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The same day. Examined upon the sayd alleg … The same day. Examined upon the sayd allegation.
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'''John Nutting''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex late Carpenter<br />
of the sayd shipp ''Susan and Anne'', aged twenty three yeares<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the first second and third arles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith<br />
he was Carpenter of and sayled in the sayd shipp the voyage in question<br />
and thereby knowes, that the sayd shipp under the Command of George<br />
Boys arlate departed with her lading of sugars from the Barbadoes<br />
bound for this Port of London in the month of August last past and<br />
that afterwards being upon her Course a violent storme or Hurricano<br />
mett with her which carryed away her foremast, and brought in great<br />
store of water betwixt her deckes, and putt shipp and lading and<br />
the mens lives into such danger that to prevent their utter perishing<br />
the sayd Boys and Company were necessitated and did cutt downe their<br />
mainmast, and allso to cutt a hole that the water might passe into the<br />
hold for feare the shipp should otherwise have bene oversett, and that the<br />
pumpes might be able to worke, And saith that the sayd Storme did<br />
continue neere three dayes, and in very good extremity for the<br />
greater part of that tyme, by reason of all which the sayd shipp<br />
was forced to putt in to the Bermudaos there to be fitted agayne<br />
for her sayd voyage, which was done accordingly, and a Pilott<br />
hired to conduct her from those islands, howbeit he saith that the<br />
wind Scanting upon the sayd shipp she did (notwithstanding the diligence<br />
of the sayd Pilot to prevent it) strike upon the rockes, and so caught<br />
a leake, so as much water came in and very great dammage might<br />
thereby have happened had not the Mariners diligently plyed their<br />
pumpes, which hee saith they did and so preserved the sayd shipp and her<br />
lading, the sayd disaster of sinking upon the rockes happened as hee<br />
saith about the beginning of November <u>1655.</u> last past. And further<br />
saith that when the sayd shipp being on her Course for London came<br />
neere the English Coast she mett with a feirce and raging storme<br />
which carryed away the greater part of her sayles and putt her in<br />
great danger of perishing. Of all which this deponent was<br />
an eyewitnes and otherwise cannot depose.
To the fourth and last arles of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that the<br />
sayd shipp when she so came from the Barbadaos was an able and stanch<br />
shipp and sufficiently provided for such a voyage, and that the sugars<br />
and lading on board her were well stowed and dennaged; And saith<br />
moreover that the sugars became much endammaged by the water that<br />
came into the sayd shipp by meanes of the stormes and disasters aforesayd,<br />
which sayd dammage hee saith did wholly happen by reason and occasion<br />
of the sayd storme or Hurricano, and leakes so caused as aforesayd<br />
and not by the fault or negligence of the sayd Master and Company who<br />
hee saith did their dutyes in preventing dammage so farr as was possible<br />
which hee knoweth sayling in the sayd shipp as aforesayd. And lastly for<br />
satisfaction of Mr [?Walsons] [XXXX] saith that the heads of the Caskes that came<br />
out did so come out by the working of the shipp in the violence of the sayd<br />
tempests. And that the sayd Master or Mariners did not breake open the same nor<br />
embezell any of the goods so farr as hee knoweth, beleiveth or hath heard<br />
And otherwise he cannot depose
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