The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board H.M.'s ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, 1675-1679 / transcribed from the original manuscript and edited with an introduction and notes by G.E. Manwaring.

  • Henry Teonge
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[1927]
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Credit: The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board H.M.'s ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, 1675-1679 / transcribed from the original manuscript and edited with an introduction and notes by G.E. Manwaring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SPITHE AD house.” And after dinner I went with our Captain to Port Caesar, an old ruinous place, built by Julius Caesar,46 and was his dwelling-house. The wall is very high, and built great part of it of flint. ’Tis four¬ square, and contains seven acres of ground, in one part; and near the wall stands an old cattle, with dry moat about it. In the Ea£t end is a large church, but very ruinous, and great part of it uncovered. (8): This day I preached a sermon at Caesar’s church ; there being the Major of Portsmouth and several other gentlemen present. Text: Psalm, Ixvi, 13. We dined at the inn there, and were very merry. Mr Peyton carried my token to Portsmouth this day, to send it to London ; and he lay at the hulks all night. 10 : This day at 11 we are under sail to get out of the harbour (for our men fall sick apace). We sail as far as the Round Tower : the wind fails ; we come back to our mooring—a fine short voyage; and by the way we made a shift to dround a ballast boat which ran against us, but saved the boy that was in the boat. 13 : This morning we sail out; salute the town with nine guns, who thank us with seven ; and at 1 we anchor at Spithead. We take in all things fit for our voyage. (15) : I preached a sermon on the word “ Our ”. 16: A seaman had twenty-nine lashes with a cat-o’- nine-tails, and was then washed with salt water, for stealing our carpenter’s mate’s wife’s ring. 17 : This day [it] was two years God did miraculously save all our lives in the Assistance,47 which I hope I