An Historical Relation of Ceylon: Together with Somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkeable Passages of My Life that Hath Hapned Since My Deliverance Out of My Capitivity |
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... country and to get a new mast , the ' Ann ' had to go to Cottiar , where the father and son and sixteen of the crew were held in bondage , and where the father died in 1661 at the age of fifty - five . There was no imprudence to account ...
... country and to get a new mast , the ' Ann ' had to go to Cottiar , where the father and son and sixteen of the crew were held in bondage , and where the father died in 1661 at the age of fifty - five . There was no imprudence to account ...
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... Country , all the perticulars thareof ought to be remembred by me to my lives end , for he hath fulfilled to me his promise ; Deute 30 Chap , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 verses which I often called to mind in that land whare I was a Stranger to ...
... Country , all the perticulars thareof ought to be remembred by me to my lives end , for he hath fulfilled to me his promise ; Deute 30 Chap , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 verses which I often called to mind in that land whare I was a Stranger to ...
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... Country , whare I thinke not one doubted of the truth of his death , more then my selfe , but when I wrote that he poysoned his son it was so generally beleeved & in truth I beleeve then nobody ( unlesse those that attended his person ) ...
... Country , whare I thinke not one doubted of the truth of his death , more then my selfe , but when I wrote that he poysoned his son it was so generally beleeved & in truth I beleeve then nobody ( unlesse those that attended his person ) ...
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... Country of England I was Destitute both of mony & friends finding but very little that my father left mee : & my abillity for any Imployment lesse , then did he set the heart of Sr Josiah Child a man great in power , to doe mee good ...
... Country of England I was Destitute both of mony & friends finding but very little that my father left mee : & my abillity for any Imployment lesse , then did he set the heart of Sr Josiah Child a man great in power , to doe mee good ...
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... for me but I was too fond of my Native Country & stood in my owne light . This I testifie under my owne hand in London the 19th day of June Anno 1696. Rob1 Knox . May Wiz Anno : 1679 way 13 borne thard , xxxvi AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
... for me but I was too fond of my Native Country & stood in my owne light . This I testifie under my owne hand in London the 19th day of June Anno 1696. Rob1 Knox . May Wiz Anno : 1679 way 13 borne thard , xxxvi AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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