| First transcribed
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20 August 2014 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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45 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/70 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 20/08/2014 +
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| Transcription
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came directly aboard the vessell ''Success … came directly aboard the vessell ''Successe'' and brake her bowe downe to<br />
the very water and soe shattered and spoiled her with the blowe shee gave<br />
her by soe running against her that shee sunke soone after and perished in the sea<br />
both shee and sayd ladeing of Coales and all her tackle and furniture and provisions<br />
and the Mariners cloathes all save what they had on their backs and this deponents cloathes Instruments and other things aboard her And saith that hee this deponent<br />
and company before their sayd vessell the ''Successe'' soe sunke seeing the eminent<br />
danger they were in did crye out to the Company of the sayd shipp ''dove'' to<br />
helpe them of the ''Successe'' to save their lives, but the Company of the shipp ''dove''<br />
noe witt regarded their crye but hold on their course and sayled away without<br />
speaking any word to any of the ''Successe'' her Company or any (save one<br />
man which after the blowe given to the ''Successe'' by the ''dove'' stopt up upon the<br />
fforecastle of the ''dove'' but answered not a word) soe much as appearing upon<br />
the decks of the ''dove'', which they did (as this deponent beleeveth that they<br />
might the better escape unknowne and that if the company of the ''Successe'' were<br />
all drowne it might never be knowne who did the sayd mischeife and were<br />
the cause thereof, which this deponent and Company perceiving presently betooke<br />
them selves to their boate (and soe through Gods mercie saved themselves<br />
therein but the vessell ''Successe'' with her ladeing and all things else therein within<br />
a shorte space after this deponent and Company were gott into their boate<br />
sunke downe and perished in the sea by reason of the blow shee receaved as<br />
aforesayd from the ''dove'' And saith that after this deponent and company had<br />
continued in their sayd boate (rowing and keeping her head upon the sea that<br />
shee might not be full of water) by the space of three howers without either meate<br />
drinke or fresh water to preserve them in case they could light of noe assistance, it<br />
pleased God that a hoye or vessell belonging to a place called [?Soule] (the vessells name<br />
hee knoweth not) but saith the Master of her was called John Wiggs, being bound to<br />
Newcastle and seeing this deponent and company in such distresse and danger of being<br />
cast away tooke compassion of them and tooke him this deponent and company into the<br />
sayd hoy or vessell and brought them to Sheilds neere Newcastle And further<br />
to these articles hee cannot depose saving his subsequent deposition/
To the 6th and 7th articles hee saith that hee this deponent and Company did<br />
in the sayd hoye or vessell arrive safe at Sheilds neere Newcastle upon the 11th day<br />
of August last, and saith that this deponent and the sayd John Wiggs tooke a<br />
wherry the same day and went up therein to Newcastle and goeing by Jarra Key<br />
which is neere Newcastle this deponent there sawe the ''dove'' in this suite complayned<br />
of lying on the outside of the other shipps there and a carpenter then at worke<br />
upon her bowe and sawe shee had then her bowe dubbed the better to<br />
see what hurte shee had receaved with the blowe shee made when she runne<br />
against the ''Successe'' aforesayd when shee sunke the same, which repayre and dubbing<br />
the sayd shipp the ''dove'' would not have needed if shee had not runne against<br />
the ''Successe'' in manner predeposed and thereby hurt her the sayd ''doves'' bowe And<br />
hee saith that hee this deponent did observe and soe did his precontest<br />
Andrew Cristi and others of the Company of the ''Successe'' that the shipp that runne<br />
against the ''Successe'' and sunke her in manner predeposed had then when shee soe did the<br />
same the picture of an Angell in her head and of a ''dove'' in her sterne and soe the shipp ''dove'' in this<br />
suitee shipp ''dove'' in this<br />
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