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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    ALMERIA BAY note of all Captain Langston's things, and lock them all up. (30): No prayers, the weather was so very bad; and we are fain to dine, not at a table but lying upon the deck. And we have not yet passed Cartagena. 31 : By 12 to-day we are paSt Table Round. At 2 there came in to us the Phcenix and the Sapphire, she having a Turk’s ancient under the English, which she took from the vessel which she lately forced on shore and burnt. And this night these two ships left us again. They brought us the ill news of the Moors taking two forts at Tangier, and carried away the heads of [the] men they killed there. April if?; Very fair weather. And we are pa£fc Cape de Gat, and got into Almeria Bay, but not likely to get out this night. Here we met a rich English fleet, of above twenty sail; some for Zante, some for Smyrna, some for Scanderoon. Several salutes pass on both sides. At 5, the wind being cross, all our fleet come to an anchor in Almeria Bay, and ju£t before a pitiful cattle, called Rocketta, not worth the name of a cattle. 4: By 6 we are all under sail, but the wind soon slacked, and we all came back again, but came not to an anchor. 5: This morn we are all benighted in a thick fog. At 6 at night the wind was so strong that it split our sails. (6) : No prayers, the weather was so very bad ; for it split our main topmast, and also our fore topmast. I