, befides Seamen and Soldiers, which will be very near One hundred and fifty more. I am clearly of Opinion, that if they come out into the Bifcayan Seas, which they mult of neceffity do if ever they come out, they will not find them like the Mediterranean Seas > and if there doth but blow any Gale at all confiderable, without they can im- mediately get into a Habour, the Sea muft be their Graves, for I am fure that thele Gallies will not be able to endure any Sea at all. Juft about the time aforefaid, we had fix of our Englishmen brought here, which were taken as they were ftriving to make their Efcape^ in this manner ; They were in the Hofpital of Okroon de Cbattu , and when they were Ibme- what recovered of their lUnefs, they did their endeavours to get for England j and watching an Opportunity to get a Boat, which t;hey had one night, they went away, rowing along the Shore fide, thinking to meet a Imall Burtoon laden with Wine and Brandy, and fo to clap her aboard, & then car- ry hsr away for the Coaft of England-, but, poor men, on the contrary, they met a Privateer, who chafed them a- fhore in the River of Burdeaux^ at a Town called Roan, where they were ieifed, and fo fent hither, and put in- to Chains , in the open place where they ufed to put the other men that I mentioned before. Four days after thele men were taken, there came the Scrivan of Okroon, to inquire of them who it was that helped them to the Boat they got away with : They told him, No body ; for they took the Boat without the afliftance of any one. Now in this Ifland of Okroon, as there are many Proteltants, fb, amongft the reft, there is a very wealthy man, who ufed to extend the utmoft of his Charity to our Englijhmen, for which he was hated by the other Party moft defperately. Now this Scrivan would fain have per- fi.iaded thefe men to confefs, that it was this Proteftant that helped them to the Boat to make their Efcape ; for they needed no more for the undoing of this good man^ but only to have this laid to his Charge : But the men ftout- ly denied the thing, and notwithftand- ing all his Threatnings, they told him, they would not fpeak againft their Confciences, to the undoing of any In- nocent man. The Scrivan fwore by all his Gods, That he would make them confefs that it was that man, or elfe he would burn them with lighted Matches betwixt their Fingers ^nd Toes : Now whether he did fo to them or no, I can- not tell ; for tha next day I came away, with two hundred more, in order to be exchanged. April the twenty fecond in the morn- ing, before we marched, the good Peo- people of this place gave two hundred Shirts to our men that were to march to day, the moft of them being new. From (53) JPmw Rochefort fo Denan, April 21. \6po. TUefJa^ J About Eleven in the Morn- ing 100 of the Englifh and Scots Nation were call'd out of the Prilbn, in order for a march for Denan, to be exchanged as they told us : "fuft before we march'd, they gave us a bit of Bread and a cup of Beverage per Man : that done, away we went with great Joy, leaving behind us of our Engliflj Men, in Prilbn and in the Hofpital, a- bout One hundred and forty or there- abouts : the Morning was rainy^ and by that the Ways dirty, but the After- ternoon proved favorable and fair. Juft as we came without the Town- gatCj we gave the reft of our Country- men,which we left behind, three Cheers or Hollows: That done, away we march'd Six Leagues, to a Town call'd Lazerean , leaving Rocbel on the left hand. About two Leagues off this Town was lately a Town wliere re- fided much Vrotefiant People ; but, alas, all the Remains that is to be ieen of them now , is to fee their Houles, which are many of them pluck'd down to the Ground, with their Churches al- io ; they quartered us all here in one empty Houle, where the Floor was fpread with Rulhss: our Supper was a piece of Bread and one Sirdena pr Man : the inhabitants of the Town gave us Wine to our Supper, IVednefday ij. By fix in the Morning we were all drawn up in a fquare Place to be counted, arid to be ferved our Dinner ; and while we were at it, we heard a fmall Hand-Bell tinkling^ prefently appeared a young Man car- rying a Crucifix, after him a great con- courle of poor Men baivi-headed, fing-. ing fbme of their Vopffl} Canticles : after them followed a Man bearing a white Flag, in the manner of an Enfign of Wari and after him, another bore a Flag of red colour, with a crols in it like that of St. Georges •■> but it was thus carried, the Flag was made faft to a Staff juft the breadth of the Flag^ and in the middle of the Staff" was a piece of Line made faft, and fo made faft to the end of another Stick, fo it hung like a fquare Sail : After this followed the Prieft in his Pontifical Habit, and after him a whole drove of Women » who, as far as I could perceive, minded us more than their Devotion : I did admire, that I faw but one Vulture a- mongft all thefe Geefe, for I always obferved that thele Ibrt of Foul moft an end goe in flocks. After we had- eat a piece of Bread and a Sirdena ^ and drank a cup of poor forry Wine, away we march'd for the Town of Martiney diftant five Leagues, the Wea- ther fair and clear, and the Road good. When we came into the Town we were put into a great empty Houfe, where our Lodging was on the Floor \ but fome of us got a little Litter out of the Stable, but moft none at all % - our Supper was a piece of Bread and , one Egg, with a Cup of Beverage. Thurfday 24. About fix in the Morn- ing we came out of the Houfe, and as we paft out they gave each Man a fmall Loaf, and (o we ftood in two Ranks to be ferv'd Drink, which was a Cup of Beverage. Here many of our People receiv'd much Charity of fbms of the tender Sex, who gave fbme of lis--- (54) US Stockings and Shirts : That done, Egg, wich a Cup of fad fcufF of Wine away we went into three Boats, and fo was carried up the River of Mara'me three Leagues, and were landed at a Town call'd Pouray ; from thence we march'd hve Leagues to a Town call'd Terray, the Weather fair and clear, and the Road good ; When we came into this Town it was quite dark, fo we were throng'd all into a Barn , where our Lodging was very bad, and our Supper very flender, 'viz^ a piece of ^Bread and one Egg per Man. Friday 2^. About nine this Morning^ they gave us our Dinner, a Soufe-Loaf and about 50 Eggs for two hundred Men , with a Cup of fowre Wine *• That done , away we march'd fix Leagues, to a Town call'd St. P'incean^^ here they gave us a half Soufe-Loaf fer Man, with one Egg and a Cup of fowre W^ine; and as for our Lodging, vve were allthrong'd together in a Stable. Saturday 26. About feven in the Morning they gave us our Dinner^ a fmall brown Loaf, worth eight Venters^ with one Egg and a Cup of Ibwre Wine, lb away we march'd fix Leagues to a Town call'd St. Georges^ the Wea- ther very fair, and the Road good, be- ing all very good Champion Land in this part of the Country. At our arri- val into the Town we were conducted I into a great Barn , and fome into a ' Stable , where our Lodging was very cold in the Night ; our Supper was a imall brown Loaf and one Egg per Man, with a Cup of fad forry Wine. Sunday 17. After our Guards and Provo had been at Mafs they gave us our Dinner, which was fuch as our Supper, a fmall brown Loaf and one After we had eat and drank, away we march'd four Leagues, to a Town call'd Egre'ville ; the Way being very good, but the Day very calm and hot. When we came into this Village, we were quarter'd at the fame Houfe we were quarter'd at in our paffage to Rochforty at the Sign of the three Kings ; our Lodging was in a Stable, our Supper was a fmall Loaf and one Eggjper Man, with a Cup of poor Wine. Munday 28. About eleven in the Morning we were all ferved our Din- ner, a fmall Loaf, with one Egg and a Cup of fowre thick Wine : that done, away we marchM four long Leagues, to the City of Nantes ; when we came into Town we were put into a clofe itrong Prifbn , where we were moft defperately throng'd ; and our Supper was Bread and Eggs, as before, with the like Drink as before. We heard that the Captain of the Tort/mouth was kept here