HCA 13/71 f.254r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
|---|---|
| Folio | 254 |
| Side | Recto |
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| Status | |
| First cut transcription completed on 15/10/12 by Jill Wilcox; edited on 19/11/12 by Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcriber | |
| Jill Wilcox | |
| First transcribed | |
| 12/10/15 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Created 06/04/14, by CSG | |
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1. knoweth that the sayd Allegation and Pousston did as Owners of the sayd shipp
2. at Gravesend before her setting sayle from thense on the voyage in question
3. pay this deponent and others of the sayd shipps ˹company˺ their halfe ˹pay˺ due to them from
4. the tyme of their first being shipped for the sayd voyage till then, And further
5. to this article hee cannot depose/
6. To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
7. Josiah Elfreth SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
8.
9. The same day./
10. Examined upon the sayd allegation/
11. <margin value="left">dt. 5us</margin>
12. William Pethibridge of Ratcliff in the parish of
13. Stepney and county of Middlesex Mariner Masters Mate
14. of the shipp the King of Poland aged forty five yeares or
15. thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined, saith and
16. deposeth as followeth videlicet./
17. To the first ˹and second˺ articles of the sayd allogation hee saith the arlate shipp the King
18. of Poland lay in the Moneth of June 1655 at the Bermudas and then and
19. there tooke in divers hogsheads chests butts and barrells of Tobaccoes to a
20. good quantitie which she was to carrie thense to Virginia, and there take
21. in other tobaccoes and returne with both the sayd tobaccoes ˹videlicet that˺ laden at
22. Bermudas and that laden at Virginia to London and there unlade and
23. deliver them both, and saith the sayd shipp having taken in the sayd Tobaccoe
24. at Bermudas went with the same to Virginia and arrived there the third of
25. July 1655 and lay in the River of Nansemum in Virginia for severall
26. moneths after and that there were there laden aboard the sayd shipp
27. to be delivered at London xx in the moneths of October November december
28. and January 1655 severall other quantities of tobaccoe amounting to a
29. great quantities, to be alsoe delivered with that taken in at Bermudas at
30. London, the port of her discharge thereof, but for whose account or by whose
31. About only whose order the sayd Tobaccoes or any of it was laden
32. or to whome consigned at London hee knoweth not And further to
33. those articles hee cannot depose./
34. To the 3: 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that
35. the sayd shipp having taken in her sayd ladeing of tobaccoe at Virginia
36. departed with that and the other Tobaccoe taken in at Bermudas, and sett
37. sayle from James River in Virginia therewith bound for London upon the
38. twenty seaventh day of January 1655 English style, and saith that about
39. fower ˹or five˺ dayes after such her setting sayle out of James River videlicet upon
40. the first of ffebruary last in the morning the sayd shipp then being about
41. nynety leagues to the Eastward of Virginia and about the latitude of
42. 37 degrees and a halfe and the winds then blowing at North North west there
43. happened a very violent tempest which continued for the space
44. of fower or five dayes with great violence, and by the force thereof
45. drove into the sayd shipp great seas which rakes her fore and aft
46. and splitt or staved her longe boate and brake downe the sayd shipps
47. wasts and some of her tymbers for that the water rann unavoidably
48. (the decks during the sayd storme being never cleere of water) into the
49. <margin value="Bottom right, below main body of text, as lead to next page">hold</margin>
