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That the said shipp in her late homewards voyage from Surat for this port of London, coming to the East of and neere Cap Bone Esperance there happened many violent stormes and tempests of winde [?and GUTTER] weather which continewed from the twelvth of Aprill last to the twelveth of May last past, with which stormes and tempests the said shipp and her ladeing were [XXXX]prized, and soe shee was with diverse other stormes and tempests which afterwards befell her and in particular on the fourth day of december now last past shee was taken with another greate storme, and theysay that by meanes of the said respective stormes the said shipp tooke in and shipped much water, whereby probably the goods in the said shipp may have received dammage, And they further depose that if any dammage hath befallen any of the said shipps lading, they since came and happened mearly by meanes and occasion of the said stormes and tempests and not by any defects in the shipp or default of or in the master or any of the company. And this affidavit they make by way of provision and to satisfie their marchants before any bulke broken, not well knowing whether [XXX GUTTER] dammage hath befallen the goods or any of them or not. John Carter [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Richard: Harris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] D[?ennell [XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Piam Browne [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] *********************************** The 9th of January 1657. Affidavit touching the} ''Joseph and Jessent''./:} '''Rp.''' '''Barnaby Paine''' of Wapping Mariner, master of the good shipp the ''Joseph and Jessent'' of London, aged 40 yeeres or thereabouts, '''Tristram kirton''' of Limehouse Mariner Masters Mate of the said shipp aged 40 yeares or thereabouts, and '''William higgs''' of Shadwell, Carpenter of the said shipp, aged 21 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right Worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of Lawes one of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie sayth and deposeth respectively by vertue of their oathes. That on Satturday the 21th of November last past theise deponents with the rest of the said shipps company set saile with her from the Iland of M[XXXX GUTTER] [?India] for the most part with wines and suckets bound directly for this port of London, And that in the said shipps course of proceeding comming about twenty leagues to the westward of the Iles of Scilly namely on Satturday the fifth of december last past there aropse and happened a furious and [?violent] storme, the winde blowing stiffly at East North East, by [XXX GUTTER] meanes whereof theise deponents and company, not being able to lye with the said shipp by the T[XXXXde], were inforced for severall houres time to saile back before the d[XXXX] to the Westwards. which storme the
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