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Transcription

The thirteenth of October 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of the Executors of}
Captaine John Wordsworth touching}
a losse in the hopefull Luke}

Rp.

Isaac Howe of Ratcliff in the County of
Middlesex Mariner, aged 30 yeares or thereabouts
sworne before the right woshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes
one of the Judges of the high Court of the
Admiraltie and examined upon certaine
Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said
Executors, deposeth as followeth.

To the first hee saith hee well knew the shipp the hopefull Luke
of London whereof John Wadsworth was Commannder, at such time
as shee went last thence on a voyage for Virginia, whence shee was to
retourne to this port of London, and saith hee was masters mate
of her the said voyage.

To the second hee saith that while the said shipp lay and was in this
port of London preparing for the said voyage there were severall
goods and merchandizes laden aboard her for the sole and proper account
of the said John Wordsworth, to be carried and transported in the said
shipp to Virginia aforesaid, namely foure and fowrtie cases of
strong waters, two truncks containing severall sorts of merchandize
(saving some wearing apparell of his owne that were amongest them)
and five servants and some other small things which hee doth not
remember. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the said merchandize
in the said truncks consisted of linnens, and two silke gownes and two silke petticotes
and some other goods of good valew.

To the third article hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp on or
about the eleaventh of September last was twelve moneth departed from
Gravesend with all the said goods and merchandizes of the said Wordsworth
aboard her, intending directly as winde and weather would permit
to saile to Virginia, but in her course hee saith shee met with
much fowle stormy thicke and tempetupus weather, which forced her upon the
Barmunda's, where shee was on or about the twelveth ay of december
last forced upon the rocks and shortly after staved in peeces and
cast away,
notwithsatnding all the
care and diligence of the master and company for her preservation, and
saith the said Wordsworths goods were then aboard her, but they were
preserved and brought ashore at Barmundas namely 44 cases of
stronge waters and the said two truncks of goods, which strong waters the
said [?wadsworth] sold at Barmundas, and [?part] of some callicoes out of
the truncks, and that the rest of the goods remayning in the truncks
with his Instruments and clothes were by this deponent and one John
Springe [?praised] at Barnundas at 103 li and some odd moneys,
and saith the said goods (soe afterwards appraised) were left there by the said [?wadsworth] with
his attorney or agent Thomas Richards. And for the said servants