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a wittnes produced, sworne and examined he … a wittnes produced, sworne and examined he<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth/
To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and<br />
saith that he the deponent being Cooke of the arlate<br />
shipp the ''Gilbert'' the voyage in question did well<br />
know that the arlate John Cobb, Mathew Jennings<br />
and allmost all the Mariners mentioned in the schedule<br />
arlate did enter into whole pay in the service of<br />
the sayd shipp upon the fifth day of Aprill 1656<br />
and did belong unto the sayd shipp unto her arrivall<br />
at hung Road neere Bristoll, which was about the<br />
latter end of January last past and that all they, the<br />
sayd Mariners, aswell the outward as inward bound<br />
voyage did doe and performe their severall duties and<br />
services in the sayd shipp, as faithfully and laboriously<br />
as men could possibly doe or performe, And further<br />
he cannot depose.
To the second article he deposeth and saith that in the said shipps<br />
passage for the Barbathos the voyage arlate on or about<br />
the 24th of december 1656 in or about the degree of 24<br />
a greivous violent and outragious storme happned which<br />
continued about five days, and he saith that by reason<br />
of the violence of the sayd storme the shipps ˹side˺ did give<br />
way, and by the raging of the Seas the long boate<br />
of the sayd shipp was staved to peices, And the<br />
Deponent saith that in that extremity and imminent<br />
danger the Company of Mariners of the sayd shipp did<br />
continually pumpe, keeping two pumpes constantly going<br />
and did doe all that could possibly be done in working<br />
and labouring for the preservation of shipp, goods and<br />
lifes, All which were by the blessing of God upon their<br />
endeavours preserved, And further he cannot depose.
To the third article he deposeth that the shipp interrate was in<br />
her homeward bound voyage much overladen, and that by reason<br />
the shipp was soe stuffed with goods the Mariners could not<br />
(in the storme predeposed of) come to make use of the chaine pumpe<br />
arlate, and that the long boate of the sayd shipp being<br />
staved to peices as is predeposed, had not any other boate<br />
belonging to her, And further he cannot depose./
To the fourth and fifth articles of the sayd allegation he<br />
deposeth that about the 18th of January 1656 the shipp<br />
arrived at a unknowne place unto the Master<br />
and the Company of the sayd shipp, but indeed it proved<br />
afterwards to be Aberdee in Wales, and that the sayd<br />
shipp came there to an anchor in an Evening, and<br />
that when the day appeared the arlate Croford gave<br />
order for the weighing of the sayd shipps anchor and and to<br />
stand off to Sea, and that therupon the sayd shipps Mariners<br />
informed him of the shortnes of provisions then aboard the<br />
sayd shipp, and that there were noe more pumpe=boxes<br />
nor were noe more pumpe=boxes<br />
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