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A12455	An accidence or The path-way to experience Necessary for all young sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to sea, briefly shewing the phrases, offices, and words of command, belonging to the building, ridging, and sayling, a man of warre; and how to manage a fight at sea. Together with the charge and duty of every officer, and their shares: also the names, vveight, charge, shot, and powder, of all sorts of great ordnance. With the vse of the petty tally. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of New England.; Sea-mans grammar	Smith, John, 1580-1631.	1626 (1626)	STC 22784; ESTC S110991	13,452	46

to attend the Skiffe to go to and againe as occasion commandeth The Cooke is to dresse and deliuer out the Victuall he hath his store of quarter cans small cannes platters spoones lanthornes c. and is to giue his account of the remainder The Swabber is to wash and keepe cleane the ship and maps The Lyer is to holde his place but for a weeke and hee that is first taken with a lye euery Monday is so proclaimed at the maine Mast by a generall cry A lyer a lyer a lyer he is vnder the Swabber and onely to keepe cleane the beake-head and chaines The Saylers are the antient men for hoysing the sailes getting the tackes aboord hawling the Bow-lines and steering the ship The Younkers are the yong men called Fore-mast men to take in the Top-sayles or Top and yeard Furle and Sling the maine Saile Bousing or Trysing and take their turne at Helme The Lieuetenant is to associate the Captaine and in his absence to execute his place he is to see the Marshall and Corporall doe their duties and assist them in instructing the Souldiers and in a fight the Forecastle is his place to make good as the Captaine doth the halfe decke and the quarter Maisters and mid-mid-ships men but in the States men of Warre he is allowed as necessary as a Lieuetenant on shore When you set sayle and put to sea the Captaine is to call vp the company and the one halfe to goe to the Starreboord the other to the Larboord as they are chosen the Maister chusing first one then his mate another and so forward till they bee deuided in two parts then each man is to chuse his Mate Consort or Comrado then deuide them into squadrons according to your numbers and burthen of your ship but care would be had that there be not two Comorados vpon one watch because they may haue the more roome in their Cabons to rest To giue a true Arithmeticall and Geometricall proportion for the building of ships were they all built after one mould as also of their Yeards Masts Cables Cordage and Sayles were all the stuffe of like goodnesse a methodicall rule might bee Proiected but it would bee too curious for this Discourse and as much too troublesome either for the Reader or Author but the principall names of the timbers about the building of a ship according to his vnderstanding followeth and how being framed they are fixed First lay the Keele the Stemme and Starne in a dry docke or vppon the stockes and binde them with good knees then lay all the Flore timbers and cut your Limber holes aboue the keele to bring the water to the well for the pumpe Next your Nauell timbers and bind them all with sixe foote Skarfe at the least the Garbell strake is the outside plancke next the keele be sure you haue a good sufficient Kelson and then plancke your outside and inside vp with your Top timbers but the lengthes breadthes depthes rakes and burdens are so variable and different that nothing but experience can possibly teach it A Shippe of 400 Tunnes requires a planke of foure inches 300. Tunnes three inch small Ships two inch but none lesse For clamps middle bands and sleepers they be all of 6. inch planke for binding within The rest for the sparring vp of the workes of square 3. inch planke Lay the beames of the Orlope if the be 400. Tunnes at ten foote deepe in howle and all the beames to be bound with two knees at each ende and a stardard knee at euery beames end vpon the Orlope all the Orlope to be layd with square three inch plancke and all the planckes to be treenailed to the beames Sixe foote would bee betweene the beames of the Decke and Orlope and ten ports on each side vpon the lower Orlope all the binding betweene them should be with three inch or two inch plancke and the vpper Decke should be layd with so many beames as are fitting with knees to bind them laying that Decke with spruce deale of 30. foot long the sap cut off and two inches