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deponent and Company seeing that a storme was neere approaching
and fearing that the sayd shipp and her ladeing if shee should continue
there moored by her Anchor might thereby receave great preiudice
did earnestly endeavour to weigh Anchor but the same haveing
fastned either in a rock or some old shipp that had bin there sunke
they could not loose the same though they earnestly endeavoured the
same from midnight next before, untill about tenn of the Clock in
the morning of the sayd twenty fowerth day of december and not
being able to loosen the same this deponent and Company were
necessitated in order to the preservation of the sayd shipp and her
ladeing to cut their Cable it being of about twenty one hundred
weight, by which meanes the sayd Cable and the Anchor and boye
roape thereof were utterly lost, which Anchor Cable and boye
roape at the tyme they were soe cutt for the necessary preservation
of the sayd shipp and ladeing from the violence of the storme
which forthwith ensued) were well worth threescore and tenn
pounds sterling/ And further to this article hee deposeth not:/

To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the
sayd shipp the Hope still remayning neere the Island of
Teneriff one of the Chanarie (sic) Islands to take in the remaynder
of her ladeing there came about the beginning of the moneth of
January arlate two Turkes men of warr who hovered up and
downe neere the sayd shipp hope, and fiered divers gunnes at
her, and shee againe at them, and dogged and watched the sayd
shipp with their boates all night longe having lanternes in
their boates the better to guide them to the sayd shipp hope and
in this manner soe farr as the darenesse of the night
would permitt them infested and molested the sayd Shipp soe that this
deponent and Company for the necessary preservation of her
and her ladeing from being surprized by them were endorced to
hyre and did hyre two Spanish boates with eight and twenty
men in Armes the better to defend the sayd shipp and goods against the
danger of the sayd two Turkes men of warr the hyre of which
boates and men cost this deponent sixe hundred Ryalls plate which is
in sterling money sixteene pounds seaventeene shillings and
six pence, which money this deponent procured to be deposited in
behalfe of this deponent by don Christovall da Alvarado a factor
and Correspondent there of the saiyd Antonio ffernandez Caravajall
and afterwards paid the same to him againe And further to this article hee deposeth not./

To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd shipp
continuieng still neere Oratava in the Island of Teneriff upon such
her Merchandizing imployment aforesayd, there happened on or
about the sixteenth day of January last a very great and violent
storme