1 8 NORTH SEA FISHERS AND FIGHTERS 



and handsome young gentleman called, and, giving his 

 name as James Carr, and explaining that he was 

 adventurous and wished to see the world, said he would 

 advance the loan on condition that he could sail with 

 the Mary Rose as a passenger. Shepherd gladly took 

 the offer, and the slim and handsome young gentleman 

 had one of the best berths on board set apart for 

 him. The Mary Rose sailed on Midsummer Day, 

 1476. 



The story of Cummins from this point is long and 

 exciting ; but a few sentences will serve to indicate its 

 leading points. The slim and handsome passenger was 

 Mistress Cummins in disguise. She had taken this 

 romantic means of rejoining and saving her husband, 

 and she accomplished both her objects. 



Poetic judgment overtook the faithless Shepherd, 

 for he was massacred, with other members of the crew 

 of the Mary Rose, by natives, whose women he had 

 maltreated and whose goods he had stolen, in strict 

 accordance with the spirit of the times. 



The voyage home was marked by storm, mutiny, 

 and a meeting with a French pirate ship, the Mogador. 

 The mutineers captured the Mary Rose, which in turn 

 was taken by the Mogador, and this craft having been 

 cleverly seized by Cummins who forced the rovers to 

 work their own ship to Hull he returned in safety to 

 his native country. He became rich by trading with 

 the Levant ; but he had had enough of the African 

 goldfields, which he never revisited. One of his sons 

 commanded a " victualler" belonging to Drake's squadron 

 in the fight with the Spanish Armada. 



That is the story of one of the many adventurers 



