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

12. To the 5th hee saith hee cannot answer otherwise then negatively not
13. 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/

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

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

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