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A58039	A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwrack, famine, or other accidents. much enlarg'd, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.	Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Ryther, John, 1634?-1681, attributed name.	1698 (1698)	Wing R2445; ESTC R222746	69,767	178

that time in the same Peril or Latitude that Night the Cabbin-Boy Dreams a Dream that such a Ship thereabouts was Foundred and every Soul lost except such an Old Man naming 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 to the Company and his Master at last the Boy began to shew more Confidence affirming it as if it must be true insomuch he receiv'd 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-bon 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 and advised the Master of it who presently commanded the Helm to be born up and stood away to it and when they came near found it to be 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 with God's Blessing recover'd and gave a verbal account of his Misfortune and yet wonderful deliverance together with Satan's Temptation as before recited which Ship in due time Arriv'd 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. John 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 Arriv'd there and the Man went first ashore 25. Anno Christi 1630. May the first the Moscory Merchants of London sent a Ship called the Salutation of London for Greenland which arriv'd there in safety the Eleventh of June following together with two other Ships all which were commanded by Captaiu 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 meeting 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 Ship 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 ●ain 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 heaving their Venison over-board into the Sea and so they hasted all they might and that night got 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 endeavour'd 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 any that would adventure their lives in so hazardous an undertaking They had heard also that the Company of Moscovy Merchants had once procur'd 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 conceiv'd such horrour and fear in their hearts that they 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 died 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 Fellows 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 or 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 opportunity of the next fair weather to go to Green-Harbour to kill some Venison for part of their winter Provision which accordingly ther did but found not so many Deer as they expected yet the first day they killed Seven 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 Dear 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

John 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 Mutiny at which occasion he and his Son was forced to stand on their Guard for some time casting his care on the Lord But whilst 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 vanish'd 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 ●ailed from thence being bound for Galloway in Ireland but was forced into Bruts-Bay in Cornwal where the Ship brake in pieces six Persons being Drowned others wonderfully cast on Shore and bruised amongst the rest John 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 laid amongst the other Dead Folk that were taken up being only cover'd with some Straw or Rubbish But by Providence an Old Man looking on the Dead People did perceive some Life in the said Denny and the Lord open'd 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 God's blessing the said Denny is now well and liveth at Bristol This my Author had from John 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 some few years ago 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 deliver'd in Virginia but she was a vile Person and having often offended at last was punish'd for which she said they should not carry her to Virginia tho 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 Mar●h 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 Ballast 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 Hold brought her to rights 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 forc'd off again for many days having then but two or three pieces of Beefe and no Bread nor I think above a Gallon of fresh Water But after some time the Wind came fair they making 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 rush'd into 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 round about forty Fathom Water and very calme then they chopt to an Anckor there and that Night got two or three Fish wherewith they Refreshed themselves but the Woman would not Eat but could get no more and finding a fine Gale weighed Anckor 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 ●alm and about that time the Woman ●ad fasted about 21 Days and yet could Curse and Damn and say She should not go 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 Hold made a Great Noyse and when she had given a Great Screach or Groan this Great Black Thing Vanish'd the Water seeming like Fire all round and made a Great Sea and Noise And when the Men came to them selves they looking for the Woman found her Dead and after they had ●●ung her over-Board they had a brave Wind and Weather and got safe to Plimouth in New-England 18. At New-England in the year 1671 〈◊〉 spoke with John Grafting of Sal●m and others of good Repute who told me not ●ong before the said Grafting suffered Shipwrack amongst the Leward Islands 〈◊〉 the Name of the Place I forget the Ship or Ketch being broken to pieces himself ●nd Mate and one or two were cast with ●he Sea ashore amongst the Rocks most wonderfully not knowing of each other till 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 wonderful manner and not only there but in their getting off that place and bringin● them safe to their Friends and Relation● in Salem in New-England where Praise● was returned to the Lord who wonderfully preserves the Children of Men. hope this ere long will be enlarged from the Party himself 19. I being well Acquainted with on● Jeffery Howard a Marriner who is a Man of Good Repute he told me as followeth● That about Twelve or Fourteen year● since he was coming through the City o● Salisbury he was looking on the Stree● Rivers and spies something move on th● Water but looking earnestly saw it to have Life steps in and got it out and found it to be a Man-child only inrapt a● it came into the World from its Mother and it was put to Nurse and now is become a fine Youth 20. At Bristol a place well known no● many years ago a Man fell into