| First transcribed
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12 November 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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311 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 12/11/2013 +
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| Transcription
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state as a mann of warr being lett to them … state as a mann of warr being lett to them by her Owners upon<br />
freight and hee verily beleeveth that had shee bin destroyed and<br />
burnt or sunke soe that the Enymy had not possessed her to the<br />
preiudice of the State, the State would have paid her Owners for her,<br />
(as hee beleeveth they did the Owners of other hyred shipps that served<br />
them and were burnt or otherwise sunke in their service) And<br />
further hee cannot depose./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
the marke of the sayd<br />
John '''#''' Bishopp [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation./.
'''Rp. 3.'''
'''Samuell Way''' of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney<br />
and County of Middlesex Mariner aged thirty yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the 1: 2: and 3 articles hee saith hee this deponent was Co[?xk]son<br />
of the shipp ''hercules'' the voyage in question and thereby knoweth that<br />
in September October November and december one thousand sixe<br />
hundred ffifty two the sayd shipp served the state of England as a shipp<br />
of warr under the Command of the arlate Captaine Zachary<br />
Browne who was Commander in cheife of her being soe consitituted<br />
by some of the officers of the sayd state, and for such the sayd Browne<br />
was then commonly reputed, And hee saith the sayd Browne being at<br />
Portsmouth with his sayd shipp in the sayd Moneth of November 1652<br />
there victualing his shipp hee receaved order from some of the sayd<br />
states Officers to depart thence with his sayd shipp to the downes where<br />
(as it was sayd) the Generall of the English ffleete then was And the<br />
sayd Captaine Browne accordingly sett sayle from Portsmouth with<br />
his sayd shipp upon the thirtith of November aforesayd bound for the<br />
downes and being in his Course for the downes did upon the first of<br />
december next following meete with thick foggie weather by reason<br />
whereof hee unexpectedly came neere the dutch ffleete of warr which<br />
then lay neere dungie Nesse, and the sayd Captaine having discenered<br />
the danger hee was in did spring the Luffe of his shipp ''hercules'' (the<br />
winde being then at Northwest) thereby to gett the weather gage of<br />
the dutch ffleete or soe many of them as hee could, and soe standing<br />
to the Eastward of the Nesse hee engaged part of the fleete and then<br />
standing to the Northwards endeavoured to get under Sanga[?t]e Castle<br />
toget under Sanga[?t]e Castle<br />
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