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all which hee knoweth to be true because h … all which hee knoweth to be true because hee this deponent was master of the<br />
said shipp and hath soe bin for soe long time as aforesaid, and for theise [?foure GUTTER]<br />
yeares last hath from time to time made account to the said owners for the said<br />
shipps freight and earnings, and they as owners have from time to time fitted<br />
and set her out. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that in or about the moneth<br />
of August last past, there were at Quinsborough aforesaid laden aboard<br />
the said shipp by Jospeh [?Wimt] and daniell Collins for the accompt of the arlate harrison<br />
harrington and other English merchants the severall and respective hemp<br />
pipe staves, oares, clapboards and caske staves (mentioned in the foure<br />
schedules or bills of lading arlate nowe showne unto him to be transported in the said shipp to<br />
this port of London and here to be delivered according to the said bills,<br />
whicjh bills hee saith were and are true and reall and subscribed by this<br />
deponent Master of the said shipp, before her departure from Quinsborough,<br />
The premisses touching the said lading hee well knoweth because hee<br />
was master as aforesaid and privie to the same. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the third hee saith that the said shipp the ''hope'' in her course the<br />
said voyage for London coming off harwich, was putting in thither to<br />
looke for Convoy; and met with the ''hare pinck'' arlate of which<br />
Captaine [?Crannawell] was commannder being a man of warr of<br />
this Commonwealth, and the said Captaine haling this deponent and<br />
understanding by him that hee was going to looke for Convoy, told him<br />
that hee was a Convoy, and was going to Convoy shipps for London<br />
and offered to Convoy the ''hope'' alsoe<br />
whereunto this deponent condescended, and soe they shortly set saile<br />
together for London, in company of a ketch of harwich and a<br />
dutch [?huoy] on or about the 14th of december last, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that the same day after such their setting saile<br />
from harwich being in their course for london, they by casualtie ran upon a sand in<br />
the sea called the Middle Grounds, where the ''hare pinck'', the ''Hope''<br />
and the hoy sate fast, and the ''hare Pinck'' soone stved in peeces<br />
and severall of her company getting out into her boate came and<br />
assaulted this deponent and some of his company in their boate wherein<br />
they were feeling and searching to get off their shipp, and endeavoured<br />
to take their boate from them by force, and foure of them got into<br />
the ''Hopes'' boate, and the rest being put off they rowed towards their<br />
said Pinke, and this deponent going into his shipp and praying those foure that were got<br />
into her boate to come over into the shipp and help to pumpe her they answered<br />
noe, come you into the boate and let us goe ashore for else those other<br />
of our fellowes of the ''hare Pinck'' will retourne with [?armes] [?or]<br />
more strength and take the bpate away, whereupon this deponent<br />
and all his company went ito the boate and rowed ashore meaning there<br />
to rowed ashore meaning there<br />
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