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London Express Service
When Did The Navy Go Off The Beer?
When and on what ship was the first iasno of rum made in the Royal Navy?
Was rum instead of brandy issued to promote Jamaica's development?
T
HESE were questions a naval petty officer abroad had been asking for a long time. Replies he had evoked were inconclusive until he popped the questions to the Colonial Office, who essayed auswera "so far na can. be ascertained at present".
From these it would appear that beer was the normal Navy drink issued down to the early 19th century. Where it was not obtainable, whatever boverage was procurable locally was issued.
Rum was issued to HM ships in the West Indies as far back na 1688, and local authorities supplied other victuals to HMS St. David in Barbados in 1673, although generally there appear at this time to have been supplies of ~ Urandy additional to beer..
This seemed to be the first time rum was substituted for brandy as an official issue, limited to ships at Jamaica.
In 1688 the ships Assistance and Drake were stationed at the Island, and the preserved log of Assistance records the receipt in December, 1688, of the first rum supplied to her.
THE GREATEST STORY
T was now the time of the Passover, the great-
over
est of all celebrations in Jeracl. From the sea and from
tho caravan routen of mountains and deserts, thousands and stores of thousands turned weary
facen und sweaty toward Jerusalem.
No matter how tiring. they must mako the journey, for the Pasch was All devout souls coming. who could possibly do so wanted to make their way to the Temple at Jerusalem. For seven days they would join in the prayers, offering up the paschal lamb in the traditional sacrifice and eat- ing the unleavened bread.
Jesus and the Twelve were also going up for Passover in Jerusalem. The Apostles were boyishly ex- rited by the great crowds; somehow the explicit pro- phecies made by the Master of blood and death soon to come had failed to weigh upon them.
They were humanly giddy in the midet of great events. Actually when the Master had fore- told His death, they could not bring themselves to bo- lieve it. Was He not the Christ? How, then, could He be harmed? They simply couldn't accept it.
So it was without any feeling of deep melancholy that they started out making a long loop down the mountain paths, in detour to the southem road.
EVER
TOLD
CHAPTER TEN OF FULTON OURSLER'S STORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST
Yet it all came
about so beast and
simply. They started early on
that Sunday morning,
The change from brandy to rum was through the enterprise of a Londen merchant. ^ Recordis do not show official Jamaican support, although the man may well have received it, for the Journal of tho Barbados Aseem- bly of 1070 records a resolution to apply to the King "for a with unearthly supernatural moderate
on rum, the native Dowers: an angel man, a God product of the Island, that they mut-they believed it ail! At may be enabled to transport it any moment He could turn into England ол reasonable louse theng mobs against all terms and, in the room of
authority. organised
against French brandy, supply it to HM the Roman governor and the Fleet and other occasions." Temple priests, break down nii supremacy,
all power, set up Gallon A Day: Himself as ruler and king in-
deed.
Such a sight, such a prospect, such a danger was intolerable to fanatic Pharisce and greedy Sadducoo aliko, A spectacle like this called for action.
Now the procession WDA climbing up, very near to the
IN "The British Fleet", Com-
mander C, N. Robinson states that beer ceased to be issued in and 1835-the itsuo in Diaris! the Royal Navy between 1832
Samuel Pepys' time was опе gallon a day per man.
On
November 2. 1607,
city, The sight of the Ranceford (or Ransford) Water-
nostalgic
of London.
merchant, memories, house, boyhood the certainty of what was now politioned the King to have et hand, brought_tears to the Jamaican rum Issued to IIM Master's eyes,
at Jamaica Weeping over ships
instead of
Jerusalem, "the place of peace", brandy, pointing out that in sup..
Jesus cried;
plying it from the Island he could save so much money that "If thou hadst known, even the men's allowance would be thou, at least in this thy day, doubled and a
third
part of the the things which belong unto charge saved. On March 9, 1688. thy pouce! But now they are James II issued a warrant to the hid from thine cycs,
Navy Board, countersigned by
"For the days shall comeSamuel Pepys, Secretary of the
• upon thee, that thine enemies | Admiralty, approving of Water- shall cast a trench about thee, house's offer and terms. and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side.
Distant Armies
ND shall lay theo
"Awith the ground,
The Royal Warrant directed the Navy Board t to take care that ye good or ill-effects
this proof, as we
well to ye good of the husbandry thereof and even
mtisfaction of Our
or
and thyhealth and children within thee; and they Seaman, be carefully enquired shall not leave in theo one stone inlo by you, and reported to us
·upon another; because thou within a year or two (or sooner, knewest not the time of thy if you find it necessary) for Our
further satisfaction of yo same,
Proofe Rumm"
visitation."
