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and her boate (which the master had bought … and her boate (which the master had bought instead of the former that was<br />
soe lost) beaten to peeces; After all which adversities,<br />
hee saith the said shipp arived at or under the foreland and soe to this<br />
port in this her last voyage. All which hee knoweth for the reasons<br />
aforesaid. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the ''Saint''<br />
''Jacob'' at the time of her entrance upon the said voyage was a tight<br />
strong and staunch shipp and fit for the performance thereof; and<br />
saith that in and during the said stormes and the whole terme of the<br />
voyage, the master and company of the said vessell were very<br />
deligent and carefull to look to the pump, and to keep and preserve<br />
the vessell and goods laden aboard her, drie and well conditioned,<br />
and used their utmost endeavour therein, soe that if any<br />
dammage hath befallen the goods that were in the said shipp or any<br />
of them in the said voyage, hee saith the sae soe happened<br />
and befell them by reason of the said stormes and tempests, and<br />
not by any insufficiencie of the said shipp or default or neglect of<br />
the master and company or any of them. And this hee saith was and<br />
is true and notorious, And hee yeeldeth a reason of his knowledge as<br />
aforesaid.
To the sixth hee saith that the linnens or [?clothes ?canvass] arlate which were<br />
brought in the said shipp to this port of London, came aboard her<br />
at Lieba aforesaid in an open boate in fowle and rainie<br />
weather, and had received very much wett by raine and stormie weather<br />
in the said boates passage from shoare to bring them aboard whcih was<br />
two English miles at the least, and came very wet aboard by reason<br />
of raine and water falling and beating in upon them. And further<br />
that (as it was commonly there said) they had bin saved out of a shipp<br />
that was wrecked, and saith that whatsoever dammage is found<br />
to be in or to have happened to the said linnens, the same was caused<br />
by the wet and dampnes they had received before they came aboard<br />
the said shipp, and came not by any insufficiencie of or in the shipp<br />
or default or negligence of or in the master or any of his company<br />
which hee knoweth seeing the said linnen come aboard in such<br />
conditiomn as aforesaid, and being aboard and out of the said shipps<br />
company all the said voyages And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories.
To the first Interrogatorie hee answereth that hee this deponent performed the office both of<br />
Cooke and Purser aboard the said shipp the said voyage, and that in case the<br />
dammage could be made to appeare to have happened through the companies defaultave happened through the companies default +
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