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23 Sept.

LIBER PEREGRINATIONIS PRIMAE, 1583 - topics: weather,travel,court_patronage,household_family,health_illness

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23 Sept. - Daybook Entries. Records weather, travel, court patronage, household family, health illness: (Being Monday) we came to the mouth and entrance of Queenborough Creek or Haven.

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Records weather, travel, court patronage, household family, health illness: (Being Monday) we came to the mouth and entrance of Queenborough Creek or Haven. And as we made to land in small fisher- boats, the Lord Laski, my wife and children in one boat, and I, with E.K., Mary, Elizabeth, and John Crocker3 in another, it fell so out...

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LIBER PEREGRINATIONIS PRIMAE, 1583

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weather,travel,court_patronage,household_family,health_illness

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(Being Monday) we came to the mouth and entrance of Queenborough Creek or Haven. And as we made to land in small fisher- boats, the Lord Laski, my wife and children in one boat, and I, with E.K., Mary, Elizabeth, and John Crocker3 in another, it fell so out, that at the ship's side, our fisher-boat his sail-yard and sail was entangled on the main- yard of the fly-boat (being struck down) so that, in our setting from the ship's side, the top of our boat being fast above, and the winds and stream carrying the boat off below, it inclined so much on the one side, that the one half of the fisher-boat (well near) was in the water, and the water came so in (by the entangling before specified, not easily to be undone or loosed) that my Lord, my wife and all that saw us thought that of necessity our boat must sink, and so we to have perished. But God in his providence and mercy had greater... of us, so that we became clear: the boat half full of water, so that we sat wet to the knees, and the water with the billow of the seas came still beating in more and more. And in this mean trouble, one of our two boatmen had lost his long oar out of the boat into the water, and so not only we lacked the help of that oar, but also by reason they would have followed the wind and ebb for that oar (contrary to our course in hand and not able to become by): so with much ado we constrained them with the sail, our one oar, and the rudder to make such shift as they could to get to Queenborough Town. And in the mean space E.K. with a great gauntlet did empty most part of the water out of the boat, else it must needs have sunk by all man's reason. At length (to be brief) we came to the town side, up the crooked creek: where, when as the master of our ship would have taken me out in his arms (standing in the water with his boots) he fell with me in the water, where 1 was foul arrayed in the water and oase. God be praised for ever, that all that great danger was ended with so small grief or hurt.

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(Being Monday) we came to the mouth and entrance of Queenborough Creek or Haven. And as we made to land in small fisher- boats, the Lord Laski, my wife and children in one boat, and I, with E.K., Mary, Elizabeth, and John Crocker3 in another, it fell so out, that at the ship's side, our fisher-boat his sail-yard and sail was entangled on the main- yard of the fly-boat (being struck down) so that, in our setting from the ship's side, the top of our boat being fast above, and the winds and stream carrying the boat off below, it inclined so much on the one side, that the one half of the fisher-boat (well near) was in the water, and the water came so in (by the entangling before specified, not easily to be undone or loosed) that my Lord, my wife and all that saw us thought that of necessity our boat must sink, and so we to have perished. But God in his providence and mercy had greater... of us, so that we became clear: the boat half full of water, so that we sat wet to the knees, and the water with the billow of the seas came still beating in more and more. And in this mean trouble, one of our two boatmen had lost his long oar out of the boat into the water, and so not only we lacked the help of that oar, but also by reason they would have followed the wind and ebb for that oar (contrary to our course in hand and not able to become by): so with much ado we constrained them with the sail, our one oar, and the rudder to make such shift as they could to get to Queenborough Town. And in the mean space E.K. with a great gauntlet did empty most part of the water out of the boat, else it must needs have sunk by all man's reason. At length (to be brief) we came to the town side, up the crooked creek: where, when as the master of our ship would have taken me out in his arms (standing in the water with his boots) he fell with me in the water, where 1 was foul arrayed in the water and oase. God be praised for ever, that all that great danger was ended with so small grief or hurt.