EDAVARD FENTON ad 



1583. 

 lye but South southwest sixe glasses, so that at three a 

 clocke wee cast about, and lay Northwest sixe glasses, 

 and North northwest a watch being then eight a clocke 

 the next day. 



The 26. day wee lay as nigh as wee coulde betweene 

 the North and the North northeast, and saw the same 

 land againe, and made it to bee the foreland of Fontenay, 

 and the ragges to bee the Seames, which bare now East 

 Northeast of us : and wee stoode on till tenne a clocke, 

 then being within two leagues of the rockes and lesse, wee 

 cast about and stoode off Southwest, because wee could 

 not double the uttermost rockes : when we were about we 

 drave to the Southwards very faste, for the ebbe set us 

 West southwest, and being spring tides, it horsed us 

 a pace to leewards, for the space of one houre : then 

 with the flood which was come, we drave againe to 

 windewards : at twelve at noone it was calme till 6. 

 afternoone, then wee stoode about larbord tacked, South 

 southwest one watch, then at midnight wee cast about and 

 stoode over North till foure aforenoone. 



The 27. day having brought the land East southeast 

 of us, we made it to be Sylly being before deceived, and T^he yk of 

 went hence East by North to double Grimsbie, leaving "^-^^v- 

 The bishop and his clearks to the Southwestwards, which 

 we before tooke to be The Seames. 



At 7. a clocke in the afternoone we sawe the lands end 

 of England, which bare East by North off us, and is 7. 

 leagues off from Sylly. 



The 29. day at sixe a clocke, beforenoone we had 

 brought the Ramhead North of us, and were within a 

 league of it, and went in Northeast next hand, being thicke 

 and foggie, and little winde : so that at eleven a clocke we ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ 

 got in within the yland, and there by mistaking of a P^^^^^^^^^. 

 sounding, our ship came aground betweene the yle and 

 the maine, and there sate till 4. a clocke in the afternoone 

 that it was halfe flood. 



The 30. day about 9. a clocke, with much adoe I 

 furnished away P. Jeffries, M. Symberbe, and William 



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