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and hee saith that the sayd masts boate Anchors and other tackle and furniture soe cutt away for preservation of the sayd shipp and ladeing were in this deponents Judgment and estimate worth two hundred pounds sterling at the least And further to these Interrogatories hee cannot depose/ To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that of his this deponents sight and knowledge the bulke heads of the sayd shipp after the sayd storme was past and at their being in harbour at Plymouth were stronge and sufficient And this deponent there sawe one Jones a shipp carpenter and two or three more come aboard the sayd shipp and this deponent went downe with them into the hold and sawe them view her bulkeheads and heard them saye and declare that the sayd shipp before the sayd storme was a stronge tight and sufficient shipp, and that there was while the sayd shipp lay in the downes before her goeing forth thence on the sayd voyage very good tarrpaulings laid and nayled round the hatches with hoopes to fasten the nayles through and knoweth that good dennage of matts and woods was provided and used at the stowing of the sayd shipps ladeing, and all care taken by the Master and Company of the sayd shipp that could bee that the sayd goods and ladeing of her might bee preserved from dammage, soe that hee is thereby well assured that what dammage is happened to the sayd goods happened to them in the sayd storme and by meanes thereof and not before And further to this article Interrogatorie hee cannot depose./ To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth the Interrate Mathew Plowman and saith hee well observed that the sayd Plowman having bin ill for some dayes before did keepe his cabbin in the tyme of the storme aforesayd and as hee beleeveth till after the mayne mast and shrowdes were cutt downe and the Anchors cut away, for that this deponent being constantly upon the deck did not see him till after that, and saith that after that, a sea breakeing into the sayd shipp and running into the sayd Plowmans cabbin the sayd Plowman thereupon came out of his cabbin and stood in the steereage and there stayed a while, and thence went into the round house and saith that the sayd Plowman while hee continued in his sayd Cabbin could not see what any of the shipps company were doeing without, because the abin bulke heads and the steereage bulke heads were betweene them and the deck soe that hee could not see what was done And further to this article Interrogatorie hee cannot depose/ Repeated before doctor Godolphin the marke of the sayd Robert '''Rc''' Catmar [MARKE, RH SIDE] **************************** The same day./ Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories/ '''d Smith''' '''4us''' '''William Wade''' of the parish of Saint Katherine neere the Tower London Mariner Cooke of the shipp the ''Saphir'' aged 47 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlict./ To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that
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