A.D. 

 1563. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



also with too much cold : but I will goe to my purpose, 

 which is, to shew the ende of those, being in meere 

 miserie, which continually doe call on God with a stedfast 

 hope that he will deliver them, and with a sure faith that 

 he can doe it. 



Nigh to the citie of Alexandria, being a haven towne, 

 and under the dominion of the Turkes, there is a roade, 

 being made very fensible with strong wals, whereinto the 

 Turkes doe customably bring their gallies on shoare every 

 yeere, in the winter season, and there doe trimme them, 

 and lay them up against the spring time. In which road 

 there is a prison, wherein the captives & such prisoners 

 as serve in the gallies, are put for all that time, until! 

 the seas be calme and passable for the gallies, every 

 prisoner being most grievously laden with irons on their 

 legges, to their great paine, and sore disabling of them 

 to any labour taking. Into which prison were these 

 Christians put, and fast warded all the Winter season. 

 anHavenncre ^^^ ^''^ ^^ was long, the Master and the Owner, by 

 meanes of friends, were redeemed : the rest abiding still 

 by the miserie, while that they were all (through reason 

 of their ill usage and worse fare, miserably starved) 

 saving one John Fox, who (as some men can abide harder 

 and more miserie, then other some can, so can some 

 likewise make more shift, and worke more devises to 

 helpe their state and living, then other some can doe) 

 being somewhat skilfull in the craft of a Barbour, by 

 reason thereof made great shift in helping his fare now 

 and then with a good meale. Insomuch, til at the last, 

 God sent him favour in the sight of the keeper of the 

 prison, so that he had leave to goe in and out to the 

 road, at his pleasure, paying a certaine stipend unto the 

 keeper, and wearing a locke about his leg : which libertie 

 likewise, sixe more had upon like sufferance : who by 

 reason of their long imprisonment, not being feared or 

 suspected to start aside, or that they would worke the 

 Turkes any mischiefe, had libertie to go in and out 

 at the sayd road, in such maner, as this John Fox 



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Alexandria. 



