HCA 13/71 f.443v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 443 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Gutter corrected 07/12/12; pasted into wikispot on 06/05/14 by Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcriber | |
| Jill Wilcox 23/10/12 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Created 09/04/14, by CSG | |
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Company the providence to keepe the shipp Providence to the windeward
which this deponent and company did, but seeing and observing that the sayd
Lee and Company did notwith standing it appeared they well understood
signes made unto them, not beare up but hold on their course with the shipp
Samuell by which mianes they (unlesse some tymely course were taken to
prevent the same the shipp Samuell would undoubtedly come fowle of
Providence) this deponent and Company of the Providence to prevent as much
as in them lay any mischcife which might ensue upon the Samuells holding
on her course and not bearing up as desyred) did put the providence on the
stayes and turned her out of the Samuell course, and called to the
sayd Lee and his Company of the Samuell to doe the like in regard they
did not beare up as they were before desyred and told them that if they did
not either beare up with their shipp Samuell or put her on the stayes shott
would unavoidably fall fowle of the providence, all which the sayd
and Company of the Samuell might (and did as hee beleeveth) very well heare
and observe, but tooke noe care either to beare up with the Samuell or
with her upon the stayes but kept on their direct course with her and by
that mianes with full sayles did in a carelesse and willfull manner
turne the steme of the Samuell right upon the midshipp of the providence
and thereby the sayd shipp Providense and her ladeing of coales
were utterley lost and perished in the sea and partially obscured by ink ˹her company hath likewise perished but hath they˺ for the savegard
of their lives seeing her xxxx sunke soo deepe he water came
into the mens cabbins in the gunne roome ˹notwithstanding they used their utmost endeavour labouring with two pumpes to keep her above sea˺ made a shift to runne
her a shoare soe as to save their lives though they could not preserve
sayd shipp Providence and her ladeing All which had bwith easi bin present
and the Providence and her ladeing had not perished if the sayd Lee and
Company of the Samuell had borne up with their sayd shipp or brought
her on the stayes as were by this deponent and company desired
and advised to doo, and might very easily have done if they had pleased
soe that the sayd lesse and dammage came of this deponents knowledge
meerely by the fault of the sayd Lee and company and through [?thier GUTTER]
either willfull or negligent guideing and order f their sayd
shipp the Samuell And further to those actes hee cannot depose/
To the 7th article of the sayd libell hee saith that the shipp the providence
at the tyme shee and her ladeing of coales were or himselfe ˹which was upon or 37. new shipp it being her second voyage that ever shee had made, and was
about sixty foote longe in the Keele and twenty foote wide and X all her
tackle apparrell and furniture very good, and in this deponents Judgement
shee and her ladeing of Coales were at they tyme aforesayd very well
worth seaven hundred and fifty pounds sterling and better and so much
they would have yeiled if they had not bin soe suncke as aforesayd the
premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge being master of her as
aforesayd And further cannot depose/
To the 8th hee saith that the arlate Lawe, Cooper and company beside
the losse of the sayd shipp the providence and her ladeing of Coales are
otherwise dammified to the value of one hundred pounds sterling and
more for want of the sayd shipp to use in their merchandizing imployment
for
