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3rd March 1637.
Pro nave the ''Suzan and} … 3rd March 1637.
Pro nave the ''Suzan and}<br />
''marye''.}
'''det Wannerton.'''
'''William Thorpe''' of the parish of Saint Leonards Shoreditch London Barber chiurgeon<br />
aged about 33 yeares sworne before the worshoipfull William Sames Doctor of Lawes<br />
Surrogate to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knight Judge of his Majestyes<br />
High Court of the Admiraltye sayeth and deposeth uppon his oath as followeth videlicet
That uppon the two and twentith day of December last past the shipp<br />
called the ''Suzan and Mary'' of London (wherof William Hunt was master) sett sayle<br />
from the Barbadoes bound for Ireland , and about the latter<br />
end of the moneth of Januarye last, arrived uppon the coast of Ireland,<br />
where she mett with a great storme and foggye weather, and being within sighte<br />
of the land, the said William Hunt and his company fearinge that the sayd<br />
shipp would oversett or be driven on shoare by the violence of the sayd storme<br />
were inforced (for the preservation of the sayd shipp and goods<br />
and their owne lyves) to cutt the Mayne mast by the borde, and afterwards<br />
the sayd Hunt and company broughte her to an anchor neere he river of<br />
Valentia, and the foresayd storme still continueinge, [?gauled]<br />
one of her Cables very much, and then they<br />
fearinge least by the violence of the sayd storme<br />
her Cables would be frett in peeces or broken, and that the sayd shipp would<br />
be driven uppon the rocks, they fastened peeces of a mast for buoyes to their<br />
Cables, and then cutt her Cables and runne with the sayd shipp in betweene<br />
two rocks and there came to an anchor hopinge to be freer from the violence of the sayd storme<br />
and there the rudder of the sayd shippe strooke and her tiller broke in peeces<br />
and then the master sent his shallopp on shoare to gett a pilott to bringe the<br />
sayd shipp into some safe harbour, and there came fower or five Irishmen<br />
abord her, and those Irishmen would have had the sayd Hunt the master<br />
to have lett slipp his cable and anchor by which she then roade, and soe<br />
have sayled into the river of Valentia but the sayd Hunt being unwillinge<br />
to loose the sayd Cable and anchor would not let it slipp but commannded his<br />
company to weigh it which was donne accordingly and presently after the<br />
weighinge of that anchor, the gunners buoy goeinge downe into the<br />
hould to drawe a Cann of beveridge he came up and cryed out<br />
that the hould was halfe full of water, and thereupon the sayd Hunt to keepe<br />
the sayd shipp from goeinge out into deeper water, caused an<br />
anchor to be lett fall agayne, and then veered out her cable, and soe ran<br />
the sayd shipp on shoare, and then one of the Irishmen went up to the foretopp<br />
and cryed out aloud for boats and presently there were boats come aboard her<br />
and saved all the company and the masters chests and some of the companyes cloathes<br />
and caryed them on shoare, and the same day after they were gonne on shoare,<br />
the sayd shipp was full of water which covered all her upper decks and went<br />
into the rounde house, and after she was soe suncke the sayd Hunt with the<br />
helpe of his owne company and of some men and boats which he had from the shoare<br />
saved twelve peeces of her ordenance) and one Cable and anchor, and a kedge<br />
anchor, and one suite of sayles, and about fiftye rolls of tobaccoe , and<br />
a boate loade of Cotton wooll, which beinge wett was little worth and all the musketts<br />
and shott, and most f the swords belonginge to the sayd shipp, and some part<br />
of the rigginge, and masts and yards andwere endeavouringe to gett out of her two or three other peeces of ordenance [?when/?within] this And he alsoe sayeth that there were in<br />
the sayd shipp when she was cast awaye, (by the report of John Abbott, one<br />
of the masters mates) about two thousand weight of Cotton wooll<br />
and a certayne quantitye of tobaccoe, which the master intended t have sould in Galloway or<br />
Kingsale or some other port of Ireland, and with the proceed thereof to have<br />
revictualled the sayd shipp and taken in passengers there, and soe to have<br />
returned to the Barbadoes before the next Cropp which his intention he made<br />
knowne to many of his company annd to the planters uppon the sayd Island before he sett<br />
sayle from there for Ireland./ The premisses he knoweth to be true beinge Chirurgeons<br />
mate of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage
William Thorpe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]oyage
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