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like in effect take them aboard, and in ca … like in effect take them aboard, and in case they came to any<br />
casualty either by stresse of weather, or by being sett upon by<br />
enymiyes soe that yow bee forced to heave them over board, I will<br />
stand to the losse and dammage of it, upon which consideration and<br />
noe other the sayd croford at the sayd Bellingers entreaty<br />
caused the tackle to be put over and the sayd eight hogsheads of sugar<br />
to be hoysed aboard the sayd shipp where they were stowed betweene<br />
decks abaft the mast, the hatch way being before filled up with the<br />
shipps provision of water and other provisions and some fustick<br />
Cotton and sugar this hee knoweth for that hee helped<br />
to lower downe the sayd hogsheads betweene decks where they were stowed<br />
and sawe them there stowed some of them being stowed under this deponents Cabin<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith that the sayd hogsheads being<br />
by the importunitie of the sayd Bellinger (and upon such his promise<br />
to beare the losse and dammage of them if there were necessitie to heave<br />
them over board through fowle weather or to make use of their gunnes<br />
against enymyes) taken and stowed aboard the sayd shipp, shee sett<br />
sayle therwith from the Barbados bound for England, and in her<br />
course thitherward mett with a hurricane or extreame tempest<br />
which begain upon Christmas Eve one thousand six hundred fifty<br />
sixe and continued three or fower dates togeather with that violence<br />
that the seas brake over the shipp soe forcibly that it splitt the longe<br />
boate as it lay upon the deck and washed this deponent and others<br />
who were at the pumpe from it as farr as to the Cooke roome door,<br />
so that they had much a doe to save them selves from being washed<br />
over board and the Master and Company were in greate feare that the shipp and<br />
her ladeing and Company would sinke and perish in the sea though her<br />
company wrought hard with two pumpes and did their uttmost<br />
endeavour to preserve her whereupon it was upon serious consideration<br />
resolved by the Master and his three Mates and others of the shipps<br />
Company that the shipp must be lightned, and some of her ladeing<br />
Cast over board for preservation of the rest, whereupon the sayd<br />
eight hogsheads of sugar being neerest hand and lyeing most troublesome<br />
of any goods they were throwne over board to make roome to come<br />
at the hatch way and to come at other goods which were alsoe throwne ober<br />
board from betweene decks to lighten the shipp, all which was done out of absolute necessity<br />
for the preservation of the shipp and the rest of her ladeing and the lives of her<br />
Company and passengers And hee this deponent verily beleeveth that<br />
had not the sayd Bellinger promised the Master and Company as aforesayd<br />
that hee would beare all losse and dammage hapening to the sayd sugar either by meanes of storme<br />
or enymyes as aforesayd, the sayd Master and Company would not have receaved<br />
the sayd eight hogsheads of sugar aboard And further hee cannot depose/
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie the danger of periury being declared unto him hee saith hee as one of the Company of the shipp ''Gilbert'' the<br />
passengers<br />
Andthe<br />
passengers<br />
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