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 ==Transcription==
 Petitio Prescilla Lockyer
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 However, another account of the voyage exists, and was published under the title 'A Voyage to Virginia', authored by Colonel Norwood, one of the passengers.<ref>[Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649), in Tracts and Other Paper Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, vol. 3 (Glucester, MA, 1963)]</ref>

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 This page is for the annotation of  ''The humple petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the Virginia Merchant (whereof John Lockier was Captaine or Commander)''.  The document can be found at the National Archives, in Kew, England (HCA 15/5 f.99).
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 [http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/2013/05/07/adding-value-to-primary-records/ Adding value to primary documents, May 8th 2013]
 [http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/2013/05/09/witnesses-in-court-1657-1658/ Witnesses in Court, 1657-1658 (May 9th, 2013)]
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 - Urges historians to reconsider their credulous approach to contemporary and later accounts of canibalism in the winter of 1609-10 in Jamestown, Virginia
 - Argues that "Of the five main authors - Gates, Percy, Smith, Strachey, and the Virginia Assembly - only one was present during the winter of 1609-10, and he did not claim to witness cannibalism"
-- However, archaeological data published since Hermann's 2011 article suggests at least one example cannibalism in early Jamestown, with cutting and sawing marks found on the bones of a young woman found at the former Jamestown colony, suggesting that the flesh was eaten after her death.<ref>[http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2013/05/cannibalism-on-land-and-sea/ Blog article, Dick Spilman, ''Cannibalism on land and Sea'', May 7, 2013], viewed 19/05/13</ref>
+- However, archaeological data published since Hermann's 2011 article suggests at least one example of cannibalism in early Jamestown, with cutting and sawing marks found on the bones of a young woman found at the former Jamestown colony, suggesting that the flesh was eaten after her death.<ref>[http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2013/05/cannibalism-on-land-and-sea/ Blog article, Dick Spilman, ''Cannibalism on land and Sea'', May 7, 2013], viewed 19/05/13</ref>
 Walker, Andrew, ''Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World'' (New York, 2011)

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 - Urges historians to reconsider their credulous approach to contemporary and later accounts of canibalism in the winter of 1609-10 in Jamestown, Virginia
-- Argues that "Of the five main authors - Gates, Percy, Smith, Strachey, and the Virginia Assembly - only one was present during the winter of 1609-10, and he did not calim to witness cannibalism"
+- Argues that "Of the five main authors - Gates, Percy, Smith, Strachey, and the Virginia Assembly - only one was present during the winter of 1609-10, and he did not claim to witness cannibalism"
 - However, archaeological data published since Hermann's 2011 article suggests at least one example cannibalism in early Jamestown, with cutting and sawing marks found on the bones of a young woman found at the former Jamestown colony, suggesting that the flesh was eaten after her death.<ref>[http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2013/05/cannibalism-on-land-and-sea/ Blog article, Dick Spilman, ''Cannibalism on land and Sea'', May 7, 2013], viewed 19/05/13</ref>

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	''Of the three weak women before-mentioned, one had the envied happiness to die about this time; and it was my advice to the survivors, who were following her apace, to endeavour their own preservation by converting, her dead carcase into food, as they did to good effect. The same counsel was embrac'd by those of our sex: the living fed upon the dead; four of our company having the happiness to end their miserable lives on Sunday night the <u></u>_ day of January. Their chief distemper, 'tis true, was hunger; but it pleased God to hasten their exit by an immoderate access of cold, caused by a most terrible storm of hail and snow at north-west, on the Sunday aforesaid, which did not only dispatch those four to their long homes, but did sorely threaten all that remained alive, to perish by the same fate.''<ref>[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=J1025.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1 Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649), in Tracts and Other Paper Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, vol. 3, (Gloucester, MA, 1963), pp.24-25]</ref>		''Of the three weak women before-mentioned, one had the envied happiness to die about this time; and it was my advice to the survivors, who were following her apace, to endeavour their own preservation by converting, her dead carcase into food, as they did to good effect. The same counsel was embrac'd by those of our sex: the living fed upon the dead; four of our company having the happiness to end their miserable lives on Sunday night the <u></u>_ day of January. Their chief distemper, 'tis true, was hunger; but it pleased God to hasten their exit by an immoderate access of cold, caused by a most terrible storm of hail and snow at north-west, on the Sunday aforesaid, which did not only dispatch those four to their long homes, but did sorely threaten all that remained alive, to perish by the same fate.''<ref>[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=J1025.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1 Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649), in Tracts and Other Paper Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, vol. 3, (Gloucester, MA, 1963), pp.24-25]</ref>

