An accidence or The path-way to experience. Necessary for all young sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to sea, briefly shewing the phrases, offices, and words of command, belonging to the building, ridging, and sayling, a man of warre; and how to manage a fight a sea. Together with the charge and duty of every officer, and their shares: also the names, vveight, charge, shot, and powder, of all sorts of great ordnance. With the vse of the petty tally. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of New England.
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- An accidence or The path-way to experience. Necessary for all young sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to sea, briefly shewing the phrases, offices, and words of command, belonging to the building, ridging, and sayling, a man of warre; and how to manage a fight a sea. Together with the charge and duty of every officer, and their shares: also the names, vveight, charge, shot, and powder, of all sorts of great ordnance. With the vse of the petty tally. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of New England.
- Sea-mans grammar
- Accidence Path-way to experience Accidence for yong sea-men
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London: Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Ionas Man, and Benjamin Fisher, and are to be sold at the signe of the Talbot, in Aldersgate streete, 1627.
- Publication year
- 1627-1627
- ESTC No.
- S110999
- Grub Street ID
- 130937
- Description
- [8], 19, 24-42, [2] p. ; 4⁰
- Note
- An enlarged edition appeared in 1627 with title "A sea grammar", and by 1652 the title had become "The sea-mans grammar" (Wing S4123).
Printer's name from STC.
Running title reads: An accidence for yong sea-men.
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