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Mariner Masters Mate of the ''Samuell'' ag … Mariner Masters Mate of the ''Samuell'' aged forty<br />
two yeares or therabouts a wittnes sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet:
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that the articulate William Lee with the shipp the ''Samuell'' and the<br />
articulate William Otter with the shipp the ''Providence'' came in Company<br />
together upon the fifth day of September 1656 from Newcastle and being<br />
to the Northwards of Scarborough Castle, and the winde being then contrary<br />
at south, upon the sixth of the sayd moneth the ''Samuell'' stood off, and the<br />
''Providence'' stood in, and soe came neere one the other, whereupon the<br />
sayd Otter or some of his Company both called out, and alsoe waved<br />
to the Company of the ''Samuell'' to beare up, whereupon<br />
the sayd Lee in order to doe as the sayd Otter desyred and to avoide<br />
all danger which afterwards ensued, did accordingly cause John<br />
deane the Carpenter who was then at the helme of the ''Samuell'' to beare<br />
up the helme, and cause his Company of the ''Samuell'' to brace the mayne<br />
sayle and mayne topsayle in the winde, and brayle up the mizen and<br />
used all meanes possible to goe to the Lee ward of the ''Providence''<br />
and to gett cleere of her and to prevent any doeing any<br />
dammage to, or receaveing any dammage from the sayd Otters shipp,<br />
But the sayd Otter notwithstanding hee or his companie had both called to and waved<br />
to the Company of the ''Samuell'' as aforesayd, did not use any meanes<br />
either by putting his shipp ''Providence'' on the stayes or otherwise from<br />
to prevente her comming fowle of the ''Samuell'' but being to<br />
the weather of the ''Samuell'', came with full sayle and [?rane]<br />
stemmelings aboard her, and with the force thereof brake downe the<br />
''Samuells'' heads, and carried away about twenty foote of her stearne<br />
and brake downe her forecastle and three beames of her upper deck,<br />
and carried away a peece of planke of about two foote longe under<br />
her fore channell, and soe dammnified the ''Samuell'' that this deponent<br />
and others of her Company by reason of her leakinesse occasioned<br />
by the meanes aforesayd, did verily thinke that shee would presently<br />
have foundered in the sea and bin lost both shee and her ladeing<br />
of Coales and that all her Company could alsoe have perished<br />
thereby, and one who was a passenger aboard the ''Samuell'' seeing<br />
the danger shee was in and being doubtfull to perish in her, gott out of<br />
her aboard the ''Providence'', and this deponent seeing the danger the<br />
''Samuell'' was in, did call out to the Company of the ''Providence'' and<br />
desyre them to staye till the ''Samuells'' Company could gett their boats<br />
out to gett aboard the ''Providence'', but the ''Providence'' her Master and<br />
Company tooke noe care for preserveing any of the ''Samuells'' Company<br />
but filled their sayles and stood away to sea from them and left<br />
them to the mercie of the sea, and the sayd Passenger comming afterwards<br />
againe aboard the ''Samuell'' after after shee gott into Scarborough (whether shee<br />
gottScarborough (whether shee<br />
gott +
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