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after such his Comming aboard the sayd shi … after such his Comming aboard the sayd shipp at Gravesend did well<br />
observe (and indeede it was a thing apparent to all the sayd shipps<br />
Company and the passengers and could not but be taken notice of by them)<br />
that the sayd Wareing was a very wilfull and perverse man<br />
matters of pilotting the sayd shipp betwixt Gravesend and the downes<br />
and would harken to noe bodies advice and was much given to<br />
curse and swear And this deponent saith that the sea running somwhat<br />
high so that the shipp did not feele her helme presently according<br />
to his the sayd Warings mynde as sometymes will happen to all shipps the sayd Waring in presense<br />
and hearing of this deponent and divers others of the Company and passengers<br />
of the sayd shipp fell a curseing and swearing and used these or the like<br />
words in effect videlicet Is this shipp the ''Exchange'', a pox take her,<br />
the devill roll her and splitt her to peeces And hee further saith<br />
that about the latter end of October or beginning of November 1654<br />
the sayd shipp comming near a place called the Boies not<br />
farr from the Gore or Reculvers<br />
which boyes are to give notice of severall<br />
dangerous sands lying thereabout, the sayd William Wilkinson<br />
the Master of the sayd shipp and this deponent and divers of the shipps<br />
company observing that the shipp was in three fathoms water<br />
or thereabouts and was in their judgement in some danger, and that the<br />
sayd Wareing tooke noe notice of such her danger, the sayd Master<br />
and this deponent and divers of the sayd shipps company having<br />
discovered the boyes aforesayd gave the sayd Waring notice thereof<br />
and desyred him that he would bring the shipp to an Anchor and the<br />
sayd Waring thereupon fell a curseing and swearing by Gods wounds<br />
and Gods harte and the like oathes, and bid the divell splitt her meaning the sayd shipp or words to that<br />
effect, and notwithstanding the Master and others of the shipps<br />
Company diswaded him and this deponent told him that there was too<br />
much winde stirring and too much sayle up all ready, yet hee the<br />
sayd Waring in a wilfull and crosse manner commanded and<br />
caused the sayd shipps Company to sett up the mayne sayle, and<br />
would not come to an Anchor as he was desyred to do, by which<br />
his obstinancie and willfullnes the winds blowing strongly the<br />
sayd shipp was soon after severall tymes violently struck upon the sands<br />
, and thereby lost her Rudder and was otherwise very much<br />
hurt and damnified, and the sayd Waring seeing the Rudder lost<br />
and the winds continued high, then and not before caused the sayd<br />
shipps company to bring her to an Anchor among the sands, he<br />
not being able then to governe her for want of the Rudder, and<br />
after shee had so rode at Anchor a while the Master and Company<br />
seeing the eminent danger that the sayd shipp and goods and the lives<br />
ofipp and goods and the lives<br />
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