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the first day of december 1652 the sayd sh … the first day of december 1652 the sayd shipp ''hercules'' being in her<br />
course for the downes the weather proved very thick and foggie, by<br />
which meanes the ''hercules'' happened to come neere the dutch ffleete<br />
of warr which then lay neere dunge Nesse, And the sayd Captaine<br />
Browne perceiving what danger the foggie weather had brought him<br />
into, and that hee was neere the Enymyes ffleet, endeavoured to have avoided<br />
them, and in order thereto sprunge his luffe thereby to gett the weather<br />
gage of the enymyes ffleete, and sayd to his Company that if it were<br />
possible hee would weather the Eastward point of the Nesse and gett<br />
under Sangate Castle to secure his sayd shipp, and divers of the<br />
Enymies fleete endeavouring to hinde the ''hercules'' from gaineing the<br />
weather gage, the sayd Captaine Browne was forced to engage<br />
with part of the ffleete and thereupon this deponent according to<br />
the sayd Captaines order went downe into the powder roome to fill and<br />
deliver out powder for the engagement, and came noe more above deck<br />
untill such tyme as the sayd shipp ''hercules'' was accidentally runne on<br />
ground about a rayle from shoare neere<br />
the Light house upon dunge Nesse, This hee deposeth of his knowledge<br />
being steward of and aboard the ''hercules'' And further to these articles hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith that notwithstanding<br />
the sayd ''hercules'' was soe accidentally runne a ground, the sayd<br />
Captaine Browne did command and require his Company in<br />
generall to keepe aboard the sayd shipp ''hercules'' and plye their<br />
gunnes and defende her against the enymye soe longe as possible<br />
might bee, and when they could defende her noe longer then to fyre her<br />
or boare holes in her to sinke her that the enymy might not [XXXX]<br />
her, and the sayd Captaine observing that the arlate Tobert Spanton<br />
William Miller William Stone William Johnson Richard Swallow William<br />
Chayre Peter Smithing William Burt Robert Everard Martin Co[?x]man<br />
Paule Bayley Thomas Bumpstead Thomas Mercer John Price Mathew<br />
Killman Edward Clayre Allen Staples Edward Kitchen Samuell Maior<br />
John Rowland Peter Jordaine Richard Andrews John Barker Stephen<br />
Binckfeild Jeremy head Thomas Abs Richard Greene Thomas Knutt<br />
Thomas Peate John Browne John Medler Phillip Tracye Robert<br />
Catlyn William Williamson John Sage Robert Pick Edward Throgood<br />
Michaell Lawson George Breame Stephen Earle William Stokes Michaell<br />
hall Ralphe Coller John dickson William Stillwood Edward<br />
Barker Robert Salmon and Thomas Arrington notwithstanding such<br />
his Commands were gotten into the shipps longe boate intending to goe away with<br />
it and deserte the shipp did in presence and hearing of this deponent and his contest John<br />
Bishoppt and his contest John<br />
Bishopp +
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