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but what parts they have in her hee knoweth not And further cannot answere/ To the 7th hee saith hee hath knowne the shipp Interrogate from her first building and saith shee is about sixe yeares old to his best remembrance And saith hee hath gone (in all) fower voyages in her, in all which voyages hee never knew her to bee leakie but shee was all waies a tight strong shipp And further hee cannot depose./ garret Pieterson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Repeated 18th of August before Colonell Cock ******************************** The same day/ Examined upon the sayd allegation/ '''Rp. 4''' '''Nicolas King''' of fflushing Mariner aged forty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the first hee saith the goods brought the voyage in question to this port of London with ''Abrahams offering'' were laden aboard her in the Port of fflushing about the beginning of July 1656 at which tyme and for a long tyme before shee was and at this present is a tight and strong shipp and fitt to carry any Merchandize to any port what soever this hee the better knoweth being one of her Company the voyage in question and having bin of her Company for divers other voyages next before that made by her within these two or three yeares last past during all which tyme the sayd shipp hath of this deponents knowledge bin a tight stanch and sufficient shipp to carry any Merchandizes And further hee cannot depose/ To the second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that by reason hee is an Inhabitant there hee well knoweth that the Port of fflushing is drye every tyde of Ebb and all shipps rideing in it come on ground every ebb tyde by which meanes it is very frequent that shipps being heavie laden doe by such their being left a ground often tymes strayne and crush then selves and springe leakes to the dammage of their ladeing and that it cannot bee prevented by any care of their Masters or Companies, by reason of which frequencie thereof if the shipp bee tight aboard and the dammage proceede not from above but from beneath the Owners of the goods beare the dammage usually as a thing casuall and the same is not imputed there to the Masters or Companyes of the sayd shipps in such cases and this is a thing very frequent at fflushing and well knowne to Sea men and others there liveing and others tradeing thither And saith hee well knoweth that the ''Abrahams offering'', the tyde of ebb leaving her on grounds after shee had taken in almost all her ladeing shee being, crushed with the weight thereof sprange a leake neere her keele at which shee tooke water to about a foote in hold whereby some of her ladeing was dammaged but it being presently discovered by the master and Company they pumped her dry and romaged her goods as well as they could and finding two or three packs dammaged with wett received put them out from on shipp board and left them at fflushing and not finding any more at present which they could preserve to be dammaged caused the sayd leake the next day after the discovery thereof (which discovery was in the Evening) to bee amended and shortly after the winde serving fayre and their Convoy being ready they sett sayle with the rest of her ladeing for London when they afterwards safely arrived And hee saith that what dammage is happened to any of the goods in question happened meerely by reason of the leake occasioned as a foresayd and not through any insufficencie of the sayd shipp (which is still a strong stanch shipp) nor default of the Master and company of her And further hee cannot depose/ To
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