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HCA 13/71 f.254r Annotate
First transcribed 15 October 2012  +
First transcriber Jill Wilcox  +
Folio 254  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 15/10/2012  +
Transcription knoweth that the sayd Allen and Peneston dknoweth that the sayd Allen and Peneston did as Owners of the sayd shipp<br /> at Gravesend before her setting sayle from thense on the voyage in question<br /> pay this deponent and others of the sayd shipps company their halfe pay due to them from<br /> the tyme of their first being shipped for the sayd voyage till then, And further<br /> to this article hee cannot depose/ To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/ Josiah Elfreth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] *************************** The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd allegation/ '''dt. 5us''' '''William Pethebridge''' of Ratcliff in the parish of<br /> Stepney and county of Middlesex Mariner Masters Mate<br /> of the shipp the ''King of Poland'' aged forty five yeares or<br /> thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined, saith and<br /> deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the first and second articles of the sayd allogation hee saith the arlate shipp the ''King''<br /> ''of Poland'' lay in the Moneth of June 1655 at the Bermudas and then and<br /> there tooke in divers hogsheads chests butts and barrells of Tobaccoes to a<br /> good quantitie which she was to carrie thense to Virginia, and there take<br /> in other tobaccoes and returne with both the sayd tobaccoes videlicet that laden at<br /> Bermudas and that laden at Virginia to London and there unlade and<br /> deliver them both, and saith the sayd shipp having taken in the sayd Tobaccoe<br /> at Bermudas went with the same to Virginia and arrived there the third of<br /> July 1655 and lay in the River of Nansemum in Virginia for severall<br /> moneths after and that there were there laden aboard the sayd shipp<br /> in the moneths of October November december<br /> and January 1655 severall other quantities of tobaccoe amounting to a<br /> great quantitie, to be alsoe delivered with that taken in at Bermudas at<br /> London, the port of her discharge thereof, but for whose account or by whose<br /> order the sayd Tobaccoes or any of it was laden<br /> or to whome consigned at London hee knoweth not And further to<br /> those articles hee cannot depose./ To the 3: 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br /> the sayd shipp having taken in her sayd ladeing of Tobaccoe at Virginia<br /> departed with that and the other Tobaccoe taken in at Bermudas, and sett<br /> sayle from James River in Virginia therewith bound for London upon the<br /> twenty seaventh day of January 1655 English style, and saith that about<br /> fower or five dayes after such her setting sayle out of James River videlicet upon<br /> the first of ffebruary last in the morning the sayd shipp then being about<br /> nynety leagues to the Eastward of Virginia and about the latitude of<br /> 37 degrees and a halfe and the winde then blowing at North North west there<br /> happened a very violent tempest which continued for the space<br /> of fower or five dayes with great violence, and by the force thereof<br /> drove into the sayd shipp great Seas which raked her fore and aft<br /> and splitt or staved her longe boate and brake downe the sayd shipps<br /> wasts and some of her tymbers for that the water rann unavoidably<br /> (the decks during the sayd storme being never cleere of water) into the<br /> holdcleere of water) into the<br /> hold  +
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