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and after shee had taken in her ladeing appeared to bee very leakie soe that her company of this deponents sight did pumpe her while shee was in harbour a hundred and odd strokes every halfe hower and alsoe before shee went out of harbour caused a thing called a dredge made with roapes and Okam to be made and stretched under her the better to stopp her leakes and went to sea therewith, and saith that after the sayd shipps were put out in Company to sea, upon the sayd Nynteenth day of November at night fowle weather happened, by meanes whereof (the ''Recoveries'' rigging being badd and rotten and shee leaky before shee came out) her mayne mast had was cracked and severall of her sayles splitt and severall of her shroudes broken, and shee grew thereby more and more leakie, in soe much that the sayd Tawley and others aforenamed and the rest of her Company with the assistance alsoe of this deponent who wrought for his passage, had much a doe with continuall labour at the pumpe to keepe her above water, and in order to the better coming at her leakes to stopp them as well as for the present they could, the Master and Company heaved overboard a parcell of ffustick, but not withstanding all they could doe, the sayd shipp continued soe leakie that her company were faine to keepe the pumpe continually goeing, and soe kept the same goeing severall dayes togeather, in which tyme the shipp ''Gilbert'' coming sometymes within a pretty distance of the ''Recovery'' Mr Croford Commander of the ''Gilbert'' did severall tymes call out to the sayd Bartlett and aske him what cheere howe, and the like, and was answered by the sayd Bartlett, that his shipp (meaning the ''Recovery'') was a very leakie shipp, whereupon the sayd Croford replyed and sayd you were best therefore to beare up in tyme before you bee to farr gone from the Islands (meaning the Islands that lay to the leewards) which notwithstanding the sayd Bartlett kept on his Course with the shipp ''Recovery'' and followed the sayd Crofords shipp severall dayes, by which meanes the sayd shipps Company by their Continuall labour at the pumpe were very much wearied and spent and complayned to the sayd Bartlett that they were soe wearied with continuall pumpeing that they were not able to hold out, and desyred him to beare up for some of the Islands that they might there stopp their leakes and preserve the shipp and goods and their lives, which notwithstanding the sayd Bartlett still continued on his course after the ''Gilbert'', but at length the sayd Bartlett wanting candles and other necessaries, went with his longe boate aboard the ''Gilbert'', but what discourse hee had there with the sayd Croford hee knoweth not for that hee went not with him, but saith that the sayd bartlett after a while returned from aboard the ''Gilbert'' and brought with him aboard the ''Recovery'' some oyle to burne for light and and nayles and
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