clofe Prilbner. Tuefday 29. About eight in the Morn- ing we were ferved our Dinner and Breakfaft all under one, as they ufed i but now they gave each Man two Eggs and a imall Loaf, with a Cup of Wine; the Morning was rainy^ and ^o it con- tinued until about three in the Aiter- noon ; yet notwithftanding we march'd feven Leagues through all the K^m, fo that we were the moft part of us as wet as well we could be, and at the end of leven Leagues we came to alone Inn, where we had very cold enter- tainment, nothing but Bread and Wa- ter, and very bad Lodging. Wednefday 30. About lix in the Morn- ing we march'd four Leagues to a Town call'd Nofce, where we remain'd all c 55 ; all Day, we lodged in the very fame Houfe we did when we went for Koch- fcYt\ the Afternoon proving very rainy. They gave us here a piece of JBread and a little bit of Butter, {o we remained in two Stables, At Night they gave us the Flefli that they had long promifed, about a pound for ten Men, and that was the moft, yet Meat was very rea« fonably cheap in this place : they gave us to drink fbme nafty foul Cyder ; I fliould chule rather to drink Water than it. May^lhwrfday the Firft. The Morn- in being Rainy we continued here un- til about ten of the Clock, about which time the Weather began to clear up : then were we ferved our Dinner, juft fuch a quantity of Meat as before, as near as could be gueft at, with the fame fort of Drink. From hence we march'd feven Miles, to a Town call'd DervaUj and there we Ifopt an Hour or thereabouts ; and from thence we march'd five Miles to a Town call'd Fu^gecea. Here was a great Fair of Cattle in this Town : and this Day we were carried through the Fair, and fb put into two Stables; our Supper being a fmall Loaf and one Egg, with Wa- ter, our Lodging on the cold Ground. Fridays. About eight in the Morn- ing we were ferved our Dinner, a Loaf and one Egg pr Man, with a Cup of foul nafty Cyder ; fo away we march'd three Leagues, to a Town call'd Beant^ and from thence to a poor Village call'd Volonia, one League and a half further ; the Weather was fhowry to Day, but the Road indifferent good, the Land very hilly, but all the Hills very fertile; our Lodging in this place was very hard, lying in an open Barn on the bare Ground, the covering of the Barn was quite gone on the one fide ; our Supper was a fmall Loaf and one Egg, and Water for Drink. Saturday 5. About eight in the Morn- ing we were lerved our Dinner, which was a frnall Loaf and one Egg fer Man, with Water ; fo away we march'd fix Leagues, to the City oi Reens, where we lodged, Ibme in an empty Barn and fome in Stables : Our fupper was a piece of Bread and one Egg fer Man , and Water to drink ; fo we lay ma- ny of us like fo many Pigs in a Stye. Sunday 4. About eight we were ferved our Dinner, wa. a frnall Loaf and one Egg fer Man ; fo away wc marchM four Leagues and half to a Village calfd St. Chapell , but by the way Three of our Men deferted us. After they had given us our Supper, which was a fmall bit of old Irijh fak Beef, with a Loaf and a little fbwr Syder, they began to mifs thofe Men r by this means we were all call'd out into the Clofe to be counted, and after many times counting, they mill Three of their number ; but good lack, what a tofs was Jack Vro'vo in, and his Hounds fwearing and curfing. Thefe Men were Two of them Guemfey or Gtrfey, and the other an Engltjh Man. that they mift ; after this we went to fleep in the Stables. Munday Five. About Nine in the Morning they gave each Man about an Ounce of old 7ri/fc Beef, with about half a Sou[t worth of Bread. Fi*om hence we marched fix long Leagues to the Town of Venan : about Four in the Afternoon we came into the Town^ where ( 15S ) whsFC we faw ma,ny "Dutch Prifoners, and this day they cleared Thirty fix Englifii Prilbners. After we were rang'd in the Praid, and counted, we were call'd over by our names; that done we were put into two dole Pri- fons, 100 in a Prifon, where we got neither bit nor fup for Supper » in the Prifon we found feveral fmall heaps of Straw, on which we