| First transcribed
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5 May 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet, 05/05713 +
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| Folio
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142 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 05/05/2013 +
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| Transcription
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the ''Unitie'' continueing her course for … the ''Unitie'' continueing her course for Virginia the sayd<br />
shipp ''Unitie'' about the latter end of November and alsoe<br />
in the moneth of december 1654 mett with very tempestious<br />
weather accompanyed with much thunder and lightning and<br />
snowe and hayle and winde and the sea by meanes of the sayd stormie weather<br />
was soe tempestious and wrought soe high that it ranne into<br />
the shipp and spoiled a great part of the goods and much<br />
endangered the sinkeing of the sayd shipp in soe much that<br />
the shipps Company and the passengers<br />
were in great doubt and expressed them selves to bee in great<br />
feare that the shipp would bee cast away and the storme was soe violent that the companyes and passengers bedds swame upp and downe betweene<br />
decks and they were faine to stopp the water from comming in at severall places with their bedds and ruggs and the Carpen=<br />
ters mate came out of the hold and sayd the shipp was a sinking<br />
and would have had the Master alter his course and make<br />
for the next land hee could come to, and divers others of the sayd<br />
shipps company did severall tymes perswade him to doe the like<br />
but the sayd Master continued his course still for Virginia, and<br />
caused the passengers to labour continually at<br />
the chayne pumpe and doe all that possible might bee for the preser=<br />
vation of the sayd shipp and the goods in her<br />
and at length the danger being very great the Mari=<br />
ners of the sayd shipp did three or fower tymes threaten the master that if hee would<br />
not beare up to some other Port then Virginia whereby in<br />
likely hood they might meete with better weather, they would<br />
make him fast in his Cabbin and make for some other port<br />
them selves, whereupon the Master at length did steere for<br />
Barbados but missing that came in the moneth<br />
of January 1654 (English style) to Antego And<br />
further to those Articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith<br />
hee heard afterwards at Saint Christophers, that the ''hopefull''<br />
''Luke'' was cast away neere the Bermudas/
To the 13th 14th and 15th articles hee saith that the sayd shipp by<br />
reason of the stormes a foresayd was in all parts exceedingly<br />
battered and shaken in soe much that of this deponents sight<br />
and observation before the master could bee perswaded to make<br />
for any other Port then Virginia the sayd mayne chaynes and fore=<br />
chaines of the sayd shipp gave way and some of her bonds gave way<br />
and her beames some of them wrought too and froe and the oakeham<br />
wrought out of her seames and part of her sheathing was washed<br />
away and shee tooke much water in hold and thereupon the Mariners<br />
seeing the danger the sayd shipp was in and that the Master still endeavoured<br />
tohe Master still endeavoured<br />
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