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To the fifth hee saith the said shipp and … To the fifth hee saith the said shipp and persons were at Marseille about<br />
6 weekes before the buying and landing the said goods, and otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
To the 6 negatively.
To the 7 hee saith the said sope is of the make of Marseille, and<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 8 hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the 9th hee saith the master had papers aboard, but what became<br />
of hee knoweth not, nor doth hee knowe of any burnt or made<br />
away or hidd. And otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the tenth hee saith that the papers nowe showne unto him are the<br />
dispatches and papers of the said shipp, and were as hee believeth aboard<br />
the said shipp at the time of the said seizure. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
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Repeated before with his precontest before doctor Godolphin./
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The 22th of Septemnber 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of the foresaid Thomas}<br />
Partridge touching a losse in the}<br />
''Adventure''.}
'''Rp. 2dus.'''
'''Phillip Lawne''' of Severne in Suffolke<br />
Sailer, aged nineteene yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne before the right Worshippfull John<br />
Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the<br />
Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
and examined upon the foresaid Interrogatories<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth.
To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith hee well knew and was one<br />
of the Companie of the shipp the ''Adventure'' interrogated, and knew<br />
her for the space of tweo monethes before her casting away hereafter<br />
mentioned. And saith that after Thomas Partridge last her the voyage<br />
in question, his brother in law William Leatherman went master of her<br />
and saith that a fitt of sicknesse tooke the said Thomas at hull which<br />
caused alsoe a lamenesse in one of his leggs, whereby hee was utterly<br />
disabled to proceede thence in the said shipp and was forced to stay there<br />
and to put his said brother master of her in his place, his said brother<br />
being before his mate, which this deponent knoweth for that hee<br />
was one of the shipps company as aforesaid and present in her at<br />
hull and afterwards to the time of her casting away
To the third fourth and fifth hee saith the said shipp went from hull to<br />
Rotterdam, and thence was bound and going for hartlepoole, and that<br />
in her passage from Rotterdam shee sprunge soe incurable a leake<br />
that albeit shee was plied with three pumpes eight and fourtie houres together<br />
by which her men were soe spent and tired that they were readie to dropp<br />
downehey were readie to dropp<br />
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