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HCA 13/73 f.657r Annotate
First transcribed 8 June 2014  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 657  +
Parent volume HCA 13/73  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 08/06/2014  +
Transcription 6th die decembris 1660 [CENTRE HEADING] S6th die decembris 1660 [CENTRE HEADING] Sup Allone produ[?i]t Exam[?inate] '''Rp. 3.us''' '''Thomas Miles''' de Sandwitch Nauta annos<br /> agens 32 aut do [?circiter] testis productus et<br /> Juratus deponit dicit prout Seg[XX]./ Ad ju nescit deponere Ad 2.u et 3.u arlos dicit that a little before his Majesties happy arrivall in this<br /> Nation the time otherwise hee cannnot call to minde the ship<br /> the ''Swanne'' John A[?bsolon] Master weighed Anchor to come downe the River of Newcastle with<br /> her Lading of Coales, and a ship said to be [?from] Brighthampson<br /> and called the ''Prosperous'', did at or about the same time also<br /> weigh Anchor to [XXXX] thence, and shee came next<br /> after the said Ship ''Swanne'', and as the said Ship ''Swan''<br /> was turning about the bill point shee being becalmed,<br /> some of her Company called out earnestly<br /> to the Master and Company of the said ship called the ''Prosperous'' shee being then very neere the ''Swanne'' to lower their sailes,<br /> saying that if they did not they would be aboard them or to that effect.<br /> which words hee saith they heard, but notwithstanding they did<br /> not lower their sailes but presently after runne their boultsprit<br /> betweene the ''Swannes'' mizen mast and [?some] part of her<br /> Rigging and forced the ''Swanns'' Anchor [XXXXX] soe that it could not bring the ''Swanne'' [?up] and by that meanes put her ashore and then the ''Prosperous'' went<br /> into the middle of the River, or thereabouts where shee staid till the next tyde, but none of her Company somuch<br /> as came to helpe to get the ''Swanne'' off. And shee being<br /> soe onshore John fforwood Master of the ''John and Mary'' pinke of<br /> Sandwitch sent all his Company whereof this deponent was one (saving a boy) to helpe the saud<br /> Absolon and Company to get the said ship ''Swanne'' off, and they<br /> used their utmost endeavour soe to doe, and carried her<br /> best bower Anchor and a small Anchor ashore, and there made them<br /> fast, and lashed Cable and hawser to the mainemast<br /> but notwithstanding such their endeavours the tyde of Ebb<br /> coming and the ground being shelving shee was bilged on<br /> a Rock which lay under her and there sunke with her Lading of Coales which hee saith came and happened<br /> through the carelesseness (as hee verily beleeveth) of the Master and<br /> Company of the said Ship called the ''Prosperous'' for had they<br /> lowered their Sailes as they were desired to doe or lett goe any Anchor [?the] same would<br /> not have happened in all probability, And the<br /> master and Company of the said ship called the ''Prosperous'' might have gone<br /> with their ship on either side of the ''Swanne'' with safety The Premisses hee deposeth<br /> being one of the Company of the said Sandwitch Pinke, (which came<br /> next after the said ship called the ''Prosperous'') and an Eye and Eare<br /> witnes of the Premisses:/ Ad 6.us et .7. dicit that the next tide this deponent came away in the said Pinke<br /> leaving the ''Swanne'' suncke as aforesaid, but hee hath heard that shee<br /> was afterwards weighed, but howe shee was disposed of hee knoweth not<br /> but saith that imediately before the said disaster the said<br /> ship was worth about 200. ''li'' and her Coales which shee had the said time<br /> in her were worth about Eighty pounds as hee beleeveth./. Ad 8 re[XXXt] [se ad Refrum huij Curice] Ad ult. dicit [?predeposuta per ?omnesse vera]./ sig[?um] [MARKE] Thomas<br /> Miles [MARKE, RH SIDE] XXXas<br /> Miles [MARKE, RH SIDE] XXX  +
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