Ieffery Howard a Marriner who is a man of good repute he told me as followeth That about Twelve or Fourteen years since he was coming through the City of Salisbury he was looking on the Street Rivers and spies something move on the water but looking earnestly saw it to have Life stepts in and got it out and found it to be a man child only inrapt as it came into the world from its mother and it was put to nurse and now is become a fine Youth 20. At Bristoll a place well known not many years agon a man fell into the River near about the marsh and not being seen was carried down with the tide someway and I think could not swim but lay as dead on the water driving with the tide but by providence some being in the meadow going to work or coming from the Lymekils Being by the water side playing with a Spannel saw somthing floating flung in things to make the dog fetch it and the dog accordingly took hold of the man by the cloaths and brought him a shore and finding some symptoms of Life took care of him and he came to Life and dwels in New Bristol This I had from the Spectators 21. In the year 1671 one Mr. Savage Master of the Sociate Ketch bound from Bristol to Boston in New England met on the coast of N E. the Ship called the George of Bristol being in distress spake with them the ship having sprang a leak their men tired and spent with Pumping the Master and all his Company went on Board the Ketch with speed and soon after the ship sunk This I had from Mr. Savage and other Passengers with him who affirmed it to be truth David Fogg Bristol Merchants 22. Captain Iohn Trankmore Commander of a Ship belonging to Apsom near Exetor in one of his Voyages of late years being at Sea in a dark night and foul weather fell foul of another ship unexpectedly then not knowing what each other was but a Sea parting them again in the intrim Captain Trankmores ship shipt a great Sea which washed the said Trankmore over-board and another Sea cast or hove him into the other ship which fell out to be an English-man bound for Plymouth Thus in the dark the Wind and Sea parts the said ship that without having knowledge of each other Captain Trankmore concluding that his own ship was foundred and all his men Lost and God had wrought a wonder of mercy in his Preservation but so it fell out that one Samuel Snytal who was his Apprentice had obtained such knowledge of the Art of Navigation and his Master being gone as they supposed drowned being washed over-board was necessitated to improve his skill and by Gods blessing he carryed the ship safe home to Apsom where Arriving although had made a good Voyaye yet the sorrow for the loss of the Master eat up all the Comforts and Smiles of a Prosperous Voyage otherwise would have made but so Providence ordered that about the same time or three or four days after the other ship Arrives safe in Plymouth where the said Trankmore Landed very sorrowfull and dejected having as he supposed lost his ship wherein was deeply concerned as an Adventurer himself and all his Men was in the Morning walking on the Hope at Plymouth very Dejectedly he Providentially meets with one of his Executors or Apsom Neighbours who looks him in the Face with Astonishment knowing him well and yet believing the Report of his being dead or lost in amaze Salutes him with these Expressions What Captain Tankmore who replyes A poor Captain having lost my Ship richly Laden and after a good Voyage with all my men not a soul saved but my self Whom by a Miracle God wrought Salvation for men as before Recited giving the Gentleman his Neighbour an account of the Providence towards him which after a little pause his Friend imbraces him and with admiring of the Providence bids him be of good heart for his ship and all his Company was well and safe Arrived at Apsom for his Man Samuel Snytal had brought her safe home and all the sorrow and cry there was for the loss of him Which reply struck the said Trankmore in as much amaze on the other hand being almost Credilous of truth till his Friend possitively affirming it and then consulting his own Mercy saw and was made sensible there was no mercy too great for God to work and from them took heart recovering himself went home rejoyceing where found his expectation answered and a welcome gives to all persons with him concerned For the truth I have heard it acknowed by Captain Trankmore's own mouth at my House in Bristol and farther the same Snytal was my Predecessors Son and I have heard his Mother-in-law speak of it to several and hath affirmed it to me for a truth 23. The Bristol Frigot when Captain Fenn was Commander being in the Straits in Chace of Captain Popoctiene a Spanish Knight of Malto whom that time our Squadren took and brought Prisoner to the Tower in pursuit of which Chace the Wind began to rise the Captain Commands presently to get the Top-gallant sails abroad and the Yards being not then Aloaft three men run up presently where one