muche winde still westerly and verye Colde weather.

The winde n: w: by n: a handsome gale and close weather and and 256 substituted for cancelled but munday 24 verye Colde we stood S: w. about noone we had occasion to lye by the Lee, to streighten our misen shroudes and the reeradmirall and Jewell one letter cancelled beinge bothe to windward of vs, bare vp and came vnder our Lee, to enquire if any thinge were amisse with vs, so we heard the Companye were in healthe in bothe the shippes the Jewell, but that 2 passingers were dead in the Ambrose and one other Cowe:

Tuesday 25.

Winthrop, John

1630-05-25

The winde still n: w: faire weather but Colde, we went on with a handsome gale, and at noone were in 43: ½: and the variation of the Compasse was a point and ⅙. All this daye we stood west corrected from westerly S: w: about 5: or 6: leagues a watch and towardes night the winde enlarged, with a Cold dash of snowye rayne, and then we ranne in a smoothe sea about 8: or 9: leagues a watche, and stood due w:

Wensday 26:

Winthrop, John

1630-05-26

The winde still n: w: a good gale and faire weather, but very Colde still yet we were about 43: at night we sounded but founde no grounde.

May 1630 Thursday 27.

Winthrop, John

1630-05-27

The winde N: W: a handsome gale, faire weather. about noone it came about to the S: w: and at night rayne, with a stiffe gale, and it continued to rayne verye hard till it was neere mid night. This daye our skiffe went aboard the Jewell for a hoggeshead of meale which we borrowed, because we Nowell*1 could not come by our one, and there came backe in the skiffe the master of the Jewell and mr. Revell 2 so our Capt stayed them dinner, and sent for Capt Lowe. and about 2: howers after dinner they went aboard their owne shippes our Capt givinge mr. Revell 3: shott, because he was one of the owners of our shippe.

We vnderstood now that the 2: which dyed in the Ambrose, were mr. Cradockes servantes, who were sicke when they came to sea and one of them should have been lefte at Cowes, if any hoast would have received him.

In the Jewell also one of the sea men dyed, the a most profane fellowe, and one who was verye iniurious to the passingers, thoughe muche against the will of the master.

At noone we tacked about and stood w: and by n: and so continued most part of that daye and night followinge, and had muche rayne till midnight.

1.

This name, followed by an asterisk three times repeated in the margin of this page, is written in a later hand.

2.

See supra, page 215, note 5 216, note 2 .

Frydaye 28.

Winthrop, John

1630-05-28

In the morninge the winde veered to the w: yet we had a stiffe gale, and steered n: w: and by n: it was so great a fogge all this daye, as we had lost 257sight of one of our shippes, and sawe the other some tymes muche to Leeward. we had many feirce showers of rayne, throughout this daye.

At night the miste cleered vp and we sawe bothe our Consortes faire by vs. so the winde beinge verye scante, we tacked and stoode w: and by S: Gli nollius is written in the margin, cryptic, perhaps, for “filius nullius,” i.e. a bastard a Childe was borne in the Jewell about this tyme