AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



and made a spoyle of all that we had : and the 

 Christian caitifes likewise that came a boord of us 

 made spoyle of our goods, and used us as ill as the 

 Turkes did. And our masters mate having a Geneva 

 Bible in his hand, there came the kings chiefe gunner, 

 and tooke it out from him, who shewed me of it, 

 and I having the language, went presently to the kings 

 treasurer, and tolde him of it, saying, that sith it was 

 the will of God that we should fall into their handes, 

 yet that they should grant us to use our consciences 

 to our owne discretion, as they suffered the Spaniards 

 and other nations to use theirs,- and he graunted us : 

 then I told him that the maister gunner had taken 

 away a Bible from one of our men : the Treasurer 

 went presently and commaunded him to deliver up 

 the Bible againe, which he did : & within a lide after 

 he tooke it from the man againe, and I shewed the 

 Treasurer of it, and presently he commaunded him to 

 deliver it againe : saying, thou villaine, wilt thou 

 turne to Christianitie againe ? for he was a Renegado, 

 which is one that first was a Christian, and afterwards 

 becommeth a Turke, and so he delivered me the Bible 

 the second time. And then I having it in my hand, 

 the gunner came to me, and spake these wordes, 

 saying, thou dogge, I wil have the booke in despight 

 of thee, and tooke it from me, saying : If thou tell 

 the kings treasurer of it any more, by Mahomet I 

 will be revenged of thee. Notwithstanding I went the 

 third time unto the kings Treasurer, and tolde him of 

 it, and he came with me, saying thus unto the gunner : 

 by the head of the great Turke, if thou take it from 

 him againe, thou shalt have an hundred bastonadoes. 

 And foorthwith he delivered me the booke, saying, 

 he had not the value of a pin of the spoyle of 

 the ship, which was the better for him, as hereafter 

 you shall heare : for there was none, neither Christian 

 nor Turke that tooke the value of a peniworth of 

 our goods from us, but perished both bodie and goods 



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