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and more And further hee cannot answere/
… and more And further hee cannot answere/
To the last Interrogatorie hee saith that after the disaster aforesayd and while hee was<br />
aboard the ''Saint Jacob'' hee heard the ''Saint Jacobs'' Company talke angrily to<br />
him that held the helme of the ''Saint Jacob'' when the disaster happened, but what<br />
the effect of their talke was for that hee undertandeth little dutch and<br />
was then much troubled at the disaster aforesayd hee remembreth not<br />
And further hee cannot answere./
Repeated the same 23th day before doctor<br />
Godolphin
the marke of the sayd<br />
George [TRIANGLE] Meade [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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'''John Fletcher''' of Plimouth Mariner aged twenty<br />
one yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne before the<br />
sayd doctor Godolphin saith as followeth videlicet/
To the first hee saith hee well knew the ship ''Isaack'' being<br />
a foremast man of the voyage in question And knoweth that the sayd ship<br />
did at Plymouth take in a great quantitie of goods to the quantitie of<br />
seaventy tonnes and upwards, consisting in Tinne, sugar trayne oyle Indico<br />
Syder, Capers, butter and other goods to be transported thence to London but the quantities of the particulers<br />
or for whose Accompt laden hee knoweth not but referreth him selfe to<br />
the bills of ladeing, And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the 2 and 3 Interrogatories hee saith the sayd ship the ''Isaack'' having taken in her<br />
sayd ladeing departed therewith from Plymouth toward London on the seaventeenth<br />
of ffebruary last and the Interrogate ship the ''Saint Jacob'' the Interrogant John<br />
Clason Master being at Plymouth at the same tyme the ''Isaack'' was, did<br />
depart from thence at the same tyme the ''Isaack'' did, the ''Isaack'' bound<br />
for London under an English Convoy and the ''Jacob'' bound for Holland<br />
under a dutch Convoy And sath hee well remembreth that the next<br />
night after the sayd shipps soe departed from Plymouth the ''Isaack'' being<br />
sayling on her course for London after her English Convoy the ''Saint Jacob''<br />
by the Carlessnes of her Master and Company came fowle of the ''Isaacks''<br />
bowe and brake downe all her masts, and her larboard side, and beate<br />
upon her three quarters of an hower at least ere shee got cleere of her<br />
by which meanes the ''Isaack'' was rendered very leakie and ready to sinke<br />
which her Master and Company perceaving they all, togeather with three<br />
passengers got aboard the ''Saint Jacob'' to save their lives and twelve other<br />
passengers who in that confused trouble and disaster could not get<br />
out of the ''Isaack'' to save them selves did (as hee beleeveth) perish and sinke<br />
in the ''Isaack'' after the ''Saint Jacob'' was gone from her And further to these<br />
Interrogatories hee cannot answeare./
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that at such tyme as the ''Jacob'' soe fell fowle of the ''Isaack''<br />
the ''Isaack'' was only under one Course and the ''Saint Jacob'' under two courses f[XXXX] at the<br />
''Saint''urses f[XXXX] at the<br />
''Saint'' +
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