Thames estuary
Thames estuary
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31/12/12: CSG, created page
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The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.
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Suggested links
Materials handling
Port trades
Thames lighters
Thames shipyards in 1650s
Galliats reach
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- "27. Richard Cawcot of Aldborough in Suffolk Mariner
28. aged 50 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined,
29. To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and
30. saith that he the deponent was one of the Company and aboard
31. the Shipp the Mary arlate when the damage arlate was
32. done unto her by the shipp the ffreeman arlate and that
33. the place is calld Galliats reach (which is a little below
34. Woolwich) where the sayd damage was done, and that the
35. same is a spatious and broad place, and that he very well
36. knoweth (by ˹then˺ being aboard her) that the Mary was comming
37. up the River, and the ffreeman soe comming downe ˹with˺ the wind
38. did call to the Company of the ffreeman, and that the
39. Mary did endeavour all that she could to avoyde the ffreeman
40. and to thatpurpose the Mary did leave the Channell and
41. turne her towards the South shoare, soe that there was roome
42. enough for the ffreeman to have past by the Mary without
43. doing or receiving any damage, if she had pleased, The
44. premisses he deposeth because he was a board during the
45. passages predeposed, the sayd shipp the Mary And
46. further he cannot depose./"
- HCA 13/71 f.366r Case: Xopley and others against the ffreeman and against Phillips, delaval and others; Deposition: 1. Richard Cawcot of Aldborough in Suffolk Mariner aged 50 yeeres; Date: 14/10/1656. Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet.[2]
Gravesend
Leigh/Lee
The Hope
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- "43. To the first and second Interrogatoryes he deposeth and
44. saith that he well knoweth the interrate shipp the Gunne
45. whereof Richard Streete was Master he the Rendent
46. being one of her Company in her interrate voyage
47. from England to Caen and home againe, and that
48. the sayd shipp was in her outward bound voyage
49. and alsoe at Caen, and in her home ward bound
50. voyage (untill her comming betwixt Lee and Tilbery
51. hope where the tempest of storme interrate happened)
- HCA 13/71 f.451v Case: A businesse of examining wittnesses in perpetuall XXX memoria upon certaine Interrogatoryes ministred on the Behalfe of Richard ?Streete; Deposition: 2. William Robertson of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner, aged about 45 yeares; Date: XX/XX/XXXX ("same day"). Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet.[3]
1. a very strong and tight shipp, and that the goods
2. in his had not received a pennys worth of damage
3. (that the shipps company know of) untill the sayd
4. damage happened, And that she being come in her
5. passage homeward to or neere a place called holihavin
6. such a terrible tempest or storme happened together with
7. a fogg that their shipp, goods and lives were in
8. great danger of perishing, and that in the tempest
9. the said shipp was driven on shoare, and that
10. thereby she became very leaky, and the water gott
11. into her goods, which untill that time were dry and
12. well conditioned, And he saith that be beleeveth in his
13. conscience that if the said shipp had not been soe
14. driven on shoare by the violence of the sayd tempest
15. she and her lading did ˹would˺ well and safely arrived heere
16. at London And further he cannot anweare/
17. To the third Interrogatory he answereth that he beleiveth in his
18. conscience that had not the shipps Company ranne
19. her a shoare at Blackwall she would have sunke,
20. she was made soe very leaky by the tempest and storme
21. and her being driven on shoare as is predeposed, And
22. that by their running her a shoare at Blackwall they
23. preserved dry those goods that were dry, which would
24. otherwise have caught wett, And further hee
25. cannot answeare./
26. The marke of William [MARKE] Robertson MARKE, RH SIDE
- HCA 13/71 f.452r Case: A businesse of examining wittnesses in perpetuall XXX memoria upon certaine Interrogatoryes ministred on the Behalfe of Richard ?Streete; Deposition: 2. William Robertson of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner, aged about 45 yeares (The marke of William Robertson at end of deposition) ; Date: XX/XX/XXXX ("same day"). Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet.[4]
