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said shipp then heaved and sent above five … said shipp then heaved and sent above five foot high, soe as her boate<br />
was not able to lie by her side, and by meanes of the said fowle<br />
weather and violense of the sea, after all the care, labour and<br />
industrie of the company (which hee saith they improved to the utmost)<br />
hee the said ropes breaking the said wines sunck and were lost<br />
all saving one butt, for the recovery of which wines soe sunck<br />
hee saith the company used all diligence with creeping, grapnells<br />
and sweeping with roapes, but could not recover any of them.<br />
The premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge. And<br />
cannot otherwise depose.
To the seaventh hee saith the said Robert Whitby himselfe bought the<br />
ropes wherewith the said wines were strung and rafted of this deponents<br />
sight and knowledge, this deponent waiting on him therein, and carrying<br />
the said ropes (after mr whitby had bought them) to the water side: and<br />
saith the sad ropes were broken with the extraordinary roughnesse<br />
and violense of the sea, and saith the said wines were lost by being<br />
carried in such rough and tempestuous weather (which was donne in<br />
obediense to mr whitbys command) and not by any default or<br />
neglect of or in the shipps company, who hee saith used their utmost<br />
diligence and endeavour for the preservation thereof.
To the eighth hee saith that the sea comming in soe fast and<br />
running soe high the said afternoone, it was noe way fit to goe<br />
off with any wines, insoemuch that other merchants who had laded<br />
wines in the morning and had more to lade aboard other shipps,<br />
(as the ''Olive branch'' arlate and others) commanded the boates to goe<br />
and retourne that afternoone aboard their severall shipps without<br />
carrying any wines, in regard of the impetuousnesse of the seas and<br />
and danger of carrying any aboard. All which hee knoweth being<br />
present and taking notice of the premisses. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose, saving as aforesaid.
Upon the rest hee is not exámined by direction of the producent.
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin./
The marke of [MARKE] John hartford [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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On the 14th of ffebruary 1655.<br />
upon the fore said allegation.
'''Rp. 3'''
'''John Page''' of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen<br />
Bermondsey in the County of Surry Mariner, aged about<br />
36 yeares, being sworne and examined.
To the fifth article of the said allegation he deposeth and saith that he<br />
the deponent was one of the arlate shipp the ''ffreindshipp'' her Company<br />
in the voyage arlate to Malligoe, and that she did come to an anchor<br />
in Malligoe road about three miles distant from the Port out of<br />
command of the Artillery and that upon the five and twentith day<br />
of October 1655 about sixe in the morning the arlate Barnaby houlding the Master of the<br />
said shipp did send the boate of the said shipp by the order of the<br />
arlate Mr Robert Whitby ashoare well manned to have brought<br />
off to the sayd shipp a raft of wines, and he saith that the weather<br />
was he saith that the weather<br />
was +
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