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Transcription

forsooke the sayd vessell John and Ellizabeth and runne on board the supplie and
sayled away therein and cam noe more aboard the John and Elizabeth by meanes
whereof the say(d) vessell the John and Elizabeth (as the report was at Saint Lucar)
drove up and downe at sea for many dayes in great Hazard with only the sayd
Keane and his mate and a boy on board and without masts or other helpe to bringe her safe
to land And this deponent saith that hee seeing her the John and Elizabeth soone after
her arrivall at Saint Lucar well sawe and observed that shee was then in such ill
condition and soe dammified that shee was not fitt to proceede upon any voyage
without being repaired and new mariners provided to navigate her And
further to theses articles hee cannot depose/

To the 6th and 7th 8th and 9th articles hee saith that the shipp or vessell
the John and Elizabeth was in repayreing whilst this deponent stayed
at Saint Lucar, and saith that of his this deponents sight and observation Mariners
were then very scarce at Saint Lucar, and hardly any to be gott to goe upon
any voyage whatsoever and the sayd Keane sick on shoare And further to these articles hee cannot depose
for that hee came from Saint Lucar before the John and Elizabeth was ready to come
from thence./

To the 10th hee saith hee well knoweth the arlate Peter Proby and Edward
Watts and saith hee beleaveth, they are English men borne, and saith they bare commonnly reputed
Merchants of good Accompt in Saint Lucar
And further hee cannot depose./

To the Interrogatories (CENTRE HEADING)

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee is noe way related to the producent
Keane and cometh to testifie his knowledge being soe requested by the producent.
And to the rest of the Interogatorries he answereth negatively./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the John and Elizabeth was in repayring but was not
finished before this deponent came from Saint Lucar, and saith before this deponents
coming from there shee had taken in part of a freight for London And further
hee cannot depose./

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin/

Charles (?Sadler) [Signature RH SIDE]

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The 11th day of September 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Bland and Company Owners of the Pilgrim}
against the Exeter Merchant and Thomas}
Woodfin her Master}
Smith Suckley}

Examined uppon a libell of behalfe of the sayd Bland and Company/.

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Thomas Fox of the parish of Saint Olave in Southwarke
Shipp Carpenter aged 27 yeares or thereabouts a wittness
sworne and examinded saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first article he saith that during all the months of March and Aprill
May and June 1655 arlate and before the arlate John Bland
and