HCA 13/73 f.600v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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| Folio | 600 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Bethan Reynolds | |
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| 2015/03/04 | |
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Ad 12th artum deponit et dicit that the Rere(?) Admirall of the said shipp
called ( as afterwards appeared ) the Zelandia and whereof one ty xxx Quarts
was commander came sailing to the windward of the Experience, which is
contrary to the custome of friends at sea, and never hayled the E-
perience at all; whereupon Captain Kingsman seeing the same
hayled the ship Zelandia, and wished her Captain to keep to leeward
of the Experience but the said(?) Captaine made no answer at all thereunto but
sayled on still to windward of her as an enemy. And
then and not before Captain Kingsman, according to the use and custome
of the seas in the like case, caused a shot to be made from his
ship the Experience athwart the Zelandia’s foot, which did neither
touch the Zelandia nor was intended soe to doe, but was only
( as he sayth ) to give the said Quarts in the Zelandia notice of when
to fall with his said ship to leeward of the Experience, and not to be upon(?) of the
weatherside of her, notwithstanding all which means used he sayth
the said Captain Quarts kept to windward still of
Experience, and would not come to the Lee. The premisses he
knoweth to be true seeing and hearing the same.
Ad 13th Artum dicit that during all the time the Zelandia came(?)
to windward of the Experience as aforesaid and before, the Experience had(?)
up and sayled with the English Colours, and the Captain and Company
of the Zelandia might and did see the same, And this Deponent
verily beleeveth that they, and also the Companies of the two said(?)
ships ( which were also very neare ) might and did very well
perceive(?) and know the Experience to be an English ship. Et ate nescit.
Ad 14th dicit that so soon as ever the Zelandia came up with the(?)
Experience, her Captain never hayled the Experience but xxxx
gave her a broadside, and so lay ahead of her continually
firing his guns, and spoyling the masts rigging tackle
furniture of the Experience, untill the other two Dutch ships(?)
came up with her also. And sayth that when the other two
Dutch ships ( called the Orange and the "Armes of Zealand" )
soe came up they fired their Guns also at the Experience
and also poured small shot amongst her Company, by
which their shooting they killed the said Captain Kingsman, one or
two more of the Company of the Experience, and then
boarded and surprized her
And after such surprizall and quarter given(?)
he sayth that one of the Company of one of the foresaid Dutch
ships in cold blood killed one of the Experience’s Company
and they the said Companies of the Dutch ships plundered all(?)
the xxxxxxxx of the Experience of all that belonged unto
them, and tooke away all the papers and writings which
were in the said ship and such as they found did concerne the
ship and her lading and showed that the same did belong to Englishmen they either tore or threw overboard or
caused them to be torne or throwne overboard and then
(after severall other abuses done to the Company of the
Experience ) carried her and her lading to xxxxx xxxx
Gallicia, and there kept her about ten or twelve dayes during which(?) time(?)
(contrary to the rules of the Law and Justice in such case(?))
broke bulke and tooke out of her about two hundred and fifty
chests of white sugar, and at least twelve hundred Rolls
of Tobaccoe, and disposed thereof at their pleasure, and soe carried(?)
the
