| First transcribed
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13 March 2014 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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49 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/65 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Requires image; transcribed on 13/03/2014 +
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| Transcription
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The 30th day of August 1651.
ffarington a … The 30th day of August 1651.
ffarington against the shipp the<br />
''Arke'' and against Haward and<br />
Company interressted therein.
Examined upon the Libell and schedule given and exhibited<br />
on the behalfe of the said ffarington.
'''Rp. jus'''
'''John Hart''' of Radriffe in the County of Surrey<br />
Marriner aged 4[?0] yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and Examined. deposeth
To the first and second articles of the said Libell hee saith and deposeth<br />
that within the tyme allegate the ''Arke'' arlate which was well<br />
knowne unto this deponent being out upon a tradeing voyage<br />
in the parts beyond the Seas and as shee was proceeding from Candy<br />
for Zant was by Casualty forced upon<br />
the Rocks neare the Island of Zant upon which shee lay and<br />
stucke fast for diverse howers space together in great danger to<br />
bee utterly lost and cast away. the arlate William Hayward<br />
and his mate with others of the said ships company being<br />
ymediatly before that tyme deceased. And saith that<br />
such the necessity and danger of the said ship was soe generally<br />
taken Notice of att Zant by her being strucke or sett upon<br />
the said Rocke as that the arlate George ffarington the<br />
producent in this cause being an Englishe Marchant and then in those<br />
parts out of Love to his Countrey and to the Owners of the said ship<br />
(being English men) and to preserve the said ship from the inevitable<br />
ruine (if not prevented) which shee was fallen into hee did procure<br />
severall Masters of ships with Marriners and others with therein<br />
boats and vessells, and other necessaryes and materialls to gett the<br />
said shipp to leave off the said Rocks wereupon shee was soe<br />
fast sett. And saith that the said persons soe imployed with much<br />
hazard and difficulty did sett ffree the said ship and preserved<br />
her from splitting in pe[?e]ces and persishinge as otherwise without doubt<br />
shee had done. All which hee knoweth to bee true because<br />
hee this deponent being then Comander of the ship the<br />
''ffreindshippe'' was with the same att Zante when the said<br />
ship the ''Arke'' soe came thither and was there runne upon the<br />
Rocks as aforesaid and then sawe in what danher shee was<br />
and what care cost and paines there was taken and laid out<br />
by the said producent for the preservation thereof by whose meanes<br />
and [?perserverance] only shee was preserved from perishing and<br />
being quite splitt in peaces and lost. And further hee cannot depose.
To the third and fourth articles of the said Libell and to the<br />
schedule annexed hee saith and deposeth that assoone as the<br />
said ship the ''Arke'' was soe gott off the said Rockes as<br />
aforesaid shee appeared to this deponent and diverse<br />
othersis deponent and diverse<br />
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