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to the 3 hee saith hee was not at the lade … to the 3 hee saith hee was not at the ladeing of the paper Interrogate but sawe<br />
it after it was laden, and knoweth it was stowed before and abaft and not upon<br />
the salt, but what damage was betwixt it and the salt hee remembreth not but<br />
remembreth there was damage betweene the same, and saith hee sawe part of the<br />
sayd paper unladen, and saith hee knoweth not whether the same was<br />
viewed before it was unladen, but saith hee heard noe fault found with<br />
any of it till it was delivered on shoare, nor knoweth what dammage is<br />
done thereunto. And further he cannot answere/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
John: hassall [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''3us'''
'''John Vincent''' of Ratcliff mariner aged twenty<br />
three yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as following videlicet./
To the first second third and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith<br />
that hee this deponent during the voyage in Question was Masters second<br />
Mate and Purser of the shipp the ''Willing mynde'' and knoweth that before at the<br />
tyme shee sett sail from Saint Martines in ffrance in Company of divers<br />
other merchants shipps shee was a strong and a tight ship, and had before<br />
her setting out from thense (which was on the 25th of March last bin newly<br />
caulked graved and trimmed soe that shee was in a very tight and good condition -<br />
And saith shee came thense under convoy of the ''Saphir'' and ''Constant''<br />
''Warwick'' arlate to avoide the danger of being surprised and taken by dunkirke<br />
and other men of warr enymies of this nation, and that in her passage upon<br />
the 27th and 28th of dayes of the sayd moneth the weather proved somewhat<br />
stormy and the sayd shipp that shee might keep company with her<br />
sayd Convoyes (who as they sayd were very short of provisions and did<br />
desyre and had of this deponents knowledge provisions out of the shipps<br />
under their Convoy and therefore made the greater haste to gaine the Coast<br />
of England) did beare more sayle than ordinary, by meanes whereof<br />
and the fowle weather togeather hee saith the sayd shipp became leakie was<br />
strayned and became leakie and tooke water into<br />
her hold notwithstanding the master and Company of her did do their<br />
utmost endeavour by continually plying the pumps to preserve her<br />
ladeing from any damage, so that what damage did<br />
happen to any of her ladeing this deponent is well assured that the<br />
same happened only by the sayd shipps bearing extraordinary sayle to<br />
keepe company with the sayd Convoyes and by the storminesse of the weather<br />
and not through any defect of the shipp aforesayd or of the Master and<br />
Company of her in performing their duties, and this deponent saith that since<br />
her comming to harbour since the sayd voyage the sayd shipp hath continued soe tight and stanch<br />
that shee hath not stood neede of pumping in five or sixe dayes togeather<br />
(nor hath not bin pumped in soe long tyme togeather as this deponent hath bin informed<br />
by her company) And hee saith hee this deponent having bin a Mariner<br />
foronent having bin a Mariner<br />
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