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Misson, François Maximilien; Goodwin, Timothy [Oth.]; Wotton, Matthew [Oth.]; Manship, Samuel [Oth.]; Tooke, Benjamin [Oth.]
A New Voyage to Italy: With Curious Observations On several other Countries, as Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Geneva, Flanders, and Holland. Together, With Useful Instructions for those who shall Travel thither. Done out of French. In Two Volumes (Vol. I.) — London: Printed for T. Goodwin, at the Queen's-Head; M. Wotton, at the Three-Daggers in Fleet-street; S. Manship, at the Ship in Cornbil; and B. Took at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1699

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Captain Francis de Civille. 4 j 7
(x) Brother being told that he was in that House, W The Young
ca,me thither to murder him, and not finding
him, they vented their Fury upon the Innocent cZu’jliit,
Brother, and threw Civille out of the Window : during the
But this Window not being very high, and there Siege, and had
being a Dunghil just under it, lying at a Stable lfd&ed s"”11-
Door, he fell pretty soft. However, he lay there House" ‘ “
above three Days and three Nights Naked to his
Shirt, with only a Night-Cap upon his Head,
exposed to the Injuries of the Air, without
been succoured by any body. At last
(7) one of his Relations who knew that Captain m. de
Civille used to lodge in that Hous'e, but had heard CroKFet, hie
nothing what was become of him, came to ask Goufin-German
how he did. An old Woman, who was there
all alone, answering him, that he was in a back
Court, and that he dyed three Days before upon
a Dunghil, he went to see him, and was very
much surprised to sind him still alive. Civille was
so feeble, that he could not (z.) speaksjbut by sz) Third and
some Sign or other he made him understand, that I’’'» hnd drd'
he was Thirsty. Some Beer was brought him, ,
which he swallowed down very greedily, but his Li^
Throat was so Contracted, that he could not get
down one Mouthful of Bread, and the Pasiage
was so narrow, that they were forced to pull a H? asterward/
little Bit which he thought to have swallowed out Toaft soak-
of his Throat again. In the mean time his Fast- % B“r'
ing, and the Cold, had so good an essect, that
his Fever had almost quite left him, and in a few
Hours after, it was thought he might be safely
carried by Water, to the Castle of Croijfet, upon
the Seine, about a League below Rotten. The same ^°sCaptaiei
(a) Soldiers who had been so Charitable to him
before, help’d to carry him to the River side, and Money,
that without the knowledge of M. de Croijfet, who and procured
being a Roman Catbolick, durst not do any kind- ljiMsome Lin-
ness to a Protestant in that time of violent Per- <3
1 • “ se* dirndl with.
 
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