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A10235	A true relation, of the lives and deaths of two most famous English pyrats, Purser, and Clinton who lived in the reigne of Queene Elizabeth. Together with the particular actions of their takings, and undertakings with other pleasant passages which hapned before their surprizall worth the observing.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 20512; ESTC S120267	11,875	40

A True Relation of the Lives and Deaths of the two most Famous English Pyrats Purser and Clinton who lived in the Reigne of Queene ELIZABETH Together with the particul●r actions of their Takings and undertakings With other pleasant Passages which hapned before their surprizall worth the observing LONDON Printed by Io. Okes. 1639. The Lives and Deaths of the two most Famous Pirats of that age wherein they lived In the time of Queene ELIZABETH Purser and Clinton Together with the particular Actions of their taking and undertakings Chap. 1. Of the power of Iustice. IUstice is a vertue that giveth no man any or the least priviledge to defraude another of that which he may call his owne besides she is figured like a Uirgin who giveth to all men what is theirs by even and equall proportions The Philosophers make foure sorts thereof the first they call Caelestiall which is Divine the second Naturall which consisteth in our selves the third Civell the fourth Iudiciall The first which is called Celestiall is defined to be a true and exact consideration with an humble dutifull acknowledgement of God Naturall Iustice is that which is borne with us and every man hath in himselfe by nature that which we call Civill consisteth either of what our owne best condition stirrs and prompts us to doe or what the suffrage of the people the the consultation of the Senate the will and power of Princes or the Authority of grave and wise men inioynes us to kéepe and observe Iudiciall is that which propperly belongeth to the Bench is grounded upon Statutes Lawes instituted and made for the benefit and profit of the Common-weale to the depression of vice and incouragement of vertue Chap. 2. Wherefore the Lawes were made NOw to see these things faithfully and punctuall kept were the Lawes first devised and ordained the vertues whereof are to beare sway powerfully to restraine and forbid things gently to punish and chastice Malefactors severely but errors committed by ignorance fo censure mercifully under these foure heads may our inioyned obedience to the Law be comprehended which is also by the Law strictly imposed namely to live honestly to hurt no man willingly to render every man his owne carefully and to extort from no man forcibly It further tyeth us to love our Prince loyally to keepe his Lawes cheerefully to defend our Country valiantly and to provide for our particular families indulgently Besides the rigour of the Law was devised to no other end but to curbe and bridle those refractory rebellious spirits who else would live without all regularity or reason for these three things are chiefely to be acknowledg●● and obeyed with all one God one King one Law and whosoever breaketh one of them transgresseth in all for God hath the sole absolute power in himselfe who saith obey the King He hath also a Uice-royall Regency from his Creator whose substitute he is and He saith obey the Law therefore these ministers under him to whom power is given to execute the law have their authority from above as not to be murmured at or any way opposed Now of two famous Pirats I am to frame my discourse Purser and Clinton whose irregular and illegall lives as they were notoriously famous so their deaths and ends w●re as remarkably infamous Chap. 3. All ill actions ought to be awarded EUery bad attempt and evill performance beget not onely shame and infamy which gall the conscience before death and survive long after death for they are dyde of so déepe a colour that they are very difficultly to bee washed off by oblivion He that by any dishonest act shall lose his good name draweth himselfe into a wretched and miserable predicament for good men will not beléeve him bad men will not obey him few men that will accompany him no man at all will befriend him They that accustome themselves to swime in vice there is no commiseration to be taken of them if they sinke in vanity Cicero inveighing against Cateline saith that his naughty and infamous life hath not onely defamed himselfe but so obscured the glory of his predecessors that though they before had béene of great name and eminence in the City and Common-weale yet hee had drown'd all their vertues in Laethe and buried them in darke forgetfulnesse Better it is for a man to dye for vertues sake than to live with dishonour To shut up all this monitory counsaile in a word I conclude with Solon Wretched and most infortunate is that man whose life the people mourne and lamrnt and at whose death they Clappe their hands and rejoyce Chap. 4. Of all the famous men of Warre and Pirats