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áged 26 yeares or thereabouts sworne and e … áged 26 yeares or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that in or about the moneth of August last past, the said shipp<br />
the ''ffortune'' at Dantzicke received and tooke in her lading of clapboard<br />
wainscot and packs to be transported to this port of London, which goods hee<br />
saith were well and carefully stowed and dannaged for their preservation<br />
from dammage; and that having soe received the same on board,<br />
namely in or about the said moneth of August last the said shipp with<br />
the said goods in her shee sailed and departed from Dantzike for<br />
this port of London, and that in her course of proceeding, shee<br />
met with severall greate stormes, and very much fowle and tempestuous<br />
weather whereby she shipt much sea water, and by that meanes all<br />
such dammage as hath befallen any of the said goods the said voyage,<br />
came and happened, and not by any insufficiencie of her said shipp<br />
which hee saith from the time of her first entrance upon the<br />
said voyage a very tight strong and sufficient shipp, and fitt for<br />
the said voyage, nor did such dammage happen by any default or<br />
neglect of or in the the master and company or any of them, who hee<br />
saith did all use their utmust diligence all the said voyage to prevent<br />
the said dammage voyage. All which hee deposeth and knoweth, being one of the<br />
said shipps company, and seeing the lading of the said goods and<br />
helping to steeve the same, and seeing them soe dennaged, and<br />
comming all the said voyage in the said shipp. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee this deponent was a common man of the<br />
said ships company the said voyage, and otherwise referrs himselfe to this<br />
foregoing deposition.
To the second hee referreth himselfe to this foregoing deposition.
To the third hee saith the wooden merchandize was stored lowermost and then<br />
matts laid thereon and then the packs stowed on the said wooden goods and matts<br />
and matts again laid over the packs, and otherwise as aforesaid.
To the fourth hee saith the said shipp sprung one leake the said voyage<br />
upon which she was about 15 weekes between Dantzike and London, and<br />
saith that comming into the North sea, she got the company of a<br />
shipp of Dantzike which came then out of Norway, in which company she<br />
came up into the River of Thames. And otherwise cannot answer saving<br />
as aforesaid.
To the fifth hee saith that the dammadge befallen the lading of the said<br />
shipp, came and happened by water shipt and received above in the ship<br />
by the seas washing over and upon her decke and thense went and rann<br />
belowe, and not by any leakinnesse belowe, and otherwise hee referreth<br />
himselfe to the foregoing deposition
To the 6th hee saith the hatches were close and firme and well covered<br />
and by a tarpalling that was close nailed downe over the said hatches.
To the 7th hee hath not soe deposed.
'''H i Z''' [MARKE OF HEDRICK ZULICK]ed.
'''H i Z''' [MARKE OF HEDRICK ZULICK] +
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