HCA 13/63 f.302v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/63 |
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Folio | 302 |
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Ad 4 rendet that there were about 60 tonnes of tobaccco pipe
clay aboard the said shipp the hope both at the time of [?her] said first seizure
and of the said rescue, and noefullers earth or other goods that hee
knoweth of, and saith the said tobacco pipe clay was laden and
received aboard the said shipp the hope at Poole in Dorsetshire
to be carried for Rotterdam, whither the said shipp hope was designed
therewith when shee was soe taken by the said pyrate, alr nescit
Ad ult nescit.
X [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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13th die July 1650./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Hickman con Jacket.}
et. Hickmans}
Sup lilo ex parte dei Hickman in hac causa dat
examinatus.
1us.
Christopherus Delay de Lymehouse infra parochiam
de Stepney in comitatu Middlesex nauta aetatis sua 34
annorum aut eo circiter testis productus et juratus./
Ad primum et secundum arlos dei lili depomit et dicit that
within the time arlate the arlate William Jackett was Captaine and
cheife Commander of the shipps the May Flower. the Benjamin and
the Peeter arlate and (during all the tearme of the last voyage made
by him with the same) for such was comonly accompted reputed
and taken, and did take upon him to governe and comand the
said three ships. Et ulterius deponit tha at such tyke as the said
ships were to sett saile from thjis Port of London upon the said
voyage in question the producent Humphrey Hickman was by the
said William Jacket heere shipped and hired to goe out steward
of the said ship the May Flower as is arlate which place the said
Hickman did undertake and execute abord the said ship in her voyage
from this Port of London to Ginney, which hee knoweth to bee true
hee this deponent being one that was hired and shipped by the
said William Jacket to serve abord the said ship the May Flower
from this Port and did goe and continued abord her untill
such tyme as shee was lost at Nova Barcelona to the Spaniards. Et
alr salvis subscript[?is] nescit deponere./
Ad 3. et 4um arlos dei lili deponit et dicit That dureing the tyme
arlate and whilest the Mayflower att Ginny arlate and thereabouts the said Captaine
Jacket (in a most [?XXewell] barbarous and inhuman manner
and without any iust or lawfull occasion or cause that ever this
deponent could heare of,) did cause the said Hickman to put into
the Bilboes, and in shackles with a great boult of Iron that
did locke him upon the fforecastle of the said ship where hee
continued from about 5. of the clocke in the evening till about tenn
the next day followeing dureing which tyme it did continually raine
Thunder and lighten in a most fearrfull manner and even as in
heaven and earth were comeing together, the said Hickman in all this
while haveing nothing to cover him but a wastcoate and a thinne paire
of linnen drawers, as is arlate. And saith that dureing all this
while the said Jacket gave a strickt order and charge in this deponents heareing
unto the rest of the said ships Companie that he should not give
the said Hickman any meat drincke Cloaths or any sustenance
[?resa] whatsoever, soe that the said Hickman by reason of such cruell
useage