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B08989	A true and strange relation of the travels, adventures, and great persecution of four eminent Quakers who in the year 1680 travelled through France, Italy and Turkey, to promote their religion. Wherein is fully declared the designs, endeavours and attempts of these zealous Quakers, for the conversion of the great Turk and the pope. With a perfect account of the event and success of the business, and of all the most remarkable passages. Also a faithful relation of their private discourses and disputes which passed between these Quakers and the pope, the cardinal his cousin, and Cardinal Pool. Also of their voyage to Constantinople, and of their most barbarous cruel and bloody death by the special command of the chief governour the great Turk. Who caused their hands to be chop'd off, their tongues to be cut out, and their eyes bored out, and each man to have a wooden stake run in at his fundament quite through his body. / Faithfully and compendiously related by John Elias Esq; who was an eye-witness to a great part of these transactions in Constantinople.	Elias, John, fl. 1659.	1681 (1681)	Wing E499B; ESTC R176614	5,861	14

English man who was mad was committed to the Hospital of Mad-men The Gentlemen went immediately to the Hospital to enquire the truth of the matter when they came the Keeper very courteously informed them of the whole business brought them to the sight of Stubbs who was locked up in a small Cell by himself and an Iron Chain about his Leg and his head shaved for it is the custome there to shave all mad people When the Gentleman came in they found him sitting in a melancholly sullen posture he would not so much as look up or speak one word to them for the space of above an hour notwithstanding they spoke very kindly to him and asked him concerning his condition and the causes of his Distemper and promised him all the assistance and kindness that lay in their power at last this sullen Spirit was overcome and he began to enter into a long discourse of the Spirit within him and that God had sent him and his three friends to break in pieces the great Leviathan of Rome Now the Gentlemen quickly perceived his Spirit and plainly discovered him to be no Mad-man but a Quaker They asked him concerning his other friends where they were And withal promised to do their utmost for his Releasement and so giving the Keeper some Money to be kind to their Country-man they bid him farewel At evening they went to the Inn to visit the other three Quakers and had much discourse with them endeavouring to perswade them to desist from this so hazardous and fruitless an enterprize and speedily to return to their own Country demonstrating the great dangers and inconveniences they would thrust themselves upon if they did still persist or any farther prosecute this fond and rediculous undertaking and so they parted The next day they addressed to the Arch-Bishop who was pleased to entertain them with much civility and respect They returned humble thanks to his Grace for his greatcare of their Country-man in sending him to such a place where he was so well accomodated in all things in order to his Cure and withal represented to his Grace his condition quality and Religion and how that he was not a Mad-man but one of those Sectarians which in England are called Quaker And withal informed the Arch-Bishop and Canons how that party do desire to appear different from all others in their manner of speech their apparel and manners And also humbly Petitioned his Grace for a Releasement promising within a day or two to dispatch them out of the Town The Arch-Bishop readily condescended to all their demands and presently gave order that Stubbs should be set at Liberty which was accordingly performed And the day following they all four left the Town and hasted their Journey to Italy When they came to Milano in Italy they had another Enthusiastical impulse of Spirit And now John Watson Nathaniel Golden and Rowland Jenkins who had hitherto been silent or as they expressed it themselves humbly waiting at the feet of Jesus who had now given them command to begin to Preach the Everlasting Gospel to the Italians Here Stubbs accompanied with his three friends did now as formerly at Lyons in France upon Sunday enter the Domo or Cathedral of the City and made a great and publick disturbance when they were in the heighth of their Solemnities Watson began to make a discourse in Italian but was presently seized and carried forth and had before a Magistrate who forthwith committed them all four to Prison but withal gave order they should be civily used and lack for nothing until further order about four or five days after they were commanded to appear before the Governour of Milan himself who was resolved to have a full account of the matter The Governour when he saw their uncivil behaviour their sullen looks and heard their wild discourses he presently concluded them Mad-men and gave order to have them confined and carefully looked after and also appointed two Physitians to visit them and to do their utmost for their recovery The Physitians presently made a visit to the Hospital and had a long discourse with VVatson who spoke Italian well and then returned to the Governour to give him their judgements of the business they told his Excellence that they were mad as did evidently