which have lived and the occasion of Ships of Warre OF Land-theeves I have no purpose to speake at all but onely of those called Piratae that is Sea-rovers or men of Warre but most commonly called Pirats purposing to give you a briefe tast of some few forrei●●e before I come to those more domestick that by comparing the one with the other it may manifestly appeare w ch of them have excelled or more propperly erceeded the other Lucan remembreth us of one Basilius an arch robber by Sea and the same Author in the list of those Marine Rovers reckoneth Sextus Pompeinus the Son of Pompey the great in these or the like words Sextus of Pompey who was cald the great Th' unworthy Son banisht his native seate To the Syllaean Seas did triumph there A famous Pirate such as had no Peere c. One Ninus was his Uice-admirall under him and by his countenance commanded all the Italian Seas pillaging and robbing the maritine coasts thereof not onely to the great hurt and dammage of the Marchants whose course say through the Adriatick Sea but infested sundry Coasts by landing on divers continents burning and spoyling all the Sea-bordering Townes and Uillages insomuch that by this inhumane cruelty they were left desolate and uninhabited Of the same function and rebellious condition was one Curpulus deboucht in his life and infamous in his actions and another cald Icaron who had not onely equald but rather super exceeded the former in his direptions and robberies parraleld with these may be Rhotho and Rhotones both Rutenians who troubled both Land and Sea with almost unheard of rapine and cruelty to whom we may adde onely Thorias and Bezo Many other of the like condition who lived in the former ages and places remoate I might very opportunely here introduce whom for brevities sake I omit c. Yet to shew how ancient this sea-theeving hath bin and even upon our owne Coasts We reade that King Edgar being the thirtieth King from Brute amongst other of his politicke actions used in the Summer season to scower the Seas with certaine ships of warre to free the foure Seas of pirats and robbers who much troubled the Land and against winter hee made provision to lay the said ships in sure safe harbours and

in the relation howsoever this fellow was a Sayler and thought to bee a favourite of that piraticall faction But enough of this discourse which is as a merry passage to please the Reader and now I procéed in the next Chapter to tell you how they were surprised and by whom Chap. 4. The manner how they were taken and by whom and what manner of death they dyed and where They were Arraigned at Saint Margerets in South-warke convicted and condemned and two dayes after brought by the Officers out of the Marshalsees with a silver Oare borne before them and conducted through South-warke over the Bridge through London and so to Wapping and to the place of execution there where they appeared as brave in habite as bold in spirit some of their garments they then wore they distributed amongst their private friends who came to see them dye that they might remember them after their deaths Many questions were asked them concerning their Piracies which they punctually resolved desiring first pardon of all men whom they had wronged and then remission of their sinnes from God whom they had most heinously offended when imbracing one the other in their armes it seemed they no more ioyfully lived together than they were willing to dye together and so being at once turned off from the Ladder it appeared to all the multitude that were then present that they could not live more irregularly than they dyed resolutely and so there they hanging till from that ebbe two Tydes had overwhelmed their bodies which were after taken downe and committed to Christian buriall And thus you have heard the true relation of of the lives and deaths of the two most famous English Pirats of that age Purser and Clinton The chiefest and most remarkable passage in all this time was William Lord Somerset Earle of Worcester who sent Embassadour into France was likewise to stand instead of her Maiesty for baptising of the Kings daughter there her Maiesty sent with him a Font of pure gold for that same purpose weighing three hundred and twenty sixe ounces At the Christning he gave the child to name Elizabeth and returned into England atter he and his traine had bin royally entertained Likewise at his passage by sea into England he had notice of divers sea Pirats which kept the narrow seas did much harme and outrage by robberies they were so bold that they attempted the robbing of the same ship the Earle of Worcester was in where hee lost divers goods of great valew Complaint was made by him to her Maiesty and forthwith was there three good ships whereof one was her Maiesties called the Swallow which was appointed to be the Admirall under the command of William Holstocke Esquire Controuller of her Maiesties ships where hee did such good service that he scoured the narrow Seas and tooke and fired twenty