Which will contain a great Variety of uſeful and entertaining Matter, in Prose and Verse.
This Work will be likewiſe ornamented with a large Number of engraved Plates, ſome of which repreſent the twelve Signs of the Zodiack in Miniature, and the ſeveral Employments and Diverſions of the Gentlemen Farmers, throughout the different Seaſons of the Year:—Alſo a curious Repreſentation of a County Convention, debating on State-Affairs; at the Head of the Table is a Figure of HONESTUS, that renowned Champion and bold Atteſtor of the Liberty of the Subject, and ſworn Enemy to Lawyers, who is converſing with one of the Order; over his Head is a Label with theſe Words “No Courts, no LAWYERS:” Another Plate repreſents a very curious and droll Scene of a large Group of the Black Order, or the Sons of Littleton and Coke, mounted on Jack-Aſſes, Peacocks, &c. returning from a rich Feaſt at Concord Court, &c.
PREFACE.
To the READER, into whoſe Hands this Narrative may fall; eſpecially my Seafaring Brethren.
FRIENDS,
When any remarkable circumſtances take place in a man’s life, he feels commonly a diſpoſition to communicate them to the world: If they have been deliverances from great and ſignal dangers, he will make this communication from a principle of gratitude to the Being who hath protected and preſerved him: He will wiſh to engage others to be thankful on his behalf; and a knowledge of the kindneſs of Heaven to him may lead others to truſt in GOD, when they are brought into like diſtreſs and danger. By theſe motives the Subject of the following pages hopes he is influenced in publiſhing them to the world; which is all the apology that may be expected from the Publick’s diſtreſſed Friend,
BARN. DOWNES, Jun.
Barnstable, September 10, 1786.