THOMAS SANDERS a.d. 



1584. 

 within seventeene moneths following, as hereafter shall 

 plainely appeare. 



Then came the Guardian Basha, which is the keeper 

 of the kings captives, to fetch us all a shoare, and 

 then I remembring the miserable estate of poore dis- 

 tressed captives, in the time of their bondage to those 

 infidels, went to mine owne chest, and tooke out thereof 

 a Jarre of oyle, and filled a basket full of white 

 Ruske to carie a shoare with me, but before I came 

 to the Banio, the Turkish boyes had taken away 

 almost all my bread, and the keeper saide, deliver me 

 the Jarre of oyle, and when thou commest to the [II. i. 187.] 

 Banio thou shalt have it againe, but 1 never had it 

 of him any more. 



But when I came to the Banio, and sawe our Mar- 

 chants and all the rest of our company in chaines, 

 and we all ready to receive the same reward, what 

 heart in the world is there so hard, but would have 

 pitied our cause, hearing or seeing the lamentable 

 greeting there was betwixt us : all this happened the 

 first of May, 1584. 



And the second day of the same moneth, the King The English- 

 with all his counsell sate in judgement upon us. The ^^^ (iraigned, 

 first that were had forth to be arraigned, were the 

 Factors, and the Masters, and the King asked them 

 wherefore they came not a shoare when he sent for 

 them. And Romaine Sonnings answered, that though 

 he were king on shoare, and might commaunde there, 

 so was hee as touching those that were under him : 

 and therefore said, if any offence be, the fault is 

 wholy in my selfe, and in no other. Then foorthwith 

 the king gave judgement, that the saide Romaine 

 Sonnings should be hanged over the Northeast bul- 

 warke : from whence he conveyed the forenamed 

 Patrone Norado, and then he called for our Master 

 Andrew Dier, and used fewe wordes to him, and so 

 condemned him to be hanged over the walles of the 

 Westermost bulwarke. 



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