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and deposeth that hee this deponent was on … and deposeth that hee this deponent was one of the Company of the<br />
''Anne Pinke'' of Bristoll which shipp was by the rage and violence of<br />
a great storme which happened thereto about a league off of Saint<br />
Lucar in Spaine in the moneth of January last past caste awaye And saith<br />
that hee this deponent and sixe more which were the whole company<br />
of the said shipp having preserved their lives by running the shipp as neere<br />
shoare as they could and soe getting on shoare at lowe water after they<br />
had spent three or fower dayes in lookeing after the preservation of the ladeing<br />
on board their sayd shipp and had as well as they could preserved the same<br />
came to Saint Lucar, where at their coming they found the arlate shipp<br />
the ''John and Elizabeth'' then lying in the harbour at Saint Lucar and<br />
saith her Midshipp was then broken downe soe low as to the water,<br />
and her Mizen Mast and boltspritt spent and lost, and shee had<br />
alsoe lost her mayne Mast, as it appeareth and gotten a new one sett<br />
up after her comming to Saint Lucar, all which dammage happened as this<br />
deponent hath credibly heard at Saint Lucar by the common reporte of<br />
Merchants and Sea men there, and alsoe of the English Consull then<br />
resident there by reason of an extraordinary storme<br />
which the sayd shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' mett with at sea before<br />
her comming to Saint Lucar and by reason that a certaine shipp which was<br />
in company with her in the sayd storme called the ''Supply'' (whereof<br />
as this deponent hath heard the arlate fflute was Master) was forced fowle<br />
and did fall fowle of the sayd shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' and thereby broake<br />
her Midshipp in manner as this deponent sawe at Saint Lucar and brake thereby alsoe her mayne mast downe and her mizen mast and bolsprit<br />
And saith hee alsoe heard by the like reporte and fame that the company of the sayd<br />
shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' seeing her soe greatly endamaged and the storme still<br />
continueing and they being out of hope ever to bring her safe to any port did all<br />
of them except the arlate Keene the master of her and one man more and a boy<br />
forsake the sayd shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' and get on board and goe away with the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Supply'', and left the ''John and Elizabeth'' to the mercie of the<br />
sea, and this deponent knoweth they came noe more on board her for that<br />
hee this deponent was one who helped to sayle her from Saint Lucar to London<br />
after shee was repayred, And alsoe saith that by like report hee alsoe heard<br />
that after her company had soe forsaken her the ''John and Elizabeth'' shee laye beating<br />
up and downe the sea without mast or sayle to helpe her and noe more persons on<br />
board her save the sayd Keene and a man and a boy, soe that shee could not<br />
possibly in that condition reach the Canaryes arlate or any other port but<br />
what it should please God to drive her unto, which happened to be the Port<br />
of Saint Lucar aforesayd where this deponent sawe her in the tattered condition<br />
before expressed, And hath heard by like reporte that shee there arrived about sixteene dayes<br />
after shee had bin damnified in manner aforesayd by the sayd shipp the<br />
''Supplyes'' falling fowle upon herr and by the violence of the sayd storme and<br />
further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the sixth article hee saith hee hath heard and beleeveth the sayd Edward Keene did cause beleeveth the sayd Edward Keene did cause +
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