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in this cause and he saith that they did all severally and respectively doe and performe their severall dutyes and services in the sayd shipp in the her sayd homeward voyage And further he cánnot depose./ To the second he deposeth that in the sayd shipp her passage from the Barbadoes on Christmas Eve last past she then being in or about the degrees of 34 and 1/2 there happened a very violent and raging storme (which continued about fower or five dayes and nights by reason of the violence and rage of which storme, and by reason of the two (sic) much weight of goods between deckes the shipps side gave way from her Gunn deck, insoemuch that in the shipps raling a man might (of this deponents sight and knowledge) thrust his hand between the deck and the shipps side and that in the said storme the sayd shipp's long boate was staved all to peices by the fury of the seas, And he saith that in that great storme the sayd shipps Company did much and often feare that she and her lading would have suncke downeright, And that they (videlicet the Mariners of the sayd shipp, all and every one of them) did use their utmost endeavours and labours in doing all that by man could be done for the preservation of her and her said lading, which by the blessing of God upon their said endeavours was effected, and that during the sayd storme the Company did continually pumpe keeping two pumpes (by turnes) constantly goinge, The premisses he deposeth for that he was during all the sayd storme aboard the sayd shipp being one of her Mariners And further he cannot depose./ To the third he deposeth that the shipp was the voyage arlate two much laden, with goods in all conscience, and that by reason of her being soe overladen, the chaine pumpe of the sayd shipp could not be made use in the [XXXXXX] predeposed of, And he alsoe saith that the long boate being rased by fury of the Seas in the storme predeposed of she had not any other boate belonging to her, And further he cannot depose. To the fourth he deposeth that the sayd shipp did come to nigh Aberdee on or about the 18th of January 1656 about night time, and that upon the shipps arrivall there the arlate Croford and Company were altogether ignorant where they were, and that therfore by the command of the sayd Croford many Gunns were fired and shott off to have had helpe come aboard him and to have told where the sayd shipp was, and that she lay there at an anchor all that night and noe body came to helpe or receive them, And further he cannot depose. To the fifth he deposeth that upon the 19th of January 1656 the sayd shipp being at Aberdee, and it then being co[XXXX]red by the shipps Company that shee was nigh Aberdee the shipps Company did weigh the shipps anchor and by the Captains order endeavoured to steere her for London and that after the anchor was up some of˺ the shipps Company acquainted him with the great want of provisions and other necessaryes for
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