| First transcribed
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3 November 2012 +
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| First transcriber
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Alex Jackson +
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| Folio
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347 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 03/11/2012 +
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| Transcription
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[ENTIRE PAGE IS STRUCK OUT WITH A LARGE CR … [ENTIRE PAGE IS STRUCK OUT WITH A LARGE CROSS ON THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, WITH A MARGINAL NOTE ON HCA 13/71 f.347v STATING THAT THE DEPOSITION WAS VOID SINCE THE INDIVIUDAL WAS SWORN AS A PARTY PRINCIPAL, NOT AS A WITNESS]
To the fifth hee saith hee well knoweth that there were two cables belonging<br />
to the sayd shipp the ''Edward and John'' which were by reason they were very rotten<br />
and badd (the shipp having ridden by them in the Barbadoes for about<br />
eight or nyne moneths) made both fast to one Anchor, but by reason of their<br />
rottennesse brake by the weight the Anchor as the shipps company<br />
were at the Barbadoes having it up, which one of the company perceiving<br />
as it was the cables were in breakeing and almost broke did endeavour<br />
to have fastened, another rope to the Anchor thereby to save it and adventured which should [?XXX] in water soe to doe but before<br />
hee could fasten the same the Cables both broke quite a sunder<br />
by which meanes the sayde Anchor was lost this hee deposeth of his<br />
owne sight and knowledge helpeing alsoe soe much as hee could<br />
to preserve the sayd Anchor and saith that what dammage did happen<br />
to the sayd shipps tackle happened by the insufficiency of the sayd<br />
Cables and other tackle of the sayd shipp and not by any carelessnesse<br />
or fault of this deponent or any other of the sayd shipps company who<br />
did all as hee beleveeth their best endeavour to preserve the same
To the 6th hee saith that hee this deponent did and other the Mariners<br />
of the sayd shipp alsoe did soe farr as hee this deponent could<br />
or did observe their utmost Endeavour to preserve the sayd shipps tackle<br />
and alsoe her ladeing or goods, And saith that the sayd shipp being<br />
with her ladeing come to an Anchor at Greenwich and a lighter lyeing<br />
there by her side ready to receive goods from on board this deponent and<br />
other goods espied a hogshead which was wett and little above halfe<br />
full of sugar and told the sayd Captaine Tottey thereof and desyred<br />
him that before ány more goods were unladen (there having bin before<br />
that at Woollwich one lighter of goods unladen out of the sayd shipp)<br />
there might bee a survey taken of the goods in the shipp that it might<br />
appeare how and by what meanes the sayd dammage had happened<br />
but the sayd Captaine Totty would not harken nor consent thereto but sayd hee<br />
would have the goods unladen as the lighters came for them<br />
but this deponent and the rest of the sayd shipps Company except<br />
one Ryder refused then to worke upon delivery of the<br />
sayd goods unlesse a survey were first made of them, but the sayd<br />
Tottey procured labourers and would and did cause the sayd lighter<br />
to bee laden with goods from on board the sayd shipp before any survey was made and saith<br />
after that, the sayd shipp removed from Greenwich with the rest of the<br />
ladeing on board her to deptford, where the sayd shipps company<br />
by order of the sayd Tottey did helpe to unlade and did unlade the<br />
other ligher full of goods from on board the sayd shipp noe survey<br />
being still taken by the sayd or procured to bee taken by the sayd<br />
Tottey after which the sayd shipp removed with the rest of her<br />
lading to Bell wharfe neere Ratcliff where all the rest of the<br />
goodshere all the rest of the<br />
goods +
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[[File:P1130858.JPG|thumbnail|800px|none|link=Special:TranscriptionInterface/P1130858.JPG|[[:HCA 13/71|HCA 13/71]] f.347v: Right click on image for full size image in separate window +
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