The case os [sic] the owners of the ship Averilla, burthen three hundred and fifty tons. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B18693 of text R224739 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B18693 Wing C1125 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.10[119] ESTC R224739 ocm99885624

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 eng Impressment -- Early works to 1800. Ships -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo The case os the owners of the ship Averilla, burthen three hundred and fifty tons. . n/a 1696 2 417 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The CASE of the Owners of the Ship Averilla , Burthen Three Hundred and Fifty Tons .

THE said Ship was in September , 1694. permitted by the Government to go to Guinea , in the Service of the Royal African Company , Manned with Sixty Men , and Thirty Guns , and from thence intended to Barbadoes and Virginia .

In June 1695. She Arrived at Barbadoes with her Freight of Negroes , having ( by the Providence of God ) not buried one Man , nor had one Man Sick during her Voyage to that Place .

But immediately Upon her Arrival there , Captain Dawley Commander of His Majesties Ship the Bristol Prest Fifteen of his Seamen , and in Three Dayes after Captain Masum , Commander of a small Frigat Prest Six more ; Upon which Nine more deserted the Ship for fear as is suppos'd of the said Usage .

There remained then on Board but Four Common Seamen , besides Seven Boys , and about Twenty Officers . And upon Consultation they thought it not safe to proceed to Virginia ( being so disabled ) but to determine their Outward-Bound Voyage at Barbadoes .

The Master there disposing of his Negroes , and Lading home from thence to London .

But finding his Number of Men insufficient to Navigate his Ship and make any reasonable Defence in Case of an Attacque , Thought it adviseable to Redeem Four of his Men of the Captains that Prest them , at Five Pound per Man , and withal gave to the Captain of the Bristol Ten Pound to Convoy him Clear of the Leeward Islands .

In his Passage Home to England , in Company with Eleven Sail more , was Met with by Two French Privateers in Soundings , and after a Fight of Three Hours , in which the Captain and Six more were Killed , and Six or Seven Wounded , the said Ship and Four more were taken ; to the Loss of the Interested in that single Ship above Twenty Five Thousand Pound .

In all probability had he had his Compliment of Men he might have Escaped ; the Two Privateers not exceeding him together in Number of Guns , But were incouraged to Assault him by his Insufficiency to Defend himself .

This is the Third Ship that some of these Gentlemen have lost by Pressing their Men at Sea and in Foreign Parts .