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and hee saith that the sayd Masts boate An … and hee saith that the sayd Masts boate Anchors and other tackle and<br />
furniture soe cutt away for preservation of the sayd shipp and ladeing were<br />
in this deponents Judgment and estimate worth two hundred pounds sterling<br />
at the least And further to these Interrogatories hee cannot depose/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that of his this deponents sight and knowledge<br />
the bulke heads of the sayd shipp after the sayd storme was past and at their<br />
being in harbour at Plymouth were stronge and sufficient And this<br />
deponent there sawe one Jones a Shipp Carpenter and two or three more<br />
come aboard the sayd shipp and this deponent went downe with them into<br />
the hold and sawe them view her bulkeheads and heard them saye and<br />
declare that the sayd shipp before the sayd storme was a stronge tight<br />
and sufficeint shipp, and that there was while the sayd shipp lay in<br />
the downes before her goeing forth thence on the sayd voyage very good<br />
tarrpaulings laid and nayled round the hatches with hoopes to fasten<br />
the nayles through and knoweth that good dennage of matts and<br />
woods was provided and used at the stowing of the sayd shipps ladeing, and<br />
all care taken by the master and company of the sayd shipp that could<br />
bee that the sayd goods and ladeing of her might bee preserved from<br />
dammage, soe that hee is thereby well assured that what dammage is<br />
happened to the sayd goods happened to them in the sayd storme and by meanes<br />
thereof and not before And further to this Interrogatorie hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth the Interrate Mathew Plowman<br />
and saith hee well observed that the sayd Plowman having bin ill for<br />
some dayes before did keepe his cabbin in the tyme of the storme<br />
aforesayd and as hee beleeveth till after the mayne mast and shrowdes were cutt downe<br />
and the Anchors cut away, for that this deponent being constantly upon the deck<br />
did not see him till after that, and saith that after that, a sea breakeing into<br />
the sayd shipp and running into the sayd Plowmans Cabbin the sayd<br />
Plowman thereupon came out of his cabbin and stood in the steereage and there<br />
stayed a while, and thence went into the round house and saith that the sayd<br />
Plowman while hee continued in his sayd Cabbin could not see what<br />
any of the shipps company were doeing without, because the Cabbin bulke<br />
heads and the steereage bulke heads were betweene them and the deck soe<br />
that hee could not see what was done And further to this<br />
Interrogatorie hee cannot depose/
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Repeated before doctor Godolphin<br />
the marke of the sayd<br />
Robert '''Rc''' [HIS MARKE] Catmar [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./
Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories/
'''XX Smith'''
'''4us'''
'''William Wade''' of the parish of Saint Katherine neere<br />
the Tower London Mariner Cooke of the shipp the<br />
''Saphir'' aged 48 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlict./
To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth<br />
thates hee saith and deposeth<br />
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