flept, our hopes of getting clear was our greatelt comfort. In this Prifon of Dinan were we kept for twenty days, a hundred of us in one Prifon, and the other hundred in another Prifon. In the one of thefe Prifons we had the benefit of a little frefh Air, but in the other none at all, both of them being miferable ftinking places, under Ground, in old Caflles, whofe Walls were fifteen Foot thick, and the Windows treble barr'd ; yet for all this place was fo ftrong, they kept Centinels within the Prifons night and day, for fear we fliould break Prifon ; and every day the Officers came and counted us, for fear left they (hould lofe fome of us. The Wall of this Place was fo thick, that the Prifon was very cold, confidering the time of the Year. For our Lodging they gave us Straw, and as for our Food, it was ve- ry well, confidering the place we were ' in, being far better than any we met with yet in France ; and our Liquor was only Water. Thole People that guard- ed us here were very civil, not abufing any of us, as they had done in other places : Our greateft Annoyance in this place was the horrid ftink of the Pri- Ibn, which did not only offend the Nofe, but make the Eyes fmart alfo. May ths 24th. Mr. jchn White j Com- mander of the Betty, being^ employed by the King to fetch and carry Prifo- ners of War, came here to day, and with a great deal of Prudence and Ex- a^^nefs brought over a hundred and five Engltfliwen into England^ fupplying ma- ny of them with Money according to their prefent Occafions, giving them, whilft they were in their Paffage, the befl of Food, and good Drink, and by God's affiltance landed us May ;i. at Weywcuth ; where when we came a- (hore, ^ve were kindly treated by thofe good People. June the fiifl we got our feveral Paffes of the Mayor ; fb away v'^e travelled to Vorchefitr, where we were relieved by the People, the Mayor alfb giving us his Charity very li rurally ; and at night we got to Blan- ford, where we were very charitably relieved by the good People of the Town : But in all the reft of the Towns we came through, our Men had fb lit- tle Charity beftovv'M on them, that if fbme of us that had Money had not reliev'd them, they had without doubt died on the Road. When we came to Salisbury t, thirty of us went diredly to the Mayor, and (hewed him our Paffes ; who gave a- mongft us all four (hillings: Our Men de- fired his Worfhip to confider them, they having eaten nothing all day, and as for this Money, they knew not well what to do with it : He haftily replied. Give it me again^ and I will give you no- thing : So away they went with that little they had. Now this Mayor of Salisbury had a Son that was taken by the French, and travell'd with us up from St. Male to Toulon in Irons ; and when we came back to Kochfort, died in a moft lamentable condition with the Small Pox. There were in our Company two Men that belonged to the Ship this Mayor's Son didj whole Names were Samuel Wefimore and Tho- mas t>icas\ and thefe men had taken care (57) care of this young man in his Sicknefs^ and when he was dead,made his Grave, and buried him : Now they had often heard him in his Lifetime fay, That his Father Hved well and in good faflilon in Salisbury ; and it io hapning as they came through this Town, they en- quired for one Mr. Thelps ; the People told them that Mr. Vhelps was the May- or ; fo away they went to him, expe- ding to be fure a Belly full of Victuals. They told him they came out oi France^ and that his Son Charles was dead : He asked them what Ship he did belong to: They told him the Ships Name and Commander too. Well,faid he to them, I do believe your Teftimony , and withal gave betwixt them two a Dou- ble Stiver, and dilinifsM them i now I heard the Men iay, that the People of that Town would take it for no more than a Peny. By God's affiftance the major part of us got into London the fifch day of June. So here is the End of my hard Travels ; which as it is not the full Sum of our Sorrows, ib I am able to pioduce the Teftimony of at leaft twenty Men, in a fhort time, if