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HCA 13/70 f.30v Annotate
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 30  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Primary sources '''PROB''' PROB 11/195/280 Will of Robert Yaxley, Mariner of Aldeburgh, Suffolk 25 February 1646  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed  +
Transcription Vessell the ''Mary'' (which used all endeaVessell the ''Mary'' (which used all endeavours possible for a shipp so heavy laden<br /> to have avoyded the imminent danger) And thereupon the said shipp ''freeman'' did<br /> spoyle and indammage the ''Mary'' as followeth videlicet shgee broake her maine<br /> mast maine topps, maine yard foreyard her maine shrowds two of her<br /> foreshrowds her misen toppmast, and cracked her missen mast, spoyled her<br /> maine stay in two places, and broake one side of the said shipp ''Mary'' downe<br /> to the water and rent her foresaile and maine topsaile, and spoyled her mainesaile<br /> and very much damnified all the small rigging, and some of the Company of<br /> the said shipp the ''freeman'' coming on board the said shipp ''Mary'' did at their<br /> owne pleasure hack and cutt the said shipp and furniture very much spoyleing and<br /> endemmageing the same, and particularly one of the said ''freemans'' Companie<br /> whom this deponent taketh to have been her boateswaine, being aboard the ''Mary'',<br /> and desired by Robert Yaxley the Master not to doe such spoyle upon the shipp and<br /> tackle, the said boateswaine tooke up a handspike, and threatned to beat the Master<br /> who being overpowered was constrained to submitt to such their violences, which<br /> this deponent is firmly assured were committed and done by the order and<br /> direction, at least with the wilfull connivance of the said John Whitty, who<br /> during the premisses comeing upon the forecastle of his said shipp ''ffreeman'', did<br /> in the hearing of this deponent and his precontests, call the Master and Companie of<br /> the ''Mary'' Collierly doggs and rogues, sayeing hee did not care if hee had<br /> sunke her, meaning the said shipp ''Mary'', if it had not beene for the mens<br /> lives, or words to that effect. hee further saith, That to the best of this<br /> deponents Judgement and estimation, the dammage done to the said shipp ''Mary''<br /> did and doeth really amount to the valew of two hundred pounds sterling and<br /> upwards, and that the said shipp at a lesser valew cannot be restored to so<br /> good a Condition as shee was in before shee mett with the ''freeman'', and was<br /> runn aboard and spoyled by her in manner as is predeposed. And further<br /> cannot depose:-/ To the third hee saith, hee verily beleeveth that the shipp the ''Mary'' being<br /> a Vessell of about sixescore tunns and constantly employed in the Newcastle<br /> trade, might very well, (if the miscarriage predeposed had not happened<br /> whereby shee hath been necessitated to stay to be repayred) have cleared upon<br /> an employment to Newcastle and back to London with coales in the time of her<br /> stay here about 60 ''li'' sterling to the Owners besides the benefitt of about 10 ''li'' sterling to the Master which<br /> hee saith the said Master and owners have lost and are damnified by the meanes<br /> aforesaid, Which hee knoweth being a person long accustomed to those voyage sand seeing and knowing the said shipp ''Mary'' to have bin hindred from such<br /> the intended voyage by the disaster predeposed. And further cannot depose:- To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to the Acts and proceedings in this Court<br /> And further cannot depose./ To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./ To the Interrogatories:- [CENTRE HEADING] To the first Interrogatorie hee answereth, hee cometh to be a Wittnes in this Cause<br /> at the request of Robert Yaxley Master and part Owner of the said shipp ''Mary''<br /> wherein hee was an ordinary Mariner and saith the dammage in question<br /> (happened dammage in question<br /> (happened  +
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