Doug Collins

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ROBERT AND JOHN OWYN, BRETHERYN, BORNE
IN THE CITY OF LONDON, THE SONNES OF AN
ENGLISH, MADE THYS BASTARD ANNO DNI 1537.

SPELLING WASN'T standard in those days, but Robert
and John ‘“‘Owyn’ were carving that inscription for
posterity. And they weren’t being rude. In this instance the
word ‘‘bastard’* meant ‘‘gun’’.

They were rightly proud of
“thys bastard’’, an 1!-foot long
cast-bronze cannon so. called
because it was not of standard
calibre. Alas, the weapon sank
below the waves one not-so-fine
day in 1545, with Henry V111's
flagship Mary Rose.

Seven hundred men went down,
too, while Bluff King Hal watched
the tragedy from nearby
Portsmouth.

The ship was on her way to
fight the incoming French fleet,
but it is unlikely that she got a
shot off at the attackers.
Overloading and an unkind squall
did the splendid vessel in. She
heeled over and sank in less than a
minute.

Four hundred and thirty-seven
years later, the Mary Rose, the
bastard and thousands of priceless
Tudor artifacts saw the light of
day ‘again in a spectacular
maritime recovery operation, and
you can see many of them at the
Maritime Museum -- including
replicas of the bastard and other
guns.

There’s a truly murderous-
looking little square-mouthed job
known as a hailshot piece. [t was
handled by one man and spat out
sharp-edged cubes of iron at

enemy boarding parties.:

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Fascinating! But [ was even more
interested in the famous English
longbows and the surgeon-
barber's tools.

le was the longbow that made
mincemeat of the French knights
at Crecy and Agincourt. Still in
use in Henry’s time, it could send
an arrow through armor at 300
yards!

The English archer was trained
from the age of seven and could
let loose a dozen shots a minute, a
rate of fire not equalled until the
modern rifle and automatic
weapons were invented.

There were probably 200 ar-
chers on the Mary Rose, and Mrs.
Margaret Rule, internationally
famous for her archeological
work on the ship, has described
finding an archer’s remains dur-
ing one of her dives. As she put it
in a National Geographic arucle:

“None of us, I think, will ever
forget the archer. He had been a
man in his mid-20s, sturdily built
and of medium height...His
skeleton lay with that of a slightly
younger man beside a ladder con-
necting the gun deck to the
weather deck above. A bundle of
arrows ina leather carrying device
remained attached to the archer’s
spine by a leather thong, and the
‘remnants of what appeared to be

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a leather jerkin lay seattered
among his bones.”’

T asked Mrs. Rule whether it
wasn'ta bit spooky down there.
“Not at all,’*she laughed. ‘‘f en-
joyed every minute of it.” |

Battle means carnage, and car-
nage means’ surgeons or
“‘sawbones’’, as they used to be
called. Their tools are on display,
including an eight-inch syringe us- §
ed for poking into the urethra to
treat bladder-stones or gonorrhea.
Maybe they used it against
boarders, too? Most curious of
all, though, is the damned great
maliet.

There being no anesthetic in
those days, a metal hat was placed
on the lucky patient‘s head and he
was then bonked with said mallet,
which treatment allegedly lessened
the pain of whatever the surgeon
was doing to him.

When the surgeon wasn’t, per-
forming good deeds of that sort
he would get out his razors and
give the guys a shave. Are today’s
doctors that helpful?

This exhibition is a scoop for
the Maritime Museum. It will not
be put on again in Canada or for
that matter anywhere else except
in England. So go and see ye
bastard while ye may. The tickets
cost $5 for families, $3 for adults
and $1.50 for students and
seniors.

My thanks to Will Lawther of
West Vancouver, former naval
person and member of the
Maritime Museum board, for

steering me toward the Mary Rese |

delights early.

Hunter, a five-time Western
Magazine Award winner, will join
Sun Business Editor Judy Lindsay,
Vancouver Ald. Carole Taylor and
Early Edition host Gail Hulnick.

The $75 fee includes lunch and
materials.

Phone 222-5272 for
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