stood on the top of the Shroud under the main Top-mast-cross-trees a second stood a top of the Cross-trees and the other stood by the Top-gallant-mast on the Cape at the main Top-mast head all expediting their work in getting the Top-gallant-sail abroad at which time the wind freshen'd and carryed our Main-top-mast by the board in which disaster the man that was lower-most and least in danger fell over-board and was drowned and the other two which was in greatest danger one of their names was Roger Dennis under the denomination of a Quaker instead of being bruis'd and their bones broaken all to pieces which the eye of Reason could not otherwise imagine by such a fall they both fell forward upon the Bunt of the Main-course and one catches hold of the main Buntlines and the other of the Leech-lines and slacke of a bowling and so both comes down to the Deck and neither of them in the least prejudiced For the truth of this my Author was then Aboard the said Frigot and was an eye-witness of this Providence 24. An Account of two ships bound for New-found-Land from some part in the West of England whom by distress of Weather lost Company some days after being fair weather one of the ships sprang a leak and foundred in the Sea where every Soul perished except one Old Man who had lasht himself on the main Hatch and committed himself to the mercy of the Sea and God's Providence where he was floating three days and three nights in which time about the middle of the second day the Devil assuming a Mare-maid starts up before him and bids him be of good heart for if he would but make a Contract with him he would ingage a deliverance for him
notwithstanding this shroad disaster which might have proved Fatal to all or most of them yet there was not one man of them all miscarryed but was recovered to their health again as Monuments of Gods mercy For truth of this many of the men are alive at this day the Chyrurgion now Living in Grays-Inn-Lane and at the very intrim of time I was then Aboard the said Frigot and was not only an Eye-Spectator but an instrument to help preserving of some of them and therefore may Aver it to be Truth Ezekiel Fog 15 About ten Years agoe in the Island of Barbbados There did arrive one Mr. Iohn Blackleach from new England a very honest man who gave account that in his then Voyage his Son being Master of the Vessel and himself Merchant their men at Sea did Muttiny at which occasion he and his Son was forced to stand on their Guard for some time casting his care on the Lord But whilest under this trouble being in the Long Reach in or near the Latitude of Barbadoes they all did see a great Ship which stood toward them and while they were Looking on her to see how fast she Came towards them she being pretty near vanished away which struck the men with great fear and made them humble themselves to the Good old Man and Desired his Prayers for them 16. In the month of November 1669 the Ship Prosperous of Bristol sailed from thence being bound for Galloway in Ireland but was forced into Bruts-Bay in Cornwal where the Ship brake in peices six persons being Drowned others wonderfully cast on Shore and bruised amongst the Rest Iohn Denny a Skinner of Bristol was Cast a Shore by a great Sea being much bruised and almost Dead and was by some stript naked and layd amongst the other dead folk that were taken up being only covered with some Straw or Rubbish But by Providence an old Man Loking on the Dead People did perceive some Life in the said Denny and the Lord opened his heart that he stript himself of his own Shirt and some Cloaths and put on him and took him from amongst the Dead through his Labour and Love by Gods blessing the said Denny is now well and liveth at Bristol This my Author had from Iohn Denny's own mouth 17. In the Year 1671. I being at Boston in New-England I oft went to see an Acquaintance of mine one Abraham Darby a sober honest man a Master of a Vessel who relates the following Story which he attesteth to be Truth That That some few Years agoe he the said Darby being master of a small Ketch was bound from Barbadoes to Virginia he having an Irish Woman a Servant on Board to be Delivered in Virginia but she was a vile person and having often offended at last was punished for which she said they should not carry her to Virginia though the Wind was very fair and carried them in sounding of the Capps of Virginia That they had bent one Cable to the Anckor thinking soon to get in but she still said they should not then the Wind sprang up of a sudden in a meer fret which forced them many days off and their Provisions near spent it being if I mistake not in March then the Wind came fair again a fresh Gaile and they before it in hopes to gain their passage but on a sudden there came a great Sea that cast the Vessel on her side she having but little beside Ballace in her that her goods and things in hold shifteth But it pleased God they clapt the Helm a