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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

prevents them a great flake of Ice interposes between them and their ship and carryes them adrift so that by all means that they and the ship could use they could not recover their Vessel again whereby they were exposed to an inevitable ruine neither having Food nor any other Accomodation to keep them warm they having continued thus three daysand three nights they began to be Hunger-starv'd and accounting themselves all dead men they began to consult one with another what course to take they at last though with great regret and grief resolve one of them must dye to become Food for the rest each person begg'd to have it his Lot to dye first to be freed from that torment that they languished under so that they were forced to determine it by Lot He upon whom the Lot fell desired to go to one end of the Boat there to recommend his soul to God by Prayer before he dyed the rest being in a deep Agony upon apprehension of shedding the blood of one of their Comerades But while they were sat together lamenting and imploring God's favour to prevent such a fact according to that they wished and desired The person separated by Lot for death dyed upon the place where he was praying which in their deplorable Condition occasioned great Joy to the rest that hereby they were not forced against their wills to take his life so looking upon this as a good Omen they proceeded to satisfie their Hungers upon the dead body the Boat was still A-drift not frozen up so that by that time their Food was spent they were brought ashore many Leagues to the Norward of New-England where the five landed alive where the poor Barbarians did commiserate them and help them as they could three of them dyed with the distress they had been in the other two made a shift to get to New-England and so at last by a good hand of God upon them came to their Habitations in the West of England having both lost their heels with the extremity of the cold in the Boat This Relation my Author had from one of these two Sea-men with whom he came afterwards a Passenger from Ireland to whom he shewed his heels so lost 4. A small Vessel about 45 Tun the Masters name Phillip Hangare coming upon the Coast of new-New-England they suddenly sprang a leak and so foundred There were in this poor miscarrying Vessel 18 Sea-men and Passengers 12 of the men got into the Long-boat and as that was suddenly brought to their minds in this surprise they threw into their Boat also some small matters of Provisions but they were wholly without fire These 12 men at that time of the year about Michaelmas and as Paul said in his Voyage Sayling was become dangerous Sayled five hundred Leagues and were to a Miracle preserved all that time in this small Boat five weeks but it pleased the Lord who appears in our straits most to send them great relief by causing some flying Fish to fall into the Boat which they eat raw and were unto them more acceptable than the greatest rarities and dainties at another time God's Providence now proving the Caterer they catch'd a Shark and that Ravenous Fish that uses to prey upon men now becomes a prey to these poor distressed Creatures but they were glad of food in the want of fire and have an heat in their Stomacks to eat that raw and digest at this time what would have made them sick at other times but alas another want they had was drink as well as fire but they were forced to open the belly of this Shark and suck his blood for drink at last that God who hath a desire to the work of his own hands gives them hopes to release them out of this insupportable misery by letting them come to a discovery of Land in the West-Indies but alas they were so weak that when they came ashore one or two of them dyed but most of them lived to declare the works of the Lord. This the Author had from one of the 12 that were thus miraculously preserved but since cast away at Sea 5. Captain Jonas Clark of new-New-England going for Virginia the Vessel was Cast away in a strange amazing manner about two hours before day among the Indians where the Ship-wrackt men lay ashore in great fear but three days after they thought to get their ship off again to which end the Master with some others went into the boat they came threescore Fathom from the shore where there arose a great Sea and broke in upon them but the second Sea came and turned the boat up four men under water all were drowned but Captain Clark who was kept under water by one of the men until his breath was gone but then God appeared and set him at liberty from him in a most Miraculous way and inabled him to swim to the shore they that were alive now were in great straits and perplexities not knowing what to do but yet some of their eyes were up to God at last they Unanimously resolve to Travel and when they had Travelled one night and part of a day meeting with many Swamps and thick places so that all hope failed them of going along so they stood still as wayfaring men astonish'd not knowing what course to take and though before they were afraid of any Indians now they were glad to pray to the Lord for the sight of an Indian which in this extremity and perplexity within half an hour the Lord was pleased to grant The Indian was all alone which was observable also when they got to him they asked the way to the English and they did perswade him by entreaty to go along with them but within one hours time he carryed them to a Town of the Indians which did sadly fright and amaze them but they still looked up to the Lord to help and save them and at last they got to the English and so were preserved This Relation the Author had from Captain Clarks own hand a person of known Godliness and Integrity 6. The last Providence called to mind a strange and stupendious passage of a Godly Gentlewoman who in the first breaking forth of the Rebellion in Ireland was forced to fly for her life with some other persons in her Company especially three Children one of them upon her Breast But alas these poor trembling Travellers had not gone long before they were striped Naked by the Irish who to admiration spared their lives but passing on to the foot of a River others met them and would have cast them into the River but this Godly Woman not being dismay'd ask'd a little liberty to Pray and as she lay on frozen ground Naked she got a little resolution not to go on her own feet to so unjust a death upon which having call'd her upon her resolution they drag'd her by the heels along the ground with the rest of the Company she turns upon them and on her

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-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.