| First transcribed
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15 October 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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218 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Requires image; transcribed on 15/10/2013 +
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| Transcription
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John Welch was Captaine and alsoe the ship … John Welch was Captaine and alsoe the shipp the ''Mary'' Interrogated whereof the Interrogate<br />
Nathaniell Stukely was Commander, and saith the ''Endeavour'' was of the burthen of<br />
fiftie tonnes and upwards and had belonging to her eight peeces of Ordnance at the tyme<br />
of her losse hereafter mentioned and that the ''Mary'' aforesayd at the tyme of her losse was of the burthen of about<br />
eighteene or twenty tonnes and had belonging to her fower peece of Ordinance and<br />
they were both plentifully furnished with all manner of provisions tacke apparell<br />
and furniture ?fitt for them and in particuler the ''Mary'' had two suites of sayles two<br />
Anchors two Cables and all other tackle and furniture necessary and the ''Endeavour'' had two<br />
suites of sayles three Anchors three Cables and all other things necessary at the<br />
tyme aforesayd And hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment the ''Endeavour''<br />
and her tackle Apparrell furniture gunnes provisions and amunition were at the tyme<br />
of her losse worth eight hundred pounds sterling and the ''Mary'' and her gunnes<br />
provisions amunition tackle apparrell and furniture were at her losse worth in this<br />
deponents Judgment two hundred pounds sterling and soe much at least hee beleeveth<br />
they stood their owners in upon their setting out The premisses hee deposeth<br />
being Boatswaine of the ''Indeavour'' and saying in her in company of the<br />
''Mary'' aforesayd And further hee cannot answere/
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the Interrogants William Rushley and Erasmus<br />
Bedlowe (both English men, and subiects of this Commonwealth) were the<br />
Owners of the sayd vessells and fitted furnished and sett them out upon<br />
the voyage in question wherein they were lost which was a warlike imployment<br />
by virtue of Letters of Marque from his highnesse the Lord Protector of<br />
England Scotland and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belongining for the takeing<br />
and seizeing the shipps and goods of the King of Spaine and his subiects this hee<br />
the better knoweth for that hee hath seene the sayd Letters of marque and heard<br />
them read at the Mast aboard the ''Endeavour'' at her first setting sale upon the sayd<br />
voyage./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that after the sayd two vessells sett sayle out of this<br />
Port of London the ''Mary'' proveing leakie when shee was at Sea shee and<br />
the ''Endeavour'' in Company went to the River of Bremer and came to a<br />
place there having the dominion of the King of Sweden on the one side and<br />
on the other the dominion of the duke of Oldenburgh both Princes in amity with<br />
this Commonwealth, whether the sayd vessells came in May one thousand sixe<br />
hundred fifty seaven this hee knoweth being boat swaine of the ''Endeavour''<br />
and on Company of the ''Mary.''/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth that some officers belonging to<br />
the Generall of the King of denmarks ffleete coming in sight of the ''Endeavour''<br />
and ''Mary'' with three of the King of denmarke's ffleete. commanded the sayd Welch<br />
Captaine of the ''Endeavour'' to come aboard them and hee accordingly went<br />
aboard them in his owne boate and carried his letter of marque and Commission with him, and (as<br />
hee related to this deponent and others of his Company at his returne aboard the<br />
''Endeavour'') hee shewed the Generall his letters of Marque or Commission<br />
and that one of the danish Generalls Captaines<br />
did tell the sayd Welch that those his letters of Marque were good for<br />
nothing but to wipe his breeche with And further saving his subsequent<br />
deposition hee cannot answere./
To the 5theposition hee cannot answere./
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