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HCA 13/72 f.142v Annotate
First transcribed 5 May 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet, 05/05713  +
Folio 142  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 05/05/2013  +
Transcription the ''Unitie'' continueing her course for the ''Unitie'' continueing her course for Virginia the sayd<br /> shipp ''Unitie'' about the latter end of November and alsoe<br /> in the moneth of december 1654 mett with very tempestious<br /> weather accompanyed with much thunder and lightning and<br /> snowe and hayle and winde and the sea by meanes of the sayd stormie weather<br /> was soe tempestious and wrought soe high that it ranne into<br /> the shipp and spoiled a great part of the goods and much<br /> endangered the sinkeing of the sayd shipp in soe much that<br /> the shipps Company and the passengers<br /> were in great doubt and expressed them selves to bee in great<br /> feare that the shipp would bee cast away and the storme was soe violent that the companyes and passengers bedds swame upp and downe betweene<br /> decks and they were faine to stopp the water from comming in at severall places with their bedds and ruggs and the Carpen=<br /> ters mate came out of the hold and sayd the shipp was a sinking<br /> and would have had the Master alter his course and make<br /> for the next land hee could come to, and divers others of the sayd<br /> shipps company did severall tymes perswade him to doe the like<br /> but the sayd Master continued his course still for Virginia, and<br /> caused the passengers to labour continually at<br /> the chayne pumpe and doe all that possible might bee for the preser=<br /> vation of the sayd shipp and the goods in her<br /> and at length the danger being very great the Mari=<br /> ners of the sayd shipp did three or fower tymes threaten the master that if hee would<br /> not beare up to some other Port then Virginia whereby in<br /> likely hood they might meete with better weather, they would<br /> make him fast in his Cabbin and make for some other port<br /> them selves, whereupon the Master at length did steere for<br /> Barbados but missing that came in the moneth<br /> of January 1654 (English style) to Antego And<br /> further to those Articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith<br /> hee heard afterwards at Saint Christophers, that the ''hopefull''<br /> ''Luke'' was cast away neere the Bermudas/ To the 13th 14th and 15th articles hee saith that the sayd shipp by<br /> reason of the stormes a foresayd was in all parts exceedingly<br /> battered and shaken in soe much that of this deponents sight<br /> and observation before the master could bee perswaded to make<br /> for any other Port then Virginia the sayd mayne chaynes and fore=<br /> chaines of the sayd shipp gave way and some of her bonds gave way<br /> and her beames some of them wrought too and froe and the oakeham<br /> wrought out of her seames and part of her sheathing was washed<br /> away and shee tooke much water in hold and thereupon the Mariners<br /> seeing the danger the sayd shipp was in and that the Master still endeavoured<br /> tohe Master still endeavoured<br /> to  +
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