overmasting

The Rev.Dr. Griffis ( "The Pilgrims in their Three Homes," p. 158) seems to give ear to Professor Arber's untenable allegations as to the Pilgrim leaders 'responsibility for any error made in the "overmasting" of the

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But not only were these Leyden leaders not guilty of any laches as indicted by Arber and too readily convicted by Griffis, but the "overmasting" was of small account as compared with the deliberate rascality of captain and crew, in the disabling of the consort, as expressly certified by

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SPEEDWELL, although he destroys his case by saying of the "overmasting:"

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It is clear, however, that the "overmasting" cut but small figure in the case;

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With the idea apparently of giving eclat to this announcement and of attracting attention to it, he surprisingly charges the responsibility for the "overmasting" and its alleged dire results upon the leaders of the Leyden church, "who were," he repeatedly asserts, "alone responsible."

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(in the same paragraph as that upon which Professor Arber must wholly base his sweeping assertions) that the "overmasting" was but "partly" responsible for the SPEEDWELL'S leakiness, and directly shows that the

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"overmasting" had been the sole cause of the SPEEDWELL'S leakiness, and the delays and vicissitudes which resulted to the MAY-FLOWER and her company, the leaders of the Leyden church -- whom Professor Arber arraigns

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Cushman also shows, by his letter, -- written after the ships had put back into Dartmouth, -- a part of which Professor Arber uses, but the most important part suppresses, that what he evidently considers the principal leak was caused by a very "loose board" (plank), which was clearly not the result of the straining due to "crowding sail," or of "overmasting."

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"confessed" rascality in making a leak otherwise, being the chief trouble, and this, as well as the "overmasting," lay at the door of

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