weather and she wore and all hands as could in the hould brought her to wrights and the Wind continued fair till they came near the place that it took them short before and then took them as before that they were forced off again for many Days having then but two or three peices of Beese and no Bread nor I think above a gallon of fresh Water But after some time the Wind came fair they makeing Sail to get back it being fine weather there came a great Sea and laid her down again and carried her Mast away and a part of the Partners that hould the Mast that as she lay on one side the Sea rushed in to her but the Master with his Bed and Rug stopt the force till it pleased God they had shifted the things in the hould and brought her to rights again now these poor Souls were left as a Wrack in the Ocean and neither Victuals nor Drink but strong Water and Sugar to help them but finding a Spar or Oars in the hould made shift to get out a smal Sail I had like to have omitted that whilst they had any Food they would have given this wicked Woman a part but she would not Eat any thing then it pleased God to send a fine Gale and they got on the Cost of New-England and sounding found about forty Fathom Water and very calme then they chopt to an Ancker there and that Night got two or three Fish wherewith they Refreshed there selves but the Woman would not Eat but could get no more and finding a fine Gail weighed Ancker and thought to have got within Cape-Cod not being far of but the Wind came fresh against them and drove them off again to Sea and then t' was calm and about that time the Woman had fasted about 21. Days and yet could Curse and Damne and say she should not goe Ashore but that Night the Master and some others being on the Deck spied a great black Thing Rise out of the Sea to their thinking much bigger than the Ketch the Sea being Light all about and the Woman in the Hould made a great Noyse and when she had given a great Screach or Groan This Great black Thing Vanished the water seeming like Fire all round and made a great Sea and Noise and when the men came to their selves they looking for the Woman found her Dead and after they had flung her over Board they had a brave Wind and Weather and got safe to Plimmouth in New-England 18. At new England in the year 1671. I spake with Iohn Grafting of Salem and others of good repute who told me not long before the said Grafting suffered Ship wrack amongst the Leward Islands the name of the place I forget the Ship or Ketch being broken to pieces himself and mate and one or two were cast with the Sea a shore amongst the Rocks most wonderfully not knowing of each other tell by providence they met amongst the Rocks it being an Island without Inhabitants if I mistake not and they bruised yet the Lord provided for them in a wonderfull manner and not only there but in their getting of that place and bringing them safe to their Friends and Relations in Salem in New England where praises was returned to the Lord who wonderfully preserves the Children of men I hope this ere long will be inlarged from the party himself 19. I being near acquainted with one
opportunity of the next fair weather to go to Green Harbour to kill some Venison for part of their winter provision which accordingly they did but found not so many Deer as they expected yet the first day they killed seaven and four Bears to boot which they also intended to eat The next day they killed six Deer more and as they returned they killed six more and then the weather proving foul and cold they laded their Shallop with the Deer and Bears and finding another Shallop left there as usually they do from year to year they laded it with Graves of Whales that had been boiled there that year and so dividing themselves into those two Shallops they took the first opportunity of returning to Bell-Sound to their Tent where they intended to take up their rest for the Winter But in their passage the night coming on and the wind blowing hard they were forced to stay in the mid'st way at Bottel Cove for that night There they fastened their Shallops one to another and casting out their Anchor they left them riding in the Cove But here again for the tryal of their patience and to teach them to relie more upon God's Providence than upon any outward means of their own this mischance befel them The wind blowing hard into the Cove and their Anchor coming home their Shallop sunk into the Sea and so wet all their Provision and some of it they found swimming up and down by the shoar The sight hereof wonderfully troubled them to see the best part of their Provision the only hope of their lives under God in danger either utterly to be lost or to be spoiled by the Sea-water for which they had taken such pains and run so many adventures in the getting of it and in this their misery they saw but one remedy and that was a desperate one viz. to run into the highwrote Sea to their Shallops to save the remainder