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William Lithgow

British explorer

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  • The torture of William Lithgow in the dungeons of the Inquisition in Malaga in 1620. Line engraving with etching by W. Raddon after Craig.

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    The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands ... newly corrected, and augmented ... Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... his miraculous discovery and delivery / [William Lithgow].

    Lithgow, William, 1582-1645? | Date: 1640

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