Lithgow, William
William Lithgow (1582–1645), traveller, writer and alleged spy, born at Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, claimed at the end of his various peregrinations to have tramped 36,000 miles on foot.
Prior to 1610 he had visited Shetland, Switzerland, and Bohemia. In that year he set out for Palestine and Egypt. His next journey, 1614–16, was in Tunis and Fez; but his last, 1619–21, to Spain, ended unfortunately in his apprehension at Malaga and torture as a spy.
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- Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations, an account of his travels
- The Siege of Breda,
- The Siege of Newcastle,
- Poems.
- Lithgow, William (1643), "The present surveigh of London and England's state", in Somers, J. Somers, A collection of scarce and valuable tracts..., 4, pp. 534–545
[edit] References
- This article incorporates public domain text from : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
- Martin Garrett, 'William Lithgow' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
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