76 1 331 341 place on board H. M. S.
Indomitable . John Claggart, the
ship's master-at-arms, discovering
that some sort of plot was ^ incipient incipient being
hatched among an inferior section of
the ship's company, and that the
plotter ^ ringleader was one William Budd ;
a foretopman he, Claggart in the act of arraigning
the man before the Captain Comm was
^ vindictivly stabbed to the heart by the suddenly
drawn sheath-knife of Budd.
The deed and the implement
employed, sufficiently suggest that the tho'
mustered into the service under
76 an English name the assasin was
no Englishman, but one of those aliens
adopting English names cognomens whom
76 1 331 341 place on board H. M. S.
Indomitable . John Claggart, the
ship's master-at-arms, discovering
that some sort of plot was ^ incipient incipient being
hatched among an inferior section of
the ship's company, and that the
plotter ^ ringleader was one William Budd ;
a foretopman he, Claggart in the act of arraigning
the man before the Captain Comm was
^ vindictivly stabbed to the heart by the suddenly
drawn sheath-knife of Budd.
The deed and the implement
employed, sufficiently suggest that the tho'
mustered into the service under
76 an English name the assasin was
no Englishman, but one of those aliens
adopting English names cognomens whom

Transcribed by: John Bryant