HCA 13/71 f.532r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 532 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First cut transcription started and completed on 28/10/12 by Laura Seymour; edited on 27/11/12 by Colin Greenstreet; pasted into wikispot on 08/05/14 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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| Laura Seymour | |
| First transcribed | |
| 12/10/28 | |
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| Created 10/04/14, by CSG | |
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1. performe her sayd voyage and saith in this deponents Judgement and
2. estimate the sayd shipp and her tackle apparrell and furnitue to her belonging
3. at such tyme as shee sett sayle from New England were well worth fiue hundred
4. pounds sterling And well knoweth that the Interrogate William Bulkley during
5. the whole voyage in question was sole Owner of the sayd shipp her tackle apparrell
6. and furniture and did as sole Owner of her make this deponent Master of
7. her well fitt and fitt and furnish her out with all necessaries for the voyage
8. in question. And further cannot answere/
9. To the 4th ˹and 5th˺ hee saith that hee well knoweth (being Master as aforesayd) that the
10. sayd shipp in her passage from New England for Dover or London did meete
11. with very tempestious and stormy weather at sea and when the sayd
12. shipp was about a hundred and fifty leagues to the Eastward of New
13. ffound land there happened such stormy and tempestious weather that by
14. the forse thereof her head was broken downe and her timbers from
15. the mayne mast to the head broken smooth to the deck, and her smale
16. bower Anchor carried loose away from her bowe and one of her
17. hatches (although well caulked and nayled) was broken up and
18. shee thereat shipped much water betweene decks soe that this
19. deponent and other men knee deepe in water, and ˹shee was˺ soe shattered in XXX
20. her hull that some of her plankes and seames started and gave way
21. whereat shee alsoe receaved much water in hold in soe much that
22. thereby shee became insufficient to performe her voyage and
23. this deponent had and Company had much to doe with great labour
24. at the pumpe to keepe her ab safe from perishing and by reason
25. shee was soe damnified this deponent and Company were constreyned
26. to put into Southampton and there unlade And saith that in his this
27. deponents Judgement and as hee in conscience is fully perswaded and
28. beleeveth the sayd shipp ˹and˺ her tackle apparrell and furniture at her
29. arrivall at Southampton was not worth above one hundred and
30. eighty pounds sterling at the most and hee this deponent could not
31. then have given more for them if hee has bin then to buy them And further
32. to these Interrogatories hee cannot answere./
33. To the sayd 6th Interrogatorie hee saith hee being Master as aforesayd
34. well knoweth that all the sayd hee this said hides were la all or the
35. most part of the sayd two thousand hydes were at Southampton landed
36. and dried and this deponent did observe that about fiue hundred
37. of them were very much damnified by wett and were rotten and
38. torne: but in respect hee hath noe skill in the Commoditie to know
39. what they were worth before they receaved the dammage hee cannot
40. estimate the sayd dammage And hee saith that after the sayd hydes
41. were soe dryed some of them (but how many hee knoweth not) were
42. shipped ˹in˺ a vessell for ffrance And further to this Interrogatorie hee
43. cannot answere./
44.
45. To the Interrogatories on the behalfe of the/ CENTRE HEADING
46. Assurers./ CENTRE HEADING
47. To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee saith hee hath satisfied the
48. contents thereof in his foregoing deposition and further cannot
49. answer./
50. To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the quantitie of the goods laden was too (SIC) thousand
51. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">West</margin>