thicke for it is better then any other Then for the Captaines Cabben or great Cabben the stearage the halfe Decke the round house the Fore-castle and to binde an ende with a Capsterne and all things fitting for the Sea the Smiths worke the caruing ioyning and painting excepted are the principall things I remember to be obserued for a Charter-party betwixt the Merchant the Maister and the Owner you haue Presidents of all sorts in most Scriueners shops A dry Docke the stockes the keele the steme the sterne the starne-post the flowre the sleepers rising timbers garble strake her rake the fore reach plankes bindings knees boults trunions brasers riders the Orlope the ports the bend the bowe the hawse the hawses the decke the partners a flush decke fore and aft the ram heads the Knights a halfe decke a quarter decke the bulke the bulkes head the skuttle the hatches the hatches way the holes in the commings pitch tarre rosen okum calking In the stearage roome the whip the bittakell the trauas boord the Compasse the Fly the needle the lanthorne the socket About the Gun-roome the Tiller the rudder the pintels the gudgions the bread-roome the ships runne The powder-roome the Stewards roome the cooke roome the great cabbon the gallery a cabben a hanging cabben a Hamacke the lockers the round-house the counter the wayst the wayst-boords the gunwayle stations for the nettings a chaine through the stations or breft-ropes The Pumpe the pumpes well the pumpes brake the pumpes can the pumpes chaine the spindle the boxe the clap the pumpe is choaked the pumpe suckes the ship is stanche The forecastle or prow the beake-head the bits the fish-hooke a loufe hooke and the blot at the Dauids ende the Cat Cats head and Cats holes the ships draught The boule spret the pillow the sturrop the spret sayle the spret sayle yeard the spret sayle top mast the spret sayle top sayle yard the foremast the fore yard the fore top the fore top mast the fore top sayle yard the fore top gallant mast the fore top gallant sayle yeard coates and wouldings for all masts and yeards Grummets and staples for all yeards The trussell trees or crosse trees the maine mast the step in the kelson where it puts its heele as doth also the fore mast the maine yard the maine top the maine top mast the maine top sayle yeard the top gallant mast the maine top gallant sayle yeard the truck or flagge staffe The misen the misen yeard the misen top mast the misen top sayle yeard in great ships they haue two misens the latter is called the boneauentuer misen then the poope Lanthorne and flagge staffe when a mast is borne by the boord they make a Iury-mast which is made with yards rouftrees or what they can splised or fished together The Capsterne the

AN ACCIDENCE OR The Path-way to EXPERIENCE Necessary for all Young Sea-men or those that are desirous to goe to Sea briefly shewing the Phrases Offices and Words of Command Belonging to the Building Ridging and Sayling a Man of Warre And how to manage a Fight at Sea Together with the Charge and Duty of every Officer and their Shares Also the Names VVeight Charge Shot and Powder of all sorts of great Ordnance With the vse of the Petty Tally Written by Captaine IOHN SMITH sometimes Governour of Virginia and Admirall of New ENGLAND LONDON Printed for Jonas Man and Benjamin Fisher and are to be sold at the signe of the Talbot in Aldersgate streete 1627. ❧ TO ALL THE RIGHT HONORABLE And most Generous Lords in England and Others Especially of his Majesties Pri●y Councell and Councell of Warre RIGHT HONORABLE In regard of the Present occasion for the Arte of Navigation and many young Gentlemen and Valiant spirits of all sorts do desire to trye their Fortunes at sea I haue beene perswaded to Print this discourse being a subject I never see writ before Not as an instruction to Marriners nor Sailors whom I intreate rather amend it then condemne it confessing it might be a taske for a most excellent Sea-man But as an intraduction for such as wants experience and are desirous to learne what belongs to a Seaman for the advansing of that incomparable faculty seeing you are in place both of power and Authoritie I most humblie present it to Your Honors Considerations No more but sacring all my best abillities to the exquisite Iudgement of your renowned Vertues I ever rest Your Lordships ever most humbly deuoted IOHN SMITH TO THE READER AND ALL GENEROVS AND Noble Adventures by Sea And Well-Wishers to NAUIGATION ESPECIALLY THE MASTERS Wardens and Assistance of the TRINITY-HOUSE