- Abacuk Pricket
Abacuk Pricket is a navigator-writer who had given his truth about the last travel (the fourth, in
1611 ) of captainHenry Hudson . During the mutinery against Hudson, in June 1611, Pricket with William Wilson and Henry Greene pushed Henry Hudson, his son John, the mathematician Thomas Wydowse and five other members of the crew on a chaloupe. Chaloupe sent to nowhere... It is bySamuel Purchas that we had the information.Abacuck Pricket was one of the eight survivors of the expedition. He was judged, with the other mutins, only in
1618 , but the authorities did not want to execute those who had saved the expedition and did not prosecute them for mutiny, but for murder, and as it was not murder to turn experienced seamen adrift near a shore that was neither totally barren nor uninhabited. All of them were acquitted.Works
*"A Journal of Mr. Hudson's last Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage" ; Abacuck Pricket ; Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca ; OCLC|17312467
* [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/hell/anthology/travel/Travel1625Pricket.htm "Excerpt from A Larger Discourse of the Same Voyage", by Abacuk Pricket, 1625]Notes and references
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/24/h24-1440-e.html Henry Hudson's Daring Exploits]
* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34410&query=Abacuk%20AND%20Pricket Abacuk Pricket in Henry Hudson's biography]
*cite web
url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13442/13442-h/13442-h.htm
author=Thomas A. Janvier
title="Henry Hudson. A Brief Statement Of His Aims And His Achievements"
publisher=Gutenberg Project
date=2004-09-12
accessdate=2007-07-03
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