HCA 13/72 f.294v 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.294v.

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.294v: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition. [PRESUMABLY "is true" HAS BEEN OMITTED IN ERROR]

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the 1 Interrogatorie hee saith hee came to testifie the truth of his knowledge
in this cause at request of Mr Bence the producent, to whome hee
is Cooper and hath noe other relation to him, and saith hee hath noe relation
to the Interrogated Mr Edward Bushell, and saith hee first sawe the chests of sugar
in the hold of the Oporto Merchant as shee lay in the River of Thames
in the moneth of december last, betwixt the eighteenth and three and twentith days
thereof, the tyme more certaynly hee doth not now remember, And saith the
said Chests of sugar were drye on the topp and wett at the bottome And further
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere saving hee saith hee knoweth
that the dammage which happened to the sayd sugars happened before it
was unladen out of the sayd shipp, And beleeveth that it happened not
before the ladeing of the same aboard the shipp for that if the same had
bin damnified by wett before the ladeing it would have ranne out like
Molasses, or syropp, and the dammage would easily have appeared at
the ladeing and might easily have bin taken notice of by those who receaved
them aboard./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was not in the voyage in question, and soe not present
at the stowing nor sawe the spilling or running out of any oyle, nor sawe
the sugar weighed, and saith it is usuall for sugars to bee weighed by the
officers of the Custome house when they are landed and therefore beleeveth there
could noe losse or dammage happen to the sayd sugars after their unladeing
for that hee knoweth they were brought ashoare the same day they were
unladen and that one John the servant of Mr ffowler a Cooper (imployed to that
purpose) came with them in the lighter And further saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot answere/

To the 3th hee saith hee did see how the sugars in question laye, and knoweth
that they were stowed upon the ground tyre, and stood wett as aforesayd,
And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee being noe Seaman nor skilled in Sea
affayres cannot answere thereto./

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth not that any one named Watson
came to view the shugars in question, not knowing the mans name whome the
sayd Careswell brought to Chesters Key as aforesayd, And saith that
hee this deponent knoweth that there was above twenty hundred weight of sugar
damnified, And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/

To the last hee saith saving his foregeoing deposition to which hee
referreth hee cannot more particularly answere to this Interrogatorie./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

Lewis Prydyth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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

The 18th of Mary 1658/

Cowse and Cowse against Read and Jones)
Suckley Smith)

Examined on an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Read and Jones./

Rp. jus.

John Watson of Saint Catherine neere the Tower
of London Cittizen and Merchantaylor of London
aged thirty fower yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet

To

Topics

People

Edward Bushell

Sources

Primary sources

TNA

PROB

PROB 11/418/423 Will of Edward Bushell, Merchant of Hackney, Middlesex 20 February 1694