Barkes

All of us love the Glorious Failures of this world and Farmer Paul Barkes of Thorpe Farm Country Park and Falconry Centre in the Yorkshire Dales will take his inclusion in that gallant company in the spirit with which this post is intended, it being a Tribute to the Hoist With Your Own Petard Club.

Archive 2007-08-05 2007

All of us love the Glorious Failures of this world and Farmer Paul Barkes of Thorpe Farm Country Park and Falconry Centre in the Yorkshire Dales will take his inclusion in that gallant company in the spirit with which this post is intended, it being a Tribute to the Hoist With Your Own Petard Club.

Farmer's Amazing Tale (Oh grief, sorry!) 2007

The discouerie made by M. Arthur Pet and M. Charles Iackman, of the Northeast parts, beyond the Island of Vaigatz, with two Barkes: the one called the George, the other the William, in the yeere

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

About this place the water is verie shallow, and stonie, and troublesome for Barkes and boats of that countrey, which they call Nassades, and Dosneckes, to passe that way: wherein marchandise are transported from the aforesayd Colmogro to the citie of Vologhda.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

There are three or foure Barkes that make consort together, which are like to our litle Pilot boates, and a litle lesse, there goe seuen or eight men in a boate: and I haue seene in a morning a great number of them goe out, and anker in fifteene or eighteene fadome of water, which is the Ordinarie depth of all that coast.

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Andemaon, and they call their people sauage or wilde, because they eate one another: also these Ilands haue warre one with another, for they haue small Barkes, and with them they take one another, and so eate one another: and if by euil chance any ship be lost on those Ilands, as many haue bene, there is not one man of those ships lost there that escapeth vneaten or vnslaine.

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But there was a Carobia or cheste, wherein were dollars, and golde, which they had receiued for the commodities, of the company, which they sold at Bachu, which at the taking out of the Busse, fell by the Barkes side into the water amongst the rockes, and so was lost.

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The prisoners (which our people had taken in the road with two Barkes, and a ship sunke with our ordenance, as they lay all 3. hard before the castle) were sent altogether aboorde the ships except 3. of the principals which the lord

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For to destroy those proper Barkes, and all their valiant men.

The Invincible Armada 1858

Some little Barkes they sent to her, to board her quietly.

The Invincible Armada 1858