The Lady of Lynn

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Lady of Lynn, by Walter Besant
GRATITUDE, MY LORD, TO YOU, HE REPLIED.
By
SIR WALTER BESANT
Author of All Sorts and Conditions of Men, The Orange Girl, Etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK . DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY . . . 1901
Copyright, 1900 By Sir Walter Besant
THE CAXTON PRESS NEW YORK.

The happiest day of my life, up to that time, because I should be the basest and the most ungrateful of men were I not to confess that I have since enjoyed many days far excelling in happiness that day, was the 20th day of June, in the year of grace, seventeen hundred and forty-seven.
For on that day, being my nineteenth birthday, I was promoted, though so young, to be mate, or chief officer, on board my ship, The Lady of Lynn , Captain Jaggard, then engaged in the Lisbon trade.