Team Colin

Team Colin

Editorial history

23/08/12: CSG, created page

Tasks for the week

Week commencing 20th August 2012

19/08/12: Uploaded four images (HCA 13/71 f.19r, f.19v, f.20r, f.21r)

- These are images for palaeography practise by all MarineLives team members

22/08/12: Uploaded twenty seven images (HCA 13/71 f.21v-f.34v)

- These are additional images for palaeography practise by all MarineLives team members

Week commencing 30th August 2012

Week commencing 3rd September 2012

Week commencing 10th September 2012

Notes and help for Colin week 2 HCA 13/71 f.80r to HCA 13/71 f.89r

Below you can find some slides with common names, places, ships, and words that come up in this set of documents. You can also find an alphabet made from clippings from that set of documents.

Alphabet

Names

Places

10/09/12: Mathalagoe in slide below is possibly "Nathalagoe" (Colin Greenstreet)

- Can an associate or a facilitator find it on a map and identify what the modern name is for this place?

Ships

Common Words

TIPS from Colin

Common words that may prove difficult

Contest; precontest
Rendent
y:t (transcribe this as "that")
y:m (transcribe this as "them")

Legal language

Note that you answer to an interrogatory, but depose to the articles of an allegation (allon)

Note that deponents are often asked whether they have an interest in the cause and whether they are otherwise concerned with the matters, to which they usually reply that they favour only the truth

vizt

Queries from team members

Colin

HCA 13/71 f.19v Completed by Colin – please would someone check

HCA 13/71 f.21r Started by Colin - please would someone finish

HCA 13/71 f.22v P1080930

- Line 3: "hee saith he ćannot depose"
Question: is the acute accent over the "c" or over the "a". This problem is a very frequent one on most manuscript pages

- Contrast with Line 7: "otherwise he cánnot depose." (HCA 13/71 f.24v P1080934)

HCA 13/71 f.24r P1080933 Started by Colin - please would someone finish

- "Samuel Dun of Limehouse in the County of Midds Mariner late cheife
masters mate and Steevador on board the shipp Thomas Bonadventure
Capt Hughes Commander the voyage in question, aged 36 yeares..."

HCA 13/71 f.24v P1080934 Started by Colin - please would someone finish

HCA 13/71 f.82r P1130365 Started by Alex - Please refer to the first line: Have I got the name 'Currans' correct? Also, can anyone work out what his/her first name is? Is it Julyle?