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way, And thereupon the Master and Company … way, And thereupon the Master and Company of the said<br />
ship were foreced to hand their foreCourse; or foresaile, and<br />
lye under a mizen. and whilest shee soe lay. the said shipps<br />
Tiller was broken by the violence of the said Storme, and did<br />
much endanger the looseing of the Rudder and sterne poast<br />
of the said ship, and saith that at the helme Port where<br />
her Tiller was broken the said ship receaved much water<br />
in her hold, And the said very Violent Storme; not abating<br />
the said ships missen sail, was by the Violence there of<br />
splitt and Torne; and blowne away, and after it was blowne<br />
away, the said ship was by<br />
the force and Violence of the said Storme, forced to lye<br />
broad off, to the sea, and by that meanes, shipped a greate<br />
sea, which washed her boate and skiffe. to Leeward<br />
and washed her sheat Anchor over board, and it, hanging<br />
to the Rope to which it was fastened, and the said ship Roling<br />
two and againe the said Anchor bilged a hole in the side of the<br />
said ship just by her Lough, through which. And other places<br />
and Croses: there ranne much Water in hold; soe that<br />
her hold, had and receaved in a short space some four and a<br />
halfe water, which caused the said ship to lye in the Sea,<br />
without motion; And saith that by reason of the Violence<br />
and duration of the said Storme; both the said ship Lading<br />
and all the Company on board her were in great<br />
danger of perishing in the Sea. This hee deposeth for that<br />
hee was Boatswaine of and on board the said ship at<br />
the time when the sayd Storme happened, and further hee<br />
doth not depose.
To the 3d hee saith that fore said Thomas Chevers, and Company<br />
of and on board the said shipp; in the said Storme did<br />
upon a serious Consideration, for the safeguard of the said<br />
ship and Lading, and their owne Lives Cut the said ships<br />
Mainmast by the board, and Cut away the saile and<br />
Rigging, and Tackling thereto belonging, and Cut away<br />
her Sheat Anchor, and staved most of the Caskes of water<br />
that were aboard her, and thereby did much Lighten the said<br />
Shipp: And having now seene and read the Schedule Exhibited hee<br />
saith that all and singular the Masts, sailes, tackle and<br />
funiture and Materialls. therein set downe and Expressed<br />
to the said Ship, were and are Utterly lost by meanes of the said Storme and they were [XX GUTTER]<br />
, the time of their said Cutting away, and loosing well worth<br />
the severall and respective summes of money, set downe in the<br />
said schedule for the same, in the whole amounting to the summe<br />
of One hundred fourty two pounds two shilllings sterling. and<br />
that, besides the foresaid Damages, there was alsoe (by meanes<br />
of the violence of the said Storme,) much hurt and damage of the said Storme,) much hurt and damage +
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