HCA 13/72 f.513v Annotate

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storme the winde being then at North west soe that it was a thing
all togeather impossible for the sayd shipp in such weather to ride
at Anchor in the Roade of Oratava with[out]
perishing both shipp and ladeing and the lives of her Company where[?fore]
this deponent for the necessary preservation of her and her ladeing
and his and his Companyes lives was forced to lett slipp his Cable
which was of about two and thirty hundred weight and by that
meanes lost their Anchor Cable and boy roape which hee
saith at the tyme of such their looseing were well worth fowerscore
and thirteene pounds sterling at the least, this hee deposeth of [?XXXX]
and certayne knowledge being Master and aboard her And further
to this article hee deposeth not./

To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith the saud shipp
hope still continueing in the Roade of Oartava upon her sayd
merchandizing imployment there did upon or about the eight and
twentieth day of the sayd Moneth of January last 1657 arise
an other very violent storme whereby the sayd shipp and
her ladeing shee had aboard her were in great danger
and this deponent and his Company for the necessary preservation
of her and her ladeing from the danger thereof were forced to
lett slipp their Cable they then rode by which cable was of about
thirty hundred weight, by which meanes the sayd Cable Anchor
and boy roape (which were then worth at the least fowerscore
and seaven pounds sterling) were utterly lost This hee deposeth of
right and certayne knowledge being Master and aboard her And further
to this article hee deposeth not./

To the 5th hee saith that hee well knoweth that at such tyme as the
said shipp the hope was soe mett with and assaulted by the sayd
two Turkes men of warr neere the Island of Teneriff as shee
was in prosecution of her sayd Merchandizeing designe on
or about the beginning of January 1657 English style the sayd shipp
had on board her for Accompt of the sayd ffernandez and other
her freighters the underladers forty five pipes of Canary wyne and one
thousand three hundred West India hydes the sayd wine at [?two]
pounds sterling per pipe (which hee is well assured they were
worth and more) being worth and amounting to nyne hundred
and tenn pounds sterling or thereabouts and the sayd hydes (at forty
shillings sterling a hyde, which was the least they were worth) being
worth and amounting to two thousand sixe hundred pounds sterling
or thereabouts, this hee the better knoweth for that hee signed bills of
ladeing for the sayd wyne and hydes after they were laden aboard her
And further to this article hee deposeth not./

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