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in this cause and he saith that they did a … in this cause and he saith that they did all severally and<br />
respectively doe and performe their severall dutyes and<br />
services in the sayd shipp in the her sayd homeward voyage<br />
And further he cánnot depose./
To the second he deposeth that in the sayd shipp her passage<br />
from the Barbadoes on Christmas Eve last past she<br />
then being in or about the degrees of 34 and 1/2 there<br />
happened a very violent and raging storme (which continued<br />
about fower or five dayes and nights by reason of the<br />
violence and rage of which storme, and by reason of the<br />
two (sic) much weight of goods between deckes the shipps side<br />
gave way from her Gunn deck, insoemuch that in the<br />
shipps raling a man might (of this deponents sight and<br />
knowledge) thrust his hand between the deck and the shipps side<br />
and that in the said storme the sayd shipp's long boate was<br />
staved all to peices by the fury of the seas, And he<br />
saith that in that great storme the sayd shipps Company<br />
did much and often feare that she and her lading would<br />
have suncke downeright, And that they (videlicet the Mariners<br />
of the sayd shipp, all and every one of them) did use their<br />
utmost endeavours and labours in doing all that by man<br />
could be done for the preservation of her and her said<br />
lading, which by the blessing of God upon their said endeavours<br />
was effected, and that during the sayd storme the Company<br />
did continually pumpe keeping two pumpes (by turnes)<br />
constantly goinge, The premisses he deposeth for that he<br />
was during all the sayd storme aboard the sayd shipp being<br />
one of her Mariners And further he cannot depose./
To the third he deposeth that the shipp was the voyage arlate<br />
two much laden, with goods in all conscience, and that by reason<br />
of her being soe overladen, the chaine pumpe of the sayd<br />
shipp could not be made use in the [XXXXXX] predeposed of,<br />
And he alsoe saith that the long boate being rased by<br />
fury of the Seas in the storme predeposed of she had not any<br />
other boate belonging to her, And further he cannot depose.
To the fourth he deposeth that the sayd shipp did come to nigh<br />
Aberdee on or about the 18th of January 1656 about<br />
night time, and that upon the shipps arrivall there the<br />
arlate Croford and Company were altogether ignorant where<br />
they were, and that therfore by the command of the sayd Croford<br />
many Gunns were fired and shott off to have had helpe come<br />
aboard him and to have told where the sayd shipp was, and<br />
that she lay there at an anchor all that night and noe body<br />
came to helpe or receive them, And further he cannot<br />
depose.
To the fifth he deposeth that upon the 19th of January<br />
1656 the sayd shipp being at Aberdee, and it then being<br />
co[XXXX]red by the shipps Company that shee was nigh Aberdee<br />
the shipps Company did weigh the shipps anchor and by<br />
the Captains order endeavoured to steere her for London and<br />
that after the anchor was up some of˺ the shipps Company acquainted<br />
him with the great want of provisions and other necessaryes<br />
forions and other necessaryes<br />
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