A.D. 

 1585. 



[II. i. 191.] 



Two Gallies 

 of Venice tooke 

 the king of 

 Tripolie his 

 galley, and 

 killed the 

 kings Sonne, 

 and all the 

 Turkes in it, 

 and released 

 all the Chris- 

 tians being in 

 number 150. 



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our Pursser Richard Burges, and the other Englishman, 

 were taken and bound into chaines, to be hanged at their 

 arrivall in Constantinople : and as the Lordes will was, 

 about two dayes after, passing through the gulfe of 

 Venice, at an Island called Cephalonia, they met with two 

 of the duke of Venice his Gallies, which tooke that 

 Galley, and killed the kings sonne, and his mother, and 

 all the Turkes that were there, in number 1 50. and they 

 saved the Christian captives, and would have killed the 

 two Englishmen because they were circumcised, and 

 become Turkes, had not the other Christian captives 

 excused them, saying, that they were inforced to be 

 Turkes, by the kings sonne, and shewed the Venetians 

 also, how they did enterprise at sea to fight against all the 

 Turks, and that their two fellowes were slaine in that 

 fight. Then the Venetians saved them, and they, with 

 all the residue of the said captives, had their libertie, 

 which were in number 150. or thereabouts, and the saide 

 Gallie, and all the Turkes treasure was confiscated to the 

 use of the state of Venice. And from thence our two 

 Englishmen travelled homeward by land, and in this 

 meane time we had one more of our company, which 

 died in Zante, and afterward the other eight shipped 

 themselves at Zante, in a shippe of the said Marcus 

 Segorus, which was bound for England : and before we 

 departed thence, there arrived the Assension, and the 

 George Bonaventure of London in Cephalonia, in a 

 harbour there, called Arrogostoria, whose Marchants 

 agreed with the Marchants of our shippe, and so laded 

 al the marchandise of our shippe into the said ships 

 of London, who tooke us eight in as passengers, and so 

 we came home, and within two moneths after our arrivall 

 at London, our said Purser Richard Burges, and his 

 fellow came home also : for the which we are bound to 

 praise Almightie God, during our lives, and as duetie 

 bindeth us, to pray for the preservation of our most 

 gracious Queene, for the great care her Majestic had over 

 us, her poore Subjects, in seeking and procuring of our 



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