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HCA 13/72 f.309r Annotate
First transcribed 7 November 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 309  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Places Other places of interest: <u>Dungnesse lighthouse</u>  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; trancsribed on 07/11/2013  +
Transcription the first day of december 1652 the sayd shthe first day of december 1652 the sayd shipp ''hercules'' being in her<br /> course for the downes the weather proved very thick and foggie, by<br /> which meanes the ''hercules'' happened to come neere the dutch ffleete<br /> of warr which then lay neere dunge Nesse, And the sayd Captaine<br /> Browne perceiving what danger the foggie weather had brought him<br /> into, and that hee was neere the Enymyes ffleet, endeavoured to have avoided<br /> them, and in order thereto sprunge his luffe thereby to gett the weather<br /> gage of the enymyes ffleete, and sayd to his Company that if it were<br /> possible hee would weather the Eastward point of the Nesse and gett<br /> under Sangate Castle to secure his sayd shipp, and divers of the<br /> Enymies fleete endeavouring to hinde the ''hercules'' from gaineing the<br /> weather gage, the sayd Captaine Browne was forced to engage<br /> with part of the ffleete and thereupon this deponent according to<br /> the sayd Captaines order went downe into the powder roome to fill and<br /> deliver out powder for the engagement, and came noe more above deck<br /> untill such tyme as the sayd shipp ''hercules'' was accidentally runne on<br /> ground about a rayle from shoare neere<br /> the Light house upon dunge Nesse, This hee deposeth of his knowledge<br /> being steward of and aboard the ''hercules'' And further to these articles hee<br /> cannot depose./ To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith that notwithstanding<br /> the sayd ''hercules'' was soe accidentally runne a ground, the sayd<br /> Captaine Browne did command and require his Company in<br /> generall to keepe aboard the sayd shipp ''hercules'' and plye their<br /> gunnes and defende her against the enymye soe longe as possible<br /> might bee, and when they could defende her noe longer then to fyre her<br /> or boare holes in her to sinke her that the enymy might not [XXXX]<br /> her, and the sayd Captaine observing that the arlate Tobert Spanton<br /> William Miller William Stone William Johnson Richard Swallow William<br /> Chayre Peter Smithing William Burt Robert Everard Martin Co[?x]man<br /> Paule Bayley Thomas Bumpstead Thomas Mercer John Price Mathew<br /> Killman Edward Clayre Allen Staples Edward Kitchen Samuell Maior<br /> John Rowland Peter Jordaine Richard Andrews John Barker Stephen<br /> Binckfeild Jeremy head Thomas Abs Richard Greene Thomas Knutt<br /> Thomas Peate John Browne John Medler Phillip Tracye Robert<br /> Catlyn William Williamson John Sage Robert Pick Edward Throgood<br /> Michaell Lawson George Breame Stephen Earle William Stokes Michaell<br /> hall Ralphe Coller John dickson William Stillwood Edward<br /> Barker Robert Salmon and Thomas Arrington notwithstanding such<br /> his Commands were gotten into the shipps longe boate intending to goe away with<br /> it and deserte the shipp did in presence and hearing of this deponent and his contest John<br /> Bishoppt and his contest John<br /> Bishopp  +
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