He fluttered back a page of his book , and showed them a young man 's head . Underneath was written : ` Sebastianus . ' ` He came down with a King 's Order on Master John Collins for twenty serpentines -LRB- wicked little cannon they be ! -RRB- to furnish a venture of ships . I drafted him thus sitting by our fire telling Mother of the new lands he 'd find the far side the world . And he found them , too ! There 's a nose to cleave through unknown seas ! Cabot was his name -- a Bristol lad -- half a foreigner . I set a heap by him . He helped me to my church-building . ' ' I thought that was Sir Andrew Barton , ' said Dan . ` Ay , but foundations before roofs , ' Hal answered . ` Sebastian first put me in the way of it . I had come down here , not to serve God as a craftsman should , but to show my people how great a craftsman I was . They cared not , and it served me right , one split straw for my craft or my greatness . What a murrain call had I , they said , to mell with old St Barnabas ' ? Ruinous the church had been since the Black Death , and ruinous she would remain ; and I could hang myself in my new scaffold-ropes ! Gentle and simple , high and low -- the Hayes , the Fowles , the Fenners , the Collinses -- they were all in a tale against me . Only Sir John Pelham up yonder at Brightling bade me heart-up and go on . Yet how could I ?
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Collins Fowles Hal Hayes King Mother first right scaffold-ropes serpentines