HCA 13/68 f.214v Annotate

From MarineLives
Jump to: navigation, search

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 13/68 f.214v.

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 13/68 f.214v: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

[ADD DATA]

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

The fifteenth of November 1653.

On the behalfe of the State}
touching the perished condition oof the}
wheate aboard the ffortune of Stettin}

Rowe dt.

Robert Brathwaite of Southwarke aged 48 yeares or thereabouts
and John Nutsher of the same place aged 55 yeares or
thereabouts, sworne in Court before the right worshipfull William
Clarke and John Godolphin doctors of lawes and
George Cock Esquire Judges of the high Court of the
Admiraltie, say and depose by vertue of their oathes.

That they theise deponents being thereto imployed by the Commissioners for
prize goods wrought aboard the shipp the ffortune of Stettin then lying neare
limehouse dock laden with wheate and other goods, in lighteningthe said
shipp of the said goods, And this deponent Richard Brathwaite who wrought
from the beginning to the ending of the said worke of delivery of the said goods
deposeth that the said wheate was excessively hot and baked hard
with longe lying that after they had taken off about two foote of the wheate
the rest was soe hard that they were forced to loosen it with iron crowes
and such like instruments, and that the heate thereof was soe greate that
they could not endure their clothes on but were faine to worke
naked, and further that it had taken in wet at the ballast [?port]
and by meanes thereof was become soe noysome and full of stench
that they could very hardly endure to worke upon it, and that
through the said heate and stench the said persons that wrought there
became sick and one of them named Edward Spri[?ppe] is since dead thereof
and this deponent Robert Brathwaite is still ill thereof. And at the
bottome upon the matts, hee saith that the same with heate was [?XX]
and much other of the said wheate