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HCA 13/68 +
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The fifteenth of November 1653.
On the behalfe of the State}<br />
touching the perished condition oof the}<br />
wheate aboard the ffortune'' of Stettin}
'''Rowe dt.'''
'''Robert Brathwaite''' of Southwarke aged 48 yeares or thereabouts<br />
and '''John Nutsher''' of the same place aged 55 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, sworne in Court before the right worshipfull William<br />
Clarke and John Godolphin doctors of lawes and<br />
George Cock Esquire Judges of the high Court of the<br />
Admiraltie, say and depose by vertue of their oathes.
That they theise deponents being thereto imployed by the Commissioners for<br />
prize goods wrought aboard the shipp the ''ffortune'' of Stettin then lying neare<br />
limehouse dock laden with wheate and other goods, in lighteningthe said<br />
shipp of the said goods, And this deponent Richard Brathwaite who wrought<br />
from the beginning to the ending of the said worke of delivery of the said goods<br />
deposeth that the said wheate was excessively hot and baked hard<br />
with longe lying that after they had taken off about two foote of the wheate<br />
the rest was soe hard that they were forced to loosen it with iron crowes<br />
and such like instruments, and that the heate thereof was soe greate that<br />
they could not endure their clothes on but were faine to worke<br />
naked, and further that it had taken in wet at the ballast [?port]<br />
and by meanes thereof was become soe noysome and full of stench<br />
that they could very hardly endure to worke upon it, and that<br />
through the said heate and stench the said persons that wrought there<br />
became sick and one of them named Edward Spri[?ppe] is since dead thereof<br />
and this deponent Robert Brathwaite is still ill thereof. And at the<br />
bottome upon the matts, hee saith that the same with heate was [?XX]<br />
and much other of the said wheatebr />
and much other of the said wheate +
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