MRP: HCA13/128

HCA13/128

Editorial history

26/04/12, CSG: Created page

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Overview

Worked on HCA 13/128 (1656-1658)
Small volume, ca. 10 in x. 6 in x ¾ in
Leather bound, original covers; original leather ties have been lost
No contents or index
No foliation no pagination
Kept this volume to work on further this Friday (27th April 2012)

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Selected transcriptions

Case: XXXX: Answer: XXXX: Date: XXXX

P1110029

//The psonall Answeres of Richard Batson Humphrey
Beane & Gowen Goldegay Made to the Allegacon
apud Arla & Schedule given in on the behalfe
of Henry ffreeman & others doe followe

To the Allon & Schedule they answer & accept the Contents
thereof soe far as it makes for them & not otherwise
and further they answere & beleeve all the parties allegate
were hyred to serve in the vessell the Greyhound allegate
by order of these rendents as they beleeve for the wages
expressed in the schedule annexed to these rendents
answeres and noe more as they beleeve for a fishing
voiage to be made in the sd vessell for Greeneland//

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P1110030

& the ports & harbours thereabouts but these rendents
beleeve the sd pties nor any off them never came or
arrived to any of the sd places, but in stead of goeing
thither to fish, when they were within five or six leagues
of the same the sd pties with the consent of the rest of the
sd ships Company would nt pceed any further but forced
the Comander of the sd ship to turne back againe both w:th
the ship allegate & the Owners Adventure without ever
coming to Greeneland or any port or harbor there or making
any voiage, by which meanes these rendents d voiage was
totally overthrowne & lost to their damage at leaset ffowre
thousand pounds as they beleeve, And further they doe not
beleeve the sd Allegacon
or schedule to be true in any pte, saveing these rendents beleeve
that the sd ship sett sayle from Gravesend upon or about the fourteenth of Aprill 1656. & not before as they beleeve
at w:ch time & not before the sd monethly pay was to begin
in case the sd pties had behaved themselves as they ought to have
done, & these rendents further beleeve that y:e ship the Greyhound
came back againe into the River of Thames & was here discharged
upon or about the fowrteenth day of September 1656 as they beleeve

RICHARD BATSON [His signature]
BEANE [His signature]
GOE XXXXX [His signature]

The schedule menconed in the Answeres

Henry ffreeman for twelve pounds whereof
recd three pounds in money before he went
out & fower shills & ten pence more unpon Cloathes
soe in case he had pformed the voiage in Greenland
as he might to have done there remaine

8:li - 15 - 2

John Burgen for fifteene pounds whereof recd
three pounds before he went out & stwo shill and
two oence upon cloathes so in case he had pformed
his voiage to Greeneland as he ought tp have done
there remaines

11:li - 19 (OR, 17)- 10

John Gold for five pounds wherof recd twenty
shills, and one pound. two shills & six pence in cloaths
so in case he had gone to Greenland and
there pformed what he ought to have done there had
remained

2:li - 19 (OR, 17)- 6//

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P1110031

Nicholas Taylor at Thirty five shillings p
moneth whereof recd before hee went out
Thirty five shill and in cloathes Three shill
fower oennce, and he was in the ship from the
14:th of Aprill 1656; which is five moneths soe
there remaines in case he had pformed his
voiage as he ought to have done

6:li - 16 - 8

Thomas ffrost shipped at thirty nyne shills per
moneth whereof recd one moneths pay before
his foeing out & fifteene shills foure pence for cloathes
& was in the ship the time aforesd, soe thre remaines
in case he had pformed the voiage as he ought to
have done

7:li - 0 - 8

John Clarke shipped at thirty Eight shill p moneth
whereof recd one pound Eighteene shill before his goeing out & one pound two shill . eight pence for
cloathe, & was in the ship the time aforesd soe
there remaines in case he had pformed his
voiage as he ought to have done

6:li - 09 - 4

Dennis Yarmouth shipped at thirty foure shill
p moneth recd one pound fowerteene shills
before his departure, & fifteene shill foure
pence for cloathes & was in the shipp the
tyme aforesd, soe there remaines in case
hee had pformed his voiage as he ought

