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I departed from Mortices, about three of the Clock after noon: The Lord411 ert Lash j , (Vaywode of Siradia , in Folonta) meeting me on the water , aswe had appointed: And so brought night to Lomon , an m the dead of thenight, by Wherries, we went to Greenwich to my. friend Goodman Fern the Pot-ter his house : Where we refreshed our selves, and thither came a great Tylt-boat from Graves end to take us in, (by appointment of me an - >• tan ey} togo to our (hips , which we had caused to ly seven , or eight mile beyond Gravesend. To which ships we came on Sunday morning by Sun rife : In the greater ot them \ e ' n ganlubbie Fly-boatofPr»w^r^,) my Lord LashjG R and E. K. with my Wife and Children,sec.

Went.: And in another (hip (by me also hired for this passage) went some of my Lord hi8 men,two horse,Skc. that ship was a Boyer, a pretty ship. With little winde we straight-way hoy fedsayl, and began our voyage in the (hip. ;

This 2t. day we were in great danger of perishing (on the sands 3 called the < pits) about There arosemidnight: We had (by force of winde contrary) Anchored by them, and the Anchor camehome, no mail perceiving it, till the ship was ready to strike on the lands. Then, upon greatdiligence and pollicy used by our Marrinera in hoyiing sayl, and cutting our Cable, (to leaveour sliote anker) and committing ourselves to the hands of God, and mojt earneji/j jrajmg fora p-cfperoitf yeinde : It pleased the Almighty , and most mercifull God , suddenly to change thewinds, which served us to bear from the sands, and to recover ^Vinborrongb, ba k again.

The 23. day (being Munday) we came to the mouth and enti ance of Qjnbunovgh Creek^i or -rj, e cv ;<j e ficHaven- And as we made to land in small Fisher-boats, the Lord Lashje^ my -Wife and Chil-helpolGodatdren in one boat, and /, with E. fC Marie , Elizabeth , and John Crok^ar , in another, it fell so tlle w '~out, that at the slops side, our Filher-boat his sayl-yard and sayl was entangled on the Mayn- *} ut *;. v 3n ^ eryard of the r ly-boae (being stroke down) so that, in our setting from the mips side , the top eaof our Boat being fast above, and the wiudes and stream carrying the Boat off below , it irCdined (o nilicli on the one fide, (fiat the one half of the Fisher boat (well near) was in the wa-ter 4 and the water Came so in (by the'Mangling before specified , not easily to be undone, orloosed) that my Lord, my Wife, and all that law us thought that of necessity our Boac must

sink, and so, we to have perisht. 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 fat wet to the knees , andthe water with the billow of the Sea came still beating in more and more : And in this meantrouble; one of our two Boat-men, had lost his long Oare out of the Boat into the water; andso not onely we lacked the help of that Oare , but also by reason they would have followedthe winde and ebb, for that Oar, (contrary to our course in hand,and not able to become by Jwith much adoe we constrained them witn the sayl, our one Oare, and the Rudder so makesuch sbife as they could to get to §hJnborrough Towi\: And in the mean space E. K. with agreat Gant let did empty most part ot the water out of the Boat,else it must needs have funk by•all mans reason. At length (t... be brief) we came to the Town fide,up the crooked Creekjwhete^when as the Master of our /hip would have taken me out in his arms ('standing in the wateryd th his Boots- he fell with me in the water,where I was foul arrayed in the water and Oafe.

God be praised for ever, that all that great danger was ended with so small grief, 0 r hurt.

At uinlorrough «,

Wednesday, Septemb- 2$ . Circa 3. a Meridie , jam pleno mari . (

Oravimus ad Dcuni,ejus imploiabamus auxilnni,Cortina statim apparuit. Oravi denuo

;? us, pro auxilio, tempore neceflicatis : Sex pedum altitudine apparebat-unus in aere, quali'alt era ex parte nubis,inter E.K. Ft illuni interpositas. v 5

E -K- Ego illum cogrtosco-

Iltlbes cap f am me c og’t°[cendi i & illum qui me misit) vel jam non -vixisses- •

*** Videtur esse Michael.

F A. Gratias

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