HCA 13/71 f.531r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Folio | 531 |
Side | Recto |
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Laura Seymour | |
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2012/10/27 | |
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Edited on 27/11/2012 and on 23/04/2014 by Colin Greenstreet |
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was an able tight strong shipp but the dammage happened to her
meerely by the violence of stormy and tempestious weather And
further saving his foregoing deposition hee cannot answere/
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin
Richard Rigges [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
Examined upon the Interrogatories on behalfe of the
sayd William Bulkley./
Rp. 2us
Esaiah Gardner of Southampton Mariner
aged forty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnes
sworne before the right worshipfull John Godolphin
doctor of Lawes out of the Iudges of the high
Court of Admiralty saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./
To last being the 6th Interrogatorie upon which alone hee is examined
by direction of the producent hee saith that many of the hydes bought
here in the shipp the Southampton Merchant were much damnified
by wett receaved, and saith that all the hides bought home in
the sayd shipp were landed at Southampton and this deponent
saw them at a house there to be dryed and sawe them in drying And
saith that after they were all dryed this deponent did by
order of the producent William Bulkley shipp a thousand of the
sayd hydes brought here in the Southampton Marchant in a smale vessell
whereof this deponent was Master and carrie them to
New haven in France And hee this deponent at the ladeing of the
sayd thousand hydes did well observe that many of them to the number
of three hundred and better were very much damnified and rotten and
halfe torne away but what to estimate the damage at hee
knoweth not and saith hee hath heard that the sayd dammage was
occasioned by wett receaved at Sea by fowle weather in the passage
of the Southampton Merchant from New England to Southampton And
further hee cannot depose./
To the Interrogatories ministered vpon the behalfe of the
Assurers./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee knew the Southampton Merchant
from the tyme of her first building And saith in and during the yeare 1654 the
producent Mr Bulkley was Commonly reported to be the sole and lawfull
owner of the sayd shipp And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot
answere for that hee was not at New England in the sayd shipp
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee cannot answere for that hee was not at New
England the tyme Interrogate./
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