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'''A.6.'''
On the fourth of March 1655. [ … '''A.6.'''
On the fourth of March 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Titus Camplaine against Brandline}<br />
and Company Clements Smith}
Upon the arlate allegation given in<br />
and admitted on Clements his behalfe.
'''Clements dt.'''
'''5.'''
'''Gregory Warden''' of Ipswich in the County of<br />
Suffolk Shipwright where he hath lived the most part<br />
of his life, and borne there, aged about 36 yeares<br />
a wittnes produced and sworne and being examined hee<br />
deposeth as followeth.
To the first, second, third, fourth, fifth sixth and seaventh articles<br />
of the sayd allegation [?he] deposeth and saith That it chanced<br />
that he this deponent and the arlate William Marsh sayled<br />
together in the summer 1654 in the shipp called the ''James''<br />
of Ipswich whereof James Jackson was then Master) in a<br />
voyage she made to Norway, and that in that voyage he<br />
this sayd William Marsh did confesse and acknowledge<br />
to this deponent that as he the sayd Marsh was comming<br />
or sayling downe from London with the arlate hoy<br />
or vessell called the ''Primrose'' of Ipswich his cable broke<br />
and that therby the sayd hoy was putt from his anchor and<br />
that upon the setting of his sayles, his maine sayle blew away<br />
and that presently after the blowing away of his sayd maine sayle<br />
the stepp of his Mast broke through its [?affieage] and that by reason thereof he<br />
was forced to cutt downe his Mast, And he further deposeth<br />
that he the deponent being inquireing of the sayd Marsh how hee<br />
did escape the danger of the seas being in soe perillous a condition<br />
he the sayd Marsh sayd that notwithstanding the losse of<br />
his mainesayle and Mast he might have saved the vessell<br />
and goods in case he had had a good cable and a good Anchor<br />
that he could have trusted unto, but for his sayles he sayd<br />
That they were all not worth tenne groates, and he the sayd<br />
Marsh alsoe sayd and confessed unto this deponent that if his<br />
sayles had bin good he had not helpe sufficient to have beat them<br />
in regard he had none but himselfe and two boyes aboard the<br />
sayd hoy or vessell, And that he this deponent did (upon the sayd<br />
Marsh his saying that all his sayles were not worth tenne groates)<br />
aske him why he did not desire his Owners to buy new sayles<br />
And that thereunto the sayd Marsh answered that he had spoken unto<br />
or desired the Owners to buy new sayles for the sayd vessell<br />
or hoy arlate and that they would not bestow any cost upon the<br />
vessell for that they the sayd Owners had taken offense at him and<br />
that soe long as he (the sayd Marsh) went Master they would laye<br />
out noe charge upon her, and that his sayd Owners were reputed<br />
to turne him out as soone as they could And he further saith and<br />
deposeth that he [XX XXX XXX XXXXXXXX] did then (as he alsoe since confessed and<br />
acknowledged unto this deponent) confesse and acknowledge that<br />
he had sold a chest of sugar marked with the producent Titus<br />
Camplaine his marke, And further to the sayd articles hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the rest of the articles he cannot depose/
Torest of the articles he cannot depose/
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