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that hee well knoweth ánd was Cooke of the Interrogate shipp
the Saphir the voyage in question (which was her last from London)
wherein when shee was about eighty legues to the Southwest of
Scilly shee was surprized with a very violent storme which con=
tinued with great force for about five howers and better soe that
by reason thereof the sayd shipp her ladeing and her Master and company
were thereby in eminent danger to be cast away whereupon the Master
iudging it to be the best way to preserve the sayd shipp and goods
and their owne lives commanded the Company to cut downe the mayne
mast by the boards and to cut the shroudes whereupon the Company began
fairst to cutt the mayne mast, but soone gave over that and cutt the
shroudes and the mayne stays, verily being cutt (and not before) the mayne
mast with the rowleing of the shipp by, violense of the sea brake in
sunder a good way above where it was begunne to be cut, which hee
beleeveth it would not have done (it being a stoute stronge maste)
if the shrouds and [?stay] had not first bin cutt and hee saith that the sayd shrouds and stay being cutt and mast broken the
topp mast and the mayne yarde and mayne topp mast yarde and their sayles
fell downe and were lost in the sea and the sayd Master and company
were forced alsoe for the better safing of the shipp and preserving her
and her ladeing from being cast away by the sayd storme to cutt the
skiff a peeces it being full of water and heave it overboard and alsoe to
cutt and dropp two Anchors from her star board side all which
was done in order to the preservation of the sayd shipp and ladeing And hee
saith the sayd Masts Anchors and rigging and boate and other things soe cutt
away were in this deponents Judgment worth fower hundred pounds
sterling or thereabouts And further to these Interrogatories hee cannot
depose./

To the 4th hee saith that after the sayd storme was past and the shipp
gott safe to Plymouth her bulke heads were there viewed (in presense)
of this deponent who went downe into the hold with them) by carpenters
and this deponent heard them there saye that the sayd ships bulke heads
were then very stronge and sufficeint as ever they sawe bulke heads or
words to that effect, And hee further saith that hee knoweth that the
hatches were before the sayd strome well covered with good and sufficient
tarr paulings and nayled downe with hoopes to jeepe them from flying up
and all care used by the Master and Company to preserve the sayd shipps
ladeing from dammage And saith the sayd shipp before the sayd
storme was a tight and strong shipp and of this deponents sight and [?observation GUTTER]
both[?e] before the storme, and alsoe afterwards soe soone as the wa[?l]ter shipped
in the storme was cle[?e]red out of her stood very seldome in any neede of
pumpeing And therefore beleeveth that what dammage her ladeing
hath receaved was receaved in the sayd storme, and by reason thereof, and not
before And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./

To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth the Interrogate Mathew Plowman
and saith hee was sick and in his Cabbin when the storme predeposed of
happened and came not out thereof till after the mayne mast and
shroudes

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