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and that the respective goods therein ment … and that the respective goods therein mentioned were brought in<br />
the said ship the said voyage from the Barbadoes to this port of London, and<br />
here delivered according to consignments and that the same were worth<br />
that freight was to be payd for the same as is mentioned in the said schedule<br />
which hee the rather beleeveth to be true for that hee findeth a parcell of sugar that<br />
hee laded in the said ship the said voyage outwards right, and saith that at<br />
the time of [?XXX] puttin the said Lading onboard the said ship shee was a very<br />
strong tight and stanch ship and was then looked upon to be<br />
the tightest ship at the Barbadoes, and that the said ship continued very strong<br />
all the said voyage or els doubtless had perished in the sea and shee alsoe<br />
continued pretty tight untill about seaven a Clock at night of the 13th of January<br />
1666 in the latitude of about forty three degrees at which time hee saith<br />
the weather was extraordinary stormy and tempestuous insomuch<br />
that the said ship shipped much water and [?the] Lading and mens lives were in very great danger of<br />
perishing in the sea, some partt of her sailes being blowne away<br />
and her Master and company being wholely deprived of the governance of her by reason of the violence of the storme<br />
and the said Master and this deponent his mate and the rest, being in that sad condition<br />
considered what was best to be done for the preservation of all and [?XXXXXX]<br />
that the only way soe to doe was to cutt the maine mast and its appurtenances<br />
cleare away which was presently done, and the said mast and things therto<br />
belonging were thereby utterly lost, and the same being cut away they<br />
made a [?shift] to [?rule] the said [?saile], and through Gods mercy brought her safe home<br />
although the said storme endured for severall dayes after the cuttng away her<br />
said mast, which hee saith was a very prudent act and had not the same<br />
bin soe done hee verily beleeveth that hee would not have bin there to have<br />
made this relation, but that hee and the rest and the ship and Lading would<br />
have bin lost in the sea, and sayth that the damage that owners<br />
of the said ship sustained by the premisses amounteth to a consierable summe<br />
but how much hee saith hee cannot guesse or estimate, but saith that hee<br />
judgeth that such a Mast and appurtenances as were lost by the said storme<br />
will cost new with mens labour about two hundred pounds and further<br />
saith that if any damage is happened to any of the ships lading the same<br />
ame and happened without all doubt by reason of the foresaid bad weather<br />
and not through any fefect in the said ship shee being fitt to carry<br />
any merchants goods whatsoever from the Barbadoes to London, nor by or through<br />
any neglect or fault un the Master or any of the Company they doing their [?XXX]<br />
dutyes to the utmost to prevent damage happening to any of the ships Lading<br />
and taking speciall care in the stowage thereof which hee saith was done in a<br />
very good manner which this deponent the better knoweth for that hee was principally<br />
imployed therein et alr nescit./.
Ad Interria./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad primum rendet That hee was borne at Hanton in Staffordshire, alt [?XXXX]<br />
et supra./
Ad 2um rendet that hee was mate of the said ship as aforesaid but hath bin but [?XXX]<br />
about a fortnight
Ad 3um rendet That the said ship is of about 110 or 120 tonns burthen [?XXXX]<br />
tonnage and upon her coming from the Barbadoes shee was there worth about a<br />
thousand pounds in his judgement and 800 ''li'' this rendent heard proferred for her [?XXXX]is rendent heard proferred for her [?XXXX] +
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