The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

Author:Jane Johnson [Johnson, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, Historical
ISBN: 9780307371799
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2008-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

I knowe not why the price they have putte on mee is so hie.

I knowe that I am not worthie of such costlie sum, sir. Of Mayor & Ann Maddern, & Alderman Polglase &

Elizabeth hys wyf, I knowe not how they fayre, but I am towlde

they are to be ransomed separately.

There are also wyth us others taken from various divers places, marriners from shippes and ports around the West Country, but they have made their own testimonies, so I wille not trouble you wyth such heere.

May it please you Sir Arthur the Mahometan corsaires who holde us claim a ransome of some three thousand four hundred and ninety-five pounds (or seven thousand Spanish doubloons) for the return of all those of whom I wryte. It is a fearfull summe of money & I knowe not whence it maie bee raised, but I do pray you that some meanes bee found to redeem us from our miserable fate, & that our sighs will come to your eares & move you to pitee & compassion. Deny us not in your prayers if you can do nothyng else, & please remember mee kindly to Lady Harrys, who has my gratitude every daie for her goodnesse in teaching me my letters, & pray also pass my greetings to my cozzen Robert. As Preacher Truran saies, we did never so well understand the meaning of that psalm penned by those poore Jewes held in Babylonish captivity till nowe: “By the waters of Babylon we sat down & wept when we remembered thee, O! Sion.” O! Cornwall, how we do miss your greene hills & vales, the clene aire & the free & ordered lives we once enjoied, now that wee are confined in darknesse & filth in feare for oure lyfs & limbs.

I am towlde in London there mair bee merchant shippes who stille have trading contacts in this region. If you have an opportunity thus to do, I pray you maie sende worde within a month or six weekes, or for sure wee shall perish in this terrible place.

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