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and we towards him, which seeing, he 
hung out a flag of truce, but our adinirall 
4 o tet J 
“saluted him with two pieces.of ordnance, 
eur vice-admirall with four, and the rest 
in their order came on, which he vali- 
aatly withstood, .putting forth on each 
side’some fourteen bragse pieces of ord- 
nance, not hauing before out above four 
or five, bis burden. being sometwo hun- 
dred tunpve, with one hundred and. fifty 
men and hve trumpeteers, who turning 
about, gave us two broadsides with his. 
ordnance, shooting three or)four of eur 
ships through and throughout. Ourad.— 
mirall and the other. French ships seeing 
themselues decemed, and that he was 
no pyrate, but astatesinan of warre, fied, 
Jeauing our vice-admirall engaged i in thie 
fight. The vice-admirall seeing 
vive with infamy, and because we were 
young and unexpert in sea-fight, to-en- 
courage the better, made vs ‘dui each 
one of vsa good draught of agua vile 
with gunpow der ; this done, he enjoyned 
his marriners to play on them. with ,sprail 
our marriners guickly quit the hatehes; 
and fly to their ordnance underneath, as. 
their best defence, whereupon we killed - 
the master of their ship, which their 
aie ne perceiving, discharged more 
eagerly, and with the shot took off the 
ee. of our ship, which our captain 
perceiving, grew desperate, even. SOM C@ 
times minded to blow vp the ship; in 
twelve shootes more they strooke downe 
our maine-mast, and killed our chirur- 
gion, who newly was come up from i 
onder the lowermost deckes, and saying 
these words, Si Deus nobiscum, quis contra 
mos, was slaine on a sudden with a com- 
mon bullet, and hauing one hand on my 
shoulder, puiled mee downe along with 
him, his blood streaming out upon me. 
** And thus, after seven. houres fis git, 
PALM-SUNDAY¥.« 
IDDLETON, in his Letter from 
WV Rome, omits to observe that the 
procession on Palm-sunday was a rite 
borrowed from the worshippers of Sera- 
pis. It was Origen who introduced it 
juto the christian ‘church. He is said to 
have presented palm branches to the 
adorers of the /Egvptian idol on their 
favourite holiday, (Epiphanius, lib. u, 
Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. 
how 
the case stood, said unto us twelve, that 
we were now to die with honour, or sur- 
se 
shot, but they replying so stoutly, ‘made Engi 
“our Ww routed worke.’ : 
of the imae 
that form of worship. 
[July fy 
they boarded vs with fire and sword, 
massacring all those that came first to 
their hands, and after they had cleared 
the decks, they desisted.”— From p. 31> 
to 38. 
. The Dutchmen then shifted the pri- 
‘soners to a Hamburgher, which was 
taken by the Moors of Sally. The stare 
of the. slaves he thusidescribes : 
& This Merisco carried me. to *s 
use, where lettering wae my legs with 
an drone chain, and cloathing me with a 
€anuas suite, laid these jniunctions vpon 
me; first he gaue me charge of his sta- 
ble, and,.then to grind at ba hand- sll, 
and to draw water atthe fountaine, 
with _many others of the like mature, 
The victuals he gave me were vere 
grenas, cab bage, alc goat-fesh ; as for 
wy lodging It wae ina dungeon, m the 
market-place, whiere they vee commonly 
to lodge the slavies, who repaire there 
every. night t about eight of the clacke, 
their masters manilting their hands bes 
fore for feare they should make an insur- 
rection, the number being about eight 
being Spaniards, Frenchmen, 
sb, Italians, Portugals, and. Flems 
‘mish; our beds were nothing but rotten 
‘straw, laid on the ground, 
Ce as peeces ‘of old sailes full of mil- 
‘lions of lice and fleas, being constrained. 
to pat back to back, and rub out the 
palne;, about, five of ‘the clock in the 
morning, the -doore being opened, we 
‘repaire, ton our. ‘masters bons $, and soto 
108860” 
The eeneiner of the author 
is, that he escaped fr 
where he obtained 
ing | the 8 criptures, 
the Romish chur 
France, emigrated f 
dat where. SE, b 
te ; 
christians had early” Z 
priests aud votaries 
were therefore - rie ‘mor 
coalesce “in any innocent ‘observance of 
‘Ina letter of the 
emperor Hadrian, preserved by Vapiscus, 
itis said: 
tiant sunt 
SERTORIUS 
and ouer 7 
Lili, gus ie colunt, Chrise 
