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knoweth that the sayd Allen and Peneston d … knoweth that the sayd Allen and Peneston did as Owners of the sayd shipp<br />
at Gravesend before her setting sayle from thense on the voyage in question<br />
pay this deponent and others of the sayd shipps company their halfe pay due to them from<br />
the tyme of their first being shipped for the sayd voyage till then, And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
Josiah Elfreth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation/
'''dt. 5us'''
'''William Pethebridge''' of Ratcliff in the parish of<br />
Stepney and county of Middlesex Mariner Masters Mate<br />
of the shipp the ''King of Poland'' aged forty five yeares or<br />
thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined, saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first and second articles of the sayd allogation hee saith the arlate shipp the ''King''<br />
''of Poland'' lay in the Moneth of June 1655 at the Bermudas and then and<br />
there tooke in divers hogsheads chests butts and barrells of Tobaccoes to a<br />
good quantitie which she was to carrie thense to Virginia, and there take<br />
in other tobaccoes and returne with both the sayd tobaccoes videlicet that laden at<br />
Bermudas and that laden at Virginia to London and there unlade and<br />
deliver them both, and saith the sayd shipp having taken in the sayd Tobaccoe<br />
at Bermudas went with the same to Virginia and arrived there the third of<br />
July 1655 and lay in the River of Nansemum in Virginia for severall<br />
moneths after and that there were there laden aboard the sayd shipp<br />
in the moneths of October November december<br />
and January 1655 severall other quantities of tobaccoe amounting to a<br />
great quantitie, to be alsoe delivered with that taken in at Bermudas at<br />
London, the port of her discharge thereof, but for whose account or by whose<br />
order the sayd Tobaccoes or any of it was laden<br />
or to whome consigned at London hee knoweth not And further to<br />
those articles hee cannot depose./
To the 3: 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br />
the sayd shipp having taken in her sayd ladeing of Tobaccoe at Virginia<br />
departed with that and the other Tobaccoe taken in at Bermudas, and sett<br />
sayle from James River in Virginia therewith bound for London upon the<br />
twenty seaventh day of January 1655 English style, and saith that about<br />
fower or five dayes after such her setting sayle out of James River videlicet upon<br />
the first of ffebruary last in the morning the sayd shipp then being about<br />
nynety leagues to the Eastward of Virginia and about the latitude of<br />
37 degrees and a halfe and the winde then blowing at North North west there<br />
happened a very violent tempest which continued for the space<br />
of fower or five dayes with great violence, and by the force thereof<br />
drove into the sayd shipp great Seas which raked her fore and aft<br />
and splitt or staved her longe boate and brake downe the sayd shipps<br />
wasts and some of her tymbers for that the water rann unavoidably<br />
(the decks during the sayd storme being never cleere of water) into the<br />
holdcleere of water) into the<br />
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