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Transcription

To the 10th hee saith that before the sayd stormie weather happened the
shipp was pumped only twice or thrice in a day and that not above halfe
an hower at a tyme at most and saith that after the stormie weather the pumpe
was kept continually goeing./

To the 11th hee cannot answere, not knowing any thing of the contents thereof

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Tho Poollen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 16th day of March 1657

Examined on the sayd allegation/

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William Talmage of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and
County of Middlesex Shipp Carpenter aged twenty five yeares
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article hee saith that hee this deponent went Carpenter of the shipp
the Oporto Merchant the voyage in question which began in or about the
moneth of September 1656 at which tyme the arlate Joseph Careswell was
and still is Master of her and was and is alsoe Comonly reputed to bee a part
Owner of her and of her tackle apparrell and furniture And further
to this article hee cannot depose./

To the second article hee saith hee being Carpenter as aforesayd, and after
helpeing to stowe them knoweth that in the moneths and tyme arlate there
were divers chests of sugars and divers pipes and hogsheads of oyle lad[?en GUTTER]
aboard the sayd shipp the Oporto Merchant at Lisbon to be thence transported
and delivered at London, but the quantities either of sugars or oyles soe
laden or whome they were to be delivered to or who was to pay freight
and average for them or what freight or average was to be paid for them
hee knoweth not And therefore cannot further depose to this article/

To the 3 article hee saith hee being Carpenter as aforesayd well knoweth
that the Oporto Merchant when shee receaved in the sayd sugars and oyles
was a strong shipp and fitt to carry Merchants goods from port to port
and for that hee this deponent helped to dennage the sayd shipp
and stowe the goods there laden aboard her hee knoweth the sayd shipp was well
dennaged with ballast and bavins upon that, and the goods taken in well and
carefully stowed thereupon but saith that in the says shipps passage from
Lisbon to London shee mett with very stormie and tempestious weather whereby
shee was in eminent danger of having her masts carried by the board
and did splitt her mizen sayle, and was in great danger of being cast away
both shipp and goods, and her Master and Company for the better preservation of
her and her ladeing were forced to lett her drive before the winde sometymes
without any sayle and sometymes with only a mizen sayle which
notwithstanding the force of the fowle weather was soe great that the
shipp sometymes laye on the one side and tooke in water over her
side And hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that
had not the sayd shipp mett with such stormie and badd weather
shee had brought home her ladeing well conditioned, and that hee verily beleeveth that the
stormie weather was the cause of whatsoever dammage is happened [to GUTTER]
[XXXX GUTTER]

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