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at all remember the quantities or qualitie … at all remember the quantities or qualities thereof carried aboard<br />
a shipp then lying at the Barbadoes, whereof one Pensack was Master<br />
to be transported in the same for Virginia. And further cannot answer
To the last hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition<br />
and further hee cannot depose./
Thomas: Hastler [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 2d day of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
A busines of Ensurance on the}<br />
behalfe of John Steevens of Lee}<br />
in the County of Essex Mariner}<br />
concerning an Average susteyned in}<br />
the shipp ''London''.}
'''Jacob Gray''' of Stepney in the<br />
County of Middlesex Master of the said<br />
shipp the ''London'', aged 38 yeares<br />
being sworne and examined before the worshippful Doctor Clarke one of the Judges he deposeth<br />
and answereth by vertue of his corporall oath<br />
as followeth videlicet.
To the first and second Interrogatoryes in this behalfe administred<br />
he deposeth and saith that he the Respondent hath knowne the<br />
interrate shipp the ''London'' for these fourteene yeares last past<br />
and that he was Master of her in the moneth of September<br />
1653 (she then being in the service of this Commonwealth against<br />
the Dutch then this Commonwealths enemeys) And that the<br />
sayd shipp being in the sayd month of September 1653 about<br />
10 Leagues off from Yarmouth a more violent and tempestuous<br />
strome happned then he this Rendent ever hath seene or knowne<br />
(who hath bin a Seaman for two and twenty yeares past)<br />
and that the said most violent and tempestuous stormy weather<br />
continued about five or six dayes, and begann about the 7th or<br />
8th of the said month. And he saith and answereth that<br />
onely and noe otherwise then by the said stormy weather the<br />
interrate shipp received her damage interrate in the hull, and<br />
that for the preservation of the said shipp and her Company they<br />
were forced (for otherwise they had perished) to cutt away<br />
three cables and anchors with the Boyes and Boy ropes, and<br />
the said shipp which their Ropes, Oares and other furniture were<br />
lost, and alsoe a Gunn called a brasse Basse with her appurtenances<br />
was strangely washt over board by the violence of the sayd storme<br />
And he answereth that the hull of the sayd shipp was much damaged<br />
but the value of what she was damnifyed, he saith he cannot<br />
certainly guesse at much lesse depose. but that the Anchors, Cables<br />
and oates and the brasse basse with her appurtenances that were<br />
lost by the onely occasion of the said tempestuous storme doth amount<br />
unto (of this Rendents certaine knowledge) about five hundred<br />
pounds And further he cannot depose
Repeated before Doctor Clarke
Jacob Gray [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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On the same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2)'''
'''William Lary''' of Lymehouse in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner where he hath lived about 30ty yeares past<br />
aged 57 yeares or thereabouts, a wittnes produced<br />
and sworne before the worshipfull Doctor Clarke one of the Judges<br />
of the high Court of Admiralty, and being examined<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet
Tooseth and saith as followeth videlicet
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