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HCA 13/72 f.312v Annotate
First transcribed 12 November 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 312  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 12/11/2013  +
Transcription the sayd shipp from Porstmouth toward the the sayd shipp from Porstmouth toward the downes on or about the [XXXX GUTTER]<br /> last of November 1652, and being in his course thitherward upon the first<br /> of december next after, and the weather being thicke and foggie, hee happened<br /> to come neere the dutch ffleete of warr which then lay neere dungenesse<br /> and having discovered what danger the foggie weather had brought him<br /> into, the sayd Captaine caused the Luffe of his sayd shipp ''hercules'' to be<br /> sprung, and edged toward the shoare, thereby to gett the weather gage of the<br /> dutch fleete or of soe many of them as hee could, and was engaged with<br /> two of the sayd ffleete who discharged broad sides at him and hee at them<br /> and the sayd Captaine stood first to the Eastward of the Nesse, and afterwards<br /> endeavoured to gett under Sangate Castle with his shipp for her better<br /> security, and in soe doeing, accidentally, rann her a ground about a<br /> myle or lesse from shoare, And further to those articles hee cannot depose To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith that the sayd shipp being soe<br /> accidentally runne on ground, the sayd captaine commanded all his company<br /> to keepe aboard the shipp, and plye their gunnes, and defend her against<br /> the enymye as longe as they could, and declared that his intens was<br /> when hee had defended her as long as hee could that rather then shee<br /> should fall into the hands of the enymie his intente was to destroy her<br /> either by fyreing or sinkeing her, and then hee and the company would make<br /> to shoare in the long boate and the two other boates belonging to the sayd<br /> shipp, but divers of the Company videlicet this deponent and most of<br /> the persons arlate and others in all to the number of forty or fifty persons,<br /> (contrary to the sayd Captaines Command) gott into the longe boate<br /> intending to desert and forsake the shipp and goe to shoare, which the sayd<br /> Captaine seeing callled out to them, and standing with Cap in hands,<br /> sayd as followeth or the like in effect videlicet, Gentlemen I desyre you<br /> to come aboard againe, wee have halfe an howers tyme to sp[XX GUTTER]<br /> wherein wee may doe something to destroy the shipp (meaning<br /> the ''hercules''), that shee may not become a prize to the enymye,<br /> and if you doe not, I shall reaceave disgrace, and you will loose<br /> your wages, therefore I pray you come aboard againe, whereupon<br /> hee this deponent and some others that were gotten into the longe boate<br /> did come out of her and went aboard the shipp againe as the Captaine<br /> desyred them, and the arlate Robert Everard Martyn Coxeman<br /> Thomas [XXXer] John Price Mathew Killman John<br /> Rowland Robert Catlyn Stephen Earle William Stoakes (and divers<br /> others whose names hee remembreth not) contrary to the sayd Captaines<br /> Commands and notwithsatnding his entreaties aforesayd, did<br /> continue in the longe boate and refused to come aboard, and went<br /> ashoare with the sayd long boate, by which meanes the Captaine<br /> and those that stayed behinde with him aboard (being more by<br /> fower or five then the two smale boates of the shipp which were left<br /> could beare to shoare) were deprived of the benefitt of putting<br /> their designe in act of fyreing or sinkeing the sayd shipp for that<br /> if they should have soe done the other persons aforesayd being gone<br /> awaysons aforesayd being gone<br /> away  +
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