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aforesaid laden with Sumack, sugars, tobaccoes and other merchandizes
to vbe transported for Amsterdam in the said shipp, which hee knoweth
being one of her company namely Cook aboard her and seeing
her soe laden, and saith the said Arent Mar[?yesen] the said master
dwelleth at Amsterdam and was and is a subiect of the lords
the States of the United Netherlands, And otherwise hee cannot
depose.

To the third hee saith that the sayd shipp having receaved the goods
and Merchandizes predeposed on board her departed with the same in
September last from Porta Port intending to sayle therewith to he
port of discharge which was Amsterdam and in her Course thitherward about
the thirteenth day of the same moneth (old style) the sayd shipp sprange
soe great and incureable a leake that shee receaved soe much water
in thereat that sjhee and her ladeing and alsoe her Master and Company
were in great perill to founder in the sea and perish, which hee knoweth
being Cooke on board the sayd shipp And further to this article hee cannot
depose./

To the fowerth article hee saith that the Master and company of the sayd
shipp being much apalled with the great danger they were in by meanes
of the sayd leake and fearing they should be speedily cast away both
shipp and goods and loose their loves alsoe by meanes of the
sayd leake and perceiving the sayd shipp to be well neere filled with
water they in order to the better preservation of the saud shipp and her ladeing
and their owne lives did on or about the third of October last endeavour
to runne her, and did runne her a shoare neare a place in Sussex
called little hampton the premisses hee deposeth being a board and an eye
wittnesse thereof And further to this articvle hee cannot depose./

To the 5th article hee saith that in the night tyme of the same day
whereon the sayd shipp was soe runn on shoare the Master of her
went to Little hampton to get helpe the better to preserve the sayd shipp
and her ladeing and returned aboard the same night during whose
absence this deponent and most of the Company of the sayd shipp
continued on board her And further hee cannot depose/

To the 6th taht for that hee this deponent was then on board hee
knoweth that divers Countrey people (which as hee heard lived about
Little hampton aforesayd and the coast neere thereto adioyning) on the
4th day of October last (old style) came downe and findeing the sayd
shipp on shoare in such condition as before is expressed forcibly entred
upon the sayd shipp and cut her roapes and sayes and carried them and severall
of the goods on board her away notwithstanding this deponent and otherof