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water getting into it. This was the same individual 

 canoe that was taken, with all its furniture or remex, 

 anno 1613, in the sea, by Andrew Barker of Hull. The 

 Groenlander taken refused to eat, and died with hunger 

 and sullenness in the space of. three days. A great 

 whalebone lies at the door of the Trinity House. We 

 saw the water-house, which furnisheth the whole town 

 with fresh water. The water is drawn up by horses into 

 two cisterns, by a device which 1 had not before observed. 

 We viewed also the free-school, over which are two rooms, 

 one in which the merchants have their feasts, another 

 with seats, wherein they meet to confer. The town is 

 governed by a mayor and twelve aldermen. The mayor 

 hath a large mace borne before him on festival days, and 

 a cap of maintenance, and a small mace for ordinary 

 days ; also two swords, the lesser given by King Richard 

 11, the larger by Henry Vlll, but one borne at a time. 

 There is also a small mace for the water bailiff; also 

 another little one called the blood- wipe, which they use in 

 parting of frays, and he that draws blood of another 

 forfeits a noble to the mayoress. Besides these is a 

 wooden ensign like a knife, called the admiralty mace, 

 with which the water-serjeant arresteth ships. At the 

 mayor's house is kept a fair cupboard of public plate 

 belonging to the town. The principal commodities 

 (exported at least) wherein the town's trade consists, are 

 lead, brought hither out of Derbyshire, and cloth for 

 sails. This town furnisheth the greatest part of Yorkshire, 

 and the adjoining countries, with wines. We saw a 

 public building near the river Hull, which they called the 

 Exchange. On the further side of the river Hull stand 

 three forts ; one called the North Blockhouse, the middle- 

 most the Castle, and the third the South Blockhouse, all 

 three garrisoned with soldiers, and built of brick. The 

 South Blockhouse, which commands the Humber, is in 

 good repair, the other two somewhat decayed. On the 

 tops of the walls of this last we observed the common 

 pink [either Biayithus caryopliyllus or B. plumarius, 



