HCA 13/70 f.400r 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.400r.

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.400r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

Course thitherwards in the moneth of March 1652:- being neere the Coast of ffrance shee
was mett withall and violently and piratically taken and seized
by a dutch Merchant shipp laden with corne and bound for B[?XXXX]
in france; to which place shee was brought up with her lading by the said dutch
Merchant man, and the said Master and Companie utterly deprived
thereof and the same deteyned from them notwithstanding that the sid
harrigate did demand of the said Master and Companie of the said dutch
shipp to see their Commission and authority for such their seizure (if any
such they had) they or some of them declared that they had no Commission
for such their doeing, neither did this deponent ever see heare or understand that
they had any Commission or authority to that purpose. The premisses hee
declareth as being present and suffering in and at the said seizure and
passages predeposed And further cannot depose:/

To the third hee saith and deposeth, That this deponent well knoweth the
said shipp Charity, and hath soe knowne her from the time the said
harrigate first bought her at Newcastle (being then a Scotch Prize shipp) till the
time of her seizure aforesaid, and saith That about a yeare since this
deponent saw her at Newcastle under the Command of a West Contrey
man (whose name hee knoweth not) when and where this deponent well
observed by the signe of the Charity in her stearage, and the fashion
of her high stearne and Scotch manner of building, that shee was one and
the same shipp which had as aforesaid been soe taken by the said dutch
Merchant man, and belonged to the Owners predeposed, and to bee the said
shipp wherein this deponent had made severall voiages under the Command
of the said harrigate. And further cannot depose:-/

To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to the Acts andproceedings of this
Court And further cannot depose:-/

To the Crosse Interrogatories:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first negatively for his part, saying hee never heard nor hath any manner of
interest in the shipp in question:/

To the second hee referreth himself to his foregoeing deposition:-

To the third hee saith hee was brought up to Bayonne in ffrance in the
said Dutch merchant man, And further beleeveth not saving his subsequent deposition

To the 4th hee saith the said harrigate was esteemed and generally
reputed a part Owner of the said shipp the Charity till such time as
hee was dispossessed of her as aforesaid. And further cannot depose:-

To the 5th hee saith, the said shipp was sould at Bayon by a publique
outcrye and sound of Trmpett by order of the Justice of that place
so farr as this deponent understood, but to whom or for how much the
same was sold hee saith hee knoweth not:-/

To the 7th hee saith hee heard a publique outcry made by sound of
Trumpett for the sale of the said shipp (as this rendent was informed)
but did not understand himselfe what the said outcry imported:-