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The 23th of November 1654. [CENTRE HEADING … The 23th of November 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''6.'''
'''William Wilmore''' of the parish of Saint Buttolph without<br />
Algate London Mariner aged two and thirtie yeares or<br />
thereabouts, sworne and examined as aforesaid, saith<br />
and deposeth by vertue of his oath.
That hee this deponent hath well knowne the shipp the ''Angelo''<br />
''Custoda'' (whereof Stephano Romanello was late Commander)<br />
for theise foure or five yeares last having severall times seene her at Venice in that space, And saith<br />
that Signor Peter Jenardi gentleman of Venice, was here in this citie<br />
in the summer time last past, and having acquaintance with<br />
this deponent hee told this deponent here in London severall times in the<br />
monethes of May and June last that hee expected to have newes of the said<br />
shipp the ''Angelo Custoda'' which hee said was comming from Venice<br />
for hamborough laden with brimstone, Rice, Currans and other<br />
goods, and that hee was owner of the said shipp and goods, and that being upon his departure<br />
from hence for Amsterdam, hee tooke order with this deponent<br />
being a Mariner, that if shee arived or touched at any place<br />
in England, hee this deponent upon notice thereof should god downe<br />
to her and goe aboard her to pilot her to her port and to be sopracargo<br />
and have a care of the Merchants goods aboard her, and then<br />
the said Signor Jenardi in or about the beginning of July last departed<br />
from England to goe for Amsterdam; And from that time this deponent [?harkening]<br />
after the said shipps arivall, hee had newes here in London<br />
in August last that on the seaventeenth day (old stile0<br />
of the said moneth shee was arived in the downes; whereupon<br />
the 18th day of the said moneth this deponent accompanied with<br />
his precontest Lawrance Paganoni went downe for dover,<br />
where ariving hee understood that<br />
the said shipp was in greate danger through a storme shee had met with and was comming from the downes<br />
for dover upon life and death, and thereupon this deponent going<br />
to the Peir, hee sawe the said shipp the ''Angelo Custoda''<br />
sitting and striking very [?sorely] upon the sands<br />
within the Peir head whether shee was forced to come to save the lives<br />
of the men, and sawe that shee had lost her cables and anchors<br />
and was in a pittifull torne condition being haled inn<br />
with a cable made fast unto her and to the shore, and saith that after sgee<br />
was soe come in, hee this deponent went aboard her and<br />
understood by the companie that shee had received in soe<br />
much water, and was soe splitt and brake that they<br />
woud not venter their lives any further in herm howbeit<br />
this deponent perswaded them that shee<br />
being repaired soe as too be able to goe to London<br />
they would bring her thither whereunto with much [?XXX] they<br />
condiscended, and saith after her arivall in the port of<br />
London arivall in the port of<br />
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