"EASTER MONDAY.
"Riding at the Cowes, near the Isle of Wight, in the _Arbella_,
a ship of 350 tons, whereof Capt. Peter Milborne was master, being
manned with 52 seamen, and 28 pieces of ordnance, (the wind coming to
the N. by W. the evening before,) in the morning there came aboard us
Mr. Cradock, the late governor, and the masters of his 2 ships, Capt.
John Lowe, master of the _Ambrose_, and Mr. Nicholas Hurlston,
master of the _Jewel_, and Mr. Thomas Beecher, master of the
_Talbot_."
The entry for Monday, April 12, 1630, is:--
"The wind more large to the N. a stiff gale, with fair weather. In the
afternoon less wind, and our people began to grow well again. Our
children and others, that were sick and lay groaning in the cabins, we
fetched out, and having stretched a rope from the steerage to the
main-mast, we made them stand, some of one side and some of the other,
and sway it up and down till they were warm, and by this means they soon
grew well and merry."
The following entry for June 5, 1644, reflects an interesting side light on
the government of Harvard, our first American college:--
"Two of our ministers' sons, being students in the college, robbed two
dwelling houses in the night of some fifteen pounds.
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