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a very strong and tight shipp, and that th … a very strong and tight shipp, and that the goods<br />
in her had not received a pennys worth of damage<br />
(that the shipps company know of) Untill the sayd<br />
damage happened, And that she being come in her<br />
passage homeward to or neere a place called holehaven<br />
such a terrible tempest or storme happened together with<br />
a fogg that their shipp, goods and lifes were in<br />
great danger of perishing, and that in the tempest<br />
the said shipp was driven on shoare, and that<br />
thereby she became very leaky, and the water gott<br />
into her goods, which untill that time were dry and<br />
well conditioned, And he saith that be beleeveth in his<br />
conscience that if the said shipp had not been soe<br />
driven on shoare by the violence of the sayd tempest<br />
she and her lading would well and safely arrived heere<br />
at London And further he cannot anweare/
To the third Interrogatory he answereth that he beleiveth in his<br />
conscience that had not the shipps Company ranne<br />
her a shoare at Blackwall she would have sunke,<br />
she was made soe very leaky by the tempest and storme<br />
and her being driven on shoare as is predeposed, And<br />
that by their running her a shoare at Blackwall they<br />
preserved dry those goods that were dry, which would<br />
otherwise have caught wett, And further hee<br />
cannot answeare./
The marke of William [MARKE] Robertson [MARKE, RH SIDE]
Repeated with his precontest<br />
[LH GUTTER ?in] Court./
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The tenth of december 1656-
hámmond against the ''Sisters'' of Ipswich}<br />
and against Wright and others.}
Exámined upon an allegation given<br />
in this cause on the behalfe of the<br />
said Wright and others.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Robert Gollop''' of the parish of Saint Olaves in<br />
Southwarke Waterman, aged 32 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the fifth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
Mr Beniamin Barnes one of the owners of the shipp the ''Sisters''<br />
arlate meeting this deponent at Billingsgate, told him that hee<br />
was going to Wapping to speake with Mr hammond (meaning<br />
Richard hammond arlate) to knowe whether hee would ioyne with the<br />
rest of her owners to bring Gregory kerry her master to an Account,<br />
and desired this deponent to goe along with him, which hee did,<br />
and meeting with the said hammond at a victualling house over<br />
against the house of the said hammond in Wapping, the said Barnes<br />
askedWapping, the said Barnes<br />
asked +
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