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cannot answere for that hee was none of the sayde shipps company in her
outwards bound voyage from London. saving hee saith that the Masters mate
who came in her to Saint Lucar and the boy then in her were both English /

Reported before doctor Clarke

James Shaddwicke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation

d : smith

3us

William Compton of the parish of St Gyles
Cripplegate Mariner aged 35 yeares or
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation he saith that hee this deponent
was not one of the Company of the shipp John and Elizabeth at her first setting
out uppon the voyage in question but hee this deponent this deponent seeing her at
Saint Lucar after shee mett with the disaster in the subsequent arles- of this allegation
[mencioned?] and coming alsoe home to England from Saint Lucar in her as one of
her Company well knoweth and observed that shee was a new built
vessel and was very stronge light and staunch in her hull and every
way a strong vessell saving for the preiudice that happened to her by her
sayd disaster And further to this arle- he cannot dispose

To the 2 : 3 : 4th and 5th Articles of the sayd allegation her saith that
by Common reporte among Merchants and Sea men in Saint Lucar the
sayd shipp John and Elizabeth came into Saint Lucars harbour very sore -
battered and shattered having her midshipp broken down to the water
by a shipp in her company called the Supply her falling fowle on her in a storme
and her maine mast and bolspritt spent and lost and only a part of her mizen –
mast remayning which was used as a Jury mayne mast, for the better conducting –
her through the sea to harbour, after shee had as was reported beate
up and downe in that battered condition at Sea in a very violent storme
divers dayes togeather
utterly forsaken of all her Company save the Master and his Mate and a boy, all the rest having [upon?] the said Supplyes falling
[fowle?] of her as at [course and?] forsaken her and [gone away?] in the Supply and left her to the mercie of the Sea
And hee this deponent seeing her at Saint Lucar
after her coming in hither knoweth that when hee sawe her there shee was
not capable to proceede upon any voyage whatsoever and saith hee
for his part wondereth how shee got safe to harbour being soe battered
and bruised as shee was when hee sawe her and wanting her masts as aforesayd and almost
all thinges necessarie for her preservation And further to those articles –
hee cannot depose

To the 6th article he saith hee cannot depose anything thereto of his -
certaine knowledge but that hath heard that the artlate- Keene did hyre
two dutch men and a Scotch man to goe in his sayd shipp to –
Palma whether shee was (as it was sayd first bound) which men as was reported
Robbed his the sayd Keenes Cabbin of money therein and then came away
and left the shipps boate ashoare so that hee the sayd Keene could get noe company
of Mariners to goe to Palma And further to this arle- he cannot
depose /