'''TNA''' PROB PROB 11/318/423 Will of John Bishopp, Chandler of Stepney, Middlesex 09 November 1665
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have paid the owners of her for her, as hee hath heard and beleeveth they did the Owners of other shipps lett to them to freight which were sunke or fyred in their service And further hee cannot depose Repeated before doctor Godolphin/ Mathew Sherley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ***************************** The same day [CENTRE HEADING] Examined on the sayd allegation/ '''Rp. 2''' '''John Bishopp''' of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Cooper aged forty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the 1. 2. and 3 articles hee saith hee this deponent went Cooper of the ''hercules'' the voyage arlate and thereby knoweth that in the moneths of September October November and december 1652 the sayd shipp served as a man of warr in the imediate service of this State and that the arlate Zachary Browne was Commander in Cheif and Captaine of her by the appointment of some of the officers of this state authorized soe to constitute him, and for such commonly accompted And hee saith the sayd Browne being in the moneth of November aforesayd at Portsmouth where shee was fresh victualed and Careened the sayd Browne receaved order from the Generall or some other officer of this State to conduct the sayd shipp thence to the downes where (as it was then sayd) the Generall of the English ffleete then was, And hee saith the sayd Browne in obedience to such order did upon the thirtith of November 1652 aforesayd sett sayle from Portsmouth bound for the downes but upon the first of december next folllowing the weather prooveing very thick and foggie the ''hercules'' by meanes thereof came neere the dutch ffleete of warr which then lay neere dungenesse, whereupom the sayd Captaine Browne per= ceiving the danger hee was falne into by reason of the thick weather sprang his Luffe the winde being then at Northwest or Northwest and by North thereby intending to gett the weather[?gage] of the dutch ffleete or of soe many of them as hee could and soe standing to the Eastward of the Nesse hee ingaged part of the dutch ffleete, and stood to the Northward in hope to get under shelter and defence of S[XX]gate Castle, and soe by accident rann his sayd shipp a ground about a myle or somewhat lesse from shoare And further to those articles hee cannot depose/ To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith the sayd shipp being soe accidentally runne aground the sayd Captaine Browne commanded his shipps company in [generall] to keepe aboard the shipp ''hercules'' and to ple their gunnes and defend her soe longe as possible shee could bee defended and when shee could bee noe longer defended then to save her or bore holes in her
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