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The thirteenth of October 1655. [CENTRE HE … The thirteenth of October 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of the Executors of}<br />
Captaine John Wordsworth touching}<br />
a losse in the ''hopefull Luke''}
'''Rp.'''
'''Isaac Howe''' of Ratcliff in the County of<br />
Middlesex Mariner, aged 30 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne before the right woshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes<br />
one of the Judges of the high Court of the<br />
Admiraltie and examined upon certaine<br />
Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said<br />
Executors, deposeth as followeth.
To the first hee saith hee well knew the shipp the ''hopefull Luke''<br />
of London whereof John Wadsworth was Commannder, at such time<br />
as shee went last thence on a voyage for Virginia, whence shee was to<br />
retourne to this port of London, and saith hee was masters mate<br />
of her the said voyage.
To the second hee saith that while the said shipp lay and was in this<br />
port of London preparing for the said voyage there were severall<br />
goods and merchandizes laden aboard her for the sole and proper account<br />
of the said John Wordsworth, to be carried and transported in the said<br />
shipp to Virginia aforesaid, namely foure and fowrtie cases of<br />
strong waters, two truncks containing severall sorts of merchandize<br />
(saving some wearing apparell of his owne that were amongest them)<br />
and five servants and some other small things which hee doth not<br />
remember. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the said merchandize<br />
in the said truncks consisted of linnens, and two silke gownes and two silke petticotes<br />
and some other goods of good valew.
To the third article hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp on or<br />
about the eleaventh of September last was twelve moneth departed from<br />
Gravesend with all the said goods and merchandizes of the said Wordsworth<br />
aboard her, intending directly as winde and weather would permit<br />
to saile to Virginia, but in her course hee saith shee met with<br />
much fowle stormy thicke and tempetupus weather, which forced her upon the<br />
Barmunda's, where shee was on or about the twelveth ay of december<br />
last forced upon the rocks and shortly after staved in peeces and<br />
cast away,<br />
notwithsatnding all the<br />
care and diligence of the master and company for her preservation, and<br />
saith the said Wordsworths goods were then aboard her, but they were<br />
preserved and brought ashore at Barmundas namely 44 cases of<br />
stronge waters and the said two truncks of goods, which strong waters the<br />
said [?wadsworth] sold at Barmundas, and [?part] of some callicoes out of<br />
the truncks, and that the rest of the goods remayning in the truncks<br />
with his Instruments and clothes were by this deponent and one John<br />
Springe [?praised] at Barnundas at 103 ''li'' and some odd moneys,<br />
and saith the said goods (soe afterwards appraised) were left there by the said [?wadsworth] with<br />
his attorney or agent Thomas Richards. And for the said servantsThomas Richards. And for the said servants +
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