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of such their delivery to them, untill the … of such their delivery to them, untill they come to the Port of their discharge<br />
And that if the sayd Master and Company rafte the sayd wines soe delivered to<br />
them, if any of them perish by casualty of the seas by breaking loose or the<br />
like casualty soe that they come not safe on shipp board the Master and<br />
Company and Owners of the sayd shipp are to runne the risk[?s] and hazard<br />
of the sayd wines and to make them good to the partie upon whose Accompt<br />
they receaved them, And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 7th 8th and 9th articles hee cannot depose
To the 10th saving his foregoeing deposition to the 6th article of the sayd<br />
allegation to which hee referreth hee cannot depose/
To the 11th article hee saith hee knoweth that the usuall price of a butt of the<br />
best Mallega wines in the yeare 1655 was and is five and or sixe and twenty<br />
pounds sterling And further hee cannot depose/
To the 12th hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
Repreated before doctor Godolphin with his precontest./
John Wiggott{?s} [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 22th day of March 1655.
A Busines of Examination of witnesses}<br />
touching certayne stormes which happe=}<br />
ned to the shipp called the ''Susan''}<br />
''and Anne'' of which George Boys}<br />
is Commander in her late voyage from}<br />
the Barbathoes to this Port of London}<br />
promoted by Captaine Edmund Ellison}<br />
Owner of the sayd shipp against George}<br />
Pa[?t]hfeild, Marke Mortimer and Mathew}<br />
Goodfellow and others the freighters of}<br />
the sayd shipp. Suckly, Smith. Watson}
Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe of the<br />
sayd Captaine Ellison
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Stephen Allen''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner late Masters mate of the sayd shipp ''Susan and''<br />
''Anne'', aged twenty six yeares or thereabouts a witnes<br />
sworne and examined deposeth and saith as followeth<br />
videlicet.
To the first Article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the arlate shipp the<br />
''Susan and Anne'' whereof George Boys was Commander did sett sayle from<br />
the Island of Barbathoes with her lading of sugars in the month of August<br />
1655, and that upon or about the six and twentyeth day of the sayd month shee<br />
mett with a most violent storme and tempest called an Hurricano which did<br />
continue in great extremity for the space of eight and forty howres or<br />
thereabouts, And by reason of the violence and such continuance of the sayd<br />
storme the Master and Mariners of the sayd shipp were constrained to cut<br />
downe and did ćutt downe their mainmast and did cutt<br />
a hole in the gunn deck to lett the water (which was receyved in great<br />
quantities by the fury of the sayd storme betwixt the decks) into the [XXX]<br />
so that it might come to the pumpes, for the necessary preservation<br />
of the sayd shipp and goods, and their owne lives, and were necessitated<br />
to repair to the island of Bermudas and there furnish the sayd shipp<br />
with such tackle and furniture as she had then lost by reason of the<br />
sayd storme, and as shee then stood in need of to enable her to proc[?eed]<br />
[XX] enable her to proc[?eed]<br />
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