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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Thursday Aprill 1:

1 April 1630

Saturday 3

3 April 1630
Friday 2:
Winthrop, John

1630-04-02

We kept a fast aboard our shippe and the Talbott 1 the winde continued still verye high at w: and S: and raynye, in the tyme of our fast 2: of our landmen, peirced a rundlett of stronge water, and stole some of it for which we layd them in boltes all the night, and the next morninge the principall was openly whipped, and bothe kept with bread, and water that daye.

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For the practice of fasting and prayer on shipboard, see Higginson's “True Relacion,” Proceedings , LXII. 290, 299.