6:li - 0 - 8

RICHARD BATSON [His signature]
H BEANE ?Esqr [His signature]
GUW GOULEGAY (sic) [His signature]

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P1110032

CLOSE UP DIGITAL IMAGE OF THE SIGNATURES IN P1110031

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Case: Edward Gosling, wages: Answer: Richard Batson: Date: XXXX

//The psonall Answeres of Richard Batson made
to the posicons of an All:on ag:t him on the
behalfe of Edward Gosling in the Cause of wages
doe followe

1. To the first pretended posicon hee answereth & beleeveth
that he doth accept the contents of the said posicon soe far
as the same doth make for him & not otherwise, And
he beleeveth that this rendent, M:r Beane & M:r Goldegue (sic)
did in or about the time arlate hyre and agree with the
said Edward Goslinge to serve in the ship the Owners
Adventure as a Harponier at first onely, and left it unto
Thomas Damerell the Comander of the said ship to appoint
him his mate if he pleased, w:ch this rendent beleeveth hee
afterwards did appoint the sd Gosling one of his Mates
with the consent of this rendent as hee beleeveth And//

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P1110038

DETAIL OF HUMPHREY BEANE SIGNATURE

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P1110039

DUPLICATE DIGITAL IMAGE OF P1110037

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P1110048

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Case: XXXX: Answer: XXXXX: Date: 1st November 1655

//M:r Daniell Jiggles.

- In the Iland of Barbados Novemb: 1:me 1655

My order & desire unto yo:u is that yo:u take the first
opportunity of wind & weather to saile home to the coast of
Virginia where I shall not oblige yo:u to any pticular port
being altogether unacquainted withh that trade, But forasmuch
as you have bin severall tymes there I shall intreate you to
saile for y:t place where wee may most probably find a
fraight for the ship Anne, be it either for London or
Holland, which is the principle of o:r designes and a good
fraight with a speedy dispacth would much helpe us
you well knowe how to distingusih betixt
fraights for England & Holland, & I shall leave it unto
your discretion, The goods which I have laden pary
dispose of them for my most advantages you have
their pticulars here underneath, pray gett good tobacco
for them, & loade it aboard the Ann to be at y:e disposicon
of my brother James Cowse

Now if it shall soe fall out that a fraight in a short space
is not to be procured, which on yo:r arrivall yo:u will soone
perceive, then my order is that you come back hither with
all convenient speed, And that the voiage may not bee
altogether fruitles, you may convert my goods into cattle
such as you conceie may be fittest for sale here in this
Iland, and you may likewise loade a parcell of beefe
and porke which may be seasoned with our owne salt
And so further the busines you may passe yo:r bill on me
for Tenn or fifteene thousand^pounds of Musc:° sugars, or
you may give yo:r bills by Exchange on my brother James
Cowse of London for one hundred or one hundred and
fifty pounds sterl, and your bills will be paid, M:r ?Manning
hath written to severall of his friends to assist yo:u in what
shall offer And likewise if there be an occasion to
underwrite yo:r bills.
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P1110049

Theise goods laden are as followeth

Eight pipes pf Oporto wynes whereof, Two are white, one ?eager,
A Bale con 32: Rames of white writing paper
A packett 20. peeces of pintados which here sell at 50:li
Two chests of fine earthen ware
A parcell of course earthen ware
A parcell of salt

You may sell these goods at the price Currant that is to say
for the most they will yeeld, And if any of the seamen be
necessitated, you may supply their wants on accompts of
their wages, and for your care and paines herein yo:u shaéé
have a good satisffaction, I leave the whole business unto yor
care, beseeching God to send you a prosperous voiage

I am yo:r very loving friend
Edmund Cowse

Pray write my brother
what passeth

DANIELL JESSELS His signature

Repeated before Coll Cocke
in y:e hall y:r the 16:th of ffeb: 1655

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Case: Wm: Bulkley allegation: Answer: William Browning: Date: 18th Feb: 1656

The psonall Answeres of W;m Browning ade to y:e posicons
of an All:on given in ag:t him on behalfe of W:m Bulkley doe
followe

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P1110051

The Grehound'