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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46665	Mr. James Janeway'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.	Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Ryther, John, 1634?-1681. Sea-dangers and deliverances improved.	1674 (1674)	Wing J473; ESTC R16537	59,234	142

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