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15 October 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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256 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| People
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<u>Edward Cragg</u> +
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| Primary sources
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'''TNA'''
<u>PROB</u>
PROB 11/400/394 Will of William Crage or Craig, Mariner of Wapping, Middlesex 14 August 1690<br />
PROB 11/451/55 Will of John Cragg, Mariner of Shadwell, Middlesex 06 June 1699 +
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 05/10/2013 +
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| Transcription
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To the 9th Interrogatorie hee saith that t … To the 9th Interrogatorie hee saith that though a shipp bee staunch and strong before<br />
a storme yet it doth not necessarily followe that therefore shee must receave noe<br />
harme above water then under water for hee hath observed that oft tymes a<br />
shipp is in a storme soe strayned in her seames that shee may and doth<br />
receave more harme under water then above./
To the 10th Interrogatorie hee saith hee beleeveth that before the storme it was necessary<br />
and usuall to pumpe the shipp three howers in a day or thereabouts and after<br />
the storme shee stood neede to be pumped five howers in a day or thereabouts<br />
and was pumped soe long at least every day till shee came into the river of<br />
Thames, And further hee cannot answeeere./
To the last hee cannot answere knowing nothing thereof./
William Talmage [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 19th of March 1657 English style/
Examined on the sayd allegation./
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'''Edward Cragg''' of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and County<br />
of Middlesex Mariner Master of a ffrigott called the ''Nantwich''<br />
''ffrigott'' aged forty seaven yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee<br />
this deponent being at Lisbon Master of the ''Nantwich ffrigott'' a shipp in the<br />
service of this Commonwealth at the same tyme when the ''Oporto Merchant'' was then<br />
ready to retourne thence with her ladeing the voyage in question which was in the<br />
Moneth of November last hee this deponent and the Master of the ''Centurion'' an<br />
other ffrigott in the imediate service of this Commonwealth were ordered by Captaine<br />
Stokes (who was left then Commander in Cheife by Generall Blake of<br />
certaine shipps in the imediate service of this Commonwealth) to convoy the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Oporto Merchant'' safe for England this deponents sayd ffrigott and the<br />
''Centurion'' haveing then also necessary occasion to returne for England And<br />
thereupon hee this deponent with his ffrigott the ''Nantwich ffrigott'' accompanyed<br />
alsoe with the ''Centurion'' did undertake to Convoy the sayd shipp the ''Oporto Merchant''<br />
from Lisbon into the downes, and in order thereto sett sayle in Company toge[ather GUTTER]<br />
from Lisbon on the second day of November last and in their passage for England<br />
they mett with a very violent storme of of the Norther Cape which continued<br />
twenty fower howers at least with great violence in soe much that by force [?thereof GUTTER]<br />
the ''Nantwich ffrigott'' lost all her sayles saving her mayne topp sayle and<br />
was severed from the Company both of the ''Centurion'' and the ''Oporto''<br />
''Merchant'' and receaved sight of them noe more while such tyme as the<br />
''Nantwich ffrigott'' gott into the downes, and this deponent not finding [?her GUTTER]<br />
in the downes when his sayd frigtott came first in thither verily beleeveth<br />
that the ''Oporto Merchant'' had by violence of the sayd storme bin [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
and lost, but saith the next day after the arrivall of the ''Nantwich ffrigott'' in<br />
the downes both the ''Oporto Merchant'' and the ''Centurion ffrigott'' arrived in the<br />
downes and this deponent observed that the ''Centurion'' had lost his mayne<br />
topp sayle and splitt her foresayle by meanes of the sayd storme, but what<br />
dammage was happened thereby to the ''Oporto Merchant'' hee did not take<br />
any particular notice of but saith shee being a Merchantman and not<br />
saving soe many on board her to helpe to hand her sayles as the sayd<br />
ffrigott had could not choose but bee much hurt and damnified and<br />
her ladeing alsoe, by the violence of the sayd storme And further to these<br />
articles hee cannot depose./
To;br />
articles hee cannot depose./
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