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Provisions Masters and Mariners Cloaths, W … Provisions Masters and Mariners Cloaths, Which the premisses<br />
this deponent knoweth by sadd experience as being present at and aboard<br />
the said shipp ''Successe'' at the time of the diasater predeposed. And<br />
further cannot depose:-/
To the 4th hee saith, That the said Vessell ''Successe'' having received the blow<br />
aforesaid, and the Master and Company thereof being in a very imminent<br />
danger of their lives cryed out to the Company of the said shipp ''dove''<br />
to assist them in the preservation of their lives, but the saod ''doves'' Company<br />
sailed away leaving this deponent and Company to the mercie of the Seas, not<br />
answereing anything at all to the cries or complaints aforesaid, they con=<br />
ceiving. as this deonent in Conscience beleevet, that the saod ''Successes''<br />
Company must of necessitie bee drowned and perish in the Sea, and that<br />
by that meanes no discovery might be made of the injury by them done<br />
as aforesaid. The premisses hee deposeth upon the precedent grounds And<br />
further cannot depose:-/
To the 5th hee saith, That presently after the said disaster, the arlate david<br />
Adamson the Master and Company of the said Vessell ''Successe'' gott into their<br />
boate for the preservation of their lives, and continued in the same about three<br />
howres without any provisions and then by Gods providence they mett with a hoy<br />
or Vessell bound for NewCastle, which received them aboard and brought them<br />
to Newcastle, Which hee well knoweth upon the grounds predeposed:- And further<br />
cannot depose:-/
To the 6th hee saith, That the said Master and Companie of the ''Successe'' arrived<br />
at NewCastle after the losse of their said shipp upon or about the 10th or 11th of<br />
August <u>1654:-</u> where they found the said Vessell the ''dove'', and according to the<br />
credible report of the said Adamson the Master of the ''Successe'' and of Andrew<br />
Chrissi his precontest, the Master of the said Vessell the ''dove'' was summoned and<br />
did appeare before the Maior of New-Castle concerning the dammage done<br />
as aforesaid, and that the said Vessell the ''dove'' was then repairing at<br />
Newcastle for some hurt shee had received in her bowe by a mischance happened<br />
to her in her then late Course for NewCastle, And further cannot depose?:
To the 7th hee saith, That this deponent and others of the Companie of the said<br />
shipp ''Successe'' did at the time of the disaster aforesaid perceive and observe<br />
that the said shipp which had done them the iniury had the resemblance of an<br />
Angell in her head, and afterwards at Newcastle, saw and observed upon her<br />
the same resemblance, and the picture or resemblance of a ''dove'' in her stearne<br />
and foth in Conscience beleeve the said Vessell the ''dove'', (Walter Cable Master)<br />
to be one and the selfe same shipp which did the injury and dammage to the<br />
''Successe'' as is predeposed. And further cannot depose.
To the 8th hee saith, That the said Vessell ''Successe'' being of the burthen of about<br />
100. tunnes, and about three yeares old and very well provided with very good<br />
tackle and furniture was in this deponents judgement worth about 400 ''li''<br />
sterling and beleeveth her lading of coales aboard her at the time of her<br />
said disaster were worth about 100 ''li'' sterling with about 5. or 6. firkins<br />
of butter, which together with the Cloathes and necessaries of the said<br />
Master and Company were in this deponents judgement really worth 20 ''li''<br />
sterling or thereabouts. And further hee saith hee cannot depose/. And further hee saith hee cannot depose/ +
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