−	The party was saved by the arrival and help of a number of Indians, who provided them with food and canoes to take them to the mainland, which was only a few hundred yards from the island. Of the nineteen men and women who had been on shore at ~~depearture~~ of the ''Virginia Merchant'', thirteen remained, with four men and one woman dead, and a second woman missing.<ref>[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=J1025.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1 Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649), in Tracts and Other Paper Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, vol. 3, (Gloucester, MA, 1963), p.32]</ref>	+	The party was saved by the arrival and help of a number of Indians, who provided them with food and canoes to take them to the mainland, which was only a few hundred yards from the island. Of the nineteen men and women who had been on shore at departure of the ''Virginia Merchant'', thirteen remained, with four men and one woman dead, and a second woman missing.<ref>[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=J1025.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1 Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649), in Tracts and Other Paper Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, vol. 3, (Gloucester, MA, 1963), p.32]</ref>

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 To the right worshipfull the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie:./
-The humple petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and
+The humble petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and
 George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the ''Virginia Merchant'' (whereof John
 Lockier was Captaine or Commander./

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-<document-start>
-. Petitio Prescilla Lockyer
+Petitio Prescilla Lockyer
-. presentat. 28th Septem
+presentat. 28th Septem
-. 1650./
+./
-.
-. To the right worshipfull the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie:./
+To the right worshipfull the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie:./
-. The humple petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and
+The humple petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and
-. George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the ''Virginia Merchant'' (whereof John
+George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the ''Virginia Merchant'' (whereof John
-. Lockier was Captaine or Commander./
+Lockier was Captaine or Commander./
-. Sheweth
+Sheweth
-. That the petitioners husbands were hired by the said Captaine Lockier at severall monethly wages to serve in the said shipp for a voyage
-. to be made from this port of London to Virginia and from thense hither backe againe, which service they performed from
+That the petitioners husbands were hired by the said Captaine Lockier at severall monethly wages to serve in the said shipp for a voyage
-. the 6th of September 1649 untill March last being 6 monethes lacking 4 dayes, but by reason the sayd Shipp was become
+to be made from this port of London to Virginia and from thense hither backe againe, which service they performed from
-. unserviceable at Virginia your petitioners husbands could not come home in her but are left behind to shift for themselves
+the 6th of September 1649 untill March last being 6 monethes lacking 4 dayes, but by reason the sayd Shipp was become
-. the said Captaine Lockier and some others coming home as passengers in another Shippe And your petitioners seeing their husbands come
+unserviceable at Virginia your petitioners husbands could not come home in her but are left behind to shift for themselves
-. not home as they expected demanded their wages of the Captaine for the time they served him, but he denyed to pay the
+the said Captaine Lockier and some others coming home as passengers in another Shippe And your petitioners seeing their husbands come
-. same, for which your petitioners have sued the said Captaine Lockier in the Court And whereas all Masters of Shipps that goe to
+not home as they expected demanded their wages of the Captaine for the time they served him, but he denyed to pay the
-. Virginia use to carry 3 monethes ˹victualls˺ at the least out with them; The sayd Captaine Lockier had not layd in above 6 weekes
+same, for which your petitioners have sued the said Captaine Lockier in the Court And whereas all Masters of Shipps that goe to
-. victualls in his said shipp when she sett saile from Gravesend outward bound; which Mr George Putt cheife Mate and pilot of
+Virginia use to carry 3 monethes victualls at the least out with them; The sayd Captaine Lockier had not layd in above 6 weekes
-. the said Shippe taking notice of, asked the said Captaine why he had soe slenderly victualled the shipp telling him, it would not
+victualls in his said shipp when she sett saile from Gravesend outward bound; which Mr George Putt cheife Mate and pilot of
-. serve halfe way; he replyed that he would take in more victualls at the Downes which he did not at all performe
+the said Shippe taking notice of, asked the said Captaine why he had soe slenderly victualled the shipp telling him, it would not
-. notwithstanding there were 35 seaman and above 130 passengers neere upon 200 persons in all in the said Shippe, whereof 62
+serve halfe way; he replyed that he would take in more victualls at the Downes which he did not at all performe
-. passengers and 4 Seamen by reason of the want of provisions were starved to death before the shipp came to Virginia.
