HCA 13/71 f.169r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 169 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First cut transcription completed on 14/01/13 by Alex Jackson; edited on 30/5/13 by Jill Wilcox; pasted into wikispot on 22/04/14 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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| Alex Jackson | |
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| 2013/01/14 | |
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| Created 04/04/14, by CSG | |
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1. of trade of the Barbadoes with horses and other merchandises for
2. this ten yeares past. and having cast upp the price of the sayd
3. horses so lost with the usuall gayne made of tyme ˹like horses˺ att the Barbadoes
4. findeth that the same would have yeilded att the usuall rate the sayd
5. summe of fifteen hundred pounds sterling. and upwards. And otherwise
6. hee cannot depose
7. To the nynth article hee saith that the sayd James Cooke att the tyme of his
8. giving unto the sayd shipp was but a young man about twenty yeares
9. of age, and in this deponents judgement had not experienced
10. and morst sufficient to be mate of a shipp for such a voyage as
11. was intended. And saith that hee the sayd James was and is by common
12. repute the sonn of the sayd Robert Cooke mate of the sayd shipp
13. and was hived by his sayd father to serve in her. And further
14. hee cannot depose.
William Tickell [SIGNATURE ON RH SIDE]
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The same day examined upon the sayd allegation
William Lowe a planter and inhabitant of the Barbadoes one of the Caribee Islands
aged forty yeares or thereabouts a witnesses sworne and
examined saith as followeth. videlicet
23. To the first article of the sayd allogation and to the Schedule thereto annexed new
24. thence him he saith, and deposeth that being a planter the sayd Island
25. of Barbadoes which he was to returne from England he putt
26. himselfe as a passenger on board the sayd shipp Tankervale Robert
27. Cooke mate which was designed to goe from this port to Norway
28. and there to take in horses and to goe to the Barbadoes and
29. from thence to returne for England, and by this meanes came to
30. heare and know that att or most of the Mariners belonging to the
31. sayd shipp and particularly the sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson
32. were to have their wages payd att the Barbadoes in Muscavadoes
33. sugars att the rate of four pence and pound; to which purpose hee did
34. seuerall tymes soe the foresayd schedule in the hands of the sayd
35. Robert Cooke and heard him receaved the same to his Mariners and heard
36. them acknowledge that they had subscribed it as now is to be soone
37. and that they had agreed and contracted as therein is conteyned. And
38. otherwise hee cannot depose.
39. To the second and third articles of the sayd allogation This deponent saith, that upon
40. the arrivall of the sayd shipp att Norway there were putt on board her
41. for the sayd Richard Batsons and Companies Accompt by their factor
42. there forty five horses to be from thence transported to the Barbadoes
43. and the stowing of the sayd horses did belong to the mariners of the sayd
44. shipp, and the making of the stanctions for that purpose as to the
45. 'rate' of the worke that they should be stronge and sufficient did belong
46. to the sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson as mate and Boatswayne
And