Worthy Readers HOW ever your perfections may censure my imperfections I know not my greatest error in this is but a desire to do good which disease hath ever haunted m●e since my child-hood and all the miseries and ingratitudes I haue indured cannot yet diuert me from that resolution As both Europe Asia Affrica and America can partly witnesse if all their extremities hath taught me any thing I haue not kept it for my owne particuler I know well I am blamed for not concealing that that time and occasion hath taught mee to reueale as at large you may read in the life of Sigismundus Bathor Prince of Transiluania writ by his Secretary Francisco Fernezsa New Englands Trialls With the Generall History of Virginia New England and the Summer Isles that the most of those faire plantations did spring from the fruites of my aduenters and discoueries is euident although their returnes as yet doth not answere the worlds expectation nor my desire yet how they haue proceeded euery yeare since their first originall to this present by the Maps therein you may plainly see the Discriptions of the Countries by the Story what they are what good they might be to this Kingdome how they haue bin vsed and abused how the defects might be amended the Plainters made happy God and the King well pleased and serued and all the Honorable and worthy Aduenturers contented Whatsoeuer malice or ignorance can feigne to the contrary for this small Pamphelet if I find you kindly and friendly accept it I meane ●re long more largely to explaine the particulars So I rest To Christ and my Country a true Souldier and faithfull Servant John Smith An Accidence for Young Sea-men OR Their Path-way to Experience THE Captaines charge is to commaund all and tell the Maister to what Port he will go or to what height In a fight he is to giue direction for the managing thereof and the Maister is to see to the cunning the Ship and trimming the sailes The Maister and his Mate is to direct the course commaund all the Saylors for steering trimming and sayling the Ship his Mates are onely his Seconds allowed sometimes for the two Mid-ships men that ought to take charge of the first prize The Pilot when they make land doth take the charge of the Ship till he bring her to Harbour The Cape merchant and Purser hath the charge of all the Caragasoune or Merchandize and the Purser doth keepe an Account of all that is receiued and deliuered but a Man of Warre hath onely a Purser The Maister Gunner hath the charge of the Ordinances Shot Powder Match Ladles Spunges Cartrages Armes and Fire-workes and the rest euery one to receiue his charge from him according to directions and to giue an account of his store The Carpenter and his Mate is to haue the Nayles Clinches roue and clinch-nailes spikes plates rudder-irons called pintels and gudgions pumpe-nailes skupper-nailes and leather sawes files hatchets and such like and euer ready for calking breaming stopping leakes fishing or spliceing the Masts or Yards as occasion requireth and to giue an account of his store The Boteswaine is to haue the charge of all the Cordage tackling sailes fids and marling spikes needles twine and saile-cloth and rigging the shippe his Mate the command of the long boate for the setting forth of Anchors waying and fetching home an Anchor warping towing and moreing and to giue an account of his store The Chirurgion is exempted from all duty but to attend the sicke and cure the wounded and good care Would be had he haue a certificate from the Barber-surgions Hall of his sufficiency and also that his Chest bee well furnished both for Physicke and Chyrurgery and so neere as may bee proper for that clime you goe for which neglect hath beene the losse of many a mans life The Marshall is to punish offendors and to see Iustice executed according to directions as ducking at Yards arme hawling vnder the Keele bound to the Capsterne or maine Mast with a basket of shot about his necke setting in the bilbowes and to pay the Cobty or the Morryoune But the Boyes the Boteswaine is to see euery Munday at the chist to say their Compasse which done they are to haue a quarter can and a bisket of bread The Corporall is to see the setting and releeuing the watch and see all the souldiers and saylors keepe their Armes cleane neate and yare and teach them their vse The Steward is to deliuer out the victuall according to the Captaines directions and messe them 4 5 or 6 as there is occasion The quarter Maisters hath the charge of the hold for stowage rommageing and trimming the shippe and of their squadrons for their Watch a Sayne a Fisgigg a Harping iron Fish-hookes for Porgos Bonetos or Dorados c. and rayling lines for Mackerell The Cowper is to looke to the caske hoopes and twigges to staue or repaire the buckets Baricoes Cans steepe-tubs runlets hogsheads pipes buts c. for wine beere syder beuerage fresh water or any liquor The Coxswaine is to haue a choyce