of their Provisions now ready to be washed away by the billows This they did and by main force drew the Shallops to the shore then they went along by the Sea-side to gather up such of their Provisions as was swimming up and down and when the weather proved fair they went on to Bell-sound where being arrived they took out their provision and viewed the great Tent which was built of Timber and Boards and covered with Flemish Tiles The use of it was for the Coopers to work and long in whilst they made Cask for the putting up of the Traine-Oyle and they resolved to build another smaller Tent within that for their Habitations and accordingly taking down a lesser Tent that stood near to it wherein the Landmen lay whilst they made their Oyle they fetched their materials from thence both Boards Posts and Rafters and from the Chimnies of the Furnaces they took a thousand Bricks they found also four Hogsheads of Lime which mingled with sand from the shoar made good morter But the weather was groan so extream cold that they were fain to make two fires on both sides to keep their morter from friezing then they raised a wall of one Brick thickness against the inner planks of the side of the Tent but by that they had walled two sides of their house their Bricks failed so that they were forced to build the other two sides of boards which being nailed on both sides the posts they were hollow between which they filled up with sand that made it so tite that the least breath of aire could not possibly annoy them The length of their Tent was twenty foot and the breadth sixteen their Chimney was the breadth of a deal board and four foot high they seiled it with boards five or six times double that no wind could possible get through The door they made as close as they could and lined it with a bed that they found there which came over both the opening and shutting of it they made no Windows having no light but what came through the Chimney then set they up four Cabins quartering themselves two and two in a Cabin their Beds were the Deer-skins dryed which was a warm and comfortable lodging for them in their distress their next care was for firing and finding seven old Shallops which were unserviceable they brake them up and stowed them over the beams in the great Tent to make it the warmer and to keep the Snow from driving through the Tiles into the Tent and by this time the cold encreasing and scarce having any day at all they staved some empty Cask and brake two old coolers wherein they cooled their Oile providing whatsoever firing they could without prejudice to the next years Voyage yet considering the small quantity of fuel the extremity of cold and the long time of their aboad they husbanded it as thriftily as possibly they could Having thus fitted every thing in the best manner they could on the twelfth of September looking out into the Sound they espied two Sea-horses lying asleep on a piece of Ice whereupon taking up an old harping-iron they hastned to them and first slew the old one and then the young and so bringing them ashore they flaied them roasted and eat them Not long after they killed another but the nights and cold weather encreasing on them and they viewing their Provision found it too small by half whereupon they stinted themseves to one reasonable meal a day and agreed to fast Wednesdays and Fridays excepting from the Graves or Fritters of the Whale which was a very loathsome meat of which they allowed themselves sufficient for their present hunger at which diet they continued about three moneths Having finished what ever they could invent for their preservation they found that all their Cloaths and Shooes were worn and torn to repair which they had this new devise of Rope-yarn they made thread and of Whale-bones needles to few their Cloaths withal But October the tenth the nights being grown very long and the cold so violent that all the Sea was frozen over and they having now nothing to exercise their minds upon were troubled with a thousand imaginations Sometimes they bewailed their absence from their Wives and Children thinking what grief it would be to them to hear of their miscarriage then thought they of their Parents and what a cutting corrasive it would be to them to hear of their untimely deaths c. being thus tormented in their minds with fear and grief pinched in their bodies with hunger and cold the hideous monster of desperation presented his ugliest shape unto them But thinking it not best to give way to grief and fear they doubled their prayers to Almighty God for strength and patience in their miseries by whose assistance they shook off their former thoughts and cheared up themselves to use the best means for their preservation Then for the preservation of their Venison and lengthening of their firing they thought best to roast every day half a Deer and to
