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<document-start>
1. On the 19:th of October 1657.
2. <margin value="Left">James Smith against a certaine}
3. shipp called the Recovery of}
4. Bristoll (wherof the sayd Smith}
5. was Master) and against Nicholas}
6. Tilley Lewes Dighton and}
7. Company etcetera}
8. ffrancklin Smith}</margin>
9. Thomas Barton of Passage nigh
10. Waterford in Ireland Merchant, aged
11. about 54 yeares a wittnes produced
12. sworne and examined deposeth as followeth
13. videlicet./
14. To the first, second, third and fourth articles of the
15. said allegation he knoweth not to depose, for that he
16. came not into the sayd shipp untill November 1656
17. at Spire=bay in the Barbadoes./
18. To the fifth and sixth articles of the sayd allegation he
19. deposeth and saith that the arlate shipp the Recovery
20. of Bristoll departed from the Barbadoes with her
21. lading about the 14th of November 1656, she being then
22. bound first for kingsale and for then for Bristoll
23. and that in her said passage about the latter end
24. of December last past, she mett with an extreame
25. violent and tempestuous storme, which continued many
26. days, The greatest and worst of stormes that he the
27. deponent was ˹ever˺ in, who hath used the Seas nigh
28. on about 34 yeares, and he saith that in and by the
29. violence and fury of the sayd storme all the sayles
30. were blowne away, soe that there was noe meanes left
31. to keepe the shipp before the wind for her preservation
32. ˹and˺ she then laying inder the Sea receaved such an abundance
33. of water that (as the Mate sayd) she was about fower
34. foote water in the hold, and the pumpe of the sayd shipp
35. was altogether unserviceably by reason of her inward
36. rotteness, And that in such this extremity noe way
37. or meanes was though fitter for the preservation of all
38. but the cutting of the maine Mast by the board, which
39. was done accordingly, and that afterwards the shipp
40. did stresse before the wind with her ffore=mast, and
41. receved lesse water in than before, But he saith that
42. there was soe much water in her ˹which˺ the pumpe could
43. not gett out, that the sayd shipps Company were
44. forced to cutt a hole under the halfe decke and XXXXXXX
45. draw the water out of the hold with bucketts, and ˹he saith˺ that
46. about the drawing of the water in that manner all the
47. shipps Company were imployed saving the Master and
48. Mate, who were with this deponent sufficiently busyed
49. and imployed in the stearing and XXXing the sayd shipp. and reparing
50. some sayle, And he further deposeth that after a days
51. time or therabout some sayle was made and sett upon
52. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">the</margin>
</document-end>