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HCA 13/71 f.31r Annotate
First transcribed 2 October 2012  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 31  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 02/10/2012  +
Transcription To the 18th he saith he ćannot answer. ToTo the 18th he saith he ćannot answer. To the 19th. he saith he knoweth not George Hughes interrate, and otherwise<br /> cannot depose. To the 20th he saith he never commanded any Convoy in the Streights. nor doth he<br /> beleive it is the Course for convoyed shipps to follow their Convoy from port<br /> to port much lesse that any obligation lyes on them so to doe, or punishment to the<br /> masters in neglecting so to attend such Convoys; it being as this Rendent concey=<br /> veth very preiudiciall to merchants and the designs for which shipps are made<br /> if it should so be. And otherwise he ćannot depose saying that in all such<br /> cases the best and second way is for a master of a shipp to keepe close to his<br /> principalls orders. To the xxith Interrogatory hee saith that all Convoys are sent out on purpose by<br /> the State to conduct shipps and secure them from taking, And if he were in a<br /> port ready to depart with his shipp, and a Convoy there that would depart in<br /> six or 14 dayes, he in such case (if his factors would under their hands<br /> sufficiently secure him from his Charterparty and did require him to stay, and such<br /> Convoy would sayle directly home) would stay for such Convoy and come<br /> along with her, otherwise he would keepe himselfe close to his orders and<br /> Charterparty. And otherwise he ćannot depose./ Repeated before doctor Godolphin Thomas Chinn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ****************************** The 5th of March 1655. Exámined upon the foresaid allegation. '''3.''' '''Benjamin Gunson''' of Poplar mariner, aged 36 yeares or<br /> thereabouts sworne and exámined. To the fifth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that the<br /> direct way and course to come from Salina Roade of Cyprus for London<br /> is to come directly to the Streights mouth, which hee knoweth being a mariner<br /> and having in shipps by him commanded longe used the Streights trade and<br /> voyage, and having bin in Salina Roade aforesaid, and that such as aforesaid<br /> was and is the direct course from Salina Roade for London, hee saith it was<br /> and is notorious amongst mariners<br /> using that voyage, and places thereabouts. To the sixth hee saith that in case George Hughes had sailed the<br /> ''Thomas Bonadventure'' either from Salina Roade aforesaid directly to the<br /> Streights mouth, or if hee had sailed directly from Zant to the Streights<br /> mouth, hee had not come to Corsica, that being out of the direct waye or course<br /> of sailing both from Salina, and from Zant to the Streights mouth, which<br /> hee knoweth being well acquainted with the course of sailing and was<br /> to be held betwixt those places, having long used those parts as aforesaid,<br /> And otherwise hee cannot depose, not knowing where hee met with the<br /> Dutch fleete. To the seaventh árticle hee saith and deposeth that the direct way to saile<br /> from Salina Roade of Cyprus to the Streights mouth is 654 leagues and<br /> very few leagues more or lesss, and that from Salina Roade to goe<br /> to Zant and thence to the Streights mouth is about 15 leagues out<br /> of the direct course from Salina Roade to the Streights mouth, which hee<br /> knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, And<br /> otherwise hee cannot depose. To the eighth article hee saith and deposeth that the direct way or course<br /> of sailing from Zant to the Streights mouth is about 420 leagues, and<br /> to saile from Zant first to Corsica and thence to the Streights mouth<br /> isence to the Streights mouth<br /> is  +
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