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HCA 13/72 f.220v Annotate
First transcribed 26 December 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 220  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; trancribed on 26/12/2013  +
Transcription Oldenburghs side, and came to an Anchor, aOldenburghs side, and came to an Anchor, and notice being given to the sayd 'Welch by some of the<br /> Inhabitants and subiects of the duke of Oldenburgh that the danes had provided<br /> two or three smacks and manned them with men intending to lay the sayd shipps<br /> ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' aboard in the night and surprize them, the sayd Welch called to this<br /> deponent and asked him if hee had any money to gratifie those that brought him that intelligence<br /> and this deponent telling him noe, hee the sayd Welch gave them a match locke muskett in satisfaction<br /> and thereupon presently put out his gunnes and prepared himselfe to fight<br /> them and not longe after the sayd smacks came but seeing the sayd shipps<br /> ''Endeavour'' and ''Mary'' in a readinesse to make resistance, and the sayd Welch<br /> causing his trumpett to sound a challenge the sayd smacks passed<br /> by further up the River and came downe againe and returned towards their shipps<br /> not daring to approach and come neere the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary''<br /> and this was in the latter end of June or beginning of July last<br /> whereupon the ''Indeavour'' and ''Mary'' weighed anchor from thence and went<br /> up higher in the River towards the Citty of Oldenburgh and came with the<br /> ''Indeavour'' to an Anchor and sent the shallopp the ''Mary'' to put into a Creeke<br /> in the duke of Oldenburghs dominion, and the shallopp beeing makeing<br /> towards shoare some of the duke of Oldenburghs subiects called out to the<br /> shallopps Company in sight and hearing of this deponent and others of the Company of<br /> the ''Endeavour'' and told them they should not come to make fast their shallopp<br /> either with Anchor or hawser in that Creeke whereupon the sayd Welch<br /> and fower or five of his Company of the ''Endeavour'' went ashoare in the shipps boate<br /> to knowe why they might not (it being in the duke of Oldenburghs dominion<br /> who was a ''Prince'' in amity with this Commonwealth) be permitted to make<br /> fast there, and hee and his boates Crue being ashoare certayne of the sayd generall<br /> of the danes Company who had gotten ashoare certayne of the sayd generall<br /> of the danes Company who had gotten ashoare and lay in ambush were<br /> thereabout, seized upon the sayd Welch and his Crue and their boate, and kept<br /> them prisoners, and then called out in English to the Companyes of the ''Indeavour''<br /> and sayd now you see wee are possessed of your Captaine therefore deliver<br /> up your shipps for [XXXX XXXX] and will have them, and your Captaine hath<br /> promised that you shall deliver them or words to that effect whereto<br /> Nehemiah Collins Master of the ''Endeavour'' under the sayd<br /> Captaine Welch and others of the company of the sayd shipp in presence and<br /> hearing of this deponent spake to the sayd danes and sayd wee will not<br /> deliver them without order under our Captaines owne hand, and thereupon<br /> the danes departed carrying the sayd Captaine Welch and his Crue which<br /> they had taken prisoners with them, and the Companyes of the ''Indeavour''<br /> and ''Mary'' sett sayle from thence and went further up the River<br /> within about a myle and a halfe of the Citty of Oldenburgh and there<br /> came to an Anchor and the sayd Captaine Welch and his Crue having<br /> gotten released of their imprisonment (by what meanes hee knoweth not) come<br /> againe aboard the ''Indeavour'' then lyeing neere Oldenburgh, and tooke<br /> his letters of Marque aforesayd and accompanied with one Gibbons, his trumpeter,<br /> and one Hacker, went by land to the duke of Oldenburgh to procure<br /> from him protection for himselfe his Companyes and shipps aforesayd<br /> and as hee this deponent was afterwards by the sayd Captaine Welch and those<br /> whod Captaine Welch and those<br /> who  +
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