Mr. Iames Ianeway's LEGACY TO HIS FRIENDS Containing Twenty Seven Famous Instances of Gods Providences in and about Sea Dangers and Deliverances with the Names of Several that were Eye-witnesses to many of them Whereunto is Added a Sermon on the same Subject Go up now look towards the Sea and he went up and looked and said there is nothing and he said Go up seven times And at the seventh time he said behold there ariseth a little Cloud c. 1 King 18. 44. Come and Hear all ye that fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soul Psal. 66. 16. London Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Armes in the Poultry 1674. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER THe Author of this Treatise now put into thine Hands needs none of my Praises he being lately gone to make one in Consort with that Heavenly Chore above his Works praise him in the Gate only I could not but lend my hand a little being desired to give it a lift into the World and tell thee the Author was a man of Designes for God and more of them he had in his Heart and Head then his Lord and Master whose he was and whom he served did give him time to Finish that his Master might be Honoured and souls Edified he tryed several Ways and that with several sorts of persons leaving no stone unturn'd no means unattempted that the Work of the Lord might Prosper in his hand One while he designes sinners might be helped in getting Acquaintance with God and that Saints might improve their Best Friend in the Worst of Times and to that end he appears in the world to drive on a good Acquaintance betwixt Christ and Souls And another while feeling warm Compassions and Affections bubbling up in his Soul to poor Young Converts he carries on a design of strengthning their weak hands by appearing once again upon the Stage in printing the Comfortable Death of a Young Convert And another while he had a design of preventing the ripening sinnes of youth witness his bowelly and tender-hearted Sermon upon the occasion of the Penitent Murderer in which he Cautions poor enticed Young men to take heed of the Baits that the great Angler for Souls layes before them But lest this man of Designes for God should miss his great aime he shoots lower that he might hit his Mark he stoops and sweetly condescends to send Tokens to Children to bespeak their Hearts betimes for Christ his Master he labours to Teach the Children to cry Hosanna to his Lord And now in the last place he casts about to meet with Sea-faring Men whose Souls he alwayes had bleeding and melting bowels for Oh how would he Weep Pray Mourn Sigh over them entreat them Affectionately beseech them importunately that they would not forget the God of their Mercies and Deliverances nor the Mercies and Deliverances of their God Upon this Occasion of Sea-mens receiving the greatest Deliverances of any men in the World from God and so soon playing the Old Israelites with Gods Wonders viz. soon forgetting his Works Some Friends speaking to him upon this subject and Acquainting him with a Taste of some Memorable Passages of Providences he readily upon desire sets his hand to this work of Collecting several Famous Deliverances from Friends and took pains to get their Papers into his hands but had not time to pollish and adorn them in his sweet and taking Style as he did other things These lay upon his hand above a Year and a half still waiting for more Observable Providences to come to his Cognizance But here thou hast them as they are if thou hast an Heart to improve them to thy further strengthening of thy Faith in future Straits Whether at Sea or Land here thou mayst see the Lord setting his Right Foot upon the Sea Here thou mayst see the Lords Royalty and Soveraignty extending it self to the great Deeps Here thou mayst see the Winds Seas obeying of him Here thou mayst see the Lord giving a literal Com̄ent on that Text When thou goest through the Waters I will be with thee Here thou mayst see Hopeless and Helpless men in their greatest Distress at their wits end sav'd and deliver'd by the great God which is enough one would think to make any Reader cry out with the Psalmist O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the Children of Men. Here thou mayst see the prevailing Power of Prayer the Wonder-working Power of God the unspeakable Bowels and tender Mercies of God to poor Perishing Sinking Drowning Starving dying Men that thou mayst Pray to this God more Love this God better and dread to sinne against him who is the God of such Miraculous Salvations and Deliverances And that this Treatise may promote that work in thy Soul is the Desire of Thy Cordial Soul-Friend Iohn Ryther Wapping 14 Apr. 1674. There are these Books of Mr. Iames Ianeway'es printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Armes in the Poultry HEaven upon Earth or the best Friend in the worst of times The 3d Edition enlarged 2. Death Unstung A Sermon Preacht at the Funeral of Thomas Mousley an Apothecary With a brief Narrative of his Life and Death also the