[ADD DATA] ************************ The fifteenth of November 1653. On the behalfe of the State} touching the perished condition oof the} wheate aboard the ffortune'' of Stettin} '''Rowe dt.''' '''Robert Brathwaite''' of Southwarke aged 48 yeares or thereabouts and '''John Nutsher''' of the same place aged 55 yeares or thereabouts, sworne in Court before the right worshipfull William Clarke and John Godolphin doctors of lawes and George Cock Esquire Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie, say and depose by vertue of their oathes. That they theise deponents being thereto imployed by the Commissioners for prize goods wrought aboard the shipp the ''ffortune'' of Stettin then lying neare limehouse dock laden with wheate and other goods, in lighteningthe said shipp of the said goods, And this deponent Richard Brathwaite who wrought from the beginning to the ending of the said worke of delivery of the said goods deposeth that the said wheate was excessively hot and baked hard with longe lying that after they had taken off about two foote of the wheate the rest was soe hard that they were forced to loosen it with iron crowes and such like instruments, and that the heate thereof was soe greate that they could not endure their clothes on but were faine to worke naked, and further that it had taken in wet at the ballast [?port] and by meanes thereof was become soe noysome and full of stench that they could very hardly endure to worke upon it, and that through the said heate and stench the said persons that wrought there became sick and one of them named Edward Spri[?ppe] is since dead thereof and this deponent Robert Brathwaite is still ill thereof. And at the bottome upon the matts, hee saith that the same with heate was [?XX] and much other of the said wheate
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