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The xijth day of March <u>1655.</ … The xijth day of March <u>1655.</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation.
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'''Gabriel Smell''' of Lubeck Mariner late Steersman of the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Hope'' aged thirty yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne ánd<br />
examined saith as followeth.
To the first and second Articles of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith, that about the tyme<br />
arlate there were laden on board the sayd shipp the ''Hope'' att Quinsburgh arlate<br />
two and thirty bundles of hempe, one hundred of wainscott, one hundred<br />
of pipe=boards, five hundred and one halfe of Clapboard, twelve hundred and<br />
an halfe keeven staves, keepe pipe staves and three hundred and<br />
an half of Oares, all to be transported to London for severall English<br />
merchants att a freight agreed by their Correspondents or factors<br />
at Quinsbourgh, The Premisses he came to know being Steersman of the sayd<br />
shipp this voyage. And further he cannot depose.
To the 3rd. 4th and 5th Interrogatories he saith That the sayd shipp the [#]
[LH MARGIN] [#] [XXXXX was a strong<br />
[and well provided]<br />
[GUTTER XXXXX cables<br />
[GUTTER XXXX and tackle<br />
[GUTTER XXXX XXXXX<br />
[GUTTER XXX And]<br />
[GUTTER XX XXXX] [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
departed with her sayd lading<br />
from the [?Pilloa] soone after the beginning of September, and mett with excee=<br />
ding bad weather and Crosse winds in the East sea which continued many dayes<br />
and was often tempestuous so as in one storme the sayd shipp tooke in much water lost her foresayles<br />
and was driven many leagues backward out of her Course, but came att last<br />
to the Sondt of denmarke and there by reason of Crosse winds stayd about<br />
eight dayes, And then departed from thence. which he knoweth being Steirs=<br />
man of the sayd shipp as aforesayd.
To the 6. 7. and 8th. articles. he saith that within two or three dayes after the Hopes<br />
departure from the Sondt aforesayd she mett with a most feirce and violent storme<br />
the wind blowing from about the Northwest poynt, wherein she was in exceeding<br />
great danger of perishing with he lading. the winds being so high that shee<br />
could beare noe sayle but her maine sayle, which was let downe very low. the<br />
sayd storme he saith began in an afternoone and continued to the next day<br />
and drawe the sayd shipp neere the Holmes not far from Jutland, and there<br />
the water being about twelve fatham two anchors were cast out but could not gett<br />
noe fast hold so as the Master of the sayd shipp Martyn Barnhide and Company<br />
for preserving the sayd shipp and her lading did necessarily resolve and did<br />
cutt downe the mainmast which with the yards sayles and tackle were by the<br />
violence of the wind borne overboard and were lost in the sea, And the next<br />
day after midday the wind changing and coming about thhe Southwest poynt<br />
The sayd Barnhide and Company for preservation of the sayd shipp and<br />
her lading were constrayned to cutt one of their cables, and as they endeavoured<br />
to weigh upp one of their anchors the same broke in peices, so as both the sayd<br />
Anchors were lost. onely he saith a peice of one anchor was recovered. And<br />
then the sayd shipp sett sayle for the Coast of Norway and was att last through much<br />
danger conducted by a ffisherman (whom by chance she mett with) into Gusthaven<br />
arlate. And he moreover saith that by credible report which hee then heard in<br />
Norway many shipps perished in the sayd storme, and so in all probability the<br />
''Hope'' and her lading had done if she had not bene a very strong shipp or in case<br />
the Master and Company of her had not used their utmost industry to preserve her, which<br />
he saith they did as farr as was possible for men to doe. And saith allso that<br />
the sayd mast was cutt and sayd sayles yards ropes and tackle lost, and the sayd anchor<br />
and halfe and halfe cable likewise for preserving of the sayd shipp and lading.<br />
the value of which things so lost he conceyveth to be about four hundred and<br />
thirty dollers, and also beleiveth that the goods being so preserved ought to contribute<br />
towards the sayd losse. And otherwise he cannot depose saving that in the sayd<br />
storme the sayd shipp receyved great quantities of water into her.
Toed great quantities of water into her.
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