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On the 19th of October 1657.
James Smith … On the 19th of October 1657.
James Smith against a certaine}<br />
shipp called the ''Recovery'' of}<br />
Bristoll (wherof the sayd Smith}<br />
was Master) and against Nicholas}<br />
Tilley Lewes Dighton and}<br />
Company etcetera}<br />
ffrancklin Smith}
'''Thomas Burton''' of Passage nigh<br />
Waterford in Ireland Merchant, aged<br />
about 54 yeares a wittnes produced<br />
sworne and examined deposeth as followeth<br />
videlicet./
To the first, second, third and fourth articles of the<br />
said allegation he knoweth not to depose, for that he<br />
came not into the sayd shipp untill November 1656<br />
at Spire=bay in the Barbadoes./
To the fifth and sixth articles of the sayd allegation he<br />
deposeth and saith that the arlate shipp the ''Recovery''<br />
of Bristoll departed from the Barbadoes with her<br />
lading about the 14th of November 1656, she being then<br />
bound first for kingsale and for then for Bristoll<br />
and that in her said passage about the latter end<br />
of December last past, she mett with an extreame<br />
violent and tempestuous storme, which continued many<br />
days, The greatest and worst of stormes that he the<br />
deponent was ever in, who hath used the Seas nigh<br />
on about 34 yeares, and he saith that in and by the<br />
violence and fury of the sayd storme all the sayles<br />
were blowne away, soe that there was noe meanes left<br />
to keepe the shipp before the wind for her preservation<br />
and she then laying under the Sea receaved such an abundance<br />
of water that (as the Mate sayd) she was about fower<br />
foote water in the hold, and the pumpe of the sayd shipp<br />
was altogether unserviceably by reason of her inward<br />
rotteness, And that in such this extremity noe way<br />
or meanes was though fitter for the preservation of all<br />
but the cutting of the maine Mast by the board, which<br />
was done accordingly, and that afterwards the shipp<br />
did stresse before the wind with her ffore=mast, and<br />
receved lesse water in than before, But he saith that<br />
there was soe much water in her which the pumpe could<br />
not gett out, that the sayd shipps Company were<br />
forced to cutt a hole under the halfe decke, and [XXXXXXX]<br />
draw the water out of the hold with bucketts, and he saith that<br />
about the drawing of the water in that manner all the<br />
shipps Company were imployed saving the Master and<br />
Mate, who were with this deponent sufficiently busyed<br />
and imployed in the stearing and [XXX]ing the sayd shipp. and reparing<br />
some sayle, And he further deposeth that after a days<br />
time or therabout some sayle was made and sett upon<br />
theyle was made and sett upon<br />
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