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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on Editorial Method | |
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| Introduction: England and Mediterranean Captivity, 1577-1704 | |
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| Narratives | |
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| "The Worthy Enterprise of John Fox, in Delivering 266 Christians Out of the Captivity of the Turks," in Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations (1589) | |
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| Strange and Wonderful Things Happened to Richard Hasleton ... in His Ten Years' Travails in Many Foreign Countries (1595) | |
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| The Famous and Wonderful Recovery of a Ship of Bristol, Called the Exchange, from the Turkish Pirates of Argier (1622) | |
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| News from Sally of a Strange Delivery of Four English Captives from the Slavery of the Turks (1642) | |
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| Ebenezer; or, A Small Monument of Great Mercy, Appearing in the Miraculous Deliverance of William Okeley (1675) | |
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| A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps (1685) | |
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| A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans, with an Account of the Author's Being Taken Captive (1704) | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Two Ballads | |
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| The Algerian Slave's Releasement; or, The Unchangeable Boatswain | |
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| The Lamentable Cries of at Least 1,500 Christians (Now Prisoners in Algiers Under the Turks) | |
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| Letters from Captives to Their Families in England | |
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| Samuel Harres to His Father (1610) | |
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| Robert Adams to Captain Robert Adams (1625) | |
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| Thomas Sweet and Richard Robinson (1647) | |
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| Letter and Depositions Describing "Turkish" Corsair Raids on the West Country Sent by Thomas Ceely to the Privy Council (1625) | |
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| Letter to the Privy Council | |
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| Deposition of William Knight | |
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| Deposition of William Draper | |
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| Deposition of William Court | |
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| Petition Sent by English Captives in Morocco to King Charles I (1632) | |
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| Laudian Rite for Returned Renegades (1637) | |
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| Parliamentary Ordinance for Collections to Be Made for the Relief of Captives in Algiers (Issued April 25, 1643) | |
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| Letter from Philip Lloyd, the English Factor in Tunis, to King Charles II (1680) | |
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| Bibliography of English Captivity Narratives from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |