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thirteenth of Aprill last and continued th … thirteenth of Aprill last and continued the sspace of twenty foure howers and better<br />
with great violence, In both which stormes the sayd shipp tooke very much water by<br />
reason the sea wrought over the shipps side and decks soe that the same was in great<br />
danger of being cast away and the Company of her of perishing, And hee saith that what<br />
damage is happened to the sayd shipps ladeing happened not by any defect or<br />
insufficiencie of the sayd shipp, or for want of dennage and good stowing the goods or through any neglect of the<br />
sayd shipps company, but only by reason of the sayd stormees and the violence of them, which<br />
was soe great, that this deponent (having used to goe to sea these twenty yeares) never<br />
conceived him selfe to be in the like danger of being cast away as hee was in the sayd<br />
stormes, The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd and further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated before doctor Clarke
the marke of the sayd<br />
Isaack [MARKE] Allbury [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation/
'''4.'''
'''William Carter''' of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney alias Stenbenheath<br />
in the County of Middlesex Mariner Gunner of the shipp ''hopewell''<br />
aged twenty fower yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee went Gunner of the sayd<br />
shipp ''hopewell'' the voyage in question and well knoweth that during<br />
all the tyme arlate videlicet at the sayd shipps setting forth upon the sayd voyage<br />
during the moneths of October November and december 1654 arlate and during all her stay<br />
at Scanderoone, and till her comeing home from thence to London the sayd shipp was a<br />
tight stronge and staunch vessell and fitt and in good condition to carry Merchants goods The<br />
premisses hee deposeth for the reasons abovesayd and further saving his subsequent<br />
deposition hee cannot depose./
To the second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee<br />
well knoweth the sayd shipp did at Scanderoone arlate take in divers goods and<br />
Merchandizes and saith hee this deponent helped to stowe them, and thereby knoweth that<br />
they were well and carefully stowed upon wood and matts sufficient to make<br />
dennage for them and all care taken that could be by the arlate George Case and Company<br />
that the sayd goods might be preserved from damage but saith the says shipp un her<br />
course from Scanderoone to London mett with two very violent stormes the first<br />
whereof happened off of Callery an Island in the Streights being about 38 degrees and a halfe<br />
latitude, and upon or about the 12th of January last the winde being West North West and somtymes North West which storme was soe violent that the<br />
Master and Company for the better safety of their owne lives, and the sayd shipp and goods could for the<br />
dayes space beare only a peece of the mizen sayle, And the second storme happened<br />
about the 13th of Aprill last Off of Silly the winde then blowing South East by South which<br />
storme continued the space of 24 howers and more In which stormes the sayd shipp tooke in [?very]<br />
much water, the sea running often cleere over her decks soe that shee was in great danger<br />
of sinking and her company like to be cast away And hee saith the damage that happened to the<br />
sayd shipps ladeing happened meerely thorugh the violence of the sayd stormes and not through<br />
any neglect if the shipps Company, or tby any defect of the sayd shipp, or want of good<br />
stowage, This hee knoweth for the reasons aforesayd being an eyewitnes of the premisses<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated before doctor Clarke
William Carter [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
'''See the 5th witnesse in A10/<br />
in the foregoeing booke/<br />
namely the nineth booke./'''/<br />
namely the nineth booke./''' +
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