HCA 13/71 f.259v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
|---|---|
| Folio | 259 |
| Side | Verso |
| ← Previous Page | |
| Status | |
| First cut transcription started on 14/10/12 and completed on 01/11/12 | |
| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 12/11/01 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Created 06/04/14, by CSG | |
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1. To the 5th hee saith hee knoweth the Interrogate Mathew Plowman
2. and saith the sayd Plowman was at such tyme as the stormes aforesayd
3. happenedd a sickly man and soe had bin for three or fower dayes before
4. and kept his Cabbin and came not out by reason of his sickness And
5. saith hee well observed and knoweth that the sayd Plowman did not come
6. forth of his cabbin XXXing ˹in˺ the sayd stormes untill after the sayd shipps
7. mayne mast and shrowdes and tackle aforesayd were downe and blowne
8. over board and gone and when hee did come the reason thereof XXX XXX
9. hee there was as to for that a great sea came into the sayd shipp and
10. part thereof went into his Cabbin soe that the sayd Plowman fearing
11. as this deponent beleeveth that hee should bee drowned in the Cabbin
12. thereupon came forth thereof and hee this deponent well knowing
13. the sayd Plowmans Cabbin is well assured that the same being
14. within the great Cabbin and obscured ˹and hidd˺ by the bulke heads of the sayd
15. shipp It was impossible for him from out the sayd Cabbin to see
16. and discover what was done in the sayd shipp by others of her company
17. in any part thereof And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose/
18. <margin value="Left">Repeated before doctor Godolphin</margin>
19. the marke of the sayd RH SIDE, UNDER TEXT
20. John ‡ Smith. RH SIDE, UNDER TEXT
21.
22. The same day XX
23. Examined on the sayd Interrogatories
24. <margin value="Left">d Smith</margin>
25. <margin value="Left">2</margin>
26. John Sutton of Wapping in the parish of Saint
27. Mary Matsellon
28. alias Whitechappell and County of Middlesex Mariner Boatswaine
29. of the shipp the Saphir aged twenty sixe yeares or there
30. abouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and
31. deposeth as followeth videlicet./
32. To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith that hee well knoweth
33. the Interrogate Shipp the Saphir and went Boatswaine of and in her the voyage
34. in question being her last voyage from London and saith that in the sayd
35. voyage the sayd shipp about forescore leagues to the Southwest of Scilly
36. mett with an exceeding great storme and tempest XXX so which continued
37. with great force for five or sixe howers togeather in soe much that
38. the sayd shipp and her ladeing and alsoe the lives of her company on board
39. ˹her˺ were in extreame perill and danger of being utterly lost and the
40. sayd Master and Company seeing the great danger they and the sayd shipp
41. were ˹in˺ did conclude that the safest way to preserve the sayd shipp and
42. ladeing from sinkeing and perishing in and by the sayd strome was to
43. cutt the mayne mast and other her tacke over board, and according to
44. the sayd conclusion and agreement the sayd shipps Company by order of the
45. Master began to Cutt the mayne mast and then cutt the shroudes
46. and stays of the mayne mast and the says shroudes and stay being cutt
47. then and not before the mayne mast (although it were a new stronge and
48. substantiall maste) brake in peeces a good way above ˹the place˺ where it was
49. begunne to bee cutt (wanting the sayd shroudes and staye to XXXXX, and
50. uphold at ˹and were togeather with the topp mast and all the yardes and sayles XXXXX and tossed over board and lost in the Sea˺ which hee verily beleeveth it would not have done if the sayd GUTTER
51. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">shroudes</margin>