pawle the whelps the capsterne bars a Ieare capsterne is onely in great ships to hoyse their sayles the can hookes slings and parbunkels ports and ringbolts and hooks the skuppers the skupper holes the chaines the steepe tubs an entring ladder or cleats a boy a can boy a ship cranke sided Iron sicke spewes her okum a leake ship the sheathing furring carrying washing and breaming lanching caruing guilding and painting a ship ballast kintlage canting coynes standing coynes roufe trees a grating netting or false decke for your close fights The entring rope the boate rope the bucket rope the boy rope guest rope the cat rope the port ropes the keele rope the rudder rope the top ropes the bolt ropes the brest ropes are now out of vse the water line is The tacklings are the fore stay the maine stay The tackles the mison stay the collers the maine shrouds and chaines the maine top shroudes the fore shroud the fore top shroud the swifters the mison shroudes the mison top shroudes and their ratlings and the parels to all masts the maine hallyards the maine top sayle hallyards the top gallant saile halyards the fore hallyards the fore top sayle hallyard the misen hallyard and the spret sayle hallyeard the horse the maine sheats the maine top sayle sheats the maine braces the maine top sayle braces the maine bowling and bridles the maine top sayle bowlin the bunt lines the trusses the lifts the earring the cat harpings a Ieare leatch lines the Robins garnit Clow garnits tyes martlits the most of all these are also belonging to the fore-mast misen and bowlespret and hath the same denomination after their masts only the boulespret hath no bowlines and the misen sheats are called the starne sheats they haue all of them pullies blockes shiuers and dead mens eyes Lanyeards caskets and crowes feete A snap blocke is seldom vsed but in heauing of goods and ordinances There is also diuerse other small cordage as head lines the knaulings gassits or furling lines marlines rop yearne Caburne Sinnet paunches and such like The Cables hawsers or streame cables are most vsed in the water by the Anchors when they are too short they shoote one into another when they are galled or breake they splice them when that way vnseruiceable they serue for Iunkes fendors and braded plackets for brests of defence and then as the rest of the ouerworne tackling for rope yarne caburne sinnit an okum sheeps feet is a stay in setling a top mast and a guie in staying the tackles when they are charged with goods The Anchor hath a stocke a ring a shanke a flouke the greatest in euery ship is called the sheat Anchor the rest Anchors a streame Anchor graplings or kedgers bend your cables to your Anchors The maine sayle the fore sayle called sometimes the fore course the maine course or a paire of courses each of them hath a bonnet and a drabler the maine top sayle the top gallant sayle and in a faire gaile your studding sayles then your mison your misen top sayle your spret sayle and spret sayle top sayle a drift sayle a crosiack a netting sayle twyne a munke seame a round seame a suite of sayles a shift of sayles top Armours wayst clothes pendants and colours A channell a bay a rode a sound an offen a coue a crike a riuer cleere ground very fast ground or good anchoring foule ground osie ground sandy ground clay ground a headland a furland a ketch a land marke A calme a brese a fresh gaile a pleasant gayle a stiffe gayle it ouerblowes a gust a storme a spoute a loumegaile an eddy wind a flake of wind a Turnado a mouthsoune a Herycano A calme sea becalmed a rough sea an ouergrowne sea the rut of the sea roaring of the sea it flowes quarter floud high water or a still water a full sea a spring tide ebbe a quarter ebbe halfe ebbe three quarters ebbe a lowe water a dead low water a nepe tide a shoule a ledge of rockes a breach a shallow water deepe water soundings fdome by the marke 3 0 d. and a shaftment lest 4 0 d. disimboage a gulph the froth of the sea Starbord is the right hand Larbord is the left starboord the helme right your helme a loufe keepe your loufe come no neere keepefull stidy so you