HCA 13/72 f.263r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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Folio | 263 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2013/09/28 |
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the Company of the Jacob did blame him that was at the Jacobs
helme when the dammage in question was done and say that it was
done by him and by his mistake in turning the Jacobs helme one
waye when hee should have turned an other And further to
this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere
Repeated the 23th of March 1657
before doctor Godolphin/
John Bonython [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day.
Examined on the same Interrogatories
2
George Meade of Plymouth Mariner aged fifty
eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne before
the sayd doctor Godolphin saith as followeth videlicet./
To the 1 and 2 Interrogatories hee saith hee well knew the shipp Isaack and was
Carpenter of her the voyage in question and saith the sayd shipp did at
Plymouth receave and take in a great quantitie of goods videlicet Tinne and
sugar and Syder and trane Oyle and Indico and butter and
divers other goods to the quantitie of fowerscore tonne of goods in
all but the particuler owners and quantities hee knoweth not but saith
the most part of the Tinne was (as hee beleeveth) for Accompt of the
Interrogant Thomas Gregs And saith that the sayd shipp having receaved
the sayd goods departed therewith from Plymouth toward London on
the 17th of ffebruary last and the Saint Jacob Interrogated whereof the
Interrogant John Clason was master being at Plymouth when the Isaack
was there departed thence at the same tyme as the Isaack did the Isaack
under the Conduct of an English Convoy bound for London and the
Saint Jacob under the Convoy of a dutch shipp, and bound for holland And
further to those Interrogatories hee cannot answere./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that the next night after the Isaacks departure
from Plymouth shee being quietly sayling after her Convoy for
London and in her course thitherwards the Saint Jacob aforesayd by default
and negligence of her Master or Company fell fowle upon the
Isaacks Bowe and brake downe all her masts and brake her larboard
side and brake her boate leying upon the deck and soe hurt and endamaged
her that shee was ready to sinke, andcontinued beating upon her in
this manner the space of well neere an hower which the Company
of the Isaack perceiving and that they were in great danger the Master
and Company of her and two seamen and a boy that were passengers
makeing in all eleven saved them selved by getting aboard the Saint Jacob, and
twelve other passengers who could not gett out of the Isaack but remayned
aboard her when the Saint Jacob had cleered her selfe from the Isaack did
(as hee beleeveth) perish and were drowned in the Isaack togeather with her Ladeing after
the Saint Jacob was gone from her And further hee cannot answere./