Browse wiki

Jump to: navigation, search
HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate
First transcribed 26 September 2012  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 260  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 26/09/2012  +
Transcription Plowman came not out of his Cabbin in the Plowman came not out of his Cabbin in the sayd storme untill<br /> after the mayne mast and shroudes and other tackle predeposed of were cut<br /> away and gone, and after they were gone and not before (a great sea coming into the<br /> sayd shipp and breakeing into the sayd Plowmanns Cabbin) hee thereupon<br /> came out of his Cabbin and satt in the steerage, for that when the sayd<br /> Plowman came out of his sayd Cabbin there was nothing then in action<br /> by the shipps company for him to discover, save that hee might see them<br /> pumpeing and baleing water out of the sayd shipp, And this deponent<br /> as well assured that while the sayd Plowman soe kept in his cabbin<br /> hee could not discover or see what the shipps company were doeing<br /> in any part of the shipp for that the bulke heads of the great<br /> Cabbin and steerage of the sayd shipp, were betweene him and the<br /> shipps company and hindered him soe that it was not possible for him<br /> to see any thing what was done while hee stayed in his Cabbin And<br /> further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose Repeated before doctor Godolphin John Sutton: [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ************************** The same day [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories '''d Smith''' '''3''' '''Robert Catmar''' of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and<br /> County of Middlesex Quarter Master of the shipp<br /> the ''Saphyr'' aged thirty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br /> sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith hee was Quarter Master of<br /> the Interrate shipp the ''Saphir'' the voyage in question and therefore well knoweth<br /> her and saith in her sayd voyage (being her last from London) shee was<br /> about eighty leagues southwest from Scilly surprized with a very<br /> great tempest which held with much violence for the space of about<br /> twelve howers togeather soe that the shipp and ladeing and her companys<br /> lives were in great danger to bee cast away and saith that this deponent<br /> and others of the shipps Company did by the Command of the Master in<br /> order to the preservation of the sayd shipp and her ladeing begin to cutt<br /> the maine mast by the board, and having cutt the same a little did by<br /> the sayd Masters order cutt the shroudes and the mayne staye of the<br /> sayd mast which being cutt and not before the sayd Mast though it were a new and<br /> a strong mast) brake a good height above the place where it was begun<br /> to bee cut, (which without cutting the sayd shroudes and stay it would not<br /> have done) and it and the shroudes and mayne stay and yardes and sayles<br /> thereof and alsoe the topp mast and yardes thereof and sayles thereof were<br /> all tumbled in to the sea, and other tackle and furniture of the sayd shipp videlicet<br /> the shipps skiffe was cutt in peeces and throwne over board and two Anchors<br /> cutt away from her starr board side to ease and lighten the sayd shipp the<br /> better to preserve her and her ladeing from perishing in the sayd storme<br /> andrishing in the sayd storme<br /> and  +
Transcription image [[File:P1130680.JPG|thumbnail|800px|none|link=Special:TranscriptionInterface/P1130680.JPG|[[:HCA 13/71|HCA 13/71]] f.260v: Right click on image for full size image in separate window  +
Has queryThis property is a special property in this wiki. HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate + , HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate + , HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate + , HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate + , HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate + , HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate + , HCA 13/71 f.260v Annotate +
Categories Pages  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 20 May 2015 17:27:05  +
hide properties that link here 
  No properties link to this page.
 

 

Enter the name of the page to start browsing from.