appear to them by their very countenance and manner of Discourse and that one of them meaning Stubbs had a manifest and signal token of his distemper viz. his head was shaven according to the usual Practise of all Physitians in the world They added also that they did verily believe they were Dutch-men who made an escape from their Keepers The Governour was well satisfied with this account the Physitians gave of the Quakers and accordingly ordered them to take care of them and let no means be wanting that might be used for their recovery and that they should be used with all tenderness imaginable The Doctors all the time of their Imprisonment causing their heads to be shaven letting them blood and Purging them so excessively that Jordan after a fortnights confinement being in a melancholly humour he gave up the Ghost The other three by Purging and bleeding were brought very low the Physitians were very much disheartned and did altogether dispair of their recovery and did signifie as much to the Governour withal telling his Excellence that they supposed it was some Religious Melancholly that these men were afflicted with and that it was insufferable and not to be overcome by any Art and so desired the Governour to release them which was accordingly performed And towards the beginning of June they left Milano and set forward for Rome for to convert the great Leviathan the Pope June the 18 they came to Rome the place they so much desired to see upon the Sunday following they according to their old Custome entred a little Church called San Jacome Scozza Cavalli where Watson made a fierce and zealous discourse against the Babylonish Idolatry of that City and said that the Pope who was the Man of Sin and the great Leviathan was now to be crushed in pieces and God had sent them from the utmost parts of the earth to convert that City and to confound the Pope and all his Adherents and that now God would pour out the full Vials of his wrath and fierce indignation upon them and bring them all to utter Ruine shame and confusion The Conference of Cardinal Pool with the English Quakers and how he brought them before the Pope These poor Quakers had not been a Month in Rome but the whole City took great notice of them and generally condoled their condition as being distracted and far from their own country July 6 Cardinal Pool hearing much of these mens frantick actions was very desirous out of curiosity to see them and to discourse with them hereupon he caused them to be brought before him and was pleased with much patience to discourse an hour with them and then civilly dismissed them and sent them to their Lodgings About two days after he made report to the Cardinal his Cousin and to the Pope himself of what had happened and of the strange enthusiasms of these 3 English Pazzi for so he always termed them and how they had a great desire to have some conference with his Holiness and that they affirmed that God had sent them to deliver some secret Revelations to him The Pope at first was a little surprized at the news and gave order to have them privately brought before him and the two Cardinals When they were admitted into the presence VVatson saluted the Pope with this address Art thou that Man of Sin that Artichrist and great Leviathan Verily God hath raised us up from the utmost parts of the Earth to preach the everlasting Gospel to thee and to convert thee from thy Idolatrous errors and sinful ways unto the true way and to the Light c. The Pope was amazed at this strange confidence and did really believe that the common report had not at all belyed them but that they were very much distempered in their minds and distr●cted and gave a strict command that none should oder any violence to them but withal privately appointed some of the Engli●● Colledge to persuade them to return home or else to take charge of them in their Colledge and not let them thus run about the City disturbing the people This was effected according to the Popes desire for about the end of July seeing how unsuccessful their endeavours had been they resolved to leave that Babilonian City and go preach the Gospel to the Turks and Mahometans In order thereunto they took Shipping for Constantinople where within two Months they safely arrived They had not been above a fortnight in that great City but they went into the Mahometans Mosco's and Temples and caused great tumult among the people For this offence they were condemned to be bastinado'd i. e. to receive three hundred blows upon the soals of their Feet which was accordingly executed with that extremity of rigor and cruelty so that in few days the putrified flesh came off from the bones which was a miserable spectable to behold But this spirit of Quakerism had so Transported and infatuated them that they got wooden Crutches and once more went to their prophane M●sco's and caused a much greater disturbance then before Hereupon the Turks were sore vexed and presently had them before the Mufti himself who forth with in a great fury and rage passed this cruel sentence upon them viz. That they were to have their hands chopt off their Tongues cut out their Eyes cut out and each Man to have a sharp Wooden Stake run in at his Fundament and so quite through his body all which was accordingly put in execution And so these poor wretches after all their sufferings ended their miserable Lives FINIS