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HCA 13/53 f.106v Annotate
First transcribed 31 December 2017  +
First transcriber This Could be You  +
Folio 106  +
Parent volume HCA 13/53  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; partially transcribed on 31/12/2017  +
Transcription 25th April 1637 '''Drt Mr Wannerton.'''. 25th April 1637 '''Drt Mr Wannerton.'''. '''2s./''' '''John Eldred''' of Wappinge in the Countye of Middlesex mariner aged about 48<br /> yeares sworne before the worshipfull Basill Wood doctor of Lawes Surrogate to the<br /> right worshiipfull Sir Henry marten Knighte Judge of his Majetyes High Court of<br /> the Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his aoath as followeth videlicet That he<br /> hath knowne the shipp the ''Magdalen and Margott'' wherof Peter Reyn<br /> was master in her last voyage) for these five yeares last past, and<br /> within that tyme went in her five voyages from the porte of London, to<br /> Norwaye, and in every of those voyages he sayd shipp was a very weake<br /> rotten and leakye shipp, and this deponent and company by reason of the<br /> leakines and insufficiencye of the said shipp were im danger<br /> of being cast away and perishinge in the sea for that the backe of the sayd<br /> shipp was soe weake that in foule weather when<br /> the after part of the sayd shipp was in the sea and raysed up agayne by<br /> the waves, and the fore parte of her was downe agayne in the sea she<br /> was soe weake and did soe buckle or bend that this deponent and companye<br /> were much afrayd that the fore part of her would<br /> have fallen awaye and that the sayd shipp would have perished in the sea<br /> and this deponent did from tyme to tyme acquainte Mr<br /> Jeremy Crewe the owner of the sayd shipp what insufficeincye he<br /> found in her every of the sayd voyages and tould him that unlesse he did bestowe some cost of her she would sinke in the sea and the sayd Crewe<br /> did continually deferr the repayrine of her untill the next winter<br /> but for all the tyme this deponent went in her the sayd Crewe bestowed<br /> noe reparations uppon her but caulkinge, for which she was little the<br /> better for when she came to sea by reason of her weaknes thta<br /> caulkinge workte out of her seames agayne,, and that after the sayd<br /> shipp had bene repayred by Bryan Kiplinge before<br /> her goeinge forth on her last voyage and was gonne downe<br /> the river of Thames soe farr as Greenewich the sayd Crewe came<br /> to this deponent and tould him<br /> that the sayd shipp was noe lower then Greenwich and that she<br /> had six or seaven foote water in her hould and desired him this deponent<br /> to goe downe to her to sea what she ayled but this deponent havinge other<br /> occasions to goe downe to her. And this deponent<br /> further sayeth that when he went in her her timbers were<br /> soe rotten that they would crumble in his hands like durt And this<br /> he affirmeth uppon his oath to be true./ John Eldred [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]e true./ John Eldred [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]  +
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