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The fourth of July 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of hugh Jones late Master}
of the shipp the Anne Pinke of Bristoll}
touching the losse of the said shipp}

Examined on certaine Interrogatories
ministred on the behalfe of the said
hugh Jones.

Rp. .j.

James Chadwick of the parish of Saint Giles
Cripplegate London Mariner, aged 28 yeares or
thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the first Interrogatorie hee answereth and deposeth that hee was
one of the company of the said shipp the Anne Pinke at the time of
her losse hereafter mentioned and had soe bin for the space of sixteene
dayes or thereabouts before such her losse, and that hee was one of her
common men, and came first aboard her and was shipt in her at Lisbone
to goe thence in her to Pharo and thence to Bristoll, for which service
hee was hired by the said hugh Jones her master, And otherwise hee
cannot depose.

To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that the said shipps owners were
and are commonly said to be Inhabitants of Bristoll, Englishmen,
and saith that the said hugh Jones the Master was an wighth part
owner of her when shee was soe lost, and that shee was of the
burthen of eightie tonnes or thereabouts, and had aboard her at the
time of her casting away a greate quantitie of caskes, which shee tooke
in at Lisbone to goe to Pharo to lade oile for Bristoll. And saith
shee departed from Lisbone for Pharo on the fifteenth of January
last or thereabouts, and in her course of proceeding was surprized with
a furious storme which put her by her said port of Pharo
and found her upon the coast of Spaine betwixt Cales and Saint Lucars,
where shee was by the violence of the said storme put ashore and
cast away and bilged to peeces and lost, of this deponents sight
and knowledge, being one of her company and then aboard her, and this
hee saith happened on or about the foure and twentieth of January last
And saith the said caskes were aboard her when shee was soe cast
away, together with about six hundred of clap board and twenty three
Rolles of Brasil tobaccoe, all which caskes, clapboard and tobaccoes were as hee hath heard saved, but the shipp perished
of his knowledge And otherwise hee cannot depose for hee came first aboard the said shipp
at Lisbone as aforesaid.

To the third hee saith the said shipp the Anne Pinke was staunch, tight
and stronge to the said time of her casting away, which happened
meerly by occasion of the said storme and stresse of weather, (which
continued three dayes and nights without intermission) and not by
any the least insufficiencie or leakinesse of or in the said shipp. And
saith the said goods soe saved were as hee hath heard by the said master delivered and
put into the hands of the English Consull at Saint Lucars, who
tooke them into his possession. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

James Chadwicke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the foresaid Interrogatories.

William