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being as aforesaid fitted and putt into th … being as aforesaid fitted and putt into the said shipp, the said shipp the<br />
''Mayflower'' did the second time about the latter end of the said moneth<br />
of November fall fowle of the said vessell the ''Margaret'', and againe<br />
cracked the said boltspritt, insomuch that it was in the Judgement<br />
of an experienced Mast-maker found insufficient for a voyage, and<br />
thereupon the said foxe the Master caused the same to be repaired<br />
and strengthened with fitches bound about with roapes and cordage<br />
thereby to make it serviceable for the intended imployment and being at sea<br />
the said ffox and Companie were afterwards necessitated to alter the<br />
same and fitch it anew, and in that condition with great difficulty and<br />
danger arrived at Virginia, where the said bruised or crackt<br />
boltspritt was taken out, and a new one putt in the said shipp, And<br />
this deponent in Conscience beleeveth, and to the best of his Judgement doeth<br />
estimate that the said Crandley and Companie for the hoisting out of<br />
the first boltspirtt, placeing in the second, and repaireing and fitching<br />
of it when it was crackt, putting in a new one at Virginia, and<br />
rigging and unrigging of the same did really expend and pay to<br />
the valew of about six or seven and twentie pounds sterling, And for<br />
lesse hee beleeveth they could not procure the same. The premisses hee<br />
declareth upon the grounds aforesaid, And otherwise cannot depose:-
To the seaventh hee saith hee knoweth not whether the said shipp the<br />
''Margaret'' were retarded here in England from her intended voyage<br />
aforesaid by meanes of the dammages sustained as is predeposed, or what<br />
losse they sustained thereby, Onely hee saith, That being to come from<br />
Virginia, they were retarded from their intended homewards voyage<br />
for about five or six daies for and about the procuring of a new boltspritt<br />
by which meanes this deponent beleeveth the Owners suffered some dammage<br />
but to what valew hee cannot estimate, And further cannot depose
To the 8th hee referreth himselfe to the Acts of this Court, And further<br />
cannot depose.
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true:-/
Repeated with his precontest before<br />
doctor Clerke and doctor Godolphin.
Richard Simons [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]phin.
Richard Simons [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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