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to redeliver it untill the next day, at wh … to redeliver it untill the next day, at which time this<br />
deponent againe required him to be examined, but the said Rand denied to bee<br />
examined, and told this deponent that hee this deponent had noe<br />
power to examine him, albeit that in reading the said Commission<br />
hee sawe and found that this deponent was one of the Commissioners.
Rob:tt Church [?Junior] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The eighth of January 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Percivall Gilbert of}<br />
Cowes merchant touching a losse in the}<br />
''John'' of Cowes (John Titley master).}
'''Rp. .1.'''
'''George Bascum''' of Poole in the County of<br />
dorset Mariner, aged 29 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne before the right worshipfull<br />
John Godolphin doctor of lawes Judge<br />
of the high Court of the Admiraltie and<br />
examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred<br />
on the behalfe of said Percivall Gilbert saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knew and was one of the company of the ''John'' of Cowes<br />
whereof the said John Titley was master in her last voyage to the<br />
Barbada's wherein shee was cast away; and saith that shee proceeded<br />
on the said voyage from the Cowes on or about the fifteenth day of<br />
the moneth of March last past was a twelve moneth, which hee<br />
knoweth going in her and being one of her foremast men in the said<br />
trading voyage.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that the said shipp the said voyage<br />
safely arrived at the Barbada's in or about the beginning of the<br />
moneth of May 1653 and continued there till the beginning (or thereabouts) of the<br />
moneth of July next following in and during which space there were<br />
of his sight and knowledge diverse caskes of sugar there laden aboard her<br />
to the accompt of the producent Percivall Gilbert, and had<br />
undoubtedly bin laden if shee had continued in safetie, and had not<br />
bin cast away as hereafter followeth, all which hee knoweth for the<br />
reasons aforesaid.
To the third hee saith that whilest the said shipp soe lay and<br />
continued at the Barbada's, namely on or about the second day of<br />
July 1653 there happened a most violent and tempestuous storme<br />
commonly there called a hurricane, soe furious as that the<br />
people that had dwelt there many yeares generally affirmed that they<br />
had bever seene or knowne the like before, by the extremitie whereof<br />
the said shipp the ''John'' together with all the sugars (to the quantitie<br />
of tenn tonnes of sugar or thereabouts) that were aboard her as alsoe<br />
eight puncheons of brandewine and three tonnes of beer, were<br />
driven ashore and utterly lost and cast away, the shipp being<br />
splitt in peeces, soe that this deponent and others of her company<br />
had much adoe to save their lives by getting ashore in their boate.ir lives by getting ashore in their boate. +
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