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for the sayd shipp as pumpe leather and pu … for the sayd shipp as pumpe leather and pumpe<br />
boxes, and therfore entreated the sayd Croford to goe<br />
first for Milford to provide such necessaries and that<br />
then they would willingly goe for London, And he saith<br />
that the sayd Croford made answeare thereunto in this<br />
deponents hearing that a pumpe box was never made<br />
there (meaning Milford) since Christ was borne<br />
and what showld he doe there, And he deposeth that<br />
(as he beleiveth in his conscience) had the sayd shipp<br />
ventured to have gone from Aberdee to London in that<br />
said condition she then was in, she and her lading and<br />
Company would all have perisht, And further<br />
he cannot depose./
To the sixth he deposeth that when the sayd shipp was at<br />
Aberdee there were aboard her, Mariners and passengers<br />
to the number of (about) 55 persons, and that there was<br />
not then (quite) forty pounds of bread aboard the sayd<br />
shipp, and a little beefe or fish, and that in the<br />
sayd homeward bound voyage her company did indure<br />
much hard shipp and were much pinched in their<br />
allowance, and that during a great part of the sayd<br />
homeward voyage every mariner had but three pound<br />
of bread for his allowance for the whole space of<br />
tenn dayes The premisses he deposeth of his owne said<br />
knowledge being one of the sayd shipps Mariners in her<br />
homeward voyage as he hath predeposed And further he<br />
cannot depose./
To the seaventh and eighth he deposeth that whilst the sayd shipp lay at<br />
Aberdee the mariners of the shipp (gaving noe boate to goe<br />
ashoare and seeing noe helpe come notwithstanding the firing<br />
and shooting off of soe many gunns) did make first a raft<br />
or flote, wherein this deponent was one of three of the shipps Company<br />
who was to goe ashoare to looke for helpe, but that designe not<br />
taking effect, there was afterwards a boate of boards made,<br />
but there was noe use thereof, for that iust as she was<br />
finisht the shipps Company descryed (on or about the<br />
19th of January 1656) at night a boate making toward<br />
the sayd shipp, and that in the sayd boate was the arlate<br />
William Spencer a pylott, who by the order and direction<br />
of the sayd Captaine Croford did the next morning conduct and carry the<br />
sayd shipp to Pennarth, and that as soone as the sayd shipp<br />
arrived there at Pennarth the sayd Croford went ashoare<br />
there And further he cannot depose./
To the nineth he cannot depose Saving that he well knoweth that<br />
the arlate Cobb, Upson, Woodfall and Nicholls did goe<br />
ashoare at Pennarth;
To the tenth he deposeth that the shipp arlate did lye at<br />
Pennarth from about the 20th of January 1656 to the 24th<br />
day of the same month and that during all that time the<br />
sayd Croford did never come aboard her till the sayd 24th<br />
and that then he brought with him the arlate Nicholas<br />
Skidmore as Pylott, who conducted and carryed (by the order<br />
and directions of the sayd Croford) the shipp that day to Kingsroade<br />
and that the sayd shipp left behind her at Pennarth an<br />
anchorhind her at Pennarth an<br />
anchor +
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