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The 31st of October 1655/ Examined upon the sayd allegation/ '''Rp. EA.''' '''3us''' '''William Glover''' of Linne in the county of Norfolk Mariner aged 23 years or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet To the 1: 2: and third and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was and went Carpenter of the arlate ship the ''Concord'' in her last boyage and knoweth that in her sayd voyage she was a strong and tight shipp and for that hee helped to stowe her homewards ladeing hee the better knoweth that the same was well and sufficiently stowed, And hee alsoe saith that the said shipp in her course homewards for England off of ffleckery upon the coast of Norway mett with a very violent storme which continued With ggreat furie for space of eighteene howers and upwards And hee saith soe great the force and furie thereof was that if often wrought over the decks with much violence and one wave came with soe great violence that the same washed away one of the sayd Shipps company from the mayne yarde, soe that hee perished in the Ssa and could not be saved, and an other of her company from off of the quarter deck who by Gods great mercie was recovered on board and saved, and the same wave alsoe washed away three packs of wooll that lay upon the quarter dark, and drewe the shipps boats from her side cleere over the shipp soe that it could not be recovered, and a;spe heaved a sheate Anchor which was lashed to the shipps side into the shipp with such violence that by the meanes thereof and alsoe by the shipps boats being soe drived over as aforesayd, and with the force of the sea that then brake in upon her the wales of the shipp were broken, and her seames of her upper decks soe strayned that they opened whereby shee receaved in much water which continually washed over deck And hee saith that those things [?then] happening and the sayd storme still continueing with great violence the Master and Company of the ''Concord'' thought fitt to [?XXX] and did for the better securing their owne lived and the sayd shipp and goods voluntarily hurle over board one Anchor, a payre of graplings a mayne yarde a topp mast two boye ropes and a mayne sayle and other things which laye on the decke to cleere her that the water which washed over [?XX] the
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