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'''[?XX]'''
'''D.12.'''
The 30th day of … '''[?XX]'''
'''D.12.'''
The 30th day of October 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]
A busines of Examination of wittnesses concerning<br />
the dammage of goods susteyned in the shipp the}<br />
''Concord'' promoted by Richard Purvis and}<br />
Company Owners thereof against Edward}<br />
Badden William Travers and James Clarke}<br />
Cheeke}
Examined on an allegation arlate bearing<br />
date the 24th of October 1655 given in<br />
and admitted on the behalfe of the<br />
sayd Richard Purvis and Company./
'''Rp.'''
'''John Hawley''' of Linne in the County of Norfolk<br />
Mariner aged 30 yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first 2 and 3 articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee well knoweth<br />
for that hee went Gunner of her the same voyage that the arlate shipp the
''Concord'' in her last voyage was a stronge and tight shipp and that the<br />
Merchandizes and goods laden aboard her the sayd voyage were carefully and well stowed<br />
And saith hee well remembreth that upon Sunday the sixteenth day of September<br />
last past the sayd shipp off ff[?leckery] upon the Coast of Norway was about<br />
fower of the clock in the morning of the sayd day surprised with a very violent<br />
storme and tempest which continued with exceeding great violence<br />
for the space of about eighteene howers or better which storme<br />
during the sayd tyme was soe violent that by the force thereof the<br />
boate belonging to the sayd shipp did beate with such violence against the<br />
side of the sayd shipp being driven by the force of the sea that it<br />
brake downe the wales of the sayd shipp and by the continuall beateing<br />
of the sea upon the sayd shipp and washing over her decke the seames<br />
of her upper deck did open and give way whereby shee receaved very much<br />
water into her at the seames which were soe opened, and hee alsoe saith<br />
that by the violence of the seas soe washing over her shee lost her sayd<br />
boate and two of the sayd shipps company were washed off from the deck,<br />
one of which, with much difficulty gott againe on board and was preserved, and<br />
the other perished in the sea And hee further saith and deposeth that the Master<br />
and Company of the sayd shipp seeing the violence of the sayd storme and<br />
the great danger they were in by reason the sea runne soe often over<br />
their decks and fearing the sayd shipp would not bee able to resiste the violence<br />
thereof, but bee overwhelmed and perish therein, did for the better preservation of<br />
his owne and his sayd shipps Companyes lives voluntarily heave over<br />
board an Anchor, and a payre of grapplings, two [?boye] ropes, a topp<br />
mast, a mayne yarde and mayne sayle, this hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd<br />
as alsoe for that hee helped to stowe the goods laden on board her<br />
the saydds laden on board her<br />
the sayd +
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