'''TNA''' PROB PROB 11/325/237 Will of Thomas Barnes, belonging to His Majesty's Royal Ship Charles 24 October 1667
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To the Interrogatories./. [CENTRE HEADING] To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee was only a passenger in the shipp Interrogate the voyage in question./ To the 2 hee saith that hee this deponent having some goods on board and being to come a passenger in her for England did heare in the Barbados that the sayd shipp was very leakie but coming aboard her found that the reporte was false and that shee was not otherwise leakie than what other shipps are which lye to trade in a hott Countrie and noe otherwise leakie then what her pumpe could and did easily cleer To the 3 Interrogatorie hee cannot answere knowing nothing to the effect Interrogate/ thereto haveing heard nothing nor To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answer thereto haveing heard nothing nor knowing any thing to the effect Interrogate but the contrary knoweth that some who did not lade goods aboard the sayd shipp at the Barbados were angrie with the Master of her for that hee would not take their goods on board./ To the 5th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere thereto/ To the 6th hee answereth negatively for his part and further cannot answere/ To the 7th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot more particulerly answere to this Interrogatorie./ To the 8th hee saith hee cannot answere for that hee was none of the sayd shipps Company but was only a passenger in her./ To the 9th hee answereth negatively for his part and further cannot answere/ To the last hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof in his foregoeing deposition soe farr as hee can./ Just Thourin [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] *********************************** The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd allegation '''5 us''' '''Thomas Barnes''' of Ratcliff Mariner aged twenty six yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith as followeth./ To the 1: 2 and 3 articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent went Quarter Master of the shipp the ''Trades Increase'' arlate the voyage in question and thereby knoweth that shee came to the Barbados in the moneth of May 1657 and lay there till the fifteenth of July next after takeing in of her ladeing of sugar and other goods to be brought to London and upon the sayd fifteenth of July departed with her ladeing of sugar and other goods out of Spikes Bay in the Barbados bound for England And was of this deponents sight and knowledge during the tyme of such her stay in the Barbados to take in her ladeing and at her departure thence untill such time as shee afterwards mett with stormie weather in her passage to England a strong tight and sufficient shipp and noe way leakie other then as any shipp lying to trade in such a hott countrie will bee by reason of the heate and tooke in noe more water then what one pumpe did with ease cleere her of without preiudice to her ladeing being used but once in fower twenty howers this hee knoweth, being Quartermaster of her and aboard And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose To the 4th 5th and 6th articles hee saith that upon the twentith of August last the sayd shipp being in her course for England and about fower hundred and fifty leagues from England mett with a very violent tempest which continued for three dayes and nights with that violence that this deponent
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