Slings.
There are first slings, to sling-casks in (when we hoyse it in, or any the like) which are made of roape splised at either end into it selfe, making an eye at either end, so large as they, think fit, to receive into it the cask: and then the midle-part of the rope also, they sease to∣gether, and so make an other eye for to hitch in the hooke of the Tac∣kle or Garnet: An other sort are made long, with a small eye at either end, to put the one over the breetch of the Peece, the other to come over •…•…end of the crow of Iron, which is put into the mouth of the Peece, and so by these they hoyse it in: A third sort, is any roape or chaine, wherewith we bind fast the yards aloft to the crosse-trees, and the head of the mast, to the end, that if the ties should breake, the yard may not come downe: these are called slings, which are chiefly used when we come to fight for feare of cutting the ties.