The Diary of Henry Teonge: Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679

First published in 1927. This was the first complete published edition of Teonge'sDiary. An intensely human document, enlivened with sketches of the people he met and places he visited, Teonge'sDiaryis one of the finest accounts of life on board ship in the seventeenth century. When not at sea, Henry Teonge's life was as a parson and this edition of his Diary includes a full inventory for his Parish, providing an excellent source of historical and social information on rural life in the late 1600s.