Compassion towards Captives, Chiefly Towards our Brethren and Country-men who are in miserable bondage in Barbarie.

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STC 10937 (+ in UK; Folger, Huntington Newberry Library only in USA). Madan, Oxford Books , I, p. 168. As a young man the Rev. Charles FitzGeffry (c. 1575-1638) gained a reputation as a poet. In 1596 he published an epic poem, Sir Francis Drake, his honorable lifes commendation, and his tragicall deathes lamentation; several quotations from it appear in England’s Helicon, and Francis Meres referred to him as “yong Charles Fitz-Ieffrey, that high touring Falcon”. In 1601 he published a volume of Latin epigrams and epitaphs, Caroli Fitzgeofridi affaniae: sive epigrammatum libri tres, addressed to Drayton, Daniel, Harington, Campion, Spenser, Tarleton and Nash. The Blessed birth-day celebrated in some pious meditations (1634) was his final attempt at verse. John Davies of Hereford addressed a poem to him in The Scourge of Folly (1611) and Campion addressed two to him. Fitz-Geffrey contributed poems to Davies’s Microcosmus (1603), Sylvester’s Bartas, his Devine Weekes and Workes (1605) and William Vaughan’s Golden Grove (1608). He was born at Fowey in Cornwall in 1590 and was vicar of St. Dominick, near Saltash, a few miles up the Tamar from Plymouth (hence the Drake interest). In these three sermons, dedicated to the Mayor of Plymouth, FitzGeffry, with much flowery description of the horrors of slavery and imprisonment at the hands of the Turks, preaches compassion for the victims and attempts to raise support for the infamous and unpopular Ship Money tax, part of which was inte

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