goe well port warre no more beare vp the helme goe roumy beyare at the helme a fresh man at the helme A sayle how stands she to wind ward or leyward set him by the Compasse he stands right a head or on the weather bow or ley bow out with all your sayles a stydy man to the helme sit close to keep her stydie Giue chase or fetch him vp he holds his owne no we gather on him out goeth his flag and pendance or streames also his Colours his wast-clothes and top armings he furles and slings his maine saile in goes his spret sayle and misen he makes ready his close fights fore and after well we shall reach him by and by What is all ready Yea yea Euery man to his charge Dowse your top sayle salute him for the sea Hale him whence your ship of Spayne whence is yours of England are you Merchants or Men of Warre We are of the Sea He wayses vs to leyward for the King of Spaine and keepes his loufe Giue him a chase peece A broad side and runne a head make ready to tacke about giue him your sterne peeces be yare at helme hale him with a noyse of Trumpets We are shot through and through and betweene winde and water trye the pumpe Maister let vs breathe and refresh a little sling a man ouer-boord to stop the leake done done is all ready againe Yea yea beare vp close with him with all your great and small shot charge him Boord him on his wether quarter lash fast your graplins and sheare off then runne stemlins the mid ships Boord and boord or thwart the hawse we are foule on each other The ships on fire Cut any thing to get cleere and smother the fire with wet clothes We are cleere and the fire is out God be thanked The day is spent let vs consult Surgion looke to the wounded wind vp the slaine with each a waight or bullet at his head and feete giue three peeces for their funerals Swabber make cleane the shippe Purser record their names Watch bee vigilant to keepe your berth to windward and that wee loose him not in the night Gunners spunge your Ordinances Souldiers skower your peeces Carpenters about your leakes Boteson and the rest repaire the sayles and shroudes Cooke see you obserue your directions against the morning watch Boy Holla Maister Holla Is the kettleboyled yea yea Boteswaine call vp the men to Prayer and Breakfast Boy fetch my celler of Bottles a health to you all fore and afte courage my hearts for a fresh charge Maister lay him a bord loufe for loufe

Mid ships men see the tops and yeards well maned with stones and brasse bals to enter them in the shrouds and every squadron else at their best aduantage sound Drums and Trumpets and St. George for England They hang out a flag of truse stand in with him hale him a mayne a base or take in his flagge strike their sayles and come aboard with the Captaine Purser and Gunner with your Commission Cocket or bills of loading out goes their Boate they are lanched from the Ship side Entertayne them with a generall cry God saue the Captayne and all the Company with the Trumpets sounding examine them in particuler and then conclude your conditions with feasting freedome or punishment as you finde occasion other wayes if you surprize him or enter perforce you may stow the men rifle pillage or sacke and crye a prize To call a Councell in a Fleete there is the Councell of Warre and the common Councell which hangs their flags out in the mayne shrouds or the misen Nor betweene two Navies they use often especially in a Harbour or rode where they are at anchor to fill olde Barkes with pitch tar trayne oyle linsed oyle brimstone rosen reedes and dry wood and sutets combustable things sometimes they linke three or foure together towed together in the night and put a drift as they finde occasion To passe a Fort some will make both shippe and sayles all blacke but if the Fort keepe but a fire on the other side and all their peeces poynt blanke with the fire if they discharge what is betwixt them and the fire the shot will hit if the rule be truely observed To conclude there is as many stratagims advantages and inventions to be vsed as you finde occasions and therefore experiences must be the best Tutor Bend your passerado to the mayne-sayle git the sailes to the yeards about your geare on all hands hoyse your sayles halfe mast high make ready to set sayle crosse your yeards bring your Cable to the capsterne Boatswaine fetch an Anchor aboord break ground or way Anchor heaue a head men into the tops men vpon the yeards come is the Anchor a pike heaue out your topsayles haule your sheates What 's the Anchor away yea yea Let fall