'''John Gold''' Just possibly John Gold (b. ?, d. ca. 1695), London merchant (PROB 11/428 Irby 166-203 Will of John Gould, Merchant of London 27 November 1695)
Ad 3 rendet et deponit that when the said shipp went from Plymouth her said voyage she was an old shipp which soe generally looked upon to bee, And the upper worke he saith was untrimed and unrepaired and the pumpes of the shipp were not fitted as they should have bin for such a voyage and by reason of such defects of the said shipp and a great storme happening neere the Northerne Cape the foresaid goods received dammage by reason of the waters comming into the said shipp and running into the hold. Et alr nescit. Ad 4 rendet et deponit that in case the said shipp had bin fitted as she ought to have bin for such a voyage, in her upper workes and pumpes hee beleeveth in his Conscience that the goods would not have received soe much dammage as they did. And it is possible hee saith that the goods might have bin damnified by the fore said storme had the shipp bin a tight and substantiall shipp, et alr nescit. Ad 5 rendet et deponit that hee helped to land y:e said lading of Pilchards at Leghorne, and did see and know that severall of the Caskes of the said goods were damnifyed by water running into or amongst them, which were chiefly occasioned by reason the shipp was defective in her upper workes and pumpes and thereby unable to beare a storme soe well as a stronger shipp. Et alre nescit Ad 6 rendet et deponit that the owners of the said pilchard have sustained losse and dammage but to what vallue he cannot estimate. Et alr nescit FFARDINANDO BARTLETT [His signature] *************************** Eadem die Super Intererys predict. Examinat '''2.''' '''Peter Tooker''' de Milbrooke in Com Cornwall Nauta annos agens 30 XXXXX XXXXX XXXX Jurat Ad primum et 2 Interria deponit et rendet that hee was second mate of the arlate shipp ''Welfare'' Samuell XXXXX Master and sailed in her from Plymouth to Leghorne thence to Gallipoli to lade oiles and thence to London which yoyage she soe began on about the 20:th of December last and came to an anchor over against Bell wharfe staires in lower Shadwell about six weekes since. And saith the said shipp went from Plymouth with a lading of about 600 hogsheads of pilchards to bee carried in the sd ship and to bee delivered at Leghorne to Mr James Gould upon the account of Mr John Gold and Company the producents. Et alr nescit. Ad 3 et 4 Interria rendet et depont that when the sd ship began her sd voyage she was an old shipp and some part of her upper work was defective and the pumps underviceable when occasion and greatest use was to have bin made of them and thereby unusefull for the said shipp, and by reason thereof and stresse of weather or storme happening off the Northerne Cape the goods or lading of pilchards received dammage about (as hee conceiveth) twenty two Inches deepe. at the Windward pumpe. And beleeveth also that if the said shipp had bin a tight and substantiall shipp the goods in all probability would not have suffered dammage in such a measure as they did notwithstanding the foresd storme Et alre nescit rendere.
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