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for the sayd voyage. And saith that in his … for the sayd voyage. And saith that in his passage upon the sayd voyage<br />
the sayd shipp mett with so many and long continueing Calmes that she<br />
spent three monethes before she came into the duynes by reason whereof<br />
the sayd shipps provisions of bread beefe and fish were wholly spent so as<br />
this deponent and Company were enforced and did putt into the duins for<br />
the procuring of bread fresh water and other provisions for the sustenance<br />
of the men who had nothing left to eat and without which they could ot<br />
continue on their voyage for hamburgh, and the tyme they so putt into<br />
the downes happened on or about the fourteenth day of August 1654<br />
last past old stile. And he further saith that upon the eighteenth<br />
day following of the same moneth and whilest the sayd shipp ''Angelo''<br />
''Custode'' lay there in the duins for the taking in of her sayd provisions<br />
there happened a sudden and violent storme at sea, by the force whereof<br />
a new flemmish pinke riding there was loosed from her anchor hold<br />
and fall violently upon the ''Angelo Custode'' and brake her boltspritt<br />
and her head and carryed the same together with the yards sayles and<br />
tackle of the boltspritt in to the sea where they were all lost. insomuch<br />
that the sayd shipp ''Angelo Custode'' being so maymed was in great<br />
danger of sinking so as one halfe of this deponents mariners gott into<br />
the boat to escape for their lives; this sayd accident he saith happened<br />
in the night tyme of the sayd [?18th] day, and the sayd tempest continued<br />
till the next day being the nineteenth day new (sic) stile of the sayd moneth<br />
in the morning of which day another great fflemish pinque having<br />
a while before cast Anchor was forced therefrom by the impetuous<br />
to so apparent danger of sinking her that this deponent and Company<br />
for avoyding of splitting and wracking one shipp against the other<br />
were constreyned and did cutt their Cables and left their<br />
Anchors in the sea, how beit he saith the sayd Anchors and<br />
cables were found againe, and preserved, but one new cable and a great<br />
anchor were utterly lost. And moreover saith that the sayd nineteenth day<br />
of August the sayd storme still continueing working, by reason of<br />
the dammages aforesayd a third flemmish vessell being a shipp faell<br />
likewise foule upon the ''Angelo Custode'' and broke downe part of<br />
her side insomuch that she now tooke in so much water, as there was noe<br />
hope of preserving her. And the English pilott who was on board her<br />
conceyving it impossible to preserve her made in for dover road purposely<br />
to putt her ashoare and take her chance to the losse of her selfe and<br />
lading, desiring onley to save the mens lives, which were in great<br />
danger continuall pumping being scarce sufficient to keepe her a float<br />
thecient to keepe her a float<br />
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