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and saith that whatsoever dammage or leakage hath befallen any of the said wines, happened merely by the said storme, and not by any defect in the shipp (which was otherwise very staunch and tight), nor by any neglect of the master or any of the mariners, who all did their utmost for the preservation of the said wines, as hee saith it more than ordinarily concerned them, their owne lives being at stake. And otherwise cannot depose, referring himselfe for the freight to the Charter partie made betweene the parties litigant. To the nineth hee saith that after the said shipps arivall in this port and before any deliverie of any of the said wines, the said shipp and storage of the wines were viewed by two experienced and honest masters of shipps who declared that they found the caskes to be well stored (as in truth this deponent saith they were) and that the dammage happened to the wines must needs have bin occasioned by fowle and stressie weather and not otherwise. To the tenth and 11th hee cannot depose. Robert Mitchell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] **************************** The 11th of June 1656. On the behalfe of Alderman Andrew Riccard} and others touching the shipp the ''Love''} whereof Robert Tindall is Commander.} '''Rp. .J.''' '''Robert Tindall''' of the parish of All hallowes Barking London Mariner, aged 48 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie and examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said Alderman Riccard and others saith as followeth To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth the said shipp the ''Love'' and was Commander of her in her late homewards voyage from the South Seas, and went out in her from this port thither in which going out this deponent was master of her. And saith that her lading of pepper, which shee tooke in at Andropare in the Island of Summatra was to have bin carried to Ligorne and there to have bin delivered, and whither shee was ordered by the said Alderman Riccard and the rest of her Imployers (before and upon her going out thense) to goe and deliver her lading that shee should bring from the South Sea, which hee knoweth being acquainted with the said order and Commission, which was given in writing and which this deponent hath in his custodie, and nowe leaveth for the further satisfaction of this Court and all others that may be therein concerned To the second hee saith that there went out hense in the said shipp the said voyage ninetie five mariners (men and boys) whereof hee saith three and thirtie died in the voyage, and many of the rest were very much affected with sicknesse, and amongst those that died hee saith that Captaine Jourdain (who went out Commander of her) was one, who hee saith departed this life about two dayes after her setting saile from Andropare aforesayd to retourne and goe for Ligorne, to which place hee saith it was (upon her said departure from Sumatra) fully determined and resolved by the said Captaine and this deponent and the rest
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