The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on board the fliip, till every perfon in her had been drawn up on deck, and perfonally viewed by him. This occa¬ sioned fome delay on my part, as it was not the work of a minute to lift me from the cabin to the deck. The captain thought my particular cafe might have been excufed from this ce¬ remony ; and that it would be abun¬ dantly fufficient if the magistrate, who was obliged afterwards to vifit the ca¬ bin, furveyed me there. But this did ’not fatisfy the magiftrate’s ftridl regard to his duty. When he was told of my lamenefs, he called out with a voice of authority, c Let him be brought up,’ and his orders'were prefently complied with. He was indeed a perfon of great dignity, as well as of mod exact fidelity in the difcharge of his truft. Both which are the more admirable, as his falary is lefs than 30 1. Englifh per annum. Before a fhip hath been vifited by one of thofe magistrates, no perfon can lawfully