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who as hee sayd well understood Dutch told … who as hee sayd well understood Dutch told this deponent and others<br />
of the ''Isaacks'' company that they sayd that (meaning the sayd person they were soe displeased with) was<br />
the cause of that mischeife which was befallen the ''Isaack'' hee being at the helme<br />
of the ''Saint Jacob'' and turneing it one way when hee should have turned it<br />
other And further hee cannot answere./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
the marke of the sayd<br />
John '''I''' ffletcher [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
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'''Thomas Hoare''' of Plymouth Mariner aged forty<br />
fower yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne before<br />
the sayd doctor Godolphin saith as followeth videlicet./
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee knew the shipp ''Isaack'' interrogate<br />
being a Common or foremastman of the Company the voyage in<br />
question And saith the sayd shipp tooke in at Plymouth about eighty tonnes of goods<br />
tinne, trane oyle, butter capers, and olives, and herings, and Indico and Sydder and other<br />
goods to be transported thence to London but the particuler quantities<br />
of every sort of goods hee remembreth not nor knoweth for whose Account<br />
they were laden but referreth himselfe to the bills of ladeing And further<br />
hee cannot answere saving hee saith a great part of the Tinne laden was<br />
for Accompt of the Interrogant Thomas [?Tr]eggs./
To the 2 3 and 4th Interrogatories hee saith hee knoweth the shipp ''Saint Jacob'' Interrogated<br />
John Clason Master which shipp hee saith was at Plymouth at the same<br />
tyme the ''Isaack'' was, and the ''Isaack'' having taken in her sayd ladeing<br />
shee and the ''Saint jacob'' sett out of Plymouth upon one and the same day, videlicet the<br />
seaventeenth of ffebruary last, the ''Isaack'' bound for London under an<br />
English Convoy, and the ''Saint Jacob'' for holland under a dutch Convoy,<br />
And saith that the very next night after the sayd shipps soe sett out<br />
from Plymouth, the ''Isaack'' being in her course after her English<br />
Convoy for London, the ''Saint Jacob'' by the negligence<br />
of the Master and Company of her (though they had tymely notice given them<br />
by the Company of the ''Saint Jacob'' who called out to them and desyred them to<br />
beare under their sterne for feare of coming fowle of them, which<br />
they might then very well have done the ''Saint Jacob'' then having two courses<br />
out to helpe her soe to doe and the ''Isaack'' but one Course) rann fowle<br />
of the ''Isaacks'' bowe, and brake downe all her masts, and brake downe<br />
her larboard side, and continues soe beating upon her, the space<br />
of three quarters of an hower, and thereby made the ''Isaack''<br />
leakie, and ready to sinke, which her company perceiving the master and they<br />
and three passengers for preservation of themselves gott aboard the ''Saint''<br />
''Jacob'', and twelve other passengers who could not gett out of the ''Isaack''<br />
to save themselves continued aboard her and were as hee beleeveth all drowned<br />
and perished in the shipp ''Isaack'' togeather with the ladeing by reason of the ''Saint Jacobs''<br />
soe falling fowle of the ''Isaack'' and further hee cannot answre saving hee saith<br />
heeot answre saving hee saith<br />
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