| First transcribed
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25 November 2015 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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235 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/76 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 25/11/2015 +
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| Transcription
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[?XXXX] 13th die mensis May 1667 [CENTRE H … [?XXXX] 13th die mensis May 1667 [CENTRE HEADING]
Super Allegatione pred Examniat./
'''(3us./'''
'''Jacobus Hill''' de Kingston upon Hull in Comitatis Evor<br />
Nauta annos agens 62. aut [?circiter] dicit et deponit [?prXX]<br />
sequitur videlicet./.
Ad primus arlum die Allegationis deponit et dicit That the arlate ship<br />
''Betty'' (to which this deponent did and doth belong) is of the burthen of about fourty five<br />
tonnes and the arlate ship called the ''Red fortune'' is of the burthen of about Ninety<br />
tonnes et alr nescit deponere./
Ad 2um arlum deponit That the time arlate the said ship ''Betty'' was laden with coales<br />
and coming from Newcastle for London with a fleete of Colliers and [?saith] that<br />
night before the disaster in question the said fleete wanting wind and tyde<br />
came to anchor in Yarmouth and Corton road neere Yarmouth and within two miles<br />
of Yarmouth peeres and that next morning the said ship ''Betty'' was by reason that<br />
her Cable broke forced from her anchor which hee knoweth for that hee was then<br />
a foremast man of and in the said ship ''Betty''. Alr nescit deponere./
Ad 3.um 4.u, et reliques arles dia Allegationis deponit et dicit That the said<br />
time the wind blew hard at East south east being the worst winde that a<br />
ship can ride in in Yarmouth rode, and it blew allmost right into the peere<br />
and saith that the ''Betty'' had but one other Anchor which her Master and Company<br />
did not cast out for feare of loosing that alsoe, but thought it most<br />
service to sailetwo and fro for about [?three] howers till the tyde served to carry<br />
her into the peere, and accordingly they did soe saile her for about the<br />
said time this deponent being at the Helme all the said time and [?say] that a man<br />
of warr did alsoe the like the sayd time and the tyde being increased the<br />
said man of warr went into the said Peere about halfe an hower<br />
before them, and went about a musket shot a head of the ''Betty'' at the time<br />
of the disaster in question and the man of warr before her going in furled<br />
her mainesaile to goe in easily or slowly and the ''Betty'' did the like to give<br />
her roome and to prevent [?XXXing] of her upp and saith that as the ''Betty'' was<br />
going into the said Peere with her mainesaile furled and her foresaile sett the<br />
Ship ''Redfortune'' (which was a very little space before the said disaster about<br />
a quarter of a mile a sterne of the ''Betty'') came after her with her<br />
mainetopsaile and foresaile hoised up as far as they could be, and making soe<br />
much saile shee got much ground of the ''Betty'' and coming neere to her<br />
towit about a cable length a sterne of the ''Betty'' JohnMather the master<br />
of the ''Betty'' and alsoe [?Henry] Williams his mate called out to them, and<br />
Company of the ''Redfortune'' to lower their mainetopsaile that they might<br />
give the ''Betty'' more roome to goe a head of them into the Peere and<br />
the Master of the ''Redfortune'' heard the same and swore by his maker<br />
that hee neither could nor would lower and stamped and [?acted] like a mad man<br />
and the said [?XXXX] name (who the master of the ''Redfortune'' [?saying] to him that [?severall] [?nights] hee was as his [?XXX]<br />
if hee did not slack saile hee would be aboard the ''Betty'' and carry both<br />
ships ashore, [?XXX XXX] of the [?RXXXXX], replyed and sayd severall times God I doe not [?care]<br />
all which this deponent heard being then at the ''Bettys'' helme and saith that immediatly [?after]<br />
[?XXX]hat immediatly [?after]<br />
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