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HCA 13/71 f.126r Annotate
First transcribed 12 September 2012  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 126  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 09/09/2012  +
Transcription Hance Rauce of Quinsborough}<br /> HHance Rauce of Quinsborough}<br /> Harrison and others.} The 29th day of March 1656 Examined upon the sayd allegation '''3:''' '''Jan Polo''' of Flushing in Zealand Mariner aged 51. yeares<br /> or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and<br /> sayth as followeth. videlicet. To the 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5th Articles of the sayd allon he saith he cannot depose.<br /> saving that the sayd shipp the ''Hope'' came and arrived at Elsineur in the<br /> Soundt of denmarke in September 1655 last past, where this deponent<br /> att that tyme was expecting some shipp whereon hee might come as a<br /> Passenger to theis Seas and saving that the shipp ''Hope'' had hempe Clapboard<br /> and deales on board her, To the 6th. article of the sayd allegation he saith, That on or about the 29th<br /> day of the sayd moneth of September, the foresayd shipp the ''Hope''<br /> sett sayle from the Soundt aforesayd under the Command of Martin<br /> Barnhide as Master of her, And about four dayes after being upon<br /> her course for London there happened a very high and violent<br /> wind from about the West North west poynt in the afternoone, so<br /> as the sayd shipp could not nor did beare any other sayle but her maine<br /> sail very much lowerd, And the says wind increasing the night following<br /> there happened an extraordinary furious storme, which by two of the<br /> clock the next morning drave the sayd shipp neere to Jutland<br /> upon a place called the holmes. and upon sounding it did appeare<br /> that the sayd shipp had then about thirteene fathom water, whereupon<br /> being allso neare to the Lea shore the sayd Master and Company<br /> for the preservation of the sayd shipp and her lading did cast out<br /> two anchors one after the other the first anchor by reason of [?the]<br /> violent fury of the sayd Storme not taking hold; and after both were<br /> cast out they could not yet hold, so strong and raging was the sayd<br /> storme, so as the sayd Master and Company for preservation of the sayd shipp<br /> and her lading were enforced and did cutt downe her mainmast<br /> which with the yards sayles and tackle thereto belonging was immediately<br /> carryed by the sayd Storme of wind into the sea and so perished, and<br /> then and not before the sayd Anchors did take hold and fastened<br /> themselves. And the shipp lay so att Anchor till the afternoone of<br /> that day att which tyme the wind shifted something to the Southward.<br /> And the sayd Master and Company were forced and did cutt one of the<br /> Cables, and endeavoured to weigh the other anchor but it brake in<br /> weighing. and one perice of it was recovered; and the rest of it as<br /> also the other anchor were lost. And that night the sayd shipp with much<br /> adoe andwith great danger came to the Coast of Norway, and was by<br /> a ffishermans yall conducted betwixt the Rockes to a small haven called<br /> [Gusd GUTTER]all haven called<br /> [Gusd GUTTER]  +
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