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too late, and there being not above fiftee … too late, and there being not above fifteen foot water, the shipp struck and<br />
lost her rudder and was damnified as aforesayd. As for the importunity or force<br />
interrogated, or that the sayd Warren did putt the helme a port, or the sayd<br />
Wilkinson[?s] forcing the helme to be putt hard on starboard hee knoweth nothing<br />
thereof. Neither doth he know what the sayd privat markes are which the sayd<br />
Warren is in this Interrogatory pretended to have endeavoured to bring together.<br />
And further he cannot depose.
To the 5th. he saith the sayd shipp having beat over the sayd Woollpacke came into<br />
three fathom and a halfe water, and then her sayles were furled, and both her<br />
yards and topmast struck, and her two bower anchors cast out, and the wind was<br />
high and her anchors yeilded and gave way, so as the sayd shipp struck agayne<br />
on another sand, and then her sheat ánchors were cutt as aforesayd, and she beat over<br />
that other sand, and then her sheat ánchor was cast out, and the wind increa=<br />
sing the sayd sheat ánchor was cutt in the flood, and the shipp was forced to<br />
shoare, And as for the occasion of the sayd inconveniences and dammages and<br />
who was in fault thereof he referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition<br />
And further otherwise than negatively cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./
Sidrack<br />
Willas [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 4th day of March 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Travers against Burridge and Spiser}<br />
Baker Smith}
Examined upon an allegation given in on the<br />
behalfe of the sayd Travers./
'''Rp'''
'''William Webber''' of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen<br />
Bermondsey Mariner master of the shipp the John<br />
and Mary aged 36 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes}<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/}
To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith<br />
that hee this deponent (being the arlate William Webber) during all<br />
the tyme arlate was and still is a part Owner of the arlate shipp the<br />
''John and Mary'' of London and was by Colonell John Owen and the sayd<br />
Travers the party in this suite and others part Owner alsoe of the sayd shipp made<br />
Master of her for a voyage to bee made therewith from<br />
London to Teneriff and other places in the King of Spaines dominions and<br />
without the Strights (sic) of Gilbraltar and soe back for London and this deponent<br />
accordingly tooke upon him the sayd office of Master And hee saith that<br />
hee this deponent in the yeare 1655 and moneths therein concurring lett<br />
in behalfe if him selfe and the rest of the owners of the sayd shipp did lett<br />
the sayd shipp to ffreight (as by the Charterpartie made betwixt the sayd<br />
Travers and this deponent and bearing date the nynth day of Aprill 1655<br />
more at large and may appeare) to the arlate Gyles Travers for the<br />
voyage in question after the rate of one hundred and fower pounds a moneth<br />
for soe longe as shee should continue in service of the sayd Travers,<br />
it not to exceede twelve moneths, And saith the sayd Travers in presense<br />
did as sole ffreighter at his owne cost and charges and for his owne Accompt<br />
freight the sayd shipp ''John and Mary'' upon {the} voyage in question to be made from London to Teneriff and other places in the dominion of the<br />
Kinges in the dominion of the<br />
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