| First transcribed
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13 February 25 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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96 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 25/02/2013 +
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| Transcription
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Mariner Cooke of the shipp the ''Golden Co … Mariner Cooke of the shipp the ''Golden Cock'' for the voyage in<br />
question aged thirty six yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the 6th article of the sayd Libell hee saith that before the departure of the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Golden Cock'' upon the voyage in question Richard Chappell who<br />
was and went Master of her the sayd voyage (and was as hee verily beleeveth<br />
soe constituted Master of her by the arlate John Paige Thomas Canham and Maurice<br />
Thompson the reputed freighters of the sayd shipp for the sayd voyage) did hyre this deponent to goe the sayd voyage (which as the Master of the sayd shipp told this<br />
deponent at the tyme hee hyred him) was a voyage to bee made from the Port of<br />
London to Canaries and thense to Bantam in the East Indies and thense back<br />
to London and there the voyage to end, and this deponent saying unto the sayd Master<br />
that some tymes they which made voyages to the Indies did trade up and downe<br />
in the Countrey a longe tyme before they returned thense and soe kept their<br />
Company a long tyme in that Countrie and that hee this deponent sometymes left<br />
them behinde in the Countrey and that therefore hee this deponent was not<br />
willing to continue there any longer than the goeing and to those places and the taking<br />
in of their ladeing and returne thense therewith required, nor to trade up and downe<br />
in the Countrey there, the sayd Master thereupon answered and sayd that hee<br />
the voyage was only to the Canaries and soe to Bantam and soe home to London<br />
which hee hoped to effect by Gods assistance within seaventeene moneths<br />
at the furthest and soe hyred this deponent for seaventeene moneths and<br />
noe longer And this deponent heard him speake to the same effect to divers<br />
others of the sayd shipps company which hee hyred who expressed expressed their dislike to bee kept longe in the<br />
Indies upon tradeing from place to place there And further to this article hee<br />
cannot depose/
To the 7th article of the sayd libell hee saith hee being one of the sayd shipps<br />
Company for this voyage in question and Cooke of her did well observe and<br />
knowe that the sayd shipp at the tyme of her setting forth upon the voyage<br />
in question was sufficiently and well provided with all necessaries<br />
fitting for a voyage of eighteene moneths or upwards from London to any<br />
ports or places within or without the streights mouth and to returne to<br />
London within that tyme, and was a very tight strong and staunch shipp<br />
at her setting out from London, and soe continued for about twenty moneths<br />
after her falling out from London and was alsoe well orovided with masts sayles<br />
sayle yards Ropes Cables gunnes and rigging for such a voyage but<br />
who soe fitted and provided her for the sayd voyage hee knoweth not but beleeveth<br />
the same was done at the charge of the arlate Canham Paige and Thompson<br />
reputed part Owners of her and also freighters if her for the sayd voyage<br />
in question And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 8th article of the sayd libell hee saith that what day the sayd shipp<br />
departed from Gravesend upon the voyage in question hee knoweth not<br />
for that hee this deponent was hyred and shipped aboard her the<br />
seaventh day of January one thousand six hundred fifty fower (English<br />
style (shee being then falne downe as lowe as the downes in order to<br />
the proceeding upon her sayd voyage And saith that thense the sayd shipp<br />
sett sayle to the Canarie Islands (only shee touched by reason of Contrary<br />
winde at Plymouth) and safely arrived at the Canaries and tooke in wynes and<br />
therewith sayled to Bantam arlate where shee safely arrived with her lading<br />
about the fowerteenth day of August one thousand sixe hundred fifty five<br />
and delivered the same there safe and well conditioned without any<br />
dammage sustayned by any defect of the sayd shipp this hee the better<br />
knowethpp this hee the better<br />
knoweth +
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