The Last of the Mayflower

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The Last of the Mayflower
Harris James Rendel
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Tonnage.
Owner. "Mayflower" 250.
Thomas Horth (= Howarth) of Gt. Yarmouth.
Master. Walter Bullard.
The permit is renewed in the next year as follows : 3 October, 1627. Name. Tonnage.
Owner. "Mayflower" 240.
Thomas Horth and others. Of Gt. Yarmouth.
Master.
Waster Pullord.
Clearly the same ship is intended, and the sailing is intermediate in date to the two " Mayflower " dates for New England.
Let us see what we can find out about this Mr. Thomas Horth (or Howarth) and his ship the " May- flower
... ".
Thomas Horth is a leading figure in the mercantile life of the seventeenth century ; we may describe him for the middle of that period as the merchant prince of Great Yarmouth. He was interested in all kinds of ventures with risks and high returns ; sometimes he was trading in coal, sometimes in fish, sometimes in whale- oil, and sometimes employing his part of the mercantile 49 4 THE LAST OF THE " MA YFLO WER ".
marine, as suggested above, in the repression of piracy by quasi-piratical methods : every now and then we find the Parliament voting him large sums for services rendered, for he was an ardent Parliament-man, even if he could not always collect what was voted him ; and sometimes we find him lending small sums on his own account to the Government of the Great Protector.


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