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Christopher harle Edward horken Gilbert Cu … Christopher harle Edward horken Gilbert Cutt Richard Kingston<br />
Roger ha[?ll]ey humfrey Triggs John Lash George Blowe and hugh Nakes were<br />
and Phillip Rogers in the sayd schedule named and others were all of them<br />
Mariners serving aboard the sayd shipp at such tyme as this deponent<br />
soe shipped him selfe and goods as aforesayd aboard the sayd shipp at the<br />
Barbados, and the sayd Peter County was then Chirugion of the sayd shipp,<br />
and they all continued and served aboard the sayd shipp every of them<br />
according to their places of this deponents sight and knowledge from the sayd<br />
twenty fowerth of November 1656 untill the sayd shipps arrivall at London<br />
which was about the latter end of June or beginning of July 1657; And<br />
further to those articles hee cannot depose for that hee came not on board<br />
the sayd shipp till the tyme aforesayd nor knoweth ought touching the<br />
hyreing of any of the sayd persons nor at what rates they were hyred<br />
nor any thing touching the passages in the sayd shipps voyage before the sayd twenty fowerth<br />
of december November one thousand sixe hundred fifty sixe./
To the 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br />
the sayd shipp the ''Recovery'' having taken in her lading departed for<br />
England departed therewith from the Barbados bound for England upon<br />
the sayd twenty fowerth day of November 1656 toward evening<br />
and the same night there happened a very great storme by force<br />
whereof the mayne mast of the sayd shipp was cracked and her<br />
mayne topsayle splitt and two or three of her mayne shrowdes broken<br />
and shee being before her comming out of harbour in the Barbadoes<br />
leakie as this deponent well observed) was by the violence of the sayd<br />
storme made farr more leakie, in soe much that her Company<br />
with the helpe allsoe of this deponent and other the passengers on<br />
board her, had much to doe with continuall labour at two pumpes<br />
to keepe her above water and prefevent her from sinkeing, And saith<br />
that of his this deponents sight and knowledge a quantitie of ffustick<br />
which was on board was by Command of the sayd Joshua Bartlett the<br />
Master throwne over board that they might the better come at the leakes<br />
to stopp them, and the master (for that his Company sayd the were was doubtfull<br />
that dammage would bee ladid to their charge for the sayd ffustick if they<br />
first began to throwe the same over board) did him selfe first begin, and<br />
throwe the first loggs over board, and command the rest to be throwne over<br />
board, which being done such leakes as they could come att were<br />
in some measure and soe well as for the present they could bee stopped,<br />
which notwithstanding the shipp still continued very leakie and was<br />
continually pumped with two pumpes soe that the Company of the sayd<br />
shipp ''Gilbert'' arlate (whereof the arlate Croford was Comander)<br />
being not farr from the shipp ''Recoverie'', and having come in company<br />
with her from the Barbados, the sayd Croford haled the Master and<br />
companyd haled the Master and<br />
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