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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>portrait of woman</FIGDESC>
<P><HI>Mary Carlton Cald</HI></P>
<P><HI>Aet: Suae 38</HI></P>
<P><HI>the German Prince^s.</HI></P>
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<P>News from Jamaica IN A LETTER From Port Royal Written by the Germane Prince&s;s To her fellow Collegiates and Friends in New-Gate.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Peter Lillicrap,</HI> for <HI>Philip Brigs</HI> living in Mer-maid Court near Amen corner in Pater No&s;ter-Row. 1671.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>The <HI>Germane Prince&s;s</HI> her Letter from <HI>Port-Royal</HI> in <HI>Jamaica</HI> to her friends in <HI>Newgate.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Friends and Acquaintance,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Cannot (notwith&s;tanding the Grandeur of our <HI>Birth</HI> and <HI>State</HI>) but have you frequent in our thoughts: and that I may not omit any opportunity to ex|pre&s;s my great re&s;pects to you, and your <HI>Mi&s;terious function,</HI> I have laid hold on this occa&s;ion to ac|quaint you with my welfare &s;ince my leaving <HI>England,</HI> and &s;hould be glad to hear from you of your decrea&s;e of your <HI>Monthly Bill of Mortality;</HI> but now <HI>I</HI> think on't <HI>I</HI> may &s;ooner expect to &s;ee you here, or in &s;ome other <HI>Plantation,</HI> then to receive a line from you, if a Line&mdash; or &s;o prevent it not.</P>
<P>Give me leave to tell you, that my &s;entence of Death was not more horrid and affrighting, than the &s;en&s;e and ap|prehen&s;ion of my &s;udden and unavoidable <HI>Exile</HI> was grievous to me, and for a while in&s;upportable, at length to make that pre&s;ent affliction the lighter, <HI>I</HI> con&s;idered
<PB N="2" REF="4"> how many before me had &s;uffered the like bani&s;hment with an undaunted courage, patience, and matchle&s;s gal|lantry of Spirit.</P>
<P>Had <HI>I</HI> like witty wanton <HI>Ovid</HI> been ignorant of the cau&s;e of my exiling, <HI>I</HI> &s;hould have complain'd much more than <HI>I</HI> do, and &s;hould have con&s;umed that time, (which <HI>I</HI> now &s;pend in Jollity) in &s;welling the books of my <HI>Tri&s;tia</HI> to a greater bulk than his whole works. <HI>I</HI> had this con|&s;ideration to comfort me be&s;ide (and be ruled by me in this undeniable truth) that it is much better to loo&s;e a li|berty (too dangerous to keep) and run the risk and ha|zard of a long Voyage, than &s;ail up <HI>Holborn</HI> and be ca&s;t away at <HI>Tiburn.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I</HI> &s;peak not to one, but all, it is a general concern, from the lowe&s;t to the highe&s;t <HI>Cla&s;s</HI> of your Famous <HI>Univer&s;ity,</HI> (vulgarly called the <HI>Whit</HI> or <HI>Na&s;kin</HI>) not one but ought to be timely in&s;tructed herein, as well <HI>Bulkers, Pads, Gilters, Files, Lifters,</HI> or others, by what other Names and Titles they are di&s;tingui&s;hed.</P>
<P>Expect not your <HI>Rogueries</HI> &s;hould be more winkt at, than tho&s;e of your <HI>Predece&s;&s;ors:</HI> for know, as ye are tho&s;e <HI>Pe&s;ti|lential</HI> Di&s;ea&s;es which poi&s;on and infect the air in which you breath, and afflict the body of that <HI>Common-wealth</HI> which gave ye breath, &s;o the wi&s;e <HI>Phy&s;itians</HI> thereof (the Judges) will take &s;uch care to free it continually from &s;uch maladies.</P>
<P>Some of you may be compared to &s;uperfluous <HI>Wens,</HI> which mu&s;t be utterly cut off, &s;ome to <HI>Carbunckles,</HI> which mu&s;t be burnt out with <HI>Cauterizing Buttons;</HI> and others to redundant humours, which mu&s;t be purg'd away into a|nother climate, of which number <HI>I</HI> am one.</P>
<P>It is now high time for me to relate &s;omewhat of my Voyage to <HI>Jamaica,</HI> and what hath happened to me &s;ince
