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To the 4th hee saith that hee hath heard that the sayd hoye after shee had
taken in the sayd goods predeposed of did after shee was a little past Graves GUTTER
end meete with fowle weather and that by reason her cables anchers and other
tackle were insufficient shee was by stresse of weather driven to sea and
founde on the Coast of dunkirke or some other port thereabout, where (as hee
hath hearde) the sayde Marsh dide gett out of the ˹sayd˺ hoye and sell suger and other
goods to a considerable value, and might as hee hath hearde have saved all
her ladeing if hee hade performed his duty with care, and saith as hee
hath heard after the sayd Marsh had taken out of the sayd hoye what
hee though fitt shee and such goods as remayned in her were lost and
cast away And further to this Interrogatory hee cannot answere./

To the 5th hee saith hee cannot answer otherwise then negatively not
having hearde any thing to the effect Interrogate./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin<

Tho. Colsclough/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 3 of May 1656/

A business of Insurance promoted on the behalfe of}
George Robinson George Chambers and James Gover}
of London Merchants concerning lost goods of theirs aboard}
the shipp Affrey of London}

Examined upon Interrogatories ministred on behalfe of the
sayde Robinson and others/

Rp. 1

Robert Blackleech of Rederiff wall in the County
of Surrey Mariner aged fifty yeares or thereabouts a
wittnes sworne before the WorshipfullJohn Godolphin d[o]c[t]o[r] of Lawes
one of the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty (being
examined saith as followeth videlicet/

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee (being the Interrogate Robert Blackleech
and Master of her and sole Owner of her well knew the shipp Affrey Interrogate and
was Commander of her when shee was last at Porto Porte in Portugall which was
in the beginning of the Month of March last shee nearing setting sayle from thense on the sixth day of
that moneth And further to this article Interrogatorie hee cannot depose

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith that hee being Master of the sayd shipp the voyage in question
well knoweth that while shee lay at Porto Port aforesayd there were laden aboard her
for the sole and proper Accompt of the Interrogate Robinson Chambers and Gover some
hundred Chests of Oranges and lemmons, which were there laden by Mr Richarde XXXX GUTTER
and one Mr Pate factors in that behalfe of the sayd Robinson Chambers and Goverand consigned
to be delivered to their sayd principalls or their Assignes at London And further to
this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd shipp with all the sayd oringes and
Lemmons, as also with other goods laden aboard her for Accompt of thX others sett sayle
herewith from Porto Port intending directly for London but by reason of fowle and
tempestious weather was forced into Seaverne otherwise called Saint Georges Channell and there stayed
till the most fitt oportunity of fayre winde and weather to bring her to London, and the winde
comeing fayre and the weather proveing good hee saith the sayd shipp sett sayle with all
her ladeing aforesayd on board her and steered her direct course for London but was
off of Weymouth mett with by ˹a˺ dunkirke man of warr and assaulted and taken by
him notwithstanding all the endevour hee this deponent and his Company could use for
preservation of her and her ladeing by which meanes the sayd shipp was lost and all her ladeing
aforesayde without any satisfaction made that hee this deponent knoweth of to the XXXX GUTTER
Pwners of

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