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Transcription

the sayd shipp from Porstmouth toward the downes on or about the [XXXX GUTTER]
last of November 1652, and being in his course thitherward upon the first
of december next after, and the weather being thicke and foggie, hee happened
to come neere the dutch ffleete of warr which then lay neere dungenesse
and having discovered what danger the foggie weather had brought him
into, the sayd Captaine caused the Luffe of his sayd shipp hercules to be
sprung, and edged toward the shoare, thereby to gett the weather gage of the
dutch fleete or of soe many of them as hee could, and was engaged with
two of the sayd ffleete who discharged broad sides at him and hee at them
and the sayd Captaine stood first to the Eastward of the Nesse, and afterwards
endeavoured to gett under Sangate Castle with his shipp for her better
security, and in soe doeing, accidentally, rann her a ground about a
myle or lesse from shoare, And further to those articles hee cannot depose

To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith that the sayd shipp being soe
accidentally runne on ground, the sayd captaine commanded all his company
to keepe aboard the shipp, and plye their gunnes, and defend her against
the enymye as longe as they could, and declared that his intens was
when hee had defended her as long as hee could that rather then shee
should fall into the hands of the enymie his intente was to destroy her
either by fyreing or sinkeing her, and then hee and the company would make
to shoare in the long boate and the two other boates belonging to the sayd
shipp, but divers of the Company videlicet this deponent and most of
the persons arlate and others in all to the number of forty or fifty persons,
(contrary to the sayd Captaines Command) gott into the longe boate
intending to desert and forsake the shipp and goe to shoare, which the sayd
Captaine seeing callled out to them, and standing with Cap in hands,
sayd as followeth or the like in effect videlicet, Gentlemen I desyre you
to come aboard againe, wee have halfe an howers tyme to sp[XX GUTTER]
wherein wee may doe something to destroy the shipp (meaning
the hercules), that shee may not become a prize to the enymye,
and if you doe not, I shall reaceave disgrace, and you will loose
your wages, therefore I pray you come aboard againe, whereupon
hee this deponent and some others that were gotten into the longe boate
did come out of her and went aboard the shipp againe as the Captaine
desyred them, and the arlate Robert Everard Martyn Coxeman
Thomas [XXXer] John Price Mathew Killman John
Rowland Robert Catlyn Stephen Earle William Stoakes (and divers
others whose names hee remembreth not) contrary to the sayd Captaines
Commands and notwithsatnding his entreaties aforesayd, did
continue in the longe boate and refused to come aboard, and went
ashoare with the sayd long boate, by which meanes the Captaine
and those that stayed behinde with him aboard (being more by
fower or five then the two smale boates of the shipp which were left
could beare to shoare) were deprived of the benefitt of putting
their designe in act of fyreing or sinkeing the sayd shipp for that
if they should have soe done the other persons aforesayd being gone
away