HCA 13/72 f.229r 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 13/72 f.229r.

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 13/72 f.229r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

provided Ballast in a readinesse according to their duty yet
the sayd Claes Johnson and his Company did refuse to take in ballast
into their shipp from the sayd Lidington Bourman Clarke and Williams
the Grantees aforesayd or their officers and Ministers and tooke in ballast
to the quantitie of forty tonnes or thereabouts (as hee beleeveth) of others without
any authority from the sauyd Grantees of the office for ballasting shipps to
the dammage of the sayd Granntees Liddington Bourman Clarke and Willims
to the value of fiftie three shillings fower pence stereling or thereabouts
and to the manifest breach of the graunte made to the said Grauntees
for ballasting of shipps which ballast the sayd Claes Johnson or his Company
soe tooke aboard his sayd shipp the hope in the moneth of November last
and about the twenty sixth daye thereof although the Company of the sayd Johnson
were spoken unto not to take in the same but take their ballast of
the officers of the sayd Grauntees as they ought to doe This hee knoweth
being one of the Officers of the sayd Grauntees and one of those that gave
notice to the sayd Johnson scompany to the effect aforesayd And further
referring him selfe to the Registry of this Court hee cannot depose/

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie the truth in this
cause being soe required to doe by the producents and saith hee is an
offier imployed by the Interrogate Bournamn Liddington and other Grauntees
aforesayd to view the lighters which carrie Ballast by order of the says
Grauntees aboard any shipps and take notice what quantitie they carrie and
to what shipps they carry it, for which hee is to have a weekely allowance
but what the same is as yet hee knoweth not And further hee cannot answere
otherwise than negatively/

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth the Interrogated shipp the hope of fflushing and
hath knowne her for about these twelve moneths last past or thereabouts shee having
made severall voyages to this Port of London since the peace betwixt England and
the Netherlands and hee sawe her lying severall tymes in the River of Thames and
sawe her last lying neere the hermitage at Colonell Prides Key and saith
shee is a Pinke or vessell of about fourescore tonnes and hath bin in her twice
videlicet once on the twenty sixth of November last when shee was takeing in ballast
and a second tyme about a day or two after, shee lyeing both those tymes at the
sayd Collonel Prides Key, and saith hee did not stay longe, but only to acquainte
the Company of her that they ought not to take in ballast of any but the
officers imployed by the sayd Grauntees whereto the Company anwered that
they cared not for that, for they had order to doe what they did
touching the takeing in of ballast And further hee cannot answere/

To the 3 hee saith that hee well knoweth and sawe that publication was made
to the effect Interrogate by printed papers sett up at the Exchange, and at the Custome
house and in at least forty pleaces betweene Tower wharfe and Ratcliffe
Crosse, and hee this deponent sett up two and thirty of those forty with
his owne hands./

To the 4th hee saith that on the sayd 26th of November last while this deponent
was speakeing to the Company of the hope and forbidding them to take in ballast of
any but the officers imployed by the sayd Grauntees there laye a lighter by the
hopes side with ballast and the company was then takeing the same in it being drye
sand