It was as if He could see into the future, cec the distant armies of Titus in their encampment forty years later on clothes to the dust before the Mount Olivet; the fire and the
to
that
And children, flocking near, took up the refrain of their
THE SCOURGING OF THE CHANCERS
ready- gave their made explanation to the started four feet of the beast. They sword that fell upon Jerusalem No objections! The cast their robes for Him to Mido and made sure. every word of passed ownOTS,
words of Jesus, repeated to the over, while others turned His prophecy, so soon to be one through the hamlet of Bethan- farmers, was somehow all that cutting down boughs from the of the awful foets of history. age, and paused at the foot of was
the necessary;
disciples trees of balsam, acaeln, and that green Mount of Olives, came back lending the beast.
On' He moved amid tamarisk, and green branches of the palm trees, Running tar sudden general ecstasy of love Now at the buse of the
Through the ahead of the popular rider on and utter trust. Mount,
Jesus paused; called Shorts And Cheers the donkey's back, they strewed city gate, where mobs followed
with Him two of His disciples and gave
the ground before Him
as close as they could ESUS and the other disciples their greenery, with bouquets unul He reached the courts of them curious orders. They An what began 445
to the next
were surrounded as usual by and Rosegays and wild flowers. the Temple were to press on pilgrimage........for Jesus and His
a multitude, but at sight of the little town, and in the village
donkey scine curious sudden Thousands Of Voices friends going into the city to
they would thd. tied to resolution seemed to seize the Join in celebrating the Passover -ended In what can be caled hitching post, the colt of an un- crowd. The two disciples were
backed
dis- greeted with shouts und lers IE Pharisees not only welders: "Hosanna to the Son of
all this but they had to listen nothing less than the most re-
of men and to the thousands
"Do you hear what these ciples were to loase the ass and us if without being told, markable triumphal march of
crowd not only knew the un- women shouting with joy, join- brats are saying?" screamed the bring him back to Jesus; if any backed colt was for Jesus, but ing the volces of the Apostles, scandalised theologians and the all time.
one tried to stop them, they were also remembered that
an ass's
scribes. merely to Say the
Lord had colt was
the royal equipage, and crying: full of symbolism for the kings need of the animal's service.
of snel And so it all turned out! The two disciples, not a lite upset Lucking agents tramping under arches of by their
errand, did not re- Pharisees, always near, did not victory, were meaningless be- niember that
prophet miss the significance of the un- the alde this sudden and miraculous Zacharias centuries before had ridden ass, fulfilment triumph. One instant Jesus written: AVAG опо among hundred thousand pilgrims; then, before any of His disciples could realise what was happening, Isolated,
It Started Simply
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"Yes!" agreed Jesus. "Have David!"
you never read: 'Out of the "Blessed be the King that mouths of infants and sucklings comes in the name of the you have perfected praise?" Lord,"
Ah! They knew what that "Peace in heaven and glory meant-a of old
prophecy of old on high."
David about the Messiah! Was prediction. They watched with narrowed eyes what followed--
"Hosannah in
enough? not blasphemy the highest." that
No, for He had still merely spontaneous general,
the multitude. of
Those words were enough to quoted a text; they could not to you meek and sitting upon When had such extravagant de strike terror to the heart of any arrest Him on that
they volos bien peen before in all privileged caste. Why
But it could not be allowed to Juden? The mob gone wild over were saluting and adoring and They found not only the colt this one man; the garments of praising hosannas to this man; 80 on much longer! but the mother who foaled him the disciples laid over the ass's they were calling Him king. He standing hliched, their ownery back for Him to ride upon, and had the mob under a spell. lounging
ΠΟΣ near by. The dis- the people, catching the con- They thought of Him elples unhitched tho young' tagion, throwing down their only as a real king but as one
"Tell ve the daughter of the Ston. Behold the king comes adulation
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HE Admiralty Navy
records at HM Victualling Office, Tower Hill, dated May 81, 1068, contain the contract to Waterhouse for victualling HM ships at Jamaica for one or two years or longer "if the Commis- sloners shall think fitt with good
and wholesale proofs rumm, fitt for His Majesties' Subjects: viz., three quarters of a pint of rumun and a
ok quarter of a pound pound to each man a day in lieu Muscovado zuger of 2 pence per
ut half a pint of brandy formerly It was con- allowed them" tracted that Waterhouse should
of rum supplied and 186, 8d. per receive is, dd, for every sold
hundredweight of sugqr.
-J. W. TAYLOR.
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