manner of God's dealings with him after his Conversion 3. A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Tho. Savage 4. Tokens for Children the first and second Part. 5. Mr. James Janeway 's Legacy c. REMARKABLE SEA DELIVERANCES ONe Major Gibbons a man well known in new England a Gentleman of good education good parts and of good Conversation as the Author hath been credibly informed by them that knew him was bound upon a voyage to Sea himself being Suprà Cargo with such commoditys as those parts of America doth afford after going out from Boston several days by hard weather and contrary winds the Ships company were much distressed and through the Continuance of the Contrary winds Provisions now begin to faile them and O how feeble doth Spirits grow when Bread the Staffe of life taileth now Hunger becomes more dreadfull to them then the every moment threatning Billows of the devouring Ocean and they that one while feared drowning now fears Starving they are brought to the last meal in the Barrel and the last oyl in the Cruse and say as she did We will Eat this litle that is left and dye and now when they thought they had eaten the last what conflicts must they needs have within themselves who knew not where to have another morsel to fortify the tyred and spent Spirits with the constant toyle and hard labour how they look one up one another as men already under a Sentence of death and by one anothers looks Strike terror to one anothers Hearts They look on every side as David says I looked on my right hand but there was no man that would know me Refuge failed me or perished from me They look downward they seeing nothing
hope of Relief but O what difficult work is it to dye what a strait was here Live he could not and Dye he could not well a little time is defer'd and behold a wonder-working God appears now for him and for them all before night they espyed this Ketch which raised them all to Admiration but they had fears in this distress that the Ketch did not see them but when they perceived the Ketch made to them O what a new life did it put into these dying men so they all got safe Aboard And see here the goodness of God In one hour after there arose a most dreadful Storm which continued for forty hours and all of them safely Arrived at Barbadoes The Masters name of the Ketch was Thomas Woodberry of Salom. This the Author had from a very known person for Integrity and Godliness now living at Salom. 12. In the year 1606. in the Wars betwixt the Netherlands and the Spaniards upon the Spanish Ocean fell out this observable and remarkable action taken notice of by Grotius in his Annals of the Low-Country Wars Admiral Hauteen being sent to interrupt the Spanish Fleet coming from America and the Indies he had with him four and twenty Vessels but of these six were beaten back by Tempests soon after Frasciardo with eight great Gallions having a prosperous Gale fell upon them unprovided and ere they were aware but the Galleys that were with him not being driven by the Wind kept by the shore but one of them being grappled with a ship of Zealand that was next the Admiral so affrighted the rest that as soon as they saw it they in the very beginning of the Night Retreated with all hast Hauteen thus left by his Companions being a man of an Undaunted spirit for two whole days did not leave off the Fight though most of his men were in that time lost but with his torne ship casting off all fear of danger protracted the Victory but after he saw no hopes of Relief and that the Waves poured in upon him that none of them might come alive into the Enemies hands at once they Unanimously agreed upon a Resolute and Terrible action For kneeling down upon their Knees they like dying but desperate men beg of God that he would please to pardon in that they sought to shun the Mockeries and Cruelties of the Spaniards by that sad and lamentable death so they set fire to the Gun-powder by which blow threescore men were kill'd two half dead lived a little while being taken by the Spaniards with wonder beholding their dreadful Countenances and their words with their strange Resolution and Obstinacy in death 33. In the year 1607. about the time when the Plantations of Virginia began to be a little settled by King Iames some Brittains went to Guyana but a dangerous Sedition arose in the Voyage and the ship being lost part of the Company remained in the Island where continually vexing the Barbarians with their unkind usage they at last were set upon by War as Enemies by force of which and the want of Victuals they committed themselves to the Sea in a boat made only of an hollowed Tree there these poor distressed Creatures were tossed with continual Tempests betwixt Despair and Hope of life but at last they were droven upon the Rocks after great misery endured by them in their little boat for ten days together and now their danger was not lessen'd for here they must fall into the hands of the