Volume 1

An English garner ... / [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe].

Date:
1903-1904
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    young men his servants. One of them was born at Hamburg, and is called Bernard Borgers : and the other was born at Enkhuisen, whose name is JOHN Linscot [i.e.,jAN Huyghen van Linschoten]; who did us great pleasure. For by them, the Archbishop was, many times, put in mind of us. And the two good Fathers of Saint Paul’s, who travailed very much for us, one of them is called Padre Mark, who was born in Bruges, in Flanders: and the • He was Other was born in Wiltshire, in England, and N^w College, IS Called Padre Thomas Stevens.* Oxford. Also, I chanced to find here a young man, who was born in Antwerp ; but the most part of his bring- ing up hath been in London. His name is Francis de Rea : and with him it was my hap to be acquainted in Aleppo ; who, also, hath done me great pleasure here. In the prison at Ormus, we remained many days. Also, we lay a long time at sea coming hither. Forth- with, at our arrival here [on 30 November], we were carried to prison: and, the next day after, were sent for before the Aveador, who is the Chief Justice, to be examined. When we were examined, he presently sent us back again to prison. And after our being there in prison thirteen days, James Story went [on 12 December] into the Monastery of Saint Paul; where he remaineth, and is made one of the Company: which life he liketh very well. And upon St. Thomas’s day [21 December], which was twenty-two days after our arrival here, I came out of prison; and the next day after, came out Ralph Fitch and William Leedes. If these troubles had not chanced, I had been in possibility to have made as good a voyage as ever any man made with so much [such an amount of] money. Many of our things I have sold very well, both here and in prison at Ormus: for, notwithstanding, the Captain willed me, if I would, to sell what I could, before we embarked. So, with officers, I went divers times out of the Castle in the morning, and sold things; and, at night, returned again to prison. All things that I sold, they did write: and at our embarking from