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To the 3d article and Schedule therein men … To the 3d article and Schedule therein mentioned hee saith that the Master and Company of<br />
and on board the said Ship, did upon Good Consideration<br />
for the Safeguard of the said Shipp and Lading, and of<br />
their owne Lives. Cut downe the said Ships Maine<br />
Mast by the board and Cut away all the Tackling<br />
thereto belonging, and did Stave and Cast over board most<br />
of the Caske (OR, casks) of ffresh water, that the said Ship might bee<br />
Lightened. And saith that the said Mainemast, sheat<br />
Anchor. and all and Singular the tackle Appell and<br />
furniture of or belonging to the said Ship the ''Oporto Merchant''<br />
severally mentioned and set downe in thee Schedule, were<br />
Cast into, (and lost) in the sea, for the preservation of the said<br />
Ship, and at the time of such their loosing were well<br />
worth the severall summes mentioned, and set downe in<br />
the said schedule (now read over unto him). amounting in<br />
the whole to One hundred, fourty two pounds two shillings<br />
And beside the said goods and materialls hee saith the Missen saile Blowne<br />
away as aforesaid, was worth about foure pounds sterling<br />
And much damage done to the said Ships Rudder<br />
Sterne Post, and Stemme, the repaires whereof will Cost the<br />
said Owners about twenty pounds as he beleeveth The<br />
Premisses hee deposeth being Carpenter of the said Ship<br />
as aforesaid. And further cannot Depose./:
To the 4th and 5th hee saith that During the Continuance<br />
of the said Storme. the Master and Company of the said Ship<br />
did Constantly ply both the Pumpes of the said ship and<br />
kept them Goeing, and the said Storme still Continuing<br />
the Company of the said ship were Constrained to bring<br />
the said Ships Starboard side to the sea. and the Ship being ?Turned<br />
her Spritsaile was blowne away and lost, and the next<br />
morning the said Storme, or Tempest abating the Master and<br />
Company through their great Paines did stop the said Leake<br />
made by the Said Anchor. and alsoe the Leake, at the helme<br />
Port, and freed her of the water. And saith the said Ship<br />
at her said departure from the Barbadoes and Imediately before<br />
the said Dammage happened was a strong Ship, fit for such a Voyage and Imployment<br />
and very well fitted with all manner of materiall and Necessaryes,<br />
and was not over loaden, at the said time, and saith that<br />
her sheate Anchor, was well and sufficiently fastned to<br />
the side of the said Ship, with Ropes. And saith that all<br />
such damage which hath happened to the said ship and Lading<br />
happened not by any Insufficeincy, of in the said Ship,<br />
or any fault of her Master and Company, but meerely by the<br />
violence of the said Storme; And further cannot depose/..
Tod Storme; And further cannot depose/..
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