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from about fower of the clock in the morni … from about fower of the clock in the morning of Sonday the sixteenth of Sep=<br />
tember last till about tenn of the clock at night next ensueing and<br />
was soe extreame violent during that tyme that the sea washed over<br />
the sayd shipp very often with such violence that shee was in great danger<br />
to be overwhelmed and perish therein, and hee saith that soe great the seas force<br />
was which brake in upon her that a sheate Anchor which was fast lashed<br />
to the side of the shipp was by the force thereof heaved into the sayd shipp and<br />
the boate belonging to the sayd shipp droven cleere<br />
over the sayd shipp and three packs of wooll lyeing upon the quarter deck<br />
washed into the sea, and two of the sayd shipps company washed off<br />
into the sea one from the decks and an other from the mayne yarde, one<br />
of which men was by Gods mercie recovered on shipp board, and the other<br />
perished in the sea and hee saith that by reason the sayd Anchor and boate were<br />
heaved into the shipp with such violence they brake the shipps wales and<br />
her waste board, and a Cabbin upon the deck, and by the violence of the seas<br />
workeing over the sayd shipp the seames of her upper deck were soe strayned<br />
that they opened, by meanes whereof shee receaved much water at<br />
those open seames And the Master and company perceiving what great<br />
danger they were in and fearing that they should perish did for their better<br />
preservation of their lives and of the shipp and her ladeing voluntarily heave<br />
over board an Anchor a mayne yard a topp mast a mayne sayle and other<br />
things that laye aboard deck to the end that the sea which<br />
beate in might have the freer passage out, the premisses hee deposeth for<br />
the reasons aforesayd And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 4th hee saith that hee well knoweth<br />
that the shipp ''Conrard'' was a tight and strong shipp saving for<br />
her seames of her deck which were strayned and opened by the violence<br />
of the storme, and knoweth shee continued tight and stanch after the<br />
sayd storme, and that what damage is happened to her sayd ladeing<br />
happened only by reason of the violence of the sayd storme and not<br />
by any defect of the sayd shipp or fault of the Master and company<br />
of her who all performed their duties diligently and faithfully<br />
to preserve the sayd shipp and her ladeing soe much as they could from<br />
damage And hee this deponent is verily perswaded and beleeveth<br />
that if the sayd shipp had not bin tight and stanch and a strong shipp<br />
it had not bin possible for her and her ladeing to have escaped perishing<br />
in the sea And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
William<br />
Collquitt [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Collquitt [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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