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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    1 John Haughton, Firft Lieutenant, Unicorn, 1670; Second Lieutenant, St George, 1672 ; Bonaventure, 1673 5 Lieutenant, Assistance, 1675 ; Faulcon, 1677 ; Unicorn, 1678 ; Dover, 1679. [Navy Records Soc., xxvi, 363.] 2 Houlding or Holden. In 1666, Captain of the Cygnett, and soon afterwards removed into the London, hired ship-of-war. In 1668 served as Lieutenant of the Old James; in 1669, of the Centurion; on the commencement of the Second Dutch War in 1672, appointed Firft Lieutenant of the Charles. In the same year he was appointed Second Captain of the same ship, under Sir J. Harman ; and, when in the following year Sir John removed into the London, Captain Houlding accompanied him in the same capacity. He had no other command till the 22nd of April, 1675, when he was made Captain of the Assurance, from which ship he was in a few days removed into the Assistance. On the 12th of April, 1678, he was appointed Commander of the Unicorn; on the 30th of November following, of the Advice, a guardship at Portsmouth ; and on the 18th of April, 1682, succeeded as Captain of the Woolwich. [Charnock, Biog. Navalis, i, 236 ; Navy Records Soc., xxvi, 336.] 3 Between Erith and Gravesend. 4 The Sundays throughout the Diary are distinguished by being encircled. 5 Throughout the Diary Teonge spells 4 one ’ as 4 on ’, as is not un¬ common towards the end of the seventeenth century. 6 A shoal in the Thames EStuary, about six miles EaSt of the Nore ; now marked by four buoys. 7 For the probable words of this song see Commander Robinson’s British Tar, pp. 429-30, and Mariner’s Mirror, vol. ix, p. 9. The tune was sounded on the trumpets as part of the salute given to any superior officer or person of rank upon leaving the ship, as the follow¬ ing extrabt from Captain Nathaniel Butler’s Dialogues concerning Marine Affairs (Sloane MSS. 758) clearly shows : “ Being againe returned into the Barge ; After that the Trumpetts have sounded a loathe-to-departe and that the barge is falne off, . . . He is to be saluted with soe many Gunns for an Adieu as the shyp is able to give.” For the probable tune, see Mariner’s Mirror, ix, p. 9.