The Diary of Henry Teonge--Chaplain on Board H.M.'s Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, 1675-1679; Transcribed from the original manuscript and edited with an Introduction and Notes by G. E. Manwaring

Great Britain: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First published in this series [stated]/. Hardcover. Good. x, 31, [.2] pages Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. This is one of the Broadway Travellers series. The introduction contains an Account of the Manuscript, Sketch of the Author's Life, and The Diary. The Diary itself contains an account of the First Voyage to the Mediterranean, 1675-1676, and the Second Voyage to the Mediterranean, 1678-1679, an well as Notes to the First Voyage and Notes to the Second Voyage. The Appendices contain Articles of Peace and Commerce between England and Tripoli, 1676; List of the Royal Navy, from Teonge's Diary; List of the Royal Navy, 1675, as delivered by Pepys; and Sir John Narbrough's Expedition to Tripoli. This is the first printing in full from the original manuscript. Small edge chips to some text pages noted. Henry Teonge (born 18 March 1621 at Wolverton, Warwickshire, died 21 March 1690 at Spernall, Warwickshire) was an English cleric and Royal Navy chaplain who kept informative diaries of voyages he made in 1675-1676 and 1678-1679. The diary provides lively reports of two voyages to the Mediterranean and the Levant, including a raid on a fleet of Barbary corsairs at Tripoli in 1675, under the command of Sir John Narborough. The risk posed to shipping by the "Tripolines" is a recurrent theme in the account of the first voyage. The diary passed after Teonge's death to a certain John Holyoake, probably the man of that name who was Mayor of Warwick in 1699-1700 and whose uncle had property in Spernall. It was not published until 1825. The manuscript then disappeared, but it re-emerged at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1918. The 1927 scholarly edition edited by G. E. Manwaring under the eye of series editors Edward Denison Ross and Eileen Power has an informative introduction and notes.