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The Cock John.

What is that?

What?

That's what I call it.

What's that?

Never mind.

So the Cock John, yeah, funny name for a ship.

I have a suspicion that this is a transliteration of cog John, because a cog is a

regular type of, it's a large sort of merchant type ship in the 1415th century.

So I think it's probably the cog John.

Typically you see ships in this period, and I'm thinking back to when I wrote Lionheart's,

the novel, which was all about naval battles.

Typically, they're called the cog and then the name of a saint or something like that.

So I think cog rather than cock, cog over cock.

Okay, well, that's my motto.

You may have a different one.

I wouldn't like to talk about it. I'm just going to leave my motto. You may have a different one. I wouldn't like to stop.

I'm just going to leave my motto decision making to one side and maybe we should get this show on the road. The ship on the road. The ship, um, birthing? I don't know. I'm going to stop this. Ship on the sea. Ship on the sea. That's it. Let's set sail on the good ship. That is, This Is History Plus. Indeed. Hello and welcome.

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