HCA 13/73 f.70r 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 13/73 f.70r.

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 13/73 f.70r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Transcription

Rp. 2.

William Stephens of Limehouse Marriner late
masters mate of the shipp the Jonathan (Robert
Graves comander) aged 28 yeares or therabouts
sworne and examined

To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
hee well knoweth the producents Maurice Thompson, Thomas Canham
and Christofer Willoughbie and saith that they and companie were the
monethes arlate of the yeare 1656 freighters and Imployers of the said
shipp the Jonathan, and imployed and sent her out on a merchandizing
voyage from this port for the East Indies and places thereabouts for
their proper account, and they upon their account shee was to retourne
by her said Merchandizing imployment to this port, which hee knoweth
being Master Mate of her the said voyage, and going the voyage

To the second article hee saith and deposeth that within the said time
namely in or about the moneth of January 1656 the said shipp was quietly
trading in the parts of East India, and had aboard her a considerable
quantitie of goods and merchandizes which were for the said account
taken in [?on] the coast of Coromandell, and were to be transported
to Bantam, as were proper for Bantam trade and not elsewhere, and
were bought [?provided] and laded with purpose to be carried to
Bantam and there delivered, and the said commander and company
were carrying the said goods in the said shipp for Bantam where thee
same were to be [?vended] and bartered for the benefit accompt
of the said Imployers of the said shipp, which hee knoweth for the reason
aforesaid.

To the third and fourth fifth and 6th articles hee saith that in the said time
namely in or about the said moneth of January 1656 English stile
the said shipp in her passage from the coast of [?Cormandel] for
Bantam, comming neere [?Pulliapajam] Iland about five leagues
distant from the Roade of Bantam, came [?acrosse] a Squadron
of ducth shipps consisting of five or six saile, which were in the
service of the dutch East India company (as the persons aboard them
acknowledged) one of the boates whereof came from one of the said
ducth shipps and haled the Jonathan and asking whence shee came
and whither bound, and being, and being answered that shee was an English shipp
comming from Cormandell bound for Bantam, the company [?in] the said
boate commanded her to come to their Generall, and the [?commander]
and company of the Jonathan [?holding] in their course they of the said
boate called out to their shipp being one of the said dutch shipps that
was nere at hand, and willed the company aboard her to shoote at
the Jonathan and accordingly the said shipp fired a gun [?XX XXX]
towards the shipp Jonathan [?with the ?XXXX XXX XXX XXXX]
[?by] the Admirall of the said Squadron, [?XXXXXXXXXX]
[?XXX XXX XX Admirall XXX the said XXX having the XXX XXX]