HCA 13/71 f.324r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 324 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First cut transcription completed on 30/11/12 by Janet few; edited by Jill Wilcox on 19/05/13; pasted into wikispot on 23/04/14 by Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcriber | |
| Janet Few | |
| First transcribed | |
| 12/11/30 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Created 08/04/14, by CSG | |
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1. which they had great need and that the peace between England and ffrance
2. was agreed upon before the came from ffrance, soe that they could not obtaine
3. letters of marque against the English, though they had for severall dayes attended
4. at Rochell in expectation to have procured the same, or words to the like effect. And
5. further hee saith hee cannot depose./
6. To the 8th Article of the said Allegation hee saith That the said french Officers and
7. Companie who were as aforesaid putt on board the said shipp Endeavour immediately
8. after her said surprizall did declare and affirme to this deponent that the said french
9. shipps were ordered and designed to goe for Lisbone in Portugall to have taken
10. in their provision of wynes, from which designe they had bin diverted bye
11. crosse and contrary wind and weather soe that they were necessitated to sayle
12. towards the Canaries, where they expected to meet with shipps laden with
13. wynes whereby they might be furnished and accomodated with the Commodity
14. or words to that or the like effect And further hee cannot depose./
15. To the 9th Article hee saith That at ˹or about˺ the time of the surprizall and taking up the
16. said shipp Endeavour the said La Roche his Companie did take away and
17. plunder ˹from˺ this deponent and the rest of the said shipp Endeavours Companie of the
18. greatest part of their wearing apparrell together with all their Sea Instruments
19. and private adventures, whereof they utterly deprived them, The premises this
20. deponent knoweth for that hee was an Eye wittnesse thereof and suffered therein together
21. with others of his Companie And further cannot depose./
22. To the 10th hee saith That the said shipp the Endeavour at the time of such her
23. surprizall and taking was really worth the summe of Two Thousand Five
24. hundred pounds or thereabouts ˹in this deponents judgement˺ shee being a shipp of about two hundred tunne
25. about five yeares old, having aboard her 16 peeces of Ordnance, and being every
26. way very well fitted and furnished with tackle apparrell and all manner of
27. necessaries, and that the Companies wages did and doe amount to about fower
28. hundred pounds sterling and that the Cloathes, Sea instruments and private
29. adventures whereof they were deprived and dispoyled as aforesaid were really
30. worth the summe of three hundred and fifty pounds sterling or thereabouts as this
31. deponent by his owne observation is in conscience fully convinced And further
32. cannot depose./
33. To the 11th hee saith That the said Three hundred and thirteen pypes of
34. wyne were really worth, and would have yeilded at this Port of London
35. Thirty pounds per pipe cleare of all charges in case they had there safely
36. arrived they being of the very best sort of Canarie wines which the said yeare
37. 1655 produced, and soe much wynes of the sort did then yeild at and in this City of
38. London at or about the time of the said surprizall The premises hee declareth
39. upon the grounds of knowledge pre deposed, and by and upon the credible and constant
40. information of Merchants of this place whoe then traded in the like commodities./
41. To the 12th hee saith that hee beleeveth That the said Robert Oxwicke and
42. Companie Owners of the said shipp Endeavour have by meanes of her said surprizall
43. and detention and by the want of their freight due for the voiage in question suffered
44. very great dammage over and above their principall, which dammage hee beleeveth
45. accounteth to fower hundred pounds sterling and upwards and that the said Jope and
46. Companie of Mariners to the said shipp Endeavour belonging X are likewise over
47. above the losse of their principall endammaged to the summe or valew of
48. about two hundred pounds sterling which hee beleeveth they might have benefitted
49. in case they had not beene surprized and plundered as aforesaid
