Violence
Violence
Editorial history
17/11/12: CSG, created page
Purpose of page
The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.
Rough language is frequently used in conversations reported by HCA 13/71 witnesses. Occasionally these verbal confrontations include threats and acts of physical violence between masters and other members of their crew, and between crew members. Proximate causes range from disputes over the use of a compass, criticism by officers of a master's navigational decisions, and simple anger.
All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.
- What threats and acts of personal violence can we identify?
- What can we learn about the role of violence and threats of violence?
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Masters striking crew members
Captain Braining's ship, the Fortune, was wrecked on rocks on the way to Grand Malaga. William Andersonn , a gunner on the ship, from Stockdon in the Bishoprick of Durham, alleged that Braining's vicious temper led to a savage attack on the boatswayn on the day of the wreck. This attack, according to Andersonn, incapactitated the boatswayn, and contributed to the loss of the ship.
"16. To the 8th article of the sayd allegation he saith that the morning of the day (whereupon
17. the sayd shipp was lost as aforesayd) the sayd Braining the Master without
18. any provocation given him fell in furious manner upon the Boatswayn
19. of the sayd shipp and with a stick or Cudgell knockt him on the
20. head and wounded him very sore, to the endangereing of his life
21. so as he became unable to give any assistance when the shipp was
22. ˹in˺danger. for lack of whose helpe and the losse of the sayd shipp
23. was in some sort occasioned, which he knoweth to be true being then
24. and there present and seeing the depth and danger of the sayd wound
25. given as aforesayd to the sayd Boatswayn. And otherwise hee cánnot
26. depose."
- HCA 13/71 f.132r Case: Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Tilley Vanden=Posl and Company; Deposition: 2. William Andersonn of Stockdon within the Bishoprick of Durham late Gunner of the sayd shipp the Fortune aged ninetyene yeares; Date: 02/04/1656[1]
Fear of beating by privateers
Peter de Bart was one of three London merchants who shipped themselves on a Dutch ship registered in Rotterdam, which was travelling from fflushing in Zealand to Roane in France. Catching sight of an Ostend man of war just past Calais the master of their ship warned them that "notwithstanding the league made between the King of Spaine and the Lords of the United Provinces", it was common for men of warr belonging to the King of Spain or his subjects to board Dutch ships. Passengers and crew scrambled to hide their valuables, and feared violence.
" "40. The sayd Master hidd his money in his stockings, and this
41. deponent alsoe hidd what money hee had ˹the most of it being Gold˺ in Cranyes or chinkes in
42. the Cabbin and kept only one dollar or two about him, that soe if they
43. did search him hee might escape beateing by them, if being (as the
44. sayd dutch shipps company sayd) a usuall thinge with them when they
45. found noe money about a man to beate and abuse him..."