occafion required, that are able to make Oath, that I have not writ any thing in this whole Work that is contrary to Truth. So Iwifli all good People good Succels in their ho- neft Employments, F lU IS. H (Books Printed for Richard Baldwin. f" H ^ H E Memoirs of Monfleur Deageant ; containing the nioft fecret I Tranfaitions and Affairs of France^ from the Death of Henry IV. till I the Beginning of the Miniftry of the Cardinal //« Richlieu. To which JL is added , A Particular Relation of the Archbifliop of Emhrun's Voyage into EvglanX and of his Negotiation for the Advancement of the Ro- man Catholick Religion here > together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the (aid Archbifliop, about the Progrefs of that Affair : Which hapned the laft Years of King James I. his Reign. Faithfully Tranflated out of the French Original. The Cabinet Qpen'd : or, The Secret Hiftory of the Amours of Madam (ie Maintenon with the French King. Tranflated from the French Copy. The Hifl:ory of the Moll: Illuftrious, WtUiam, Prince of Orange : Deduc'd from the tirft Founders of the Ancient Houfc of NaJ/au : Together with the molt confiderable Adions of this prelent Prince. The Seco?id Edition. A Collection of Fourteen Papers, relating to the Affairs of Church and State, in the Reign of the late King James,. The Charader of a Trimmer. His Opinion of I. The Laws and Govern- ment. II. Proteftant Religion. IIL The Papifts. IV. Foreign Affairs. By the Honourable Sir W. Coventry. The Third Edition carefully Correded^ and cleared from the Errors of the Firft Impreflion. An Impartial Relation of the Illegal Proceedings againft St. Mary Magdalen Golledge in 0;vo», in the Year of our Lord 1687. Containing only Matters of Fad as they occurred. The Second Edition, To which is added the moft Re- markable Paffages, omitted in the former. CoUeded by a Fellow of the laid CoUedge. The Abfolute Neceflity of ftanding vigoroufly by the prefent Government : Or, A View of what both Church-men and Diifenters muft exped, if by their unhappy Divifions, Popery and Tyranny fliould return again. Thejufticeof the Parliament, in inflidingof Punifliments fubfequent to Of- fenders, vindicated ; and the Lawfulnefs of the prefent Government afferted. Book/ Triftted for Richard Baldwin: An Account of Mr. Tarkinfons Expulfion from the Univerfity of Oxford^'m the late Times ; in vindication of him from the falie Afperfions caft upon him, in a late Pamphlet, intituled, The Hifiory of Tajjive Obedience. The way to Peace among all Proteftants ; being a Letter of Reconciliation, lent by Bp. Kidley to Bp. Hooper^ by Mr. Samuel Johnfon. Purgatory proved by Miracles : colleded out of Roman-Cathohck Authors. With fome Remarkable Hiftories relating to Britip,Englifl},2Lnd Jnjfe Saints. With a Preface concerning their Miracles. By Mr. Samuel Johnfon. A Seafonable Difcourfe, (hewing the Unreafonablenefs and Mifchiefs of Im- pofition in Matters of Religion: Recommended to lerious Confideration. By Mr. Andrew Marvel^ late Member of Parliament. The Revoher. A Tragi-Comedy, aded between the Hmd and ? anther ^ and Religio Laiei, A Colledion of Poems, Satyrs, and Songs, agalnft Popery and Tyranny. In Four Parts. An Anfwer to the Bifhop of RocheHerh fir ft and fecond Letters, &c. The Intrigues of the French King at Confiantinople to imbroil Chrifiendom ; dif- cover'd in leveral Difpatches palt between him and the late Grand Signior, Grand Vizier, and Count Teckley ; all of them found among that Count's Pa- pers. With fbme Refledions upon them. Plain Englijh : In Relation to the real and pretended Friends to the Englijh Mo- narchy. Humbly offered to the Confideration of his Majefty, and his Great Council, the Lords and Commons in Parliament Affembled. The Second Edition. With.a (hort Pre/dfc^, and 2iV\ Appendix, QonQcmmg the Coronation Oath admi- niftred to King James the Second. The Ntw Nonconformift : Ot ^ Dv. Sherlock's Qi{k,'m Preaching after a Depriva- tion, incurred by the Exprefs Words of a Statute: Fairly Stated and Examined. With fliort Reflections upon Mr. C