HCA 13/72 f.154r Annotate

Expand this area to see details of page purpose, how to register, how to add footnotes, and useful links.

---

Purpose

This page is for the annotation of HCA 13/72 f.154r.

Annotations can be viewed by everyone on a read-only basis.

For more information on MarineLives and the MarineLives Annotation Project read our Shipping News blog entries:

Annotating Marine Lives, May 1st 2013
Adding value to primary documents, May 8th 2013
Witnesses in Court, 1657-1658 (May 9th, 2013)

---

Registration to annotate documents

Registration is required to contribute annotations to this page and to other pages in the wiki.

You can register using the following Form, and we will issue you with a UserName and Password for the wiki.

---

Text formatting

The MarineLives transcription platform is built on MediaWiki, which uses wiki markup to format text. For a guide showing how to produce italics, bold, escaped text and headings, see the MediaWiki page on formatting; there are also guides for internal and external links, image embedding, tables, and more on lists.

---

Adding footnotes

• Go into edit mode
• Insert immediately after the sentence or phrase you wish to annotate the following macro:<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
• Replace 'This is the footnote text' with the footnote you wish to add, using the format: first name, surname, title, (place of publication, date of publication), page or folio number
• Save the page

For more information and advanced formatting, including how to add and format links within the footnote, see the Wikipedia help on footnotes. This uses the same markup formatting.

Example footnote template:

• ''HCA 13/XX f.XXXX Case: XXXX; Deposition: XXXX; Date: XXXX. Transcribed by XXXX''<ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

---

Suggested links

Annotate HCA 13/64 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/65 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/68 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/69 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/70 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/71 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/72 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/73 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/74 Volume Page
Marine Lives Tools

Image

P1150215

Transcription

a wittnes produced, sworne and examined he
deposeth and saith as followeth/

3. To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and
4. saith that he the deponent being Cooke of the arlate
5. shipp the Gilbert the voyage in question did well
6. know that the arlate John Cobb, Mathew Jennings
7. and allmost all the Mariners mentioned in the schedule
8. arlate did enter into whole pay in the service of
9. the sayd shipp upon the fifth day of Aprill 1656
10. and did belong unto the sayd shipp unto her arrivall
11. at hung Road neere Bristoll, which was about the
12. latter end of January last past and that all they, the
13. sayd Mariners, aswell the outward as inward bound
14. voyage did doe and performe their severall duties and
15. services in the sayd shipp, as faithfully and laboriously
16. as men could possibly doe or performe, And further
17. he cannot depose.

18. To the second article he deposeth and saith that in the said shipps
19. passage for the Barbathos the voyage arlate on or about
20. the 24th of december 1656 in or about the degree of 24
21. a greivous violent and outragious storme happned which
22. continued about five days, and he saith that by reason
23. of the violence of the sayd storme the shipps ˹side˺ did give
24. way, and by the raging of the Seas the long boate
25. of the sayd shipp was staved to peices, And the
26. Deponent saith that in that extremity and imminent
27. danger the Company of Mariners of the sayd shipp did
28. continually pumpe, keeping two pumpes constantly going
29. and did doe all that could possibly be done in working
30. and labouring for the preservation of shipp, goods and
31. lifes, All which were by the blessing of God upon their
32. endeavours preserved, And further he cannot depose.

33. To the third article he deposeth that the shipp interrate was in
34. her homeward bound voyage much overladen, and that by reason
35. the shipp was soe stuffed with goods the Mariners could not
36. (in the storme predeposed of) come to make use of the chaine pumpe
37. arlate, and that the long boate of the sayd shipp being
38. staved to peices as is predeposed, had not any other boate
39. belonging to her, And further he cannot depose./

40. To the fourth and fifth articles of the sayd allegation he
41. deposeth that about the 18th of January 1656 the shipp
42. arrived at a unknowne place unto the Master
43. and the Company of the sayd shipp, but indeed it proved
44. afterwards to be Aberdee in Wales, and that the sayd
45. shipp came there to an anchor in an Evening, and
46. that when the day appeared the arlate Croford gave
47. order for the weighing of the sayd shipps anchor and and to
48. stand off to Sea, and that therupon the sayd shipps Mariners
49. informed him of the shortnes of provisions then aboard the
50. sayd shipp, and that there were noe more pumpe=boxes
nor