Uploaded image; transcribed on 27/03/2013
áway upon that occasion; and saith that all this charge was to make her navigable, and fit to goe sea, and that shee was not thereby made soe good as shee was before immediately before such her bilging. To the sighth hee saith that upon the said disaster most of the said shipps company quitted the said shipp, and said they would bot proceede further with her, whereupon this deponent was constrained to come to a new composition with them and the rest and to give them a monethes wages extraordinary and more than first they were agreed with for. To the last hee saith that the premisses soe happening, this deponent went to a Notary in [?Moirmonstier] to cause an attestation to be made thereof, and, the said Notary drew up the said attestation, purporting the storey or relation of the said premisses, and read it over to this deponent and severall of his men, and promised to deliver it in an authenticall forme to this deponent, but having bin in the interim threatened and terrified by the said monsieur du daisné and his confederates, the said Notary at length refused to deliver it to this deponent, and said hee durst not doe it for his life through feare of them, who hee said had the command of the Iland under the duke, and did there what they li[?XX]ed, and that hee had his imployment from them and that mr daisné had commanded him not to deliver it, for that it would be a discouragement to the place and discourage other shipps from coming thither. Repeated before doctor Godolphin. Eleaz Le Marchant [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Junior ********************************* The 10th of March 1656 [CENTRE HEADING] On the behalfe of henry Clarke} Merchant against So[?u]den and others in a} busines of Assurance touching a losse} to the ''ffortune'' of Leith.} '''Rp. [?X X] cop. 1''' '''Thomas Hicks''' of London ffishmonger aged 39 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie and examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said henry Clarke saith and deposeth as followeth, videlicet. To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee well knew the shipp the ''ffortune'' interrogated at her last being at the port of Leith in Scotland, where hee saith mr henry Clarke interrogated (whom hee well knoweth) was in or about the moneth of August last of this deponents sight and knowledge, and there laded and, caused to be laden aboard her five hundred deale boards upwards and above fourtie tonnes of casks, and alsoe severall brasse kettles and other goods and merchandizes, namely Coopers tooles, [?cann]s, platters, and other commodities, all which hee knoweth because hee sawe the same soe laden. To the third Interrogatorie hee saith the said deale boards, caskes, kettles and other goods were and are laden for the account of the said henry Clarke, who was the true and sole owner and proprietor thereof, and to him alone they belonged, and were to be transported in the said shipp to the Barbada's, and there to be delivered to his brother Robert Clarke to whom they were consigned, and in case of his death before the shipps arivall, to be delivered to mr William Bates, for account of the said George Henry Clarke, and there they were to be disposed of for the use and proffit of the said Henry Clarke, all which hee knoweth being present with him in Scotland and helping him to buy some of the said goods, and acquainted with the buying and paying for them all, and this deponent
[[File:P1140439.JPG|thumbnail|800px|none|link=Special:TranscriptionInterface/P1140439.JPG|[[:HCA 13/71|HCA 13/71]] f.595r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window
HCA 13/71 f.595r Annotate# QUERY95f67274cc65f5df4bb75b0a734acf98
[[Parent volume::HCA 13/71]] [[Folio::594]] [[Side::Verso]]
HCA 13/71 f.595r Annotate# QUERYae7cc7b3cf9afb29c096497dee5f0924
[[Parent volume::HCA 13/71]] [[Folio::595]] [[Side::Verso]]
HCA 13/71 f.595r Annotate# QUERYf5ab79c1ed2562cebf7dbb090530e758
HCA 13/71 f.595r Annotate# QUERYfdebd0f089e2717f01b4397bfb392a6b