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HCA 13/71 f.340r Annotate
First transcribed 14 November 2012  +
First transcriber Jill Wilcox  +
Folio 340  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 14/11/2012  +
Transcription but what parts they have in her hee knowetbut what parts they have in her hee knoweth not And further cannot answere/ To the 7th hee saith hee hath knowne the shipp Interrogate from her first building<br /> and saith shee is about sixe yeares old to his best remembrance And saith hee<br /> hath gone (in all) fower voyages in her, in all which voyages hee never<br /> knew her to bee leakie but shee was all waies a tight strong shipp And<br /> further hee cannot depose./ garret Pieterson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Repeated 18th of August before<br /> Colonell Cock ******************************** The same day/ Examined upon the sayd allegation/ '''Rp. 4''' '''Nicolas King''' of fflushing Mariner aged<br /> forty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne<br /> and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the first hee saith the goods brought the voyage in question to this<br /> port of London with ''Abrahams offering'' were laden aboard her in the<br /> Port of fflushing about the beginning of July 1656 at which tyme and<br /> for a long tyme before shee was and at this present is a tight and strong shipp<br /> and fitt to carry any Merchandize to any port what soever this hee the<br /> better knoweth being one of her Company the voyage in question and having<br /> bin of her Company for divers other voyages next before that made by<br /> her within these two or three yeares last past during all which tyme<br /> the sayd shipp hath of this deponents knowledge bin a tight stanch and<br /> sufficient shipp to carry any Merchandizes And further hee cannot depose/ To the second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that by<br /> reason hee is an Inhabitant there hee well knoweth that the Port of fflushing<br /> is drye every tyde of Ebb and all shipps rideing in it come on ground every<br /> ebb tyde by which meanes it is very frequent that shipps being heavie laden<br /> doe by such their being left a ground often tymes strayne and crush then selves and springe<br /> leakes to the dammage of their ladeing and that it cannot bee prevented<br /> by any care of their Masters or Companies, by reason of which frequencie<br /> thereof if the shipp bee tight aboard and the dammage proceede not from above but<br /> from beneath the Owners of the goods beare the dammage usually as a thing<br /> casuall and the same is not imputed there to the Masters or Companyes<br /> of the sayd shipps in such cases and this is a thing very frequent at<br /> fflushing and well knowne to Sea men and others there liveing and others tradeing<br /> thither And saith hee well knoweth that the ''Abrahams offering'', the<br /> tyde of ebb leaving her on grounds after shee had taken in almost all<br /> her ladeing shee being, crushed with the weight thereof sprange a leake<br /> neere her keele at which shee tooke water to about a foote in hold whereby<br /> some of her ladeing was dammaged but it being presently discovered<br /> by the master and Company they pumped her dry and romaged her goods as<br /> well as they could and finding two or three packs dammaged with wett<br /> received put them out from on shipp board and left them at fflushing and<br /> not finding any more at present which they could preserve to be dammaged<br /> caused the sayd leake the next day after the discovery thereof (which discovery was in the<br /> Evening) to bee amended and shortly after the winde serving fayre and their<br /> Convoy being ready they sett sayle with the rest of her ladeing for London<br /> when they afterwards safely arrived And hee saith that what dammage is<br /> happened to any of the goods in question happened meerely by reason of<br /> the leake occasioned as a foresayd and not through any insufficencie of the sayd<br /> shipp (which is still a strong stanch shipp) nor default of the Master and company<br /> of her And further hee cannot depose/ To of her And further hee cannot depose/ To  +
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