<PB N="3" REF="4"> my arrival: <HI>I</HI> could not in rea&s;on expect much civility from the Commander or Seamen of the Ship, (e&s;pecially as then &s;tood my condition) yet contrary to all expectati|on I was treated like my &s;elf, <HI>I</HI> mean a <HI>Prince&s;s.</HI> VVhen <HI>I</HI> &s;aw my &s;elf &s;lighted as the &s;purious brat of a <HI>Stocking-Mender,</HI> I applyed my &s;elf to the old refuge of my never Failing Wit, and tuneable tongue, by vvhich means I ob|tain'd a commodious Cabbin, and vvhereas my Food be|fore was &s;o Salt I could have &s;ooner fil'd my belly on the brui&s;h of Egg-&s;hells, or the skins of Flints than thereon; I had now every other day Fre&s;h provi&s;ion.</P>
<P>Immediately after my Landing, I was received more like a victor, then a victim; &s;o far from being a &s;lave to others, that I was continually encompa&s;&s;ed with a crowd|ing number of &s;uch, who &s;trove who &s;hould pay me rhe greate&s;t tribute of Love and Service. The Earth (the Center of all heavy bodyes) did not more &s;trongly at|tract a Weighty Stone, thrown up into the Air, than the bare naming me drew all &s;orts of people from all parts of the I&s;land, e&s;pecially the loo&s;er &s;ort of per&s;ons.</P>
<P>At fir&s;t I wondred there to &s;ee &s;o many of my acquain|tance, but when I con&s;idered the cau&s;e of my own coming thither, my admiration cea&s;ed.</P>
<P>At pre&s;ent I am troubled with nothing but how I may an&s;wer the expectation of &s;uch of our old acquaintance who daily treat me profu&s;ely; for &s;uch hath their &s;ucce&s;s been in &s;ome late dangerous exploits that it hath blown their exce&s;&s;es to that height of expence, that they have almo&s;t delug'd this place in liquor.</P>
<P>Whil&s;t I was with you I was never half &s;o much afraid of being hang'd for any thing I &s;hould commit, as now to be drovvn'd in their overflovving cups: judge vvhether I am not much beholding to them, &s;ince they &s;vvear no Ex|ecutioner
<PB N="4" REF="5"> &s;hall have any thing to do with me; for they intend (them&s;elves to kil me with kindne&s;s: hence you may conclude my bill of Fare is not &s;canted vvith an over frugal hand, neither are my plea&s;ures &s;tinted, I am <HI>Lorded</HI> o're by none, my Will unconfin'd to any; as my delights are various, &s;o is my food, my habit vvould not di&s;parage my <HI>Lord</HI> vvere he here to ob&s;truct my Happine&s;s; and novv vvhil&s;t I think of it, if any of you &s;hould meet him in your walks (I think he need not fear you will pick his pocket) pre&s;ent my &s;ervice to his <HI>Lord&s;hip,</HI> and acquaint his <HI>Honour,</HI> I live more like my <HI>Lady</HI> now then ever I did, and am like to continue &s;o. But knowing how overjoy'd he will be to hear how &s;plendidly <HI>I</HI> live, pray do not too ha&s;tily tell him the&s;e good tidings, but by degrees, pre|paring him for the reception, lea&s;t the &s;uddain joy &s;hould tran&s;port him, and &s;o his <HI>Honours</HI> health in danger of be|ing prejudiced thereby. And when you have &s;o done, in all humility tell his <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> his hands and he may&mdash;</P>
<P>I <HI>have not time to inlarge my &s;elf further, neither do</HI> I <HI>think it requi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o tire your patienee at fir&s;t; but if my</HI> Bully-Ruffins <HI>on the one &s;ide &s;urfet me not to death; and you on the other make not too much ha&s;t to be hang'd, ex|pect to hear of me again: in the mean time remember me to Pimps, Pads, Priggs, Bilkers, Bauds, Bulkers, Bru&s;hers, Broil|ers, and Brokers,; not forgetting Filers, Gilters, and Night-walkers; advi&s;ing you and them with &s;peed to mend your man|ners, as you &s;hall an&s;wer it at your peril hanging like a Dog in a halter: I &s;ub&s;cribe my &s;elf</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your quondam Friend in Exile. <HI>M. C.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Licenced <HI>October</HI> the 11th. 1671.</P>
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