HCA 13/73 f.576r Annotate

Expand this area to see details of page purpose, how to register, how to add footnotes, and useful links.

---

Purpose

This page is for the annotation of HCA 13/73 f.576r.

Annotations can be viewed by everyone on a read-only basis.

For more information on MarineLives and the MarineLives Annotation Project read our Shipping News blog entries:

Annotating Marine Lives, May 1st 2013
Adding value to primary documents, May 8th 2013
Witnesses in Court, 1657-1658 (May 9th, 2013)

---

Registration to annotate documents

Registration is required to contribute annotations to this page and to other pages in the wiki.

You can register using the following Form, and we will issue you with a UserName and Password for the wiki.

---

Text formatting

The MarineLives transcription platform is built on MediaWiki, which uses wiki markup to format text. For a guide showing how to produce italics, bold, escaped text and headings, see the MediaWiki page on formatting; there are also guides for internal and external links, image embedding, tables, and more on lists.

---

Adding footnotes

• Go into edit mode
• Insert immediately after the sentence or phrase you wish to annotate the following macro:<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
• Replace 'This is the footnote text' with the footnote you wish to add, using the format: first name, surname, title, (place of publication, date of publication), page or folio number
• Save the page

For more information and advanced formatting, including how to add and format links within the footnote, see the Wikipedia help on footnotes. This uses the same markup formatting.

Example footnote template:

• ''HCA 13/XX f.XXXX Case: XXXX; Deposition: XXXX; Date: XXXX. Transcribed by XXXX''<ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

---

Suggested links

Annotate HCA 13/64 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/65 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/68 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/69 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/70 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/71 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/72 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/73 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/74 Volume Page
Marine Lives Tools

Image

HCA 13/73 f.576r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

call the said commannder of the Reformation commannded to hall her, which
accordingly was donne by the boatswaines mate and when his
demannd, answer was in this deponents hearing retourned from the Saint Mary
that shee was of Amsterdam, and [?that] withall the Reformation shooting or sailing
forward, the company of the Saint Mary being cleare of the Reformations guns
halled downe her Hollands Ensigne and hoisted up the Burgundia flagg
having the figure of a ragged staff and being the flagg used by the king
of Spaines fflemish men of warr, and fired a volley of small shott and [?a] broad
side upon the Reformation, and continued assailing and fighting her till
such time as the Reformations maine mast and misen mas were shott by the
board, and that one of the other vessells that were in the Saint Mary her company
and assisted her in the fight came up and boarded the Reformation while the
Saint Mary lay upon her [?quaarter] and still fired on her till her company called for
quarter, and soe the said shipp the Reformation with all her said lading were
taken by the said shipp Saint Mary and other shipps of her company, and
carried away and the said producents utterly dispoiled and deprived thereof,
And further that most of the company of the Saint Mary were Hollanders and
Zealanders, and that shee was built, as her men told this deponent (who was
out aboard her) at Serdam in holland, and for a holland shipp belonging to
Holland the commannder and company of the Reformation tooke and esteemed
her upon her approach, and saith that shee was of the burthen of upwards
of three hundred tonnes and had two and thirtie peeces of ordnance. And
kastly that the said shipp Reformation and such her said lading soe seized were
in this deponents and the common estimation worth four score thousand
pounds sterling, And further hee deposeth not, saving hee knoweth the
premisses, being one of the Reformations company and present at
and seeing what hee hath predeposed.

George Escope [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

************************

The 24th of September 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]

Touching the ffreetrade aforesaid}

Rp. 3.

George Ecopp of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex
Mariner aged 23 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined,
saith and deposeth by reason of his oath That hee well knoweth the shipp the ffree
Trade of London (Simon fflew late commander) and that about six monethes
since hee came in the Reformation (to which this deponent belonged) from the Levant
in company of the said shipp ffree trade which at Scanderon and that coast had
taken in a cargo of cotton yarne, grogeram yarne, gawles and other merchandizes
for account of Merchants of this citie of London to which okace shee was bound to deliver,
and that comming into the Straights mouth namely on the fifteenth of May
last the said shipp ffree trade and all her said lading were taken and seized by
acertaine shipp called the Santa Maria Laurance [?XXXsen] commander and other shipps of her company and carried
away and soe the owners of her and of her said lading were utterly deprived
thereof, which hee knoweth ecause hee saw the same soe donne, this deponent
being in the said shipp Reformation which with her lading was alsoe seized
by the said shipps, and this deponent being taken into the Saint Mary after the
seizure, heard her company (which was most of them hollanders and Zealanders)
say that shee was built at Serdam in Holland, and had two and
thirtie peeces pf ordnance, and saith that before the seizure when shee [?XXXXX]
shee put out first the English colours annd then the Hollands flagg p?XX XXXX] the Burgundian being the Ragged staf
under which shee assailed and fought the Reformation and ffree Trade, and helped
to take them, but for the valew of her or of her lading, hee saith hee cannot
estimate the same nor hath heard any estimate made thereof by others.

George Escop [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]