ships and Barkes of sundry Nations which were all Pirats as English French and Flemish he apprehended in those vessels the number of 900 men of severall Nations and sent them bound to wards Sand witch Dover I le of Wight and Portsmouth whereof three of them that were in this company robbed the Earle of Worcester who were all shortly after executed at the I le of Wight and some of them in other places Also at the same time the aforesaid William Holstocke did rescue and take from the abovesaid Pirats fleet other Merchants Ships which were well fraughted with divers commodities that they had newly taken and were their prises all which he set free both with their goods and vessels and for the space of three yeares all was in a quiet and peaceable manner none plundred or robbed but a free passage was too and fro in all parts and places of the Coasts of England One more strange accident I will relate which our Histories and Chronicles doth afford for truth which is of a terrible earthquake which hapned in London and almost generally throughout England that caused such amazement of the people as was wonderfull for the time and caused them to make their earnest prayers unto Almighty God for their safe deliverance in such tempestuous stormes The great Clocke bell in the Pallace at Westminster strucke of it selfe against the hammer with the violence of the earthquake as divers clockes and bels in the City else where did the like The Gentlemen of the Temple being at supper ran from the Tables and out of their Hall in a great maze there did fall a peece of the Temple Church at that time and divers stones from the Church of St. Pauls London And at Christ-Church in the Sermon time a stone fell from the roofe of the Church and killed an Apprentise and hurt another so that they both dyed in the space of foure houres Divers others were sore hurt and much wounded with running out of the Church Likewise in this earthquake many Chimnies in the City were falne downe and many houses much shaken and rent by the violence of this storme This earthquake continued in or about London not above one quarter of an houre and was no more felt or heard But East-ward in Kent and on the Sea coast it was felt three times as long Moreover it is credibly told of many honest men that five miles from Blonsdon in Wilt-shiere a cry of hounds were heard in the aire the selfe same day that the earthquake was and the noyse was so great that was made that they seemed to be three or foure score couple of hounds whereat divers Gentlemen tooke their Greyhounds thinking that some had bin hunting in the Chase yet some of them that went out of their houses seeing nothing below abroad cast up their eyes towards the skies and there they espied in the aire five or sixe hounds perfectly all which in a more ample and large discourse thou maist finde in Howes Chronicle Divers other earthquakes hath hapned in former yeares which for brevity sake I will omit because I feare they will prove distastfull but let us all thinke of them and be mindfull of Gods iudgements for they are not to be slighted or cast behind us but let us know that they bee warnings sent from God to cause us to repent and forsake our evill wayes FINIS

other seconding it thus that valour Conquers the enemy before the field be fought and moreover the courage of a man is seene in the resolution of his death concluding that thunder terrifieth Children and threatnings feare fooles but nothing can affright or dismay such as are of courage and resolution to whom the former replide that they were confident in their purpose that the dye was already cast and it was a meane folly for a man to feare that which hee cannot shun and who so feareth every storme or tempest is neither fit for to bee a Traveller or a Souldier Thus having one heartned and incouraged the other as first to win gold and after to weare gold according to the Proverbe they made a voyage to Plimmonth where they sounded many discontented saylers and acquainting them with their purpose drew them with much facility into their faction And promising to themselves golden mountaines who had before grazed upon barraine mole hils they had got a gathering together of some fifty tall fellowes every one provided with a good Musket and aiming at a small Barke which lay then well victualed and sufficiently provided in the roade they surprised her in the night weighed Anchor and away they went to Sea to try a desperate fortune which for the present so smiled upon them that within few dayes they met with a Spanish Merchant well laden and indifferently provided of Ordnance with other sea munition who making no shew of opposition and the other not minding them in regard of the smalnesse of their Barke they came up so close by them that finding themselves by reason of their lownesse of the vessell and the talenesse of the other to bee out of the danger of her Ordnance they suddenly ere the other were well aware clapt close to her side and every one of them having