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ánd Ambrose Smith whilest the said vessell was at Shoram and before her proceeding thense on the said voyage, laded aboard her two hundred fiftie and seaven quarters of malt to be carried and transported in the said vessell to Bergen aforesaid, as alsoe a tonne of stronge beer, and saith they were both perpetually at the lading thereof, and managed and ordered such lading as for their owne account, and the said Smith embarqued himselfe therewith to goe merchant and to sell and dispose the said goods for their account and best advantage, yeelding a reason of his knowledge, for that hee was master as aforesaid, and received the said goods aboard. To the fourth hee saith that after such the said vessells departure with the said malt and beere from Shoram, and being in prosecution of the said voyage for Bergen, and comming off harwich the weather being fowle and the seas high, shee was cast away and lost on a sand called the Sunck, on the nineteenth of this instant in the night, and all her said lading alsoe perished and was lost, and this deponent and company and the said mr Smith in exceeding greate danger of being alsoe cast away and drowned, and very [?hardly] escaping By which unhappie desaster hee saith the said howell and Smith lost utterly lost their interest and shares aforesaid in the said vessell, and alsoe all their said malt and beere, of this deponents sight and knowledge. Robert harthly [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ***************************** The same day. [CENTRE HEADING] '''Rp. 2.''' '''Peter Smith''' of Bright Hampson in the County of Sussex Sailor, aged 23 yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and examined as aforesaid. To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew and was one of the company of the vessell the ''Endeavour'' of Arundell interrate, at the time of her last departure from Shoram and casting away hereunder mentioned. And saith shee departed from Shoram on the thirteenth instant bound on a voyage for Bergen in Norway, which hee knoweth being a foremast man of her and shipped at Shoram for the said voyage. To the second hee saith hee well knoweth the interrate John howell and Ambrose Smith, and saith they were commonly reputed part owners of the said vessell and of her tackle and furniture at the time of such her departure and losse and hee beleeveth that they were soe, for that hee saw them disburse moneys for worke donne towards her fitting out on the said voyage, namely for Carpenters worke. To the third hee saith that the said John howell and Ambrose Smith while the said vessell was soe at Shoram, intending her said voyage laded there aboard her upwards of two hundred and fiftie quarters of malt, and a tonne of strong beere, to be transported in the said vessell to Bergen aforesaid, and there to be disposed for their account by the said Ambrose Smith who embarqued himselfe therwith. The premises touching the said lading hee knoweth because hee was present at the same and helped in the stowage thereof. To
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