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paper did not lye upon the salt and furthe … paper did not lye upon the salt and further he cannot answere/
To the 3 hee saith hee knoweth that there was goods damage of boards and matter both<br />
under the paper laden a board the sayed ship and at the ends thereof betweene the<br />
salt and it this he knoweth saving the same laden and unladen and knoweth of noe<br />
damage which the sayd paper received, and saith he knoweth not that the sayd<br />
paper was inspected or viewed before the unladeing thereof, nor knoweth to whome<br />
the sayd paper belonged And further he cannot answere./
Repeated before John Godolphin
per Jam: Aysough [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation
'''Rp. 2us'''
'''John Hoppell''' of Ratclifff Mariner thirty yeares<br />
or therabouts a witness sworn and examined saith as<br />
followeth videlicet./
To the first second third and 4 th articles of the sayd allegation he saith that<br />
he this deponent being Master and Commander of a shipp called the ''Bettie'' of Kingsale<br />
in Ireland was at sea taken by certayne Brest men of warr and carried into<br />
Galisia in the King of Spaines dominion and from thence travailed by<br />
land into ffrance to Rochell and from thence came a passenger home<br />
for England in the arlate ship the ''Willing mynde'' and saith she came<br />
from the Island of Saint Maytine neere Rochell in company of other Merchants shipps on the 25th day of March last under convoy of the ''Saphire'' and ''Constant Warwick'' arlate for<br />
prevention of danger of being taken by dunkirke man of warr and the<br />
men of warr enemies of this nation, And saith that in her course toward<br />
England found stormy weather happened, and the sayd Convoyes so being<br />
shorte of victualls made what haste they could for the coast of England<br />
and the shipp ''Willing mynde'' was thereby forced to beare sayle then<br />
ordinary, to keepe company with the sayd convoyes, and thereby prevent danger of being taken by man of war, and he saith the sayd shipp the ''Willing''<br />
''Minde'' (though she were otherwise of this deponents sight and observation a<br />
a stronge and tight shipp) by reason meerely of her bearing sayle to<br />
keepe company with the sayd Convoyes and by reason of the weather was som what<br />
stormie was [XXXX] and did receive water into her holds, which the Master and Company could<br />
not prevent although they kept the pumpe continually goeing and did their<br />
true endeavour of this deponents sight and knowledge to prevent all damage<br />
which might happend to any of their ladeing, soe that hee is well assured<br />
that the if any damage happened to any of her ladeing it was not through<br />
any defect or fault of the shipp, nor of her Master and company, but only<br />
by her being strayned with bearing over much sayle, which shee was then constreyned<br />
to doe, to keepe the company of the sayd Convoyes or else to runne the hazard<br />
of looseing both shipp and ladeing by being surprized by men of warr enemyes<br />
of this nation, And hee saith he this deponent having bin a mariner these sixteene<br />
or 17 yeares, and a Master of a shipp for about fower yeares of that tyme well knoweth<br />
that shipps (though they be never soe staunch otherwise) yet if they be forced to beare<br />
sayle more than ordinary to keepe company with Convoyes though the weather bee<br />
not very tempestious but only such weather as the ''Willing Mynde'' mett with yet<br />
mayling Mynde'' mett with yet<br />
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