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To the first and second Interrogatoryes he … To the first and second Interrogatoryes he answereth and<br />
saith that he this Respondent well knoweth the interrogate<br />
shipp the ''Su[nne]'', having gone Masters Mate in her, a<br />
voyage before the interrate voyage to Caen, and that<br />
she was a little leaky when she went from England<br />
to Caen, which occasioned the trimming of her there at Caen,<br />
soe that she was as firme and as a tight a shipp, as<br />
a shipp could possibly be, and that they did sometime to<br />
use their pompe see if they could pompe any water<br />
out of her, and that noe water would come, And he<br />
further saith that the goods in her were all very dry and<br />
well conditioned (in all their iudgements, untill such time as she came to or neere<br />
to a place called [XXXXXXXXXX Cole]haven, about the latter end<br />
of October last past, where she mett with an extraordinary<br />
storme and tempest in her passage homeward, and that<br />
at that instant thére was an extraordinary fogg or mist<br />
and that the sayd shipp was by reason of the said storme ór<br />
tempest in very great perill or danger of perishing, and<br />
in that tempest and fogge was driven on shoare, and that by her<br />
being soe driven a shoare she became very leaky, and that<br />
then the water came into the sayd shipp amongst her goods<br />
And he answereth and saith that his conscience tells him that<br />
if the sayd tempest or storme had not befalne the sayd shipp<br />
she had brought her goods in a good and well cond[ition GUTTER]<br />
to London, that there would not have been tenn shillings<br />
damage in all to the goods, And further he knoweth<br />
not to answeare./.
To the third Interrogatory he saith that for the keeping and<br />
preserving dry the goods that had not caught wett<br />
the shipps Company was faine to runn a shoare<br />
at Blackwall, and that (as he verily beleiveth in his conscience[?) GUTTER]<br />
had she bin out a tide or two more she had sunke under the [XXX GUTTER]<br />
And further he cannot answeare./
John Downes [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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On the same day./
'''Rp. 2'''
'''William Robertson''' of Wapping in the County of<br />
Middlesex Mariner, aged about 45 yeares, a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined upon the Interrogatories in this<br />
busines ministred on the behalfe of the sayd Richard<br />
Streeth he answereth and saith as followeth
To the first and second Interrogatoryes he deposeth and<br />
saith that he well knoweth the interrate shipp the ''[?S]unne''<br />
whereof Richard Streete was Master he the Rendent<br />
being one of her Company in her interrate voyage<br />
from England to Caen and home againe, and that<br />
the sayd shipp was in her outward bound voyage<br />
and alsoe at Caen, and in her home ward bound<br />
voyage (untill her comming betwixt Lee and Tilbery<br />
hope where the tempest of storme interrate happened)<br />
af storme interrate happened)<br />
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