The Last of the Mayflower
The Last of the Mayflower
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Tonnage.
Owner. "Mayflower" 250.
Thomas Horth (= Howarth) of Gt. Yarmouth.
Master. Walter Bullard.
The permit is renewed in the next year as follows : 3 October, 1627. Name. Tonnage.
Owner. "Mayflower" 240.
Thomas Horth and others. Of Gt. Yarmouth.
Master.
Waster Pullord.
Clearly the same ship is intended, and the sailing is intermediate in date to the two " Mayflower " dates for New England.
Let us see what we can find out about this Mr. Thomas Horth (or Howarth) and his ship the " May- flower... ".
Thomas Horth is a leading figure in the mercantile life of the seventeenth century ; we may describe him for the middle of that period as the merchant prince of Great Yarmouth. He was interested in all kinds of ventures with risks and high returns ; sometimes he was trading in coal, sometimes in fish, sometimes in whale- oil, and sometimes employing his part of the mercantile 49 4 THE LAST OF THE " MA YFLO WER ".
marine, as suggested above, in the repression of piracy by quasi-piratical methods : every now and then we find the Parliament voting him large sums for services rendered, for he was an ardent Parliament-man, even if he could not always collect what was voted him ; and sometimes we find him lending small sums on his own account to the Government of the Great Protector.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Tonnage.
Owner. "Mayflower" 250.
Thomas Horth (= Howarth) of Gt. Yarmouth.
Master. Walter Bullard.
The permit is renewed in the next year as follows : 3 October, 1627. Name. Tonnage.
Owner. "Mayflower" 240.
Thomas Horth and others. Of Gt. Yarmouth.
Master.
Waster Pullord.
Clearly the same ship is intended, and the sailing is intermediate in date to the two " Mayflower " dates for New England.
Let us see what we can find out about this Mr. Thomas Horth (or Howarth) and his ship the " May- flower... ".
Thomas Horth is a leading figure in the mercantile life of the seventeenth century ; we may describe him for the middle of that period as the merchant prince of Great Yarmouth. He was interested in all kinds of ventures with risks and high returns ; sometimes he was trading in coal, sometimes in fish, sometimes in whale- oil, and sometimes employing his part of the mercantile 49 4 THE LAST OF THE " MA YFLO WER ".
marine, as suggested above, in the repression of piracy by quasi-piratical methods : every now and then we find the Parliament voting him large sums for services rendered, for he was an ardent Parliament-man, even if he could not always collect what was voted him ; and sometimes we find him lending small sums on his own account to the Government of the Great Protector.
What to read after The Last of the Mayflower?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Harris James Rendel to read onlineMoreLess
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