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HCA 13/71 f.252r Annotate
First transcribed 4 October 2012  +
First transcriber David Pashley  +
Folio 252  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 04/10/2012  +
Transcription and saith the sayd shipp safely arrived wiand saith the sayd shipp safely arrived with the Tobaccoes laden a board her<br /> at the Bermudas, at Virginia and there shee took in at the River of Nansemumme in the<br /> moneths and tyme arlate severall other quantities of Tobaccoe amounting<br /> to a great great quantitie and departed therewith about the latter end of January 1655 bound<br /> for London aforesayd the port of her discharge And further to these articles hee<br /> cannot depose knowing not by whose order or for whose Account the sayd<br /> Tobaccoes were laden or to whome they were consigned but saith they were<br /> to be delivered at London./ To the 3: 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegaton hee saith the sayd<br /> shipp having taken in the sayd Tobaccoes both at Bermudas and Virginia<br /> departed therewith out of James River in Virginia about the latter end<br /> of January 1655 bound for London and saith that about fower dayes<br /> after and upon or about the first of February last the sayd shipp was<br /> surprized with a very violent storme and tempest which continued for<br /> the space of about fower days togeather and the violence thereof was soe<br /> great that the sayd shipp tooke in great seas which raked her fore and aft<br /> and staved her long boate and brake it to peeces and brake the heads of<br /> her Rudder short off and brake the Iron worke of it soo that the sayd Rudder<br /> was in great danger to bee wholly torne off and carried away from the<br /> sayd shipp by violence of the sayd storme, and alsoe brake downe the<br /> waste of the sayd shipp on both sides, and some of her tymbers in soo<br /> much that the water was almost continually upon the shipps deck and<br /> much of it rann downe in to hold and among the sayd Tobaccoes and in to<br /> other parts of the sayd shipp and could not be prevented from soe doeing<br /> by the Master and Company of the sayd shipp though they used all possible<br /> indeavour to prevent the same and the sayd shipp and ladeing and all her<br /> company by violence of the sayd storme were in great danger to bee<br /> cast away and sinke in the sea And saith the sayd Master and Company<br /> did cause men to be hung over the sayd shipps sides in roapes to<br /> worke and fasten the Rudder of the sayd shipp for as to bring her to<br /> her steerage and had their work broken by the storm and were in great<br /> hazard of their lives in soe doeing, and at length did make the same continue<br /> fast and brought her to her steerage And saith the sayd Master and Company<br /> during the sayd Storme wrought day and night by turnes at the chayne pumps<br /> and did their utmost endeavour to preserve the sayd tobaccoes from dammage<br /> and the sayd shipp from sinkeing, and did by Gods mercie and blessing<br /> upon their labour preserve the sayd shipp from sinking And further<br /> to these articles he cannot depose/ To the 7th hee saith the sayd first storme being with great perill and<br /> much harme done as aforesayd passed over, the sayd shipp and ladeing<br /> was in her course for London againe surprized with a second storme which<br /> happened about the 9th of February aforesayd and continued with great<br /> violence to the twelveth, and with some smale abatement about till the sixteenth<br /> of the same and the sayd shipp being soe hurt and her [?w]asts and tymbers<br /> and Rudder broken, though they were in some measure amended, videlicet as well as for the<br /> present they could bee got they were some of them by violence of the sayd<br /> second storme (the deck being seldome cleere of water) much hurt and<br /> preiudiced soe that the water ran into the shipps hold and amongt the sayd<br /> Tobaccoes not withstanding all the endeavour the Master and company did<br /> andthe Master and company did<br /> and  +
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