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'''d:S[mith?]'''
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'''William Pa … '''d:S[mith?]'''
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'''William Painter''' of debtford in the County of Kent<br />
Mariner aged 30 yeares or thereabouts a witness sworne<br />
And examined saith and deposeth as followeth vizt./
To the first second third 4th and 5th articles of the sayde allegation hee saith that<br />
hee this deponent was went from England to Saint Lucar in Spaine in a vessel<br />
called the Triall belonging to the port of London and saith that after his ~<br />
arrivall there the shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' was towed in by two -<br />
ffrench boates into the harbour of St Lucar, and this deponent sawe that the sayd vessell –<br />
the ''John and Elizabeth'' then had her midshipp broken downe and her<br />
mayne mast broken downe and lost and her bolspritt broken downe and lost, and<br />
her Mizzen Mast broken, a peece whereof was left and sett in plcae opf a mayne<br />
maste to bring her the better through the sea into harbour, And saith that<br />
at such her comming into harbour shee had only<br />
her Master and one man more and a boy on board her, and saith shee was -<br />
then in such a tattered condition that shee had much a doe to [live?] and –<br />
get safe into harbour, and could not possibly in that condition have gone to –<br />
the Canaries, or any other place but what it should please God to drive her<br />
unto, And saith that by Common reporte at Saint Lucar amongst merchants and<br />
Seamen here. shee came to that disaster by reason of a great storme<br />
which drave a certain shipp called the Supply (whereof as it was<br />
sayd one fflute was Master) fowle of the sayd shipp the ''John and''<br />
''Elizabeth'' and brake her midshipp and Mastes in manner as this deponent<br />
hath expressed [hee?] sawe them at her comming to Saint Lucar, and [hee?] hath [also?] heard by the like common reporte that<br />
all the Company of the sayd shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' upon such her disaster –<br />
forsooke her (except the Master and one other man who was [mate?] and Pylott of her and a boy) and went with the Supplye aforesayde and this deponent –<br />
well knoweth and sawe that at her comming to Saint Lucar there was noe more company on<br />
board save the Master (who was sick) and the sayd Pylott and a boy, so that the sayd vessell<br />
was in a very hazardous and dangerous condition, and by like publique report<br />
the sayd vessell lay beating up and downe the sea in that broken and shattered condition<br />
about sixteen dayes after shee was soe deserted of her company –<br />
he saith the sayd shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' might [plainely?] be seen by [shee?] was a vere stronge ligh[t?] vessell and her –<br />
belea[veth?] if shee had not [bin light shee must have foundered in the sea, having noe Crewe helpe on board her)<br />
shattered as aforesayd. And further to these articles hee cannot exprese saving
X then it appeared shee<br />
and having receaved such<br />
preiudice by the sayde ship<br />
falling fowle of her and<br />
breaking her Midshipp as<br />
foresayd /
To the 6th and 7th and 8th articles he saith that he this deponent did not see<br />
the goods which came in the vessell the ''John and Elizabeth'' to Saint Lucar un laded<br />
or delivered but hath heard they were delivered to the<br />
arlates - Mr Watts and Mr Probie and saith that he knoweth that the articulate:<br />
Kee[ne?] had hyred two dutch men and a Scotch man to serve<br />
as Mariners in his sayd shipp (but whether to goe to Palma he knoweth<br />
not) and saith that the English Consull at Saint Lucar did in the behalfe of<br />
the sayd Keene speake to this deponent to serve as mate and Pylott in the sayd shipp<br />
but<br />
this deponent told him he would not serve in her to noe place<br />
but for Englande where upon the said Consull willed this deponent<br />
to goe on board her and told him shee should goe for England and this deponent<br />
accordingly went aboard her and found the sayd two dutch men and a Scotch<br />
man a board her and soon after this deponent comming aboard the sayd two this deponent comming aboard the sayd two +
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