The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679 / Now first published from the original MS. with biographical and historical notes.

  • Teonge, Henry, 1621-1690.
Date:
1825
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Credit: The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679 / Now first published from the original MS. with biographical and historical notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    28 This morning on of our men, viz. Skinner, a knowne coockould, for goeing on shoare without leave had his leggs tyd together, his hands tyd to a greate rope, and stood on the syd of the ship to be hoysted up to the yard arme, and from thence to dropp downe in to the water 3 times: but he lookeing so very pittifully, and also by the gentlmen’s intreatys to the Captaine for him, who alleaged that he had - injurys enough already, as haveing a wife a whore and a schold to injure him at home, ergo had the more need to be pittyed abroade, was spared. Now wee are on the coasts of Sancta Maura or Maurea, so much commended by Sir Phillip Sydny for its fruitfullnes and plesant merrynes of the in- habitants, and were thence called merry Greeks. Tis pene insula, almost an iland, made by the Gulfe Lapantho, which runing betweene the Albanian shoare and Sta. Maura, doth divide it, and make an iland of it; only tis linked by a neck of land 5 miles. This Gulfe of Lepantho was the place into the which the remainder of the Turkish fleete was once forced by the Venetians ; whoe, knowing that they had them in a pinfold out of which they could by no meanes returne, layd som vessells in the mouth of the Gulfe to keepe them in, and then pursued som other scat- tered gallys. And when the Venetians cam up the Lepantho the next day to cease on their pray, they found neyther man nor gally, for that night the Turks had drawne their gallis over that neck of land, °° See Note ll, page 19.