shayler's

Updated: May 28, 2025

So on the Monday morning we were driven down a body of Sir Basil Hopwood's own company of the Trainbands guarding us to Shayler's Stairs, near unto the church of St. Mary Overy; and there we were in number about a hundred put on board a Hoy, which straightway, the tide being toward, bore down the river for Gravesend.

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