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was used by the skippers of the sayd 3 shi … was used by the skippers of the sayd 3 shipps and Martin Broyd skipper<br />
of the ''Mary'' to gett able pilotts for dunkirke in the Sound intending<br />
however to sayle and make their Course for London, but they could<br />
procure but one pilot for all the sayd shipps who was to be payd<br />
by shares and contributions by all the sayd shipps, and it was<br />
agreed that lotts hould be cast in which of the sayd shipps the<br />
sayd pilot should goe, and that the shipp upon which the lott fell<br />
should leade the way and the rest follow, and that the lots being<br />
cast the sayd Pilott dell to the shipp ''Vischer'' one of the sayd 3 shipps<br />
Caspar Vischer master, who taking the sayd Pilot to him lead the<br />
way and the ''Mary'' and the other shipps followed, and<br />
the sayd shipp ''Vischer'' and two other arrived safely att this port<br />
though pretending for dunkerke as aforesayd, as the shipp<br />
''Mary'' would have likewise done had it not bene for a disaster she<br />
mett with for he saith that upon her Course and whilset she<br />
followed the sayd shipp ''Vischer'', they mett with violent tempetuous<br />
weather with strong Contrary winds blowing from the west<br />
which continued for 8 or 9 dayes, and separated the sayd shipp ''Mary''<br />
from the ''Vischer'' and other two shipps, and made her very<br />
leaky and drove her upon the Coast of Holland, so as there<br />
being but 6 mariners on board one whereof was sick and one<br />
a boy not able to worke in such weather or att the pumpe, the<br />
foresayd Martyn Bride for preserving of the sayd shipp and her lading<br />
and persons on board was necessitated to putt into the ffly and<br />
so to Enchusen all which this deponent knoweth being Cape merchant<br />
on board the sayd shipp and privy to and an eyewitnes of the sayd<br />
severall passages. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the 4th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that being so come<br />
to Enchusen the arlate Martyn Bryde and this deponent went<br />
over to Amsterdam and there petitioned the Court of Admiralty for<br />
license to depart with the sayd shipp and goods to dunkerke, which the<br />
sayd Court refusing to give way to without sufficient and<br />
able security given that the sayd goods should be unladen att<br />
dunkerke this deponent endeavouring but not being<br />
able to give such security though promised by one freind<br />
whom the Court would not accept, was enforced to dispose<br />
the sayd goods in Holland, which he deposeth being privy<br />
to the foresayd transactions and otherwise he cannot depose.
[ADD DATA]nd otherwise he cannot depose.
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