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Adam Elliot (traveller) Gerd Numitor

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Adam Elliot (died 1700) was an English traveller. Elliot was, according to his Narrative of my Travails, Captivity, and Escape from Saile, in the Kingdom of Fez, a member of Caius College, Cambridge, from 1604 to 1668, when he took his B. A. degree. This much is certain about him, and the charge subsequently brought against him by his fellow-collegian, Titus Oates, of having been compelled to quit the university in consequence of his debauched living, was evidently false. But the rest of his career is obscure. According to his own account, he travelled about the continent for the next two years, and was returning to England in June 1670, when he was taken captive by the Moors and sold as a slave. His description of his captivity and escape is thrilling, but not necessarily true in every detail. In November Elliot reached England, and for the next two years was a private tutor. In December 1672 he was ordained priest by the Bishop of London. He was then chaplain to Lord Grey of Werke (d. 1675), after which he officiated in Dublin, until in 1679 he was summoned to England as witness in a lawsuit arising out of Lord Grey of Werke's will.