A.D. 

 1583. 



Man doth 

 purpose^ and 

 God doth 

 dispose. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The voyage made to Tripolis in Barbarie, in 

 the yeere 1583. with a ship called the Jesus, 

 wherein the adventures and distresses of some 

 Englishmen are truely reported, and other 

 necessary circumstances observed. Written by 

 Thomas Sanders. 



His voyage was set foorth by the right 

 worshipful! sir Edward Osborne knight, 

 chiefe merchant of all the Turkish com- 

 pany, and one master Richard Staper, the 

 ship being of the burden of one hundred 

 tunnes, called the Jesus, she was builded 

 at Farmne a river by Portsmouth. The 

 owners were master Thomas Thomson, Nicholas Carnaby, 

 and John Oilman. The master was one Aches Hellier of 

 Black-wall, and his Mate was one Richard Morris of that 

 place : their Pilot was one Anthonie Jerado a Frenchman, 

 of the province of Marseils : the purser was one William 

 Thomson our owners sonne : the merchants factors were 

 Romane Sonnings a Frenchman, and Richard Skegs 

 servant unto the said master Staper. The owners were 

 bound unto the merchants by charter partie thereupon, in 

 one thousand markes, that the said ship by Gods per- 

 mission should goe for Tripolis in Barbarie, that is to say, 

 first from Portsmouth to Newhaven in Normandie, from 

 thence to S. Lucar, otherwise called Saint Lucas in 

 Andeluzia, and from thence to Tripolie, which is in the 

 East part of Africa, and so to returne unto London. But 

 here ought every man to note and consider the workes of 

 our God, that many times what man doth determine God 

 doth disappoint. The said master having some occasion 

 to goe to Farmne, tooke with him the Pilot and the 

 Purser, and returning againe by meanes of a perrie of 

 winde, the boat wherein they were, was drowned, with 

 the said master, the purser, and all the company : onely 

 the said Pilot by experience in swimming saved himselfe : 



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