HCA 13/71 f.331v 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 13/71 f.331v.

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 13/71 f.331v: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

Baker and Companie might by the imployment of the valew of the wynes
surprized and taken from them by the french amounting in all as this [?deponent GUTTER]
hath credibly heard to 9000 li and upwards) have benefitted two thousand
pounds sterling from the time of the said surprizall till this present And
otherwise hee cannot depose

Repeated in Court/

[?EW] Mico [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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

The 14th day of July 1656. Examined upon the
Allegation:-

Rp. 8us

Anthonio Fernandez Caravachal of London
Merchant aged 57 yeares or thereabouts a witness
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet

To the 11th Article of the said Allegation he saith that hee this deponent
in or about the moneths of December and January in the yeare 1655
according to the English style having received here at London severall pipes
of Canarie wynes transported from the Island of Teneriffe in this [XX GUTTER]
for this deponents account, did here dispose of and sell the same at [XXXX GUTTER]
the Price of Thirty eight pounds sterling per pipe and thereby [XX GUTTER]
assured and convinced in Conscience that if the Canarie wines in [XXXX GUTTER]
belonging to the producent Richard Baker and Companie had safely [XX GUTTER]
at this Port of London in or about the time as aforesaid they would really [XX GUTTER]
effectually yielded to the Owners thereof Thirty pounds sterling
per pipe, all clear of all charges and incident expenses whatsoever [?they GUTTER]
being as this deponent hath bin credibly informed of the best sort of wyne
of the growth of the yeare and place as aforesaid, and being bound for this
Port in Companie with the shipp or Vessell wherein this deponents said wynes
were brought and transported to this City. And otherwise cannot depose

To the 13th Article of the said Allegation he saith that to the best
of this deponents Judgment and according to his conscientious and impartiall [?estimation GUTTER]
the said Richard Baker and Companie Owners wynes in [XX GUTTER]
being (as this deponent hath bin credibly informed) Three hundred and [XX GUTTER]
pipes of Canarie wines by the losse of the imployment of the [XX GUTTER]
or process of the said wynes (which proceed hee this deponent doeth [XX GUTTER]
might have amounted to nyne thousand pounds sterling and upwards) have suffered losse and [?are GUTTER]
really endamaged ot the summe or valew of Two Thousand pounds
sterling over and besides their Principall since the time that the
same hath bin seized and detained from them by the French Companie
and Companies who surprized and carryed away the same. And otherwise
hee cannot depose:-

Repeated before Doctorr Godolphin/

Anton [XX] Carvachal [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]