+notwithstanding there were 35 seaman and above 130 passengers neere upon 200 persons in all in the said Shippe, whereof 62
-.
+passengers and 4 Seamen by reason of the want of provisions were starved to death before the shipp came to Virginia.
-. That within a fortnight next after the said Ship set saile from Gravesend both Seamen and passingers were put to their allowance
-. videlicet the Seamen to two, and the passingers each man to one biskett a day, afterwards to halfe a biskett a day and at length to halfe a
+That within a fortnight next after the said Ship set saile from Gravesend both Seamen and passingers were put to their allowance
-. pint of parched pease a day betweene 2 men, they having neither beere nor water in the shippe to drincke but what they were
+videlicet the Seamen to two, and the passingers each man to one biskett a day, afterwards to halfe a biskett a day and at length to halfe a
-. Constrayned to drinkeof strongwaters of their owne which they Carried with them for adventures: and the famine came
+pint of parched pease a day betweene 2 men, they having neither beere nor water in the shippe to drincke but what they were
-. soe violently upon them that divers in the said Shippe would willingly have given 10: s for one of the Shipps ratts (which some
+Constrayned to drinke of strongwaters of their owne which they Carried with them for adventures: and the famine came
-. of the Seamen catched) to have eaten, their being but one small fish of the value of 6: d allowed for a meale to 15 or 20 men:/
+soe violently upon them that divers in the said Shippe would willingly have given 10: s for one of the Shipps ratts (which some
-. That the said Captaine Lockier sett 23 persons ashore upon an unknowne Island to gett freshwater promising to
+of the Seamen catched) to have eaten, their being but one small fish of the value of 6: d allowed for a meale to 15 or 20 men:/
-. fetch them on board againe: but after they were soe sett on shoare the sayd Captaine Lockier presently carried the Shippe
+That the said Captaine Lockier sett 23 persons ashore upon an unknowne Island to gett freshwater promising to
-. away to Virginia and most in humanely and barbarously left all the said 23 persons in that unknowne place to be starved there
+fetch them on board againe: but after they were soe sett on shoare the sayd Captaine Lockier presently carried the Shippe
-. noe manner of food to be found soe that they were forced to live a whole 3 weekes with water and the leaves of trees: And at the
+away to Virginia and most in humanely and barbarously left all the said 23 persons in that unknowne place to be starved there
-. length the rage and violence of their famine soe much increasing and being not able to eate those leaves and longer they cast
+noe manner of food to be found soe that they were forced to live a whole 3 weekes with water and the leaves of trees: And at the
-. lotts which of them should be shott the next day to serve for food for the rest; which was miraculously prevented by the
+length the rage and violence of their famine soe much increasing and being not able to eate those leaves and longer they cast
-. suddaine and unexpected fall of a great tree that night which killed 2 men and a woman of their Company: which the rest of the Company
+lotts which of them should be shott the next day to serve for food for the rest; which was miraculously prevented by the
-. left alive were forced to eate and live upon untill such time as they were by Gods providence XXXXXXXX releived by the very
+suddaine and unexpected fall of a great tree that night which killed 2 men and a woman of their Company: which the rest of the Company
-. heathen and by them in Canoes transported over the river to the other side and soe travelled to Virginia by land where
+left alive were forced to eate and live upon untill such time as they were by Gods providence XXXXXXXX releived by the very
-. divers of them dyed as soone as they came thense, and some dyed on that Island by famine./
+heathen and by them in Canoes transported over the river to the other side and soe travelled to Virginia by land where
-.
