HCA 13/70 f.440r 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 13/70 f.440r.

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

HCA 13/70 f.440r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

making up of this contract or bargaine between the said
humphrey holland John hill as Owners and Proprietors of
the said shipp, and this deponent and others who tooke the
said shipp to freight for the voyage allegate, the said John
Bewly did undertake for his particular [?part] the quantity of
forty five Tonns in the said shipp at the rate of 4 li 18 s per Tonne The premisses he
well knoweth because he was present, and saw the said
Bewley (which was alsoe done by the rest of the ffreighters)
subscribe unto a wryting drawne up in reference to a
Charterpartie, The contents and particulars wherof he doth
well remember soe farr as hee hath here deposed And
further he cannot depose.

To the fourth, fifth and sixth articles he cannot depose
saving that he this deponent hath payd the money due from
him for his part of the Tonnage of the said shipp according
to the contract or bargaine made./

To the seaventh he referreth himselfe to the Registry of this
Court And further he cannot answeare.

To the eighth article he cannot depose.

To the last he sayth his former deposition is true.

To the Interrogatoryes. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he commeth to testify
at the request of Mr Rowland hill, and that he is noe
wayes interessed in the cause of shipp And to the rest he
answereth negatively.

To the second Interrogatory he answereth that one John hill
a brother of Mr Umphry hill deceased did treat with this
Rendent and the rest of the freighters of the interrate shipp
the Swan, ant that he this Rendent and some others of the
said freighters did alsoe goe unto the said Umphry hill and
with him did conclude and agree upon the taking of the
said shipp to freight at the rate of 4 li 18 s per Tonne
and that every freighter should particularize for how many Tonns he
would take of the sayd shipp and that accordingly a writing
was drawne up at the three Cranes in the Poultrey where
the said Bewley and this Rendent were, and where the
said Bewley did in this Rendents sight subscribe and undertake
for forty five Tonns in the said shipp at the rate of 4 li 18 s
per Tonne, And further he cannot answere.

To the third, fourth and fifth Interrogatoryes he cannot answere.

Repeated before Doctor Clerke.

[XXXXXXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

**********************

The 10th day of July 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Cooke and Company and Bludworth and Company}
against Richard Thompson and Company. Suckley}

Examined upon an allegation given in the 6th
of July 1655 in the behalfe of the sayd Thompson
and Company./

Rp. jus.

Thomas Bomer of the parish of Saint Katherine neere the
Tower London Mariner aged 25 yeares or thereabouts
a witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet

To the first 2: 3 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was
one of the Company and a foremast man and on board of the shipp or vessell arlate