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danger of perishing in the sea in soemuch … danger of perishing in the sea in soemuch that this deponent (a passenger)<br />
and all the company expected every [?moment] to be cast away, and albeit hee<br />
this deponent hath bin often at sea and in very greate danger, yet<br />
never thought himselfe in soe greate as then; and saith that by the said<br />
storme shee was driven upon the coast of Jutland, where (according<br />
to the report there current) there were and had bin an hundred and<br />
nineteene shipps and vessells cast away by the same storme. And there<br />
hee saith the said shipp came to an anchor on or about the third of October<br />
aforesaid, and rode upon life and death<br />
till towards evening, and then (the winde comming about) [?weighing GUTTER]<br />
and on or about the fifth of the same moneth shee got into ffleckery<br />
in Norway, whether shee was constrained to put by fowle weather<br />
which hee knoweth being present and seeing the same.
To th third hee saith that the said shipp againe afterwards in the said<br />
moneth of October set saile from ffleckery to prosecute her voyage for<br />
London, and commeing about the dogger sand shee met with another<br />
very violent storme with the winde at West South West or<br />
thereabouts which storme was of longe continuance, and by meanes<br />
thereof the rudder of the said shipp became loose and hung but<br />
by one hooke and a rope, and the decks were severall times filled<br />
with water and often the water came into the cabbin, and saith<br />
that againe the shipp, master and company were put in<br />
danger of perishing in the sea by the said storme, and at last<br />
they were forced back againe to ffleckery, where by reason of<br />
contrary windes shee was constrained to remaine about a fortnight,<br />
which hee knoweth being driven thither in her. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose, saving shee there had her rudder indifferently<br />
well repaired.
To the fourth hee saith that on or about the tenth day of<br />
November last 1655 the said shipp againe set saile from<br />
ffleckery for London, which hee knoweth because hee set saile in her<br />
company in an English shipp, which steered a more windward course,<br />
soe that they shortly parted, and this deponent sawe her noe more<br />
till afterwards that shee came up into the River of Thames, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth hee saith that the said shipp the ''Saint Jacob'' at the time of<br />
her setting upon the said voyage was a strong tight and staunch shipp<br />
and fit for the same, and the master and company in all the said stormes<br />
which happened while this deponent was onboard her did their utmost<br />
endeavour by plying the pump and otherwise to see that the goods<br />
might be to their utmost preserved from dammage, and in case<br />
any dammadge hath happened unto them hee beleeveth the same came<br />
by [?XXXXXX] stormes, and not by any faut of the master and<br />
company or defect or or in the shipp. And otherwise cannot depose in the shipp. And otherwise cannot depose +
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