In my
remembrance (which extendeth not to aboue 40. yeeres) this village
tooke great encrease of wealth and buildings, through the iust and
industrious trade of fishing, and had welneere forty ships and barks
at one time belonging therevnto. But our late broyles with Spayne
haue let vp a more compendious, though not so honest way of gayning,
and begin by little and little, to reduce these plaine dealers,
to their former vndeserued plight. Yet do they prescribe, in a
suburbiall market (as I may terme it) to Plymmouth, for their reliefe,
by intercepting, if not forestalling, such corne and victuals,
as passing thorow their streights, cannot for want of time or weather,
get ouer Crymell passage, to the other: and surely they are not
unworthy of fauour: for this towne furnisheth more able Mariners at
euery prest for her Highnesse seruice, then many others of far
greater blaze.
It chanced about twenty yeeres sithence, that one Richaurd, wife to
Richard Adams of this towne, was deliuered of two male children,
the one ten weekes after the other, who liued vntil baptisme, & the
later hitherto: Which might happen, in that the woman bearing twinnes,
by some blow, slide, or other extraordinary accident, brought forth
the first before his time, and the later in his due season.
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