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likewise of a spare sparr remayning aboard … likewise of a spare sparr remayning aboard her they made<br />
a Mizen Mast, and could have made a fore topp mast alsoe of other provisions<br />
in the sayd shipp if the sayd Maples their Master would have suffered them<br />
soe to doe, which Jury mast and Mizen Mast being made and the storme over<br />
the winde stood fayne for the sayd shipp to proceede on her voyage<br />
to the Straights and soe to Naples and also to goe for Spaine or Portugall<br />
whereupon the sayd shipps company pressed and desyred their sayd Master that<br />
hee would proceede on the sayd voyage to Naples or else make to some port<br />
of Spaine or Portugall to make market of the fish on board, which hee might<br />
then have done, the winde being fayre, and serving to goe to any of the sayd<br />
places as well as to come for London, and the sayd shipp being then as neere<br />
the Straights Spaine and Portugall as England, and might with as little stresse<br />
to the sayd shipp have gone for any of the sayd places as to England, but the<br />
sayd Master (although hee saw other shipps who were in the<br />
Company of the ''Thomas and Lucie'' and had spent their mayne masts in the sayd<br />
strome and receaved as much damage thereby as the ''Thomas and Lucie'' had done)<br />
did steere their course, some towards the Streights, some towards Spaine, in<br />
prosecution of their intended voyages, yet hee the sayd Maples would not<br />
consent and yeild that the shipp ''Thomas and Lucie'' should proceede on her voyage<br />
to Naples, or make to any port of Spaine or Portugall to sell her fish on<br />
board, but sayd that the sayd shipp ''Thomas and Lucie'' had receaved soe<br />
much damage by the sayd storme that her ladeing of goods would not<br />
suffice to repayre her in those parts, and that hee would goe for England<br />
that his owners might see what damage was happened to his sayd shipp and<br />
to her ladeing of ffish on board her and soe compelled his sayd shipps company<br />
to sayle for England, which they in obedience to his commands did, and safely<br />
arrived at Bristoll not being able to gett to Plymouth which the sayd Master and<br />
company endeavoured to have done, And further hee cannot depose saving hee<br />
saith hee hath heard that some of the shipps which were in company of the ''Thomas''<br />
''and Lucie'' and damnified by the sayd storme in manner predeposed, did arive safely<br />
one of them in Spaine and an other in Portugall and there made their marketts<br />
of the ffish they had then on board and are since returned safe one of them to<br />
Plymouth, and an other of them to London, the premisses hee deposeth being one of<br />
the company of the shipp ''Thomas and Lucie'' and an eye and eare witnes of the things<br />
by him positively and of his knowledge deposed and having credibly heard the rest/
To the 8th and 9th hee saith the sayd shipp ''Thomas and Lucie'' being as aforesayd arrived<br />
at Bristoll the company thereof did by the Comand of their sayd Master William<br />
Maples there unlade all the ffish taken into her at Newfound land (except what<br />
was throwne over board as aforesayd) and afterwards did by his like comand<br />
receave soe much of the same ladeing againe on board the sayd shipp as was<br />
dry and well conditioned and other drye fish sent therewith aboard her, and therewith<br />
departed from Bristoll with intente to prosecute her first intended voyage for<br />
Naples and Lepro, but after they had bin two or three dayes at Sea a great<br />
storme arose the violence whereof brake divers of the beames of the sayd shipp<br />
and soe bruised her that shee became very leakie and tooke in soe much water<br />
that the company with exceeding great paines at the pumpe could hardly<br />
keepe her above water, and the master and company of her seeing what danger<br />
they were in were constrayned in order to the preservation of her, her ladeing<br />
and their owne lives, to returne againe to Bristoll, whether being come the<br />
sayd shipps company by their sayd Masters order unladed the sayd shipp [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
theirsayd shipp [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
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