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with the sayd shipp to the Barbados and th … with the sayd shipp to the Barbados and there delivered their Cattell and salt<br />
and reladed there for England and departed thense upon or about the twenty fowerth<br />
of November 1656 in Company of the arlate shipp the<br />
''Gilbert'' (the arlate Croford Master) And saith that soone after their departure thense<br />
videlicet the same night, a great storme happened by meanes whereof the mayne masts<br />
was split with many of the sayles and severall of the shrowdes broken<br />
soe that the shipp proved very leakie and her company had much a doe with<br />
two pumpes to cleere her and keepe her from sinkeing, and the sayd<br />
shippes Company seeing the leakienesse of the sayd shipp did by comand<br />
of the Master throwe over board a parcell of ffustick and alsoe stave some<br />
sugar Caske to romage and make way for the stopping of some of her leakes<br />
which notwithstanding her leakes were soe many that the shipps company<br />
were forced to pumpe continually to keepe her from sinkeing, whereupon<br />
the sayd shipps Company advised the sayd Bartlett the Master to make<br />
for the nearest Islands, there to stopp their leakes and preserve the sayd<br />
shipp and her ladeing and their lives, And the Master thereupon seeing<br />
what danger the sayd shipp was in by reason of her leakinesse<br />
want of sayles and shrowdes and other necessaries did goe with his<br />
skiff aboard the sayd Crofords shipp, but what discourse the sayd Croford<br />
and hee had hee knoweth not for that hee this deponent continued aboard,<br />
the ''Recovery'', and the sayd Bartlett after a while returned aboard his<br />
owne shipp the ''Recovery'' with a Burnett sayle which the sayd Croford<br />
had sold or lent him, and the sayd Crofords mate and Carpenter and some others<br />
of the sayd Crofords Company came abaord the ''Recovery'' with the sayd<br />
Bartlett, and at the request of the sayd<br />
and his precontest tooke a view of the sayd ''Recoveries'' Leakes which were<br />
layed open by throwing over board of the sayd ffustick, and upon view of the sayd<br />
shipp they did declare in presence and heareing of this deponent and his<br />
precontest Zachary Welch and other passengers and Company of the sayd<br />
shipp that they did heare the water come in at other leakes besides what<br />
were discovered, and that the shipp was very leakie and in their Judgment<br />
insufficient to proceede on her voyage to London without mending her<br />
leakes and repayring her mast sayles and shrowdes, and thereupon advised<br />
the sayd bartlett to beare up to some of the Leeward Islands before<br />
hee was to farr gone from them or to that effect, And the sayd Crofords<br />
men did upon the sayd view made by them give a testimony all under their<br />
hands of the insufficiencie of the sayd shipp ''Recoverie'' to proceede for<br />
London, and this deponent and the sayd Welch, and other passengers of the<br />
sayd shipp and the sayd Tawley and others of the sayd shipps Company did sett<br />
their hands as wittnesses of the sayd testimoniall, which being done the<br />
sayd Crofords men went aboard their owne shipp againe, Whereupon the<br />
sayd shipps Company seeing the leakiness of the sayd shipp ''Recoverie'' and<br />
her want of sayles and rigging did move the sayd Bartlett to make for some<br />
of the Leeward Islands according to the advice of the sayd Crofords men,<br />
whereto hee would not consent, and thereupon the company and passengers<br />
didthe company and passengers<br />
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