The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679 / Now first published from the original MS. with biographical and historical notes.

  • Henry Teonge
Date:
1825
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Credit: The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679 / Now first published from the original MS. with biographical and historical notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    July 1. Our stay, though short, got provinder good store, Beife, porke, sheepe, ducks, geese, chickens, henns, gallore.” Syder, beare, brandy, bred :—and somthing more I could have told you had I gon a shoare. About I! of the clock wee passe by the Eddy Stone, or Muestone,”” being a small rock, not much longer than a 4th rate frigott, lying South from the Ram-head, about 3 leages from land; wheron many a good ship hath beene splitt. At low water you fathom, and lyes the more dangerouse, because ‘tis so farr from land, and also under water. Thence wee passe by the coasts of Cornwall to the Lizard, whether wee cam by 6 of the clock, haveing a fresh gale. And here I bad adue to Old England ; for no more English land was to be seene after that. This day wee enter upon the Bay of Biscay ; where wee find the seas very smooth, contrary to our ex- pectacion : and wee have a fayre gale, and see non but our owne company, of which two sayle very heavily, and hinder much: and towards evenmg wee lite of [light on] a Virginea man, and presse 3 stout seamen. The wind has favored us since wee cam from Plimworth, as much as it was against us before : crossing the old proverb—the wind from North-est 7 Gallore, for plenty, is still in use in Ireland and has been thought an Irish word, but we find it in the English “ Dictio- nary of the Vulgar Tongue.” 18 The worthy Chaplain mistakes. The Muestone and Eddy- stone are different rocks; the former at the East entrance of the Sound ; the latter where he describes it.