HCA 13/71 f.450v Annotate

Expand this area to see details of page purpose, how to register, how to add footnotes, and useful links.

---

Purpose

This page is for the annotation of HCA 13/71 f.450v.

Annotations can be viewed by everyone on a read-only basis.

For more information on MarineLives and the MarineLives Annotation Project read our Shipping News blog entries:

Annotating Marine Lives, May 1st 2013
Adding value to primary documents, May 8th 2013
Witnesses in Court, 1657-1658 (May 9th, 2013)

---

Registration to annotate documents

Registration is required to contribute annotations to this page and to other pages in the wiki.

You can register using the following Form, and we will issue you with a UserName and Password for the wiki.

---

Text formatting

The MarineLives transcription platform is built on MediaWiki, which uses wiki markup to format text. For a guide showing how to produce italics, bold, escaped text and headings, see the MediaWiki page on formatting; there are also guides for internal and external links, image embedding, tables, and more on lists.

---

Adding footnotes

• Go into edit mode
• Insert immediately after the sentence or phrase you wish to annotate the following macro:<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
• Replace 'This is the footnote text' with the footnote you wish to add, using the format: first name, surname, title, (place of publication, date of publication), page or folio number
• Save the page

For more information and advanced formatting, including how to add and format links within the footnote, see the Wikipedia help on footnotes. This uses the same markup formatting.

Example footnote template:

• ''HCA 13/XX f.XXXX Case: XXXX; Deposition: XXXX; Date: XXXX. Transcribed by XXXX''<ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

---

Suggested links

Annotate HCA 13/64 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/65 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/68 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/69 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/70 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/71 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/72 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/73 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/74 Volume Page
Marine Lives Tools

Image

HCA 13/71 f.450v: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

The 5th day of March 1656

Sarah Smith Executrix of Robert Smith of the}
Swan alias the Giant etcetera}

Examined upon an allegation given in on the behalfe
of the sayd Sara Smith./

Rp. .j.us

John Calcot of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County
of Middlesex Brewers servant aged twenty fower yeares or
thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation and to the
Schedule in the sayd second article mentioned hee saith that in the yeare one
thousand sixe hundred fiftie three and moneths therein concurring hee this
deponent was a servant unto the arlate Robert Smith a brewer since de[ceased GUTTER]
but then liveing in Wapping and saith hee thereby well knoweth that the shipp
arlate in the yeares and moneths a foresayd laye in the River of Thames a
little belowe Shadwell dock and was then called by the name of the Swann and
since by the name of the Gyant (but her then masters name hee remembreth
not but hath heard and beleeveth it was the arlate Arthur Kne[?nett] which shipp the Swann hee saith then stoode in neede of seaven [tunns GUTTER]
of beere to fitt her for her voyage she was then bound upon, and [hee GUTTER]
this deponent well knoweth (being imployed by his sayd Master Robert
Smith who was then owner of the sayd seaven tonns of beere, and
sold the same to the then Master of the sayd shipp to lade the same
a board the lighter that came to fetch it, and in goeing a longe in the
lighter and seeing it all delivered on board the sayd shipp then called
the Swan (and since the Gyant) to the use thereof and helpeing to fill the [?beere GUTTER]
into Casks and doe other worke thereabout in order to the delivery thereof
that the seaven tonns of beere in the sayd Schedule mentioned [was GUTTER]
by the order of the sayd Robert Smith according (as hee beleeveth)
the bargaine and agreement made betweene him and the then Master of the
shipp the sayd K[?ne?nett] for the same delivered and aboard the sayd shipp and receaved aboard
her by the sayd master and Company of her, but at what price per tonne the sayd
beere was then sold, hee knoweth not for that hee was not present at the mak[?eing GUTTER]
the bargaine thereabout, but well remembreth that beere of such g[?ooXX GUTTER]
and br[?ue]d to keepe for soe longe tyme as that was (videlicet for twelve months)
was usually then sold for and well worth the price schedulate of [XXX GUTTER]
shillings per tonne besides the excise due for the same The premisses [hee GUTTER]
deposeth for the reasons aforesayd And further cannot depose/

To the 3 article hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd Robert Smith is since
the delivery of the sayd beere dead, and that the producent Sara Smith [?was ?and GUTTER]
is his Relict And further hee cannot depose but referreth him selfe to
the Registry of the Court for probate of wills and graunting Admin[istrations GUTTER]

To the 4th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of this Court
and further cannot depose./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

Repeated in Court before both Judges

John Callcott [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]