A.D. 



1584. 



Thejirst 

 motion for 

 those English- 

 mensdeliverie. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



him to be made Turke perforce also : but he was very- 

 strong, for it was so much as eight of the kings sonnes 

 men could doe to holde him, so in the ende they circum- 

 cised him, and made him Turke. Now to passe over a 

 litle, and so to shewe the maner of our deliverance out of 

 that miserable captivitie. 



In May aforesaid, shortly after our apprehension, I 

 wrote a letter into England unto my father dwelling in 

 Tavistoke in Devonshire, signifying unto him the whole 

 estate of our calamities : and I wrote also to Constantin- 

 ople to the English Embassadour, both which letters 

 were faithfully delivered. But when my father had 

 received my letter, and understood the trueth of our mis- 

 hap, and the occasion thereof, and what had happened to 

 the offenders, he certified the right honourable the earle of 

 Bedford thereof, who in short space acquainted her high- 

 nesse with the whole cause thereof, and her Majestic like 

 a most mercifull princesse tendering her Subjects, pre- 

 sently tooke order for our deliverance. Whereupon the 

 right worshipful sir Edward Osborne knight directed his 

 letters with all speed to the English Embassadour in 

 Constantinople, to procure our delivery : and he obteined 

 the great Turkes Commission, and sent it foorthwith to 

 Tripolis, by one Master Edward Barton, together with a 

 Justice of the great Turkes, and one souldiour, and 

 another Turke, and a Greeke which was his interpretour, 

 which could speake besides Greeke, Turkish, Italian, 

 Spanish and English. And when they came to Tripolis, 

 they were well interteined. And the first night they did 

 lie in a Captaines house in the towne : all our company 

 that were in Tripolis came that night for joy to Master 

 Barton and the other Commissioners to see them. Then 

 master Barton said unto us, welcome my good countrey- 

 men, and lovingly interteined us, and at our departure 

 from him, he gave us two shillings, and said. Serve God, 

 for to morrow I hope you shall be as free as ever you 

 were ; We all gave him thankes and so departed. 



The next day in the morning very early, the King 



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