| Transcription
|
ánd Ambrose Smith whilest the said vessell … ánd Ambrose Smith whilest the said vessell was at Shoram and before<br />
her proceeding thense on the said voyage, laded aboard her two hundred fiftie<br />
and seaven quarters of malt to be carried and transported in the<br />
said vessell to Bergen aforesaid, as alsoe a tonne of stronge beer, and<br />
saith they were both perpetually at the lading thereof, and managed and<br />
ordered such lading as for their owne account, and the said Smith embarqued<br />
himselfe therewith to goe merchant and to sell and dispose the<br />
said goods for their account and best advantage, yeelding a reason of<br />
his knowledge, for that hee was master as aforesaid, and received the<br />
said goods aboard.
To the fourth hee saith that after such the said vessells departure<br />
with the said malt and beere from Shoram, and being in prosecution<br />
of the said voyage for Bergen, and comming off harwich<br />
the weather being fowle and the seas high, shee was cast away and<br />
lost on a sand called the Sunck, on the nineteenth of this instant in<br />
the night, and all her said lading alsoe perished and was lost, and<br />
this deponent and company and the said mr Smith in exceeding greate<br />
danger of being alsoe cast away and drowned, and very [?hardly] escaping<br />
By which unhappie desaster hee saith the said howell and Smith<br />
lost utterly lost their interest and shares aforesaid in the said vessell, and<br />
alsoe all their said malt and beere, of this deponents sight and<br />
knowledge.
Robert harthly [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
*****************************
The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Peter Smith''' of Bright Hampson in the County of Sussex<br />
Sailor, aged 23 yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and examined<br />
as aforesaid.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew and was one of<br />
the company of the vessell the ''Endeavour'' of Arundell interrate, at<br />
the time of her last departure from Shoram and casting away hereunder<br />
mentioned. And saith shee departed from Shoram on the thirteenth instant<br />
bound on a voyage for Bergen in Norway, which hee knoweth being<br />
a foremast man of her and shipped at Shoram for the said voyage.
To the second hee saith hee well knoweth the interrate John howell and<br />
Ambrose Smith, and saith they were commonly reputed part owners<br />
of the said vessell and of her tackle and furniture at the time of<br />
such her departure and losse and hee beleeveth that they were soe, for<br />
that hee saw them disburse moneys for worke donne towards her<br />
fitting out on the said voyage, namely for Carpenters worke.
To the third hee saith that the said John howell and Ambrose Smith<br />
while the said vessell was soe at Shoram, intending her said voyage<br />
laded there aboard her upwards of two hundred and fiftie quarters<br />
of malt, and a tonne of strong beere, to be transported in the said<br />
vessell to Bergen aforesaid, and there to be disposed for their account<br />
by the said Ambrose Smith who embarqued himselfe therwith.<br />
The premises touching the said lading hee knoweth because hee was<br />
present at the same and helped in the stowage thereof.
Toame and helped in the stowage thereof.
To +
|
