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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

mundaye 31.

31 May 1630

Wensday 2:

2 June 1630
June 1: Tuesdaye.
Winthrop, John

1630-06-01

The winde N: E: a smale gale, with faire cleere weather, in the afternoone full S: and towardes night a good gale. we stood w: by n. a woman in our shippe fell in travayle and we sent and had a midwyfe out of the Jewell: she was so farre a head of vs at this tyme, (though vsually we could spare her some sayle) as we shott of a peece, and lowred our topsayles, and then she brayled1 her sayles and stayed for vs.

This eueninge we sawe the newe moone, more then halfe an hower after sune sett, being muche smaler then it is at any tyme in England.

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Brail, to haul up. N.E.D.