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in the County of Northumberland Mariner Carpenter of the shipp the ''Julian'' aged sixtie yeares and upwards a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth To the first second and third 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent being Carpenter and aboard the ''Julian'' arlate the voyage in question and bound for Roane in ffrance well knoweth and remembreth that the sayd shipp being then lying at or neere the hermitage stayers in Wapping there sawe a lighterman with a lighter to the same shipps side in the moneth of december 1653 (and as hee remembreth upon Christmas Eve that yeare) and in absense of the arlate Richard Bryan the Master of the sayd shipp spake to the boatswaine of her and required him to take a board the sayd sayd (sic) shipp twelve hogsheads of Copperis which hee had then in his lighter and were sent as hee sayd by one Mr Tether to bee shipped aboard her whereto the sayd Boatswaine replyed in presense and hearing of this deponent and others of the sayd shipps Company to this effect videlicet that the sayd shipp was now fully laden and that her sayd Master was absent and had given Command before hee went from on board that her Company should take in noe more ladeing aboard her and therefore the sayd Copperis could not bee taken in but the sayd Lighterman sayd hee was ordered to bring it thither and soe left his lighter and the Copperis aforesayd in it by the sayd shipps side, and saith hee this deponent was not present on board when the sayd Copperis was laden aboard the sayd shipp, but saith hee hath heard that the same was putt on board the sayd shipp towards Evening that day but by whome hee knoweth not nor hath heard and hee saith that the sayd shipp being full laden before receipt of the sayd Copperis was soe pressed with the weight thereof that the next day after the same was soe putt on board her shee would not floate, and thereby the tyde overflowed the sayd shipp and all her ladeing this hee knoweth for that the next day hee this deponent coming to goe on board her found that shee was sunke and nothing of her appearing above water but a little of her sterne, and the tyde being fallen this deponent came aboard her the same day being Christmas day and helped to pumpe her and same
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