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To the sixth article he deposeth and saith … To the sixth article he deposeth and saith that when the<br />
sayd shipp was at Aberdee there were aboard her<br />
55 or 56 persons (Mariners and passengers) and that there<br />
was not then (quite) forty pounds of bread and but<br />
very little flesh and fish, Indeed soe little that<br />
had the shipp ventured for London and mett with a<br />
contrary wind the Company must of necessity have<br />
famished, besides the imminent perill of the shipps<br />
perishing by reason of the shipps weaknes<br />
And further he cannot depose./
To the seaventh article he deposeth that there was by the<br />
Captaines order such a boate made at Aberdee as is<br />
arlate, but it was never made use of And further<br />
he cannot depose./
To the eight he deposeth that iust as the boate predeposed<br />
of in the preceding article was finished and going<br />
over board the shipps Company did espy (which was on<br />
the 19th of January 1656 at night) a boate making to<br />
them, who provd to be the arlate William Spenser a<br />
Pylott, which sayd Spenser was hired and ordered by the<br />
arlate William Croford to conduct and carry the sayd<br />
shipp to Pennarth, and that accordingly she did arrive there<br />
about upon the twentith of January 1656, where upon<br />
the sayd shipps arrival there the sayd Croford went<br />
presently ashoare And further he cannot depose./
To the nineth article he deposeth that he this deponent and the<br />
arlate Upton, Woodfall and Nicholls, being sent for ashoare<br />
by the arlate Croford did on the 21th of January 1656 goe<br />
unto him the sayd Croford being then at Cardiff, and<br />
that he the sayd Croford having prepared an instrument<br />
or writing before their comming, did afterwards cause it to be<br />
read unto this deponent as the sayd Upson<br />
Woodfall and Nicholls before the Magistrate of the Townne<br />
where they, the sayd Croford and the rest did make a<br />
protest upon oath against the storme predeposed, and that<br />
it was upon and by the extremity of weather and fury of<br />
the Seas in the sayd storme that what goods were throwne overboard<br />
was done for the preservation of the shipp and the rest<br />
of the goods And further he cannot depose./
To the tenth article he deposeth that the sayd shipp did lye<br />
at Pennarth from the 20th of January 1656 to the 24th<br />
day of the same month and that in the interim the sayd Croford<br />
did never come aboard her and that on the sayd 24th<br />
of January about noone he the sayd Croford came aboard<br />
and brought with him the arlate Nicholas Skidmore a<br />
pilott who by the order of the sayd Croford did pilott her<br />
to Kingroade arlate, and that when she went from Pennarth<br />
she left an anchor behind her, and had some damage done<br />
unto her by reason of the foulenes of the ground And<br />
further he cannot depose.
To<br />
further he cannot depose.
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