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Transcription

and then and there tooke in severall hogsheads Chests butts and barrells of
tobaccoe amounting to a good quantitie and departed therewith towards Virginia
whether shee was bound to lade more Tobaccoes and saith shee safely arrived
at Virginia with the Tobaccoes laden aboard her at Bermudas about the
beginning of the month of July and after her arrivall there videlicet in the
Months of October November december and January 1655 there were laden
aboard the sayd shipp lying in the River of Nansemum in Virginia severall
other quanties of tobaccoe to a great quantitie all which tobaccoes as well
those laden at Bermudas as those at Virginia were to be transported
from Virginia to London the plan designed for their unladeing and discharge
the premisses hee deposeth of his certayne knowledge being Masters
cheife mate and aboard the sayd shipp and an eye wittnes of the premisses/

To the 2 article hee saith that a great quantitie of the sayd Tobaccoes soo laden
at Bermudas and Virginia were laden and put aboard her for Account of
the arlate Wright, White, Trott, Toulson, Butts Chandler and Waterman
and consigned to be delivered to them or their Assignees at this Port of
London as by divers bills of ladeing for part of the same which this deponent
hath seene under the signature of the Master of the sayd shipp may appear
And further to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 3 : 4th 5th and 6th articles hee saith the sayd shipp having taken
in her sayd ladeing of Tobaccoe set sayle with the same from James
River in Virginia bound for London in the month of January 1655 English
style and about the latter end thereof and about fower days after such her
setting sayle she being to the Eastward of Virginia about nynty
leagues and in the latitude of about thirty seaven degrees and a halfe there
happened an exceeding great storme which began upon or about the
first day of ffebruary 1655 the winds then blowing west Norwest
which storme continued fower dayes with great furie and violence in soe much
that the sayd shipp by force thereof tooke in great Seas which raked her
fore and afte and upon or about the second of the sayd month of ffebruary staved her
longe boate and brake the sayd shipps Rudder head short off, and brake
the iron worke of the sayd Rudder soo that the Rudder was in great
danger every moment to bee wholly torne and carried away from the
sayd shipp by the sayd storme, and also by violence of the sayd storme
the sayd shipps mastes and some of her tymbers were broken downe and the
water rann violently downe into the hold (the deck being seldome cleere
of water) and into other parts of the sayd shipp and amongst the
tobaccoes aforesayd notwith standing all possible diligence and care was
used by the master and Company of the sayd shipp to keepe the same out
and preserve the sayd shipp and her ladeing there being great danger of her
sinkeing in the sea and of the utter losse of her, her ladeing, and her compa=
nyes lives, and in order to the preservation of the sayd shipp, her lading
and their owne lives hee saith the Master and Company of her did hange
out men in the sayd storme in roapes over the sayd shipps sides who
wrought with great hazard of their lives to fasten the sayd Rudder with
roapes thereby to bring the sayd shipp to her steerage and did fasten it but
the same was againe broken by the violence of the sayd storme and could not
bee