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Often appears with: zante · religious persecution and toleration · plague, famine, and mass death · plague in captivity · constantinople · conquest, plunder, and captives · captivity and escape
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · lament (1)
“And when they came into the main sea, towards Constantinople (upon the faithful promise of the said Christian captives) these four Englishmen leapt suddenly into the crossia--that is, into the middest of the galley, where the cannon lieth--and with their swords drawn, did fight against all the foresaid Turks.” Richard Hakluyt, Voyager's Tales · vivid
The narrative recounts the later sufferings and deaths around Tripoli and at sea: plague losses among captives, the death of the king’s white mare, travel to Zante and Constantinople, plots by circumcised Englishmen, and a Venetian raid near Cephalonia that frees Christians.
to buy his victuals for him and his company, and he delivered me money needful for the same. Thus were we set at liberty the 28th day of April, 1585. Now, to return to the king's plagues and punishments which Almighty God at his will and pleasure sendeth upon men in the sight of the world, and likewise of the plagues that befell his children and others aforesaid. First, when we were made bondmen, being the second d…