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HCA 13/53 f.16v Annotate
First transcribed 8 October 2017  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 16  +
Parent volume HCA 13/53  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 08/10/2017  +
Transcription 3rd March 1637. Pro nave the ''Suzan and}3rd March 1637. Pro nave the ''Suzan and}<br /> ''marye''.} '''det Wannerton.''' '''William Thorpe''' of the parish of Saint Leonards Shoreditch London Barber chiurgeon<br /> aged about 33 yeares sworne before the worshoipfull William Sames Doctor of Lawes<br /> Surrogate to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knight Judge of his Majestyes<br /> High Court of the Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath as followeth videlicet That uppon the two and twentith day of December last past the shipp<br /> called the ''Suzan and Mary'' of London (wherof William Hunt was master) sett sayle<br /> from the Barbadoes bound for Ireland , and about the latter<br /> end of the moneth of Januarye last, arrived uppon the coast of Ireland,<br /> where she mett with a great storme and foggye weather, and being within sighte<br /> of the land, the said William Hunt and his company fearinge that the sayd<br /> shipp would oversett or be driven on shoare by the violence of the sayd storme<br /> were inforced (for the preservation of the sayd shipp and goods<br /> and their owne lyves) to cutt the Mayne mast by the borde, and afterwards<br /> the sayd Hunt and company broughte her to an anchor neere he river of<br /> Valentia, and the foresayd storme still continueinge, [?gauled]<br /> one of her Cables very much, and then they<br /> fearinge least by the violence of the sayd storme<br /> her Cables would be frett in peeces or broken, and that the sayd shipp would<br /> be driven uppon the rocks, they fastened peeces of a mast for buoyes to their<br /> Cables, and then cutt her Cables and runne with the sayd shipp in betweene<br /> two rocks and there came to an anchor hopinge to be freer from the violence of the sayd storme<br /> and there the rudder of the sayd shippe strooke and her tiller broke in peeces<br /> and then the master sent his shallopp on shoare to gett a pilott to bringe the<br /> sayd shipp into some safe harbour, and there came fower or five Irishmen<br /> abord her, and those Irishmen would have had the sayd Hunt the master<br /> to have lett slipp his cable and anchor by which she then roade, and soe<br /> have sayled into the river of Valentia but the sayd Hunt being unwillinge<br /> to loose the sayd Cable and anchor would not let it slipp but commannded his<br /> company to weigh it which was donne accordingly and presently after the<br /> weighinge of that anchor, the gunners buoy goeinge downe into the<br /> hould to drawe a Cann of beveridge he came up and cryed out<br /> that the hould was halfe full of water, and thereupon the sayd Hunt to keepe<br /> the sayd shipp from goeinge out into deeper water, caused an<br /> anchor to be lett fall agayne, and then veered out her cable, and soe ran<br /> the sayd shipp on shoare, and then one of the Irishmen went up to the foretopp<br /> and cryed out aloud for boats and presently there were boats come aboard her<br /> and saved all the company and the masters chests and some of the companyes cloathes<br /> and caryed them on shoare, and the same day after they were gonne on shoare,<br /> the sayd shipp was full of water which covered all her upper decks and went<br /> into the rounde house, and after she was soe suncke the sayd Hunt with the<br /> helpe of his owne company and of some men and boats which he had from the shoare<br /> saved twelve peeces of her ordenance) and one Cable and anchor, and a kedge<br /> anchor, and one suite of sayles, and about fiftye rolls of tobaccoe , and<br /> a boate loade of Cotton wooll, which beinge wett was little worth and all the musketts<br /> and shott, and most f the swords belonginge to the sayd shipp, and some part<br /> of the rigginge, and masts and yards andwere endeavouringe to gett out of her two or three other peeces of ordenance [?when/?within] this And he alsoe sayeth that there were in<br /> the sayd shipp when she was cast awaye, (by the report of John Abbott, one<br /> of the masters mates) about two thousand weight of Cotton wooll<br /> and a certayne quantitye of tobaccoe, which the master intended t have sould in Galloway or<br /> Kingsale or some other port of Ireland, and with the proceed thereof to have<br /> revictualled the sayd shipp and taken in passengers there, and soe to have<br /> returned to the Barbadoes before the next Cropp which his intention he made<br /> knowne to many of his company annd to the planters uppon the sayd Island before he sett<br /> sayle from there for Ireland./ The premisses he knoweth to be true beinge Chirurgeons<br /> mate of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage William Thorpe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]oyage William Thorpe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]  +
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