his Musket ready charged they boorded her without any great resistance a sudden feare in the one and a predicated resolution in the other being greatly to their advantage And now being so well accommodated with a vessell victuall and Ordnance they thought themselves to be halfe Lords at the sea for there was scarsly any sayle they met with which trusting to their courage and fortune they did not thinke themselves able to incounter with and where those two meet and conspire together what is unpossible not onely to be attempted but almost compassed The second they met with was a Turkish man of Warre and though of no extraordinary great burthen yet well man'd and furnisht with all munition necessary for a Pirate and sea-robber the one haled the other both were alike resolute and neither of them willing to strike sayle and now here was thiefe robbe thiefe a cruell fight was begun and the victory uncertaine to whom it would fall some were slaine on both sides but at length a fortunate shot from the English split the maine sayle of the Turkish vessell by which they were made unable to sayle and being suddenly becalm'd were ready to stand at the others mercy This put spirit in the one and feare in the other for fly they could not no stand out they were not able and to yeeld they were loath in this detraction and demurre came another shot from the English and strooke the Turke betweene wind and water which made all their hearts to sinke as low as their heeles and theirs of the adverse party to mount as hye as from their breast unto their braines crying aloud Saint George and a maine for the Queene of England and withall grapled with her and made a bold attempt to board her soone but small opposition was made in the entry for their ship being by reason of the former leake redy to founder they thought it more safe to stand to the mercy of men than to trust to the unplacable fury of the sea But they found small comfort in either for the English being now Uictors they hanged up the Captaine and prime officers of the maine yard in regard they found them to be Infidels with some other the rest they kept as slaves to helpe to man both vessels dispersing some in the one and some into the other because by that meanes they might have the better command of them and having stopped the leake and pumped the ship dry they repaired their Mast and now they were Masters and owners of two sufficient and able vessels If they before were bold the successe of this second victory made them insolent and now no single shippe whom they thought they were able to over-master could escape them unrifled and unrob'd still changing their vessels when they could meet with any more commodious for their use and taking out of them such Marriners as they thought most able to manne them swearing them to their owne faction till at length they had si vs lusty and tall ships at their command all bravely accommodated insomuch that they had their Admirall Uice-admirall and reare-Admirall c. Some times they kept along the Coast of Spaine sometimes they watched in the mouth of the Straights not sparing Spaniard Fleming French-man Scot Biskaine nay their owne Countrimen and still what Merchandise and commodities they robbed upon one Coast they vended on another insomuch that within two or three yeares they were infinitely rich not a Saylor amongst them of what low degree soever but could show his Barbary Cheekens Flemish Angels English Rose Nobles French Cardecues Italian Duckets Spanish Pistolets and peices of Eight in plenty for the Pillage which they had got and sold. Chap. 6. The places which they used to robbe the Merchants at Sea THeir Randevous was some times at Gibralter sometimes at Angeeres then againe you should heare of their exploits in the Cumaries and about the Islands of Majory and Minory and sometimes at Cape bon Esperansa Saint Georges Channell and the Irish seas certaine no where nor constant to any one Channell neither was there scarce any Sea-towne either in this our owne Kingdome or else where in which they would not command victuall and other commodities which they wanted for their mony sending their long Boates a shore to fetch them at their pleasure the Magistrates of those places fearing to deny them because not able to withstand them The end of the first Booke The Second Part of The two most Famous Pirats Purser and Clinton Shewing how they were taken and what manner of Death they suffered for their offence LONDON Printed by Iohn Okes. 1639. The Second Part of the two Famous Pirats Purser and Clinton Shewing how they were taken and what manner of Death they suffered for their offence Chapter 1. The complaint and losse of many Shippes caused the Queene to send out her Admirall to take them SO many of their insufferable Insolencies aggravated with grievous complaints comming to Queene Elizabeth her Maiesties Eare who was a mercifull and gracious Princesse and who was ever a Royall incourager of all brave and resolute spirits She thought rather by