HCA 13/71 f.239v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Folio | 239 |
Side | Verso |
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Cathryn Pearce | |
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2012/09/30 | |
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Edited on 01/10/2012 by William Tullett and on 16/12/2012 and on 26/05/2014 by Colin Greenstreet |
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of Surrey Mariner Boatswaine of the shipp the
hopewell aged 29 yeares or thereabout a wittness
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth the Interrogate
shipp the hopewell being now Boatswaine of her and alsoe boatswaine
of her for the whole voyage when shee was last in the Streights And
further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answer./
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith the sayd shipp the voyage aforesayde tooke
in part of her ladeing at Scanderoone and the other part thereof at Cyprus
and was to deliver her Cargo soe taken in, part part at Ligorno and the
rest at London, And saith hee this deponent at Ciprus carried on shoare
certaine moneys for the Master of her therewith to defray port charges, and
hee beleeveth all Customes and duties due to the Grand signior or his
Agents at Scanderoone and Cyprus were paid for the sayd shipps [?Cargoes and GUTTER]
goods were paid before her setting sayle from thense therewith, for that hee
beleeveth it is the custome there as it is alsoe in other countries
not to suffer shipps to depart till it doth appear they have paid all
customes and duties And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose/
To the 3: 4th 5th 6th and 7th Interrogatories he saith hee being Boatswaine
as aforesayd and aboard well knoweth that the sayd shipp the hopewell sett
sayle from Cyprus with the sayd Cargo of goods on board her toward
Ligorno and in her course thitherward mett with very tempestious
weather by violence whereof the sayd Shipps Rudder was washed [?away GUTTER] and the Ironworks thereof her
([XXXX] thereof only recovered again out of the sea) and shee spranKe two leakes
at which the water came in soe fast that her company were forced to
keepe two pumps goeing and bayle water alsoe soe that by reason
of the sayd fowle water and leakes and want of their Rudder the Company
of her were forced to make back for Cyprus and in order to the new
hanging her rudder and stopping and amending her sayd leakes were constreyned
to unlade there the greatest part of the sayd shipps Cargo And saith
the sayd shipps Rudder being hunge and leakes amended her Master and
Company began to relade her goods soe unladen and having laden some
of them were hindered in ladeing the rest by the Bashawe and other
officers and souldiers of the Grand signiour who pretended that the same goods being put on shoare there
the Grand signior ought to have customs for them before they were
reladen and soe hindered the Master and Company of her from
relading the rest, which to prevent the sayd Master made application
to the Interrogate Roger ffowke (who is reputed the English Consull
there) who soe pacified the sayd Bashawe and souldiers that they per-
mitted the sayd Master and Company to relade all the sayd goods, [?hee GUTTER]
saith soe soone as they were reladen the sayd Consull in presense and
heareing of this deponent and his Contest Symon Rowe and one Turner
Gunner of the shipp and others demanded of the sayd Master for Consullage
due as the sayd to him the sayd ffowke and for other duties due [?as GUTTER]
hee sayd to the Bashawe and officers of the Grand signior for the sayd goods
[?eighteene GUTTER]