HCA 13/72 f.261r 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 13/72 f.261r.

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 13/72 f.261r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

Saint domingo against the English Armie landed in hispaniola
And further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 12th hee cannot depose./

To the 13th hee saith hee well knoweth that before the Nicholas arived
at Saint domingo and there tooke in her ladeing which afterwards
was seized and is now controverted there was open warrs betwixt
England and Spaine this hee the better knoweth for that hee had
bin severall moneths a prisonner before the arrivall of the Nicholas
and had had his shipp and goods seized and made prize by the Spaniards
And further hee cannot depose./

To the 14th hee saith he referreth him selfe to his foregoeing
deposition and to the lawe and further cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true and
further hee cannot depose./

To the Interrogatories in the first place./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to be a wittnesse being required by the Comissioners for
prize goods on the behalfe of [XXX] Lord Protector to testifie his knowledge in this
cause and saith hee saw the shipp Nicholas at hispaniola at her coming in thither
and during the tyme shee stayed there and at her departure from thence and saith
as hee Judgeth by her mould shee was a dutch built shipp And saith
hee hath gotten nothing nor shall profitt anything by the seizure of the Nicholas
though shee and her ladeing doe prove prize, but what hee testifieth touching the
same is only to testifie the truth of his knowledge therein as becometh him being
a faithfull subiect of the Lord Protector And further saving his foregoeing
deposition to which hee referreth hee cannot answere./

To the 2 hee saith hee sawe none of the Company of the Nicholas that were
wounded nor can answere any thing to the effect of this Interrogatorie/

To the 3 4th and 5th Interrogatories hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot more
particulalry answere to these Interrogatories./

To the 6th hee saith as is predeposed that the sayd Claes Johnson told this deponent
that hee had noe interest in the shipp Nicholas And further saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot answere to this Interrogatorie./

To the 7th hee saith that hee understandeth and can speake Italian, Spanish
and English, and to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee saith it concerneth him
not to answere thereto having not deposed any thing touching the rest of the
contents thereof./

To the Interrogatories in the second place/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot answere,

To the Interrogatories in the third place/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee was a prisoner in the Castle at Saint domingo when
the Nicholas Came in and anchored in sight of the Castle and within halfe a league
or