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To the 3d article and Schedule therein mentioned hee saith that the Master and Company of and on board the said Ship, did upon Good Consideration for the Safeguard of the said Shipp and Lading, and of their owne Lives. Cut downe the said Ships Maine Mast by the board and Cut away all the Tackling thereto belonging, and did Stave and Cast over board most of the Caske (OR, casks) of ffresh water, that the said Ship might bee Lightened. And saith that the said Mainemast, sheat Anchor. and all and Singular the tackle Appell and furniture of or belonging to the said Ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' severally mentioned and set downe in thee Schedule, were Cast into, (and lost) in the sea, for the preservation of the said Ship, and at the time of such their loosing were well worth the severall summes mentioned, and set downe in the said schedule (now read over unto him). amounting in the whole to One hundred, fourty two pounds two shillings And beside the said goods and materialls hee saith the Missen saile Blowne away as aforesaid, was worth about foure pounds sterling And much damage done to the said Ships Rudder Sterne Post, and Stemme, the repaires whereof will Cost the said Owners about twenty pounds as he beleeveth The Premisses hee deposeth being Carpenter of the said Ship as aforesaid. And further cannot Depose./: To the 4th and 5th hee saith that During the Continuance of the said Storme. the Master and Company of the said Ship did Constantly ply both the Pumpes of the said ship and kept them Goeing, and the said Storme still Continuing the Company of the said ship were Constrained to bring the said Ships Starboard side to the sea. and the Ship being ?Turned her Spritsaile was blowne away and lost, and the next morning the said Storme, or Tempest abating the Master and Company through their great Paines did stop the said Leake made by the Said Anchor. and alsoe the Leake, at the helme Port, and freed her of the water. And saith the said Ship at her said departure from the Barbadoes and Imediately before the said Dammage happened was a strong Ship, fit for such a Voyage and Imployment and very well fitted with all manner of materiall and Necessaryes, and was not over loaden, at the said time, and saith that her sheate Anchor, was well and sufficiently fastned to the side of the said Ship, with Ropes. And saith that all such damage which hath happened to the said ship and Lading happened not by any Insufficeincy, of in the said Ship, or any fault of her Master and Company, but meerely by the violence of the said Storme; And further cannot depose/.. To
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