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Transcription

Current Transcription

<header>
<series>HCA 13/72</series>
<folio>f.f.259r</fol8o>
<picture>P1160177</picture>
<summary></summary>
<document-date></document-date>
<status>First cut transcription started and completed on 17/09/13 by Colin Greenstreet</status>
<first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet, 17/09/13</first-transcriber>
</header>

either by Turkish men of warr or Spanish men of warr that passe that
way the place being open and void of any defence save what the shipps
can make them selves for securing them selves and their shipps and
ladeing And saith that of his this deponents knowledge the East Land Merchant
and a ffrench shipp in her company were in June last taken neere the Island
of Bickeere by Spanish men of warr and the ffrench shipp was burnt
and the Eastland Merchant and her ladeing taken by the sayd men (the Turkes
of the same place of Bickeere affording them noe helpe or assistance
and the Company of the Eastland Merchant to save them selves gott into
their boate and soe escaped and gott passage home for England as passengers
in and upon the sayd shipp the defence whereof this deponent was then mate
and this happened about the moneth of June last past and the sayd
place of Bickeere is commonly accompted to bee a very unsafe place
for shipps to ride in And further to this allegation hee cannot
depose/

Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin/

William ffeater SIGNATURE, RH SIDE