your fore sayle whose at the helme there coyle your cable in small slakes hawle the cat a bitter belay loufe fast your Anchor with your shanke painter stow the boate Let sayle your maine saile on with your bonnets and drablers steare study before the wind The wind veares git your star-boord tacks aboord hawle off your ley sheats ouerhawle the ley bowlin ease your mayne brases out with your spret-saile flat the fore sheat pike vp the misen or brade it The ship will not wayer loure the maine top saile veare a fadome of your sheat a flown sheate a faire winde and a boune voyage the wind shrinks get your tacks close aboord make ready your loufe howks and ley fagnes to take off your bonnits and drablers hawle close your maine bowline It ouercasts we shall haue winde sattle your top sailes take in the spret sayle in with your topsayles lower your maine sayles tallow vnder the parrels in with your maine sayle lower the fore sayle the sayle is split brade vp close all your sayles lash sure the Ordinances strike your top masts to the cap make sure your sheepes feete a storme hull lash sure the helme a ley lye to try our drist how capes the ship cun the ship spoune before the winde she lusts she lyes vnder the Sea trie her with a crose-jacke bowse it vp with the out looker she will founder in the Sea runne on shore split or billage on a Rocke a wracke put out a goose-winge or a hullocke of a sayle faire weather set your fore sayle Out with all your sailes get your Larbord tackes aboord hawle off your Starboord sheats goe large laske ware yawning the ships at stayes at backe-stayes ouer set the ship flat about handle your Sayles or trim your sayles let rise your tacks hawle of your sheats Rocke-weede adrift or flotes one to the top to looke out for Land a ships wake the water way the weather bow weather coyle lay the ship by the Ley and heaue the lead try the dipsie line bring the ship to rights fetch the log-line to try what way shee makes turne vp the minute glasse obserue the hight Land to make Land how beares it set it by the Compasse cleare your leach-lines beare in beare off or stand off or sheare off beare vp outward bound home-ward bound shorten your Sailes take in your Sailes come to an Anchor vnder the Ley of the weather shore the Ley shore nealed too looke to your stops your Anchor comes home the ships a drift vere out more Cable let fall your sheat Anchor land-locked more the ship a good Voyage Armes arme a skiffe a frigot a pinnace a ship a squadron a fleete when you ride amongst many ships pike your yards To the boate or skiffe belongs oares a mast a saile a stay a halyard sheats a boat-hook thoughts thoules rudder irons bailes a trar-pawling or yawning carlings carling-knees for the Dauid the boates-wayles a dridge to row a spell hold-water trim the boate vea vea vea vea vea who s●●es Amen one and all for a dram of the bottle A Basillisco double Cannon Cannon Pedrea demy Cannon Culvering Sakar Minion Falcon Falconet Rabbenet Murderers slings Chambers Curriors Hargabusacrock Musquets bastard Musquets Coliners Carbines Crabuts long Pistols short Pistols Charges Cartrages Match Spunges Ladles Rammers Rammers heads tomkins a worme a bore a barrell taper bore hunicomed lintstockes carrages trukes linch-pins trunions axell-trees beds coynings the peeces in the prow the chase peeces in the sterne the quarter peeces the mid-ships the vpper tyre the middle tyre the lower tyre their fids and leads to keepe dry the touch hole Trauers a peece dispect a peece compasse Calipers a gunners quadrant a hand spike a crow of iron to mount a peece to dismount a peece a darke Lanthorne a budge barrell a horne a priming iron wyer round-shot crosse-barre-shot chayne-shot langrill shot a case case-shot lead melting ladles moulds bullet bagges Musquet shot Colyuer shot quartred shot Pistol shot poysoned bullets brasse bals iron bals granadoes trunkes of wilde fire pikes of wild fire arrowes of wild fire pots of wild fire or dragouns To cloye a peece To loade a peece To poyson a peece hookes for gunner or tacklings Concerning the particuler theormes or tearmes for great Ordnances as the concaue trunke cylinder the soule or bore of a peece To know whether she be equally bored camber taper or belbored the severall names of her mettle the thinnesse and thicknesse her carnooze or base ring at her britch her shaft or chase her trunnions mousell-rings at her mouth to dispart her know her leuell poynt blanke and best at randome her fortification the differences of powder be