HCA 13/71 f.639r 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 13/71 f.639r.

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

P1140527

Transcription

1. ˹Colours˺ and seeing an other shipp with English Colours lye neer then, tooke
2. them for freinds, and came a Sterne of the March, and thereupon the ˹arlate˺ John
3. Scroll the Master of the Mary and Commander (as afterwards appeared both
4. of her and the Unicorne) did (as the manner is at Sea) hale the Sarah and
5. salute her in freindly Port with a peere of Ordnance, and asked from whence shee
6. was and whether bound and was answered that shee was of London
7. and them the Master of the Sarah haled the sayd Scroll and asked him
8. whence his shipps were and he replyed of Middleborough in Zeland
9. and thereupon the Master of the Sarah conceiving them to bee friends and
10. seeing they bore dutch colours flying and were dutch built shipps XXXX
11. saluted them againe with a peere of ordanance and dwer neere and
12. rains to Anchor by them and began to prepare their casks in a readinesse
13. and bring it upon deck in order to carrie it a shoare in their boate
14. to take in fresh water and while they were soe doeing and busied
15. thereabout and not mindeing what the sayd Scroll and his Companys of
16. the Mary and Unicorne were about to doe, the sayd Scroll manned out
17. a boate with about forty armed men, who suddainly came on board
18. the Sarah and surprized her and her ladeing, pretending that they
19. the sayd Scroll and his Companyes had commission soe to doe from the
20. King of Spaine XX XX XXX, but being required to show such their
21. Commission they refused to shewe it, and having in this trecherous
22. manner surprized the sayd shipp Sarah and all her ladeing of Negroes
23. Elephants teeth and other goods aboard her they couveted the same to
24. their owne use and dispoiled the Master and Company of the
25. Sarah of all their ladeing and the sayd shipp Sarah, and of their
26. Cloathes and other Adventures they had on board, and kept them
27. prisoners, And hee saith that while hee was a prisoner hee heard
28. the sayd Scroll and others of the sayd ship the Maries Company
29. Confesse that hee the sayd Scroll was a dutchman and subject of
30. the states of the United Provinces and bound and lived ˹at or˺ neere Minikin
31. damme arlate, and that the XXXX Mary belonged to Amsterdam and was
32. a dutch shipp and that ˹one˺ Vandergoofe a dutchman subject of the sayd
33. states was one of her Owners, and that shee came from Amsterdam
34. Victuale named and cargoes from thence ˹bound˺ upon a tradeing voyage to
35. Ardo in Guinney and other places for Negroes, and that the Unicorne was
36. alsoe a dutch shipp belonging to subiects of the sayd states, and bound in
37. Company with the Mary upon the like designe, and was alsoe under Command
38. of the sayd Scroll, and did heare the Mates and Gunners and other Officers of
39. the sayd shipps confesse that they were all dutchmen and borne in the
40. dominions of the states of the sayd United provinces, and by their lingua and
41. habbitt XXXX alsoe appeared to bee so, And furtehr to this article hee cannot
42. depose saving hee saith that about sixe weekes after the surprizall of the
43. Sarah the sayd Scrawle did with the sayd shipp Unicorne (hee goeing ˹then˺ as Commander
44. in her) seizure XXX Rapahannack arlate (neere Cape Lopez and all her ladeing
45. but whether the Unicorne then boare the dutch Colours or how many negroes or
46. what other goods were surprized aboard the Rapahannack hee knoweth not
47. XXX XXXX

Suggested links

HCA 13/71 Page Log & Planner
HCA 3/47 Page Log & Planner