Spaniard who for all pardoned them in regard they came not to those parts of their own accord but by the stress of weather Thus were these poor distressed men saved and preserved when all hope of being saved was taken away 14. The Phenix Frigot in the time when Captain Whetston Commanded her and Mr. May was Master being Commanded to carry some persons of Quality from Rye to Deep in France the Captain and several of the Gentlemen that belonged to the Frigot was Ashore the Captain sends the Long-boat Aboard and Ordered the Frigot to weigh and come to sayl and stand too and fro off in the Bay and he would come out in his Pinnis and the Gentlemen that was with him were namely Sunebank Giles his Chyrurgion Mr. Goodwin his Chaplain Mr. Perkins his Barbar and Gentleman Mr. Richards and some three more Gentlemen Reformadoes Abraham Car Coxswain and about 12 Seamen for his Crew that set out of Rye and crossed the Bay to meet the Frigot under Sayl and when come near being a good way a-head waved to the Frigot to keep her way and not to come a playse for her which she did with a fresh Top-sail Gail of Wind till come up with the Pinnis and then the Coxen would a-laid her Aboard of the Larboard-side but the Captain supposing himself far enough A-head Commanded him to shout A-head of her and lay her A-board of the Starboard-side which assuming to do the ship giving a saw and having fersh way the Pinnis was not past but the Cot-water of the ship cut the Pinnis in the middle and run right over that she lay in a moment of time in a 100 pieces and all the men floating for their lives in the intrim of which time with a cry they gave a leap in which leap the Captain catcht hold on the Railes of the Head Mr. Richards on the Captains heels Mr. Giles the Chyrurgion on Richards heels Mr. Goodwin on Giles's heels and some other person on his so that with that spring or leap no less than 4 or 5 providentially catcht about one the others heels or middle as Boys when at playing Truss and in hoysting in the Captain they preserved 4 or 5 more with him the Coxen sank down and brought some of the Tallow of the Loward part of the ship on his Cloaths and came up again at the Stern where was taken up the Sea-men some by swiming others by the assistance of the Oar and pieces of the boat by Gods blessing kept them from drowning till the Long-boat took them all up except the Captains Barber Mr. Perkins whom it seems had sunk it s thought his last time but Providence so ordered it that the man in the main having the hand Lead there fell a chrockle in the dipsey Line and in that very intrim the Lead fell in the very place where the Barber was sunk and the chinckle of the Line fell about the Barbers Fingers hitcht about his Ring and so Providentially fastened it self so that as the man in the Sceanes haleing up his Lead found it to come heavier than it use to do admiring at last up comes the Barber fastened in the chinckle by his Ring which the Spectators amazed at immediatly took hold of him and pulled him into the Frigot but his Eyes fixed and Teeth set and little apperance of life but by the blessing of God on the immediate means used and care of him he soon came to himself and recovered so that
in 24 hours the Old Man being sensible it was the Devil and doubtless having been a proving of his heart to God as the Circumstance of Providence he was under more immediatly called for found in himself a renewed strength put into him inabling him to hold up his head and looking the Tempter in the Face Replyes Ah Satan if thou can'st prophesy deliverance for me know my God in whom I trust will deliver me without thy help but however know I will not comply to thy wiles therefore avoyd Satan avoyd so immedately he Vanished and appeared no more to him But so it fell out the other ship being at that time in the same parallel or Latitude that night the Cabben-Boy dreams a dream that such a ship their Confort was foundred and every Soul lost except such an Old Man nameing his name who was saved on a piece of a ship and floating in the Sea which dream the Boy in the Morning confidently tells it to the Company and his Master at last the Boy began to shew more Confidence affirming it as if it must be true insomuch received some checks from his Master but however at last the Boy grew so restless that he running up from one Mast to another sometimes at Fore-top-mast-head and then on the Main-top-mast-head looking abroad that at last crying out aloud Alow there I see him I see him under our Lee-bow thus confidently affirming it some of the men stept up and spy'd something at a distance no bigger than a Crow to appearance floating which advised the Master it who presently commanded the Helm to be born up and stood a-way to it and when come near found it the Old Man as the Boy said so they hoyst out their Boat and took him in who then was speechless and almost spent but by the care of the Master and the Chyrurgion and