ENGLISH CAPTIVITY ACCOUNTS, 1577–1704
Unless otherwise indicated, the place of publication is London.
1. 1563–1577: The worthie enterprise of Iohn Fox an Englishman in deliuering 266. Christians out of the captiuitie of the Turkes at Alexandria, the 3. of Ianuarie 1577 (in Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, 1589, pp. 150–153).
2. 1583. Thomas Sanders, The voyage made to Tripolis in Barbarie, in the yeere 1583. with a ship called the Iesus, wherein the aduentures and distresses of some Englishmen are truely reported, and other necessary circumstances observed (in Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, 1599, 2:184–191).
3. Edward Webbe, The Rare and Most Wonderfvll Things which Edward Webbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome trauailes, in the cities of Ierusalem, Damasko, Bethlem and Galely: and in the lands of Jewrie, Egypt, Grecia, Russia, and Prester Iohn (1590).
4. 1593. Richard Hasleton, Strange and Wonderfvll Things. Happened to R. Hasleton, borne at Braintree in Essex, In his ten yeares trauailes in many forraine countries (1595).
5. 1593. Richard Johnson et al., The casting away of the Tobie neere Cape Espartel corruptly called Cape Sprat without the Straight of Gibralter on the coast of Barbarie. 1593 (in Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, 1599, 1: 201–203).
6. c. 1604. The True Travels, Adventvres, and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, In Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from Anno Domini 1593. to 1629 (1630).
7. Anthony Munday, The Admirable Deliverance of 266. Christians by Iohn Reynard Englishman from the captiuitie of the Turkes, who had beene Gally slaues many yeares in Alexandria (1608).
8. 1610–1612. Henry Middleton, The sixth Voyage, set forth by the East-Indian Company in three Shippes; the Trades Increase, of one thousand Tunnes, and in her the Generall Sir HENRY MIDDLETON, Admirall; the Pepper-Corne of two hundred and fiftie, Vice-Admirall, the Captaine NICHOLAS DOVNTON: and the Darling of ninetie. The Barke Samuel Followed as a Victualler of burthen one hundred and eightie: written by Sir H. MIDDLETON (in Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625, pp. 247–266).
9. 1622. John Rawlins, The Famovs and Wonderfvll Recoverie of a Ship of Bristoll, called the Exchange, from the Turkish Pirates of ARGIER (1622).
10. c. 1628. James Wadsworth, The English Spanish Pilgrime. Or a New Discoverie of Spanish Popery, and Iesviticall Stratagems (1629), chapter 5.
11. 1631–1638. Francis Knight, A Relation of Seaven yeares Slaverie vnder the Turkes of Argeire, suffered by an English Captive Merchant (1640).
12. Devereux Spratt, “The Capture of a Protestant Divine, by an Algerine Corsair, in the Seventeenth Century” (in T. A. B. Spratt, Travels and Researches in Crete. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1984. First publ. in 1865. 1: 384–387).
13. 1642. Newes from Sally: of a Strange Delivery of Foure English Captives from the slavery of the Turkes (1642).
14. c. 1639–1644. William Okeley. Eben-Ezer: or, A Small Monument of Great Mercy, Appearing in the Miraculous Deliverance of William Okeley …from the Miserable Slavery of Algiers (1676).
15. c. 1648. T. S. The Adventures of (Mr. T. S.) an English Merchant, Taken Prisoner by the Turks of Argiers, and carried into the Inland Countries of Africa (1670).
16. c. 1655. Abraham Browne, “A Book of Remembrance of God’s Provydences towards me, A.B., throughout the cours of my Life, written for my own medytacon in New Engl.” The captivity account appears as a selection in T. Riley, “Abraham Browne’s Captivity by the Barbary Pirates,” Seafaring in Colonial Massachusetts. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980, pp. 31–42.
17. c. 1657–58. Edward Coxere, Adventures by Sea of Edward Coxere, ed. by E. H. W. Meyerstein. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946.
18. c. 1670. Adam Elliot, “A Narrative of my Travails, Captivity and Escape from Salle, in the Kingdom of Fez,” in A Modest Vindication of Titus Oates the Salamanca-Doctor from Perjury (1682).
19. 1680–87. Joshua Gee, Narrative of Joshua Gee of Boston, Mass. (Hartford, 1943).
20. Thomas Phelps, A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps, at Machaness in Barbary (1685).
21. c. 1681–92. Francis Brooks, Barbarian Cruelty. Being A True History of the Distresed Condition of the Christian Captives under the Tyranny of Mully Ishamel Emperor of Morocco, and King of Fez and Macqueness in Barbary. (1693).
22. cc. 1678–1690s. Joseph Pitts, A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahommetans in which is a particular Relation of their Pilgrimage to Mecca (1704).