WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

, 0 5 totally abandon the Sea; Caus'd the Prizd' Goods, and Perfons, to be Ref l o rd to the Bafa; Had the Security, for his Ranfom, declar'd Nul Sent his Money, and Jewels, found in the hands of the Captain of the Jerafalem to Tripoli and forc'd the VefTel it felf (now difcountenancd every where, and wanting all,manner of Necef- faries) to run mto VillaFranca, where being de- ferred by the Officers, and pillagd by her own * Men, (fie remain'd as a kind of Wreck: And thus ended this Affair, to the Great Honour of HisMajefty, and the Reputation,and full Settle- ment, of the Englifh Navigation, thro' the Me- diterranean•, Nor did his Excellence fail of recei- ving many Thanks from the Bafa ( who in the end, loft no very great matter) and Acknow- ledgments from all our Merchants in Italy, and our Turky Company alfo. On the 23d. of June (as before) his Ex- cellence left Rome, accompanyd' by Cardinal Hmard, the Earl of SaluHry, Sir JohnLytcott, and E e other