the River● near about the marsh and not being seen was carri'd 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 Spaniel saw somthing floating slung 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 Society 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 lcak 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 22. Captain John Trankmore Commander of a Ship belonging to Apsom near Exeter in one of his Voyages of late years being at Sea in a dark night and foul weather fell foul of another ship unexpectedly not then knowing what each other were but a Sea parting them again in the interim Captain Trankmore's ship shipt a great Sea which wash'd 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 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 obtain'd such knowledge of the Art of Navigation and his Master being gone and as they suppos'd drown'd being wash'd over-board was necessitated to improve his skill and by Gods blessing he carry'd the ship safe home to Apsom where Arriving although they had made 〈◊〉 good Voyaye yet the sorrow for the los● of the Master ●at up all the Comfort● and Smiles a Prosperous Voyage otherwise would have made but so Providence order'd it that about the same time three or four days after the other ship Arrives safe in Plymouth where the said Trankmore Landed very sorrowful and dejected having as he supposed lost his Ship wherein he was deeply concern'd as an Adventurer himself and all his Men as he 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 Trankmore 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 as before-Recited giving the Gentleman his Neighbour an account of the Providence towards him when 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 Incredulous 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 thence took heart recovering himself went home rejoycing where he found his expectation answer'd and a wellcome given him by all persons with him concern'd For the truth I have heard it acknowledg'd by Captain Trankmore's own mouth at my House in Bristol and farther the same Snytal was my Predecessor's 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 who at that time our Squadron 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 carry'd our Main-top-mast by the board in which disaster the Man that was lowermost and least in danger fell over-board and was drowned and the other two which were in Greatest danger one of their Names was Roger Dennis under the Denomination of a Quaker instead of being bruis'd and their bones broken 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 prejudic'd 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 who 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 perish'd except one Old Man who had lasht himself on the main Hatch and committed himself to the Mercy o● 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 the shape of a Mare-maid starts up before him and bids him be of good heart for i● he would but make a Contract with him he would ingage a Deliverance for him 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 immediately 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 canst 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 avoid Satan avoid so immediately he Vanish'd and appear'd no more to him But so it fell out the other Ship being at

continu'd for forty hours and all of them safely Arriv'd at Barbadoes The Masters name of the Ketch was Thomas Woodberry of Salom. This the Author had from a very known person of 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 intercept 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 e're 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 grappl'd 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 pour'd 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 13. In the year 1607. about the time when the Plantations of Virginia began to be a little settled by King James some Britains 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 Hollow Tree there these poor distressed Creatures were tossed with continual Tempests betwixt Despair and Hope of Life but at last they were driven upon the Rocks after great misery endured by them in their little Boat for Ten days together and now their danger was leslessen'd for here they must fall into the hands of the Spaniard who pardon'd 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 Phoenix Frigot in the time when Captain Wheston 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 Order'd 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 they came 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 she came 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 aboard of the Starboard-side which he assuming to do the Ship giving a saw and having fresh way the Pinnis was not past but the Cotwater of the Ship cut the Pinnis in the middle and run right over that she lay in a moment of time in 100 pieces and all the Men floating for their lives in the interim of which time with a Cry they gave a leap in which leap the Captain catcht hold o● the Railes of the Head Mr. Richards on the Captain 's heels Mr. Giles the Chyrurgion on Richard's 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 sunk down and brought some of the Tallow of the Lower part of the ship on his cloaths and came up again at the Stern where he was taken up by the Seamen some by swiming others by the assistance of the Oar and pieces of the Boat by God's blessing kept them from drowning till the Long-boat took them all up except the Captain 's Barber Mr. Perkins whom it seems had sunk it s thought his last time but Providence so order'd it that the Man in the main Channel having the hand Lead there fell a chrockle in the dipsey-Line and in that very interim 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 fasten'd it self so that as the Man in the Sceanes haling up his Lead found it to come heavier than it used to do admiring at last up comes the Barber fastned in the chinkle by his Ring which the Spectators amazed at immediately took hold of him and pulled him into the Frigot with his Eyes fixed and Teeth set and little appearance 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 notwithstanding this shrewd disaster which might have proved fatal to all or most of them yet there was not one Man of them all miscarry'd but was recover'd to their health again as Monuments of God's Mercy For truth of this many of the Men are alive at this day the Chyr●rgion now living in Grays-Inn-Lane and at the very interim of time I was then aboard the said Frigot and was not only an Eye-spectator but an Instrument to help in preserving of some of them and therefore may Aver it to be Truth Ezekiel Fog 15. About Ten years ago in the Island of Barbados there did arrive one Mr.

night we laid us down to rest after having prayed and set our watch but immediately this our second Ship ran with full Sails upon a Rock and gave so great a Crack as was able to awake the most dead asleep among us and the Marriners cryed out Mercy Mercy it pleased God that the Ship struck it self so fast in the cleft of a Rock with her Bow over the main Rock that the former part of her stood firm but breaking in the storm one of the Sea-men leaped from the bow of the Ship upon the Rock with a Rope in his hand which was fastened to one of our Masts and held it with so stiff a hand that another slipt down by it and so all our Company that escaped being Twenty Eight in number came safe to the Rock I was the last that came down the Ship that way for in that very moment she gave way which the Master perceiving who was still aboard made lamentable moan to us to help him which we endeavoured to the utmost but the Ship broke and sunk immediately there was this good man and four of the Marriners drowned I saw the Master with a light in his hand fall into the Sea the saddest sight that I ever yet beheld in this world and that which pierced my very Soul to see him that saved our Lives lose his own Now were we in the dark upon the Rock but knew not where our feet being cut upon the sharp stones at length we happened of a hole in the Rock which was a warm shelter against the wind and when morning came where we could see no Land only had a Glimps of the Coast of Norway at a great distance We grew hungry but had nothing to fish but our Arms with which we drew up some small Muscles and they we eat heartily but we burnt with thirst and I would have given all I had for a draught of fresh water which would have been more welcome than the Gold of Ophir though nothing is so mean in our esteem but we were forced to drink Salt-water which increased our thirst we now saw a Ship coming towards us with full Sails and we waved our hats to them but they went off and never came near us we betook our selves to our old Remedy Prayers the Danes first singing one of ●●ther's Psalms fell to their Prayers and I prayed as long as I was able to speak and then lay'd my self down on the Rock thinking I should rise no more in this World But I overheard one of the Sea-men say Let us make a Raft and venture to Sea I had rather be drowned than lye here and be starved They all concluded of it though dangerous and the Sea having fallen from the Rock had left our Sails Masts and Anchors with part of the Ship thereon wherewith they soon made a slight Boat and it being a great calm the rest past through the beaches with four men in it and had it touched only on them they would have rent it in pieces however through Gods goodness they arrived safe in Norway and returned with several Boats so that we came all of us once more to Land and were entertained at an honest Lutheran Parsons house where after we had continued for some days with little money and much thanks we parted and came to Frederick 〈◊〉 where the People run after us in the Street and with compassionate Eyes gave us what we wanted without asking from thence we went to Osterson●● and there went aboard an English Ship we had not been above two or three 〈◊〉 at Sea but there was a sad destraction the Marriners again crying for Mercy Mercy for we had almost fallen foul on a Rock under water which we did not spy till we were upon it but by the mercy of God we sailed close by ●t and yet escaped it the least touch of ●t had been our ruine about noon we ●ame clear of all the Rocks on the Coast of Norway and were sailing for England with a fair Gale of Wind but in this prosperity another sad accident befel us ●his third Ship sprang a leak and began ●o swim within as well as without and we had no way to relieve our selves but ●y pumping for the Leak could not be ●ound which we did day and night or four or five days together when it ●leased God we came safe though in a ●reat deal of danger because of our otten Ship into Yarmouth Road for the ●ind being very high had like to have ●riven us upon a Scotch Vessel who cryed ●ut as well as we but we happily mist ●●m and so safely arrived in Yarmouth ●own through the wonderful mercy of God Deus Nobiscum The great Dangers and Merciful Deliverances of William Okely and his Company from Slavery in a Canvas Boat c. In the Year 1639. We took Ship at ●avesend in the Mary of London Mr. Boarder Master bound for the Isle of Providence in the West-Indies five weeks we lay in the Downs waiting for a wind and then we set Sail and came to an Anchor near the Isle of Wight but by this time all the Beer in our Ship stunk and we were forced to throw it overboard and so take in Vinegar to mix with Water for our Voyage the next Lords day we set Sail again and coming between the Island and the main Land we stuck fas● in the Sands but the Tide coming in● heaved us off the sixth day after ou● setting Sail from the Isle of Wight we discovered three Turks men of War wh● chased us and at break of day boarde● and took us having kept us clo●● Prisoners at Sea at the end of five or six weeks they brought us to Algiers when I was sold for a slave the first Market da● to a Patron who told me I must allow him two Dollars a Month and live ashore where I would and get it when I could though I knew not where t● levy the least Mite of it Wandring u● and down I met with an English-man 〈◊〉 his little Shop who Traded with T●bacco and a few other things I beca●● his Partner with a little Money I h●● reserved and a small modicum my Patr●● had allowed me for my stock Here I got money and hired a Celler where I laid up some other of my Goods when weary of my slavery I formed a design for my Liberty and communicated it to John Anthony Carpenter William Adams Brick-layer John Jephs Seaman John a Carpenter and two others men of able Bodies and useful in the intended project which was to contrive the Model of a Boat which being formed in parcels and afterward put together might be the means of our escape They approved the Proposal and in my Cellar we began our work we provided first a piece of Timber of twelve foot long to make the Keel but because it was impossible to convey it of that length out of the City but it must be seen and suspected we therefore cut