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HCA 13/72 f.310v Annotate
First transcribed 12 November 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 310  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 12/11/2013  +
Transcription her and sinke her that theenymye might nother and sinke her that theenymye might not surprize her but the arlate<br /> William Burt Martyn Coxeman Paule Bayley Thomas M[XXXX] John [XXXX GUTTER]<br /> Mathew Kelme John Rowland Richard Andrews Jeremy head Robert P[XXX GUTTER]<br /> Stephen Earle William Stoakes and divers others of the sayd shipps Company<br /> whose names hee remembreth not, not regarding the Commands of the<br /> sayd Captaine Browne betooke them selves to the Long boate which the<br /> sayd Captaine seeing called out to them and desyred them to come on<br /> board and helpe to destroy the shipp ''hercules'' either by fyreing or sinkeing<br /> her that the enymie might not surprize and take her and that being done hee<br /> and they would all goe ashoare togeather with the long boate and the other two smale<br /> boates that belonged to the sayd shipp or hee spake words to that effect but the forenamed persons and the others<br /> whose names hee remembreth not (which were soe gott in the the longe boate did<br /> disobey his commands and quitted their station in the sayd shipp and<br /> went away in the longe boate leaving the sayd Captaine and this<br /> deponent and his contests Mathew Sherley and John ffitzh[?arper] and divers others<br /> of the sayd shipps company videlicet the arlate William Spratlin and Robert<br /> Marborow and Peter Thomas and divers others aboard the sayd shipp<br /> whereupon the sayd Captaine and those left with him being deprived of<br /> the long boate and having only two smale boates to escape in, durst not<br /> fyre or sinke the shipp as they intended, for that there were more men<br /> left aboard then those two boates could carry away, soe that if shee had<br /> bin fyred or sunke those left aboard her (which were fower<br /> videlicet the sayd Peter Thomas and One Corley the Cooke of the shipp and a<br /> Swade and a dane whose names hee remembreth not) must of necessity<br /> have perished and bin either burnt or drowned, by which meanes the sayd<br /> Captaine was forced with those that were left with him to deserte the<br /> sayd shipp and make to shoare hee and soe many as could passe to shore in<br /> the sayd two boates, and leave the sayd fower persons aboard the shipp and<br /> thereby the shipp was by the dutch seized who possessed them selves<br /> of her and her Ordnance, and gott her off from ground and carried her<br /> away with the fower men left in her to the great preiudice of this<br /> state and to the strengthening of their owne fleete, which had not gone<br /> away therewith, but the sayd Captaine might according to his<br /> intention have either fired or sunke the sayd shipp and thereby<br /> deprived the enymye of any benefitt of her and have escaped.<br /> hee and all his Company safe to shoare in the sayd long boate and<br /> the sayd two smale boates And further to those articles hee cannot<br /> depose./ To the 9th hee saith the ''hercules'' the tyme arlate was of the<br /> burthen of fower hundred and odd tonnes and had at least two<br /> and thirty gunnes and the sayd shipp and her tacke furniture and<br /> provisions (shee having bin newly victualed at Portsmouth) were then<br /> worth in this deponents Judgment and estimate three thousand<br /> pounds sterling at least And further hee cannot depose To the last hee saith the ''hercules'' the tyme Interrogate served the<br /> Statee Interrogate served the<br /> State  +
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