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19 April 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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205 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Primary sources
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'''TNA'''
<u>PROB</u>
PROB 11/420/152 Will of James Cozens, Mariner belonging to Their Majesty's Ship Sussex 18 May 1694 +
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 19/04/2013 +
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on … The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation/
'''Rp. 3us'''
'''John Cozens''' of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate London<br />
Mariner aged twenty seaven yeares or thereabouts a witnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article hee saith for that hee was none of the Company of the ''Eastland''<br />
''Merchant'' arlate hee cannot depose thereto./
To the 2 and 3 articles hee saith that hee this deponent was one of the<br />
Company of the shipp ''Anne Pearcie'' of London wherof Captaine hare was Com=<br />
mander which shipp went out from England in Company of the arlate shipp the ''East=''<br />
''land Merchant'' the voyage in question and continued company with her till the fifteenth<br />
day of march last on which day being in Company together they were both sett upon<br />
by fower spanish men of warr with whome they both continued feight till at length<br />
the ''Anne Pearcie'' was fiered and by that meanes shee and her Company all but eightenne<br />
whereof this deponent and his precontest Peter Woollcock were two) perished, which<br />
eighteene were kept prisoners aboard the Spanish men of warr, and the ''Eastland''<br />
''Merchant'' and her Company escaped and gott safe to the port of Bickery arlate where<br />
shee continued untill shee was there surprized by the same Spanish men of warr and<br />
one Cardis a Captaine of a Pinke and Potash of Ligorne in the moneth of June<br />
last (the certayne day hee remembreth not but saith it was about the 5th or 6th day<br />
thereof) And hee saith that after the sayd ''Eastland Merchant'' had soe escaped away<br />
the sayd Spanish men of warr tooke a smale ffrench vessell called Seltere and<br />
upon enquiry of them what shipps were in Bickery they told them there was one<br />
ffrench shipp and one English shipp, which English shipp they told the Spanish<br />
men of warr was one of the two English shipps which they had formerly had a<br />
fight with at Sea and which had twenty Spaniards prisoners aboard<br />
her which they had taken in that fight, whereupon the sayd Spanish men of warr<br />
came to the port of Buckery intending to take the sayd ffrench shipp and the<br />
''Eastland Marchant'' as they laye there, and the Vice Admirall of the Spanish men<br />
of warr endeavouring to goe into Port found shallow water and soe put<br />
tacked off againe and came to Anchor with the rest of the Spanish shipps out<br />
of Comand Of Bickery Castle and while they lay there they called a consul=<br />
tation and sent a boate to sound the depth of the water and the ''Eastland Marchant''<br />
perceiving the colours of the shipp they came from to bee Spanish made shott at<br />
the boate which caused them to returne back, and in the meane tyme the sayd<br />
Cardis coming with his Pinke and Potash of Ligorne up to the Admirall of the Spanish<br />
men of warr spake unto the Admirall in the Italian tongue (which this deponent under=<br />
standeth) and asked the Admirall of the Spanish what hee meant to doe that<br />
hee did not goe in to take the English shipp and the ffrench shipp that was there or words to<br />
that effect and the Admirall of the Spanish answered in Italian thus in effect that there was not<br />
water enough whereto the sayd Captaine Cardis replyed and sayd followe mee and<br />
I will show ye water enough whereupon the Spanish men of warr all weighed<br />
Anchor presently, it being then about the fifth day of June last, and followed<br />
the sayd Cardis, and this deponent and Peter Woolcocke his precontest and some others<br />
being prisoners were thereupon presently put into hold for that hee cannot depose any thing of certayne<br />
knowledge touching the fight betwixt the ''Eastland Merchant'' and the ffrench shipp and<br />
the sayd Cardis and the Spanish men of warr, saving hee saith that the next day the sayd<br />
ffrench shipp and ''Eastland Merchant'' were taken, and this deponent sawe and observed<br />
that the sayd Cardis his Company brought an Anchor and Cable from aboard the<br />
''Eastland Merchant'' and put the same aboard the sayd Cardis his Pinke./
Toame aboard the sayd Cardis his Pinke./
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