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The same day. Examined upon the sayd allegation. '''3:''' '''John Nutting''' of Wapping in the County of Middlesex late Carpenter of the sayd shipp ''Susan and Anne'', aged twenty three yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith as followeth. videlicet. To the first second and third arles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith he was Carpenter of and sayled in the sayd shipp the voyage in question and thereby knowes, that the sayd shipp under the Command of George Boys arlate departed with her lading of sugars from the Barbadoes bound for this Port of London in the month of August last past and that afterwards being upon her Course a violent storme or Hurricano mett with her which carryed away her foremast, and brought in great store of water betwixt her deckes, and putt shipp and lading and the mens lives into such danger that to prevent their utter perishing the sayd Boys and Company were necessitated and did cutt downe their mainmast, and allso to cutt a hole that the water might passe into the hold for feare the shipp should otherwise have bene oversett, and that the pumpes might be able to worke, And saith that the sayd Storme did continue neere three dayes, and in very good extremity for the greater part of that tyme, by reason of all which the sayd shipp was forced to putt in to the Bermudaos there to be fitted agayne for her sayd voyage, which was done accordingly, and a Pilott hired to conduct her from those islands, howbeit he saith that the wind Scanting upon the sayd shipp she did (notwithstanding the diligence of the sayd Pilot to prevent it) strike upon the rockes, and so caught a leake, so as much water came in and very great dammage might thereby have happened had not the Mariners diligently plyed their pumpes, which hee saith they did and so preserved the sayd shipp and her lading, the sayd disaster of sinking upon the rockes happened as hee saith about the beginning of November 1655. last past. And further saith that when the sayd shipp being on her Course for London came neere the English Coast she mett with a feirce and raging storme which carryed away the greater part of her sayles and putt her in great danger of perishing. Of all which this deponent was an eyewitnes and otherwise cannot depose. To the fourth and last arles of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that the sayd shipp when she so came from the Barbadaos was an able and stanch shipp and sufficiently provided for such a voyage, and that the sugars and lading on board her were well stowed and dennaged; And saith moreover that the sugars became much endammaged by the water that came into the sayd shipp by meanes of the stormes and disasters aforesayd, which sayd dammage hee saith did wholly happen by reason and occasion of the sayd storme or Hurricano, and leakes so caused as aforesayd and not by the fault or negligence of the sayd Master and Company who hee saith did their dutyes in preventing dammage so farr as was possible which hee knoweth sayling in the sayd shipp as aforesayd. And lastly for satisfaction of Mr [?Walsons] [XXXX] saith that the heads of the Caskes that came out did so come out by the working of the shipp in the violence of the sayd tempests. And that the sayd Master or Mariners did not breake open the same nor embezell any of the goods so farr as hee knoweth, beleiveth or hath heard And otherwise he cannot depose John Nutting[?e] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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