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The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements…
The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements thereof: and more particularly in the redemption remarkably obtained for the English captives, which have been languishing under the tragical, and the terrible and the most barbarous cruelties of barbary. : [Six lines from Psalms]
printed by T. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1703
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A Great Number of Our Good Subjects peaceably following their Employments at Sea, have been taken by the Turkish Pirates of Algiers, Sally, Barbary, and other places on the Coast of Africa, nnd now remain Slaves, in Cruel and Inhumane Bondage, without any Days of Rest, either on the Turkish Sabbath or Ours, except Four Days in a Year; being kept to Extreme Labour; from which, some endeavouring a little Rest, several of them were barbarously Murdered. Neither is their Diet any more tolerable than their Labour; Great Numbers being allowed no other Food, than decayed Barley, which stinketh so, that the Beasts refuse to eat it. And often they are not permitted to go from their Labour, to fetch Water, which is their only Drink; and sometimes driven about by Black-a-moors, who are set over them as Task-masters; and some of ⟨p. 33⟩them have been so severely Whipped, that they have dropped down Dead.
A Great Number of Our Good Subjects peaceably following their Employments at Sea, have been taken by the Turkish Pirates of Algiers, Salley, Barbary, and other places on the Coast of A•rica, nnd now remain Slaves, in Cruel and Inhumane Bondage, without any Dayes of Rest, either on the Turkish Sabbath or Ours, except Four Dayes in a Year; being kept to Extream Labour; from which, some endeavouring a little Rest, several of them were barbarously Murdered. Neither is their Diet any more tolerable than their Lab•ur; Great Numbers being allow'd no other Food, than decay'd Barley, which stinketh so, that the Beasts refuse to eat it. And often they are not permitted to go from their Labour, to fetch Water, which is their only Drink; and sometimes driven about by Black-a-moors, who are set over them as Task-masters; and some of ⟨p. 33⟩them have been so severely Whipp'd, that they have dropp'd down Dead.
One that was a Sufferer, has given us this further Account, of the Barbarian Cruelty undergone by his Fellow-sufferers.