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HCA 13/72 f.205r Annotate
First transcribed 19 April 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 205  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Primary sources '''TNA''' <u>PROB</u> PROB 11/420/152 Will of James Cozens, Mariner belonging to Their Majesty's Ship Sussex 18 May 1694  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 19/04/2013  +
Transcription The same day [CENTRE HEADING] Examined onThe same day [CENTRE HEADING] Examined on the sayd allegation/ '''Rp. 3us''' '''John Cozens''' of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate London<br /> Mariner aged twenty seaven yeares or thereabouts a witnes<br /> sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the first article hee saith for that hee was none of the Company of the ''Eastland''<br /> ''Merchant'' arlate hee cannot depose thereto./ To the 2 and 3 articles hee saith that hee this deponent was one of the<br /> Company of the shipp ''Anne Pearcie'' of London wherof Captaine hare was Com=<br /> mander which shipp went out from England in Company of the arlate shipp the ''East=''<br /> ''land Merchant'' the voyage in question and continued company with her till the fifteenth<br /> day of march last on which day being in Company together they were both sett upon<br /> by fower spanish men of warr with whome they both continued feight till at length<br /> the ''Anne Pearcie'' was fiered and by that meanes shee and her Company all but eightenne<br /> whereof this deponent and his precontest Peter Woollcock were two) perished, which<br /> eighteene were kept prisoners aboard the Spanish men of warr, and the ''Eastland''<br /> ''Merchant'' and her Company escaped and gott safe to the port of Bickery arlate where<br /> shee continued untill shee was there surprized by the same Spanish men of warr and<br /> one Cardis a Captaine of a Pinke and Potash of Ligorne in the moneth of June<br /> last (the certayne day hee remembreth not but saith it was about the 5th or 6th day<br /> thereof) And hee saith that after the sayd ''Eastland Merchant'' had soe escaped away<br /> the sayd Spanish men of warr tooke a smale ffrench vessell called Seltere and<br /> upon enquiry of them what shipps were in Bickery they told them there was one<br /> ffrench shipp and one English shipp, which English shipp they told the Spanish<br /> men of warr was one of the two English shipps which they had formerly had a<br /> fight with at Sea and which had twenty Spaniards prisoners aboard<br /> her which they had taken in that fight, whereupon the sayd Spanish men of warr<br /> came to the port of Buckery intending to take the sayd ffrench shipp and the<br /> ''Eastland Marchant'' as they laye there, and the Vice Admirall of the Spanish men<br /> of warr endeavouring to goe into Port found shallow water and soe put<br /> tacked off againe and came to Anchor with the rest of the Spanish shipps out<br /> of Comand Of Bickery Castle and while they lay there they called a consul=<br /> tation and sent a boate to sound the depth of the water and the ''Eastland Marchant''<br /> perceiving the colours of the shipp they came from to bee Spanish made shott at<br /> the boate which caused them to returne back, and in the meane tyme the sayd<br /> Cardis coming with his Pinke and Potash of Ligorne up to the Admirall of the Spanish<br /> men of warr spake unto the Admirall in the Italian tongue (which this deponent under=<br /> standeth) and asked the Admirall of the Spanish what hee meant to doe that<br /> hee did not goe in to take the English shipp and the ffrench shipp that was there or words to<br /> that effect and the Admirall of the Spanish answered in Italian thus in effect that there was not<br /> water enough whereto the sayd Captaine Cardis replyed and sayd followe mee and<br /> I will show ye water enough whereupon the Spanish men of warr all weighed<br /> Anchor presently, it being then about the fifth day of June last, and followed<br /> the sayd Cardis, and this deponent and Peter Woolcocke his precontest and some others<br /> being prisoners were thereupon presently put into hold for that hee cannot depose any thing of certayne<br /> knowledge touching the fight betwixt the ''Eastland Merchant'' and the ffrench shipp and<br /> the sayd Cardis and the Spanish men of warr, saving hee saith that the next day the sayd<br /> ffrench shipp and ''Eastland Merchant'' were taken, and this deponent sawe and observed<br /> that the sayd Cardis his Company brought an Anchor and Cable from aboard the<br /> ''Eastland Merchant'' and put the same aboard the sayd Cardis his Pinke./ Toame aboard the sayd Cardis his Pinke./ To  +
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