HCA 13/70 f.420r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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Folio | 420 |
Side | Recto |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2014/08/15 |
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night drawing on the Master and company thought it [?safer] to stand out
to sea till the next day, and noe body then appearing to enquire the way of,
and the sayd ffare not being able to direct them, the Master and Company by
helpe of a Dutch booke on board called the Waggoner which showed the topps and
formes of the land and the names of them did with
much labour and trouble
shape their course according as the sayd booke and their owne judgment
guided them towards druntam aforesayd, but
were many dayes getting thither more then they needed to have bin
if the saud Richard ffare had bin able and sufficient in knowledge and
experience of the way, which hee was not, as further by this deponents
deposition to the ensuing articles may appeare, And further saving
his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 7th and 8th articles hee saith that soe ignorant the sayd Richard
ffare was and insufficient to pilott the sayd shipp to drantam aforesayd,
that when the sayd Master and Company had by helpe of the sayd booke and
their owne industry sayled the sayd shipp neere the month of the
River of druntam, and lay off a little at sea to see if they could light
of any shipp or boate that might directe them, and none for a while
appearing the sayd Master did againe aske the sayd ffaire where or
neere what land theshipp then was, and what goods mooreings there were neere
druntam Byt the sayd ffaire knew not nor could give any certaine accompt where hee then was nor of
the way into the River of druntam or what mooreings there were therein
which the Master and Company seeing were much troubled at
but hee saith that shortly after it pleased God the Master and
Company espied a ffisherboate and made toward it and made signes to
them in her to come aboard which hee did, and soe by their meanes and direction
the sayd shipp was guided into the River of druntam and brought to a
safe place of Anchorage in the sayd river, which is very scarce
there the river being very deepe, except in some few places, And
further to theses articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith the sayd
River of druntam is a very longe river and druntam scituate
many leagues from the mouth of it And further hee cannot depose/
To the 9th hee saith that in the sayd shipps course homewards towards
the downes shee met with fowle weather and Crosse windes whereby
shee was put somwhat out of her direct course and driven towards
the Coast of holland but without the Master (having had former experience of