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This would also leave an after cabin for the Master, who not infrequently made his quarters, and those of his chief officer, in the "round house," when one existed, especially in a crowded ship. Alderton and English seem to have been counted "of the company." The last-named duty must have been a most difficult and wearisome one.
Handle your oars for your lives!" For now the great boat, losing her sail, must depend upon oars, and with two men at each, and Alderton and the Cornish giant steering as best they might against a sea howling and leaping like wild beasts around them, the shattered craft drove on past the headland of Manomet, steering straight for the deadly rocks off the Gurnet's Head, which Coppin espying from the bows, he uttered a cry of dismay, shouting,
English Plymouth's harbor is no better than a slaughter pen! Not less than ten good ships were pounded to pieces there in the last year," said the sailor Alderton. "Yes, 't is worse than the Goodwin Sands, if that can be," echoed English. "While here is a haven most artificially contrived for safety, with its overlapping arms and islands," cried Clarke.
Not far away I found the next design, very nearly of the same date. The words below were: "To the memory of Thomas, the son of Thomas and Ann Alderton, who departed this life the 10th day of April 1767, in the 13th year of his age." The same artist almost of a certainty produced both of these figurative tombstones.
GILES, the younger, was also ed. at Camb., and, like his brother, became a country parson, being Rector of Alderton. His poem, Christ's Victory and Triumph , which, though it contains passages rising to sublimity, is now almost unknown except to students of English literature, is said to have influenced Milton.
Alderton, he stuck in one room with his books, which he was always fond of above a bit, and must needs be waited on hand and foot, only driving over to Lewes every now and then. Six pounds a year I was to have, and a little something extra at Christmas, according as I behaved myself. It was Master Harry who engaged me.
Also, and this not the least consideration, the next day being Sunday, they would thus be prepared to observe it with that decency and recollection which were part of their religion. The plan arranged, all set heartily to work to carry it out, the sailors going aboard to bale the boat, and Clarke and Alderton undertaking to fit the new mast.
To that repulsive book we refer those readers who may wish to peruse Mrs. Manley's account of Sarah Stout's death. A distorted tradition of Sarah Stout's tragic end, and of Lord Cowper's imputed bigamy, was contributed to an early number of the 'European' by a clerical authority the Rev. J. Hinton, Rector of Alderton, in Northamptonshire. "Mrs.
In 1797 "Hentzner's Travels in England" were edited, together with Sir Robert Naunton's "Fragmenta Regalia," in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the editor. Sir Robert Naunton was of an old family with large estates, settled at Alderton, in Suffolk.
"We be all dead men! The rudder has broke, and no man can steer in such a sea as this with an oar!" "Two men may, so they be men and not cowards!" shouted John Alderton in retort, and springing to the stern he thrust out his own oar, calling to a comrade, "Here, Cornish Jim, come you and help me, and so long as ash blades and stout arms hold we two will steer the craft."
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