+divers of them dyed as soone as they came thense, and some dyed on that Island by famine./
-. That the petitioners have spent all they have even their very {XXXX} from under them in prosecution of this suite to gett
-. their wages and are like to be utterly ruined and undone they having each of them a great Charge of Children to
+That the petitioners have spent all they have even their very {XXXX} from under them in prosecution of this suite to gett
-. bring up and maintaine all which premisses your petitioners are able to prove by the oathes of sufficient witnesses
+their wages and are like to be utterly ruined and undone they having each of them a great Charge of Children to
-.
+bring up and maintaine all which premisses your petitioners are able to prove by the oathes of sufficient witnesses
-. Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that your worships would be pleased to take
-. their sad conditions into their your pious and serious Considerations, and to order
+Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that your worships would be pleased to take
-. the sayd Captaine Lockier to pay your petitioners their whole wages due to their husbands
+their sad conditions into their your pious and serious Considerations, and to order
-. forthwith or els to give your petitioners leave to give in an allegation in Court to the effect
+the sayd Captaine Lockier to pay your petitioners their whole wages due to their husbands
-. of the premisses above weitten: the same being altogether omitted in the allegation
+forthwith or els to give your petitioners leave to give in an allegation in Court to the effect
-. given in on your petitioners behalfe; and to produce and examine witnesses thereupon, that
+of the premisses above weitten: the same being altogether omitted in the allegation
-. soe the iustice of your petitioners Cause and the great wrong they have received may appeare;
+given in on your petitioners behalfe; and to produce and examine witnesses thereupon, that
-.
+soe the iustice of your petitioners Cause and the great wrong they have received may appeare;
-. And your petitioners as in humble duty
-. bound shall ever pray etcetera
+And your petitioners as in humble duty
-.
+bound shall ever pray etcetera
-. The marke of P L Prescillia Lockier
-. The marke of S Sara Sparges./
+The marke of P L Prescillia Lockier
-</document-end>
+The marke of S Sara Sparges./
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-<status>First cut transcription started and completed on 18/05/13 by Colin Greenstreet</status>
+<status>First cut transcription started and completed on 18/05/2013 by Colin Greenstreet</status>
-<first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet, 18/05/13</first-transcriber>
+<first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet</first-transcriber>
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 ''The blessed feast of Christmas came upon us, which we began with a very melancholy solemnity; and yet, to make some distinction of times, the scrapings of the meal-tubs were all amassed together to compose a pudding. Malaga sack, sea water, with fruit and spice, all well fryed in oyl, were the ingredients of this regale which raised some envy in the spectators; but allowing some privilege to the captain's mess, we met no obstruction, but did peaceably enjoy our Christmas pudding.''
-Norwood's greatest ompatience was of thirst:
+Norwood's greatest impatience was of thirst:
 ''My dreams were all of cellars, and taps running down my throat, which made my waking much the worse by that tantalizing fancy. Some relief I found very real by the captain's favour in allowing me a share of some butts of small claret he had concealed in a private cellar for a dead lift. It wanted a mixture of water for qualifying it to quench thirst; however, it was a present remedy, and a great refreshment to me.''<ref>[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=J1025.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1 Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649), in Tracts and Other Paper Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, vol. 3, p. 17 (Gloucester, MA, 1963)]</ref>