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HCA 13/70 f.521v Annotate
First transcribed 29 August 2014  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 521  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 29/08/2014  +
Transcription and saith there were noe writings at all fand saith there were noe writings at all found on board that this deponent<br /> knoweth of And further hee cannot answere/ To the 6th hee saith it did evidently appeare to this deponent and the Company of the ''Lyon''<br /> who were on board her as aforesayd that the sayd shipp had not longer<br /> before her being soe found, bin in fight with some other shipp or shipps<br /> for that when shee was found as aforesaid shee had many shott in her and her tackle was cutt to peeces and the<br /> shipp rifled upon the gunne deck, and chessts s[?taved] to peeces and nothing<br /> eft in them And further saving his foregeoing deposition hee cannot answere/ Repeated before doctor Godolphin/ John Gough [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] *************************** Ther same day [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the said Interrogatories/ '''2''' '''Jacob Martin''' of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and County<br /> of Middlesex Mariner aged 22 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br /> sworne and examines saith as followeth: videlicet/ To the first hee saith the shipp Interrogate was found driving upon the sea<br /> about thirty leagues to the Southwards from the lands end, with noe living<br /> Creature aboard her save a dogg, and ratts and other vermin, with her hold full<br /> of water up to the Gunne deck, and her yardes and tackle cut downe and broken<br /> and lying upon the deck, and the sayles carried away, And saith shee was soe<br /> founde driving by Captaine John Lambert Commander of the ''Lyon''<br /> ( a shipp in service of this Commonwealth) and his Company as they came<br /> from the West Indies, And saith the said Captaine seeing her soe<br /> driving commanded this deponent and others of the Company of the ''Lyon''<br /> to goe on board her and doe their best endeavour to preserve her and her<br /> ladein, and according to the sayd Captaines Commands hee this deponent<br /> and his contest John Gough and others of the sayd ''Lyons'' Company to the number<br /> of about forty five persons went on board her, and with great hazard of their lives and labour<br /> at two pumpes continually goeing, and divers mens labour bayling water<br /> with bucketts out of her, and with the helpe of a spritsayle which they<br /> tooke out of the ''Lyon'' to make a foresayle for the shipp Interrgoate<br /> they brought her with much difficulty to Bricksheim Key within Torrbay, being the first<br /> Port they could make, the winde blowing high to the Southward soe that<br /> they could not bring her to dartmouth whether they were ordered by<br /> the sayd Captaine to carry her, And saith that after her arrivall<br /> at Bricksham Key her leakes were in some meaasure stopped and shee<br /> ordered by the Vice Admirall for devonshire or some<br /> other officer there having authoirity soe to doe to be carried to daratmouth<br /> but hee this deponent and others then on board her went not<br /> in her to dartmouth but were ordered by the sayd Vice Admirall or other<br /> officer aforesayd to goe to Portsmouth to their sayd shipp the ''Lyon'', and if<br /> shee were not there to goe to London, And further hee cannot answer<br /> for that hee went not to Portsmouth in her/ To the 2 hee saith there was in her when shee was soe found driveing a great<br /> quantitieund driveing a great<br /> quantitie  +
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