God's Blessing recovered and gave a verbal account of his misfortune and yet wonderful deliverance together with Satans Temptation as before recited which ship in due time Arrived safe at her Port in New-found-Land where this man was well Landed a-shore For Confirmation I had this and heard it related at my Father's House in Salom in New-England by Mr. Iohn Blackledge a Merchant who is a person of a sober life and in fellowship there who then came from New-found-Land and did affirm that he spake with the man himself whom God wrought this wonderful deliverance for he being then at New-found-Land when the said ship Arrived there and the man went first ashore 25. Anno Christi 1630. May the first the Muscovy Marchants of London sent a ship called the Salutation of London for Green-land which arrived there in safety the eleventh of Iune following together with two other Ships all which were commanded by Captain William Goodler The Ship wherein the Captain was stayed at Bell-sound This of the Salutation at the Foreland And the Captain meeting with store of Whales quickly made a great Voyage and so sent for the Salutation to take in part of his Train-Oyl By the way as they went to him meetting with cross Winds the Master set eight of his men on Shore to kill some Venison in a place where there used to be good store These men taking with them a brace of Dogs a Snaphance two Lances and a Tinder-box went on shore and that day they laid Fourteen good Deer upon the ground And then being weary and the Night coming on they betook themselves to rest intending the next day to make an end of their hunting and so to return to their ships But the next day proved foggy and there was much Ice between the shore and the ship and the wind coming Southerly the ship was fain to stand so far off into the Sea to be clear of the Ice that they lost the sight of her and the weather growing thicker and thicker they thought fit to hunt along the shoar to Green-Harbour and there to stay aboard the ship till their own ship should come into the Port. In this passage they killed eight Deer more and so having laden their Shallop with Venison they kept on their course to Green Harbour But when they came thither they found to their great astonishment that the ship was departed Being thus frustrated of their expectation and having but three days to the uttermost expiration of their limitted time for their departure out of that Country they thought it their best course to make all speed possible to Bell-Sound to their Captain and lest delay should prove dangerous they lightned their Shallop by lieving their Venifon over board into the Sea and so they hasted all they might and that night gat half way But the dark Fog increasing they were forced to cove in a point of Land till the next day at Noon At which time the weather being clearer they hasted forward but having no Compass to direct their course by they wandred up and down so long till the ships were departed This filled them with fear and astonishment knowing that neither Christian nor Heathen had ever Inhabited those desolate Climates Yea they had heard that the Merchants had endeavoured with proffers of great rewards and of sufficient furniture and provision of all things necessary to hire some to undertake to winter in those parts but could never meet with that would adventure their lives to so hazardous an undertaking They had heard also that the company of Muscovy Merchants had once procured the reprieve of some Malefactors condemned to death here in England unto whom they promised pardon together with rewards and provision of Cloaths Victuals and all other necessaries if they would stay one Winter there But when they came thither and took a view of the desolateness of the place they conceived such horrour and fear in their hearts chose rather to return for England and there to satisfie the Law with the loss of their lives than to stay in so desolate and darksom a Country They remembred also a more terrible Example of nine good and able men left there formerly by the same Master that had now left them who all dyed miserably upon the place and whose bodies were fearfully disfigured by the Savage Bears and Hungry Foxes which are the only Inhabitants of that comfortless Country All which made them like amazed men to stand one looking upon another every one fore-seeing the future calamities both of himself and of his fellowes and that which much encreased their horrour was their want of all necessary provision for the life of man having neither Cloaths to keep them warm and for shift nor food to prevent the miseries of cruel famine nor a house wherein to shroud themselves from the extremity of cold But after a space knowing that delay in extremities is the mother of all danger they began to conceive hope out of the depth of despair and therefore they consulted together of the likeliest course for their preservation in that place and resolved upon the