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shipp and lading, and finding a shipp of R … shipp and lading, and finding a shipp of Rye lying in the haven and<br />
one Mr [?Spye] a merchant aboard her, hee this deponent<br />
desired directions from him and assistance for getting help, and hee saying<br />
it was too darke and late for getting help from the towne till morning<br />
this deponent retourned aboard his owne shipp againe.
To the sixth seaventh and 8th hee saith that the next morning before day light there<br />
came many of the people and Inhabitants of that coast downe to the<br />
said shipp, and endeavoured to fall aboard and plunder her,<br />
but tooke nothing saving some lemmons and oranges and things of small<br />
consequence