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that it blew the foresayle from the yard a … that it blew the foresayle from the yard and the shipps company<br />
had much a doe to save the mayne sayle from being blowne away<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 10th article hee saith that hee this deponent being one of the ''Unities''<br />
Company and abord knoweth that shee notwithstanding the sayd<br />
storme held on her course for Virginia and afterwards in such her<br />
course mett with the arlate shipp the ''Mathew'' of London (the arlate<br />
Mr ffox Commander of her, which shipp) as hee afterwards understood<br />
when shee arrived at Antegoe was bound for Virginia but foreced into<br />
Antegoe to preserve her selfe and ladeing) And saith that about two dayes<br />
after the ''Unitie'' and shee soe mett at sea which was in the moneth of<br />
November 1654 (the certaine day hee remembreth not) there happened<br />
a very violent storme which continued for many dayes togeather<br />
by meanes whereof the Unitie and her master and Company lost the company<br />
of the ''Mathew'' and sawe her noe more till about the moneth of ffebruary<br />
next after at Antego whether shee came for preservation from the stormie<br />
weather and to fitt her selfe to goe thense for Virginia And further to this<br />
article hee cannot depose./
To the 11th 12th 13th 14th and 15th articles hee saith that in the moneth of<br />
November aforesayd and after they had lost the company of the ''Mathew'' the sayd Company with the shipp ''Unitie'' still holding<br />
on their course for Virginia did discover a shipp at Sea (which as they after=<br />
wards heard was called the ''hopefull Luke'' and as they by like report heard<br />
was bound for Yorke River in Virginia, but perished upon the Coast of Bermu=<br />
das by stormie weather) but by reason of the stormie weather which<br />
still continued they could not come neere her, but lost her company soone<br />
after they discovered her, And the ''Unitie'' and her company still continueing<br />
their course for Virginia the storme still continued with great furie<br />
and the sea wrought exceeding high by reason of the forcible winde<br />
that blew; and there was alsoe much thunder and lightning and<br />
much snowe and hayle and very tempestious weather in soe much that the<br />
sea often brake in and ranne with great violense into the shipp ''Unitie''<br />
and staved some of her Caske wherein her fresh water and beere was<br />
kept and spoiled a great part of her bread, and most of the shooes (sic) stock[ins GUTTER]<br />
cloathes and bedds aboard provided for the use of the servants of the sayd Jefferies<br />
and Lewellin and alsoe what goods the sayd Moulson had aboard for his<br />
owne Accompt, and the storme continued with soe great violense<br />
that the shipps Company and the servants or passengers expected every<br />
moment that the shipp would sinke, and the Carpenter<br />
or his mate and some others of the passengers and of the Mariners, came<br />
up from betweene decks and sayd the shipp was sinkeing, and this<br />
deponent well knoweth that the sayd shipp was soe bruised and shaken<br />
with the sayd tempest that her forechaynes were washed away and part<br />
of her sheathing, and her mayne chaynes and her bulke heads and<br />
some of her false bonds and other bonds, and some of her standers gave way<br />
and started and her mayne knoll gave way from the stemme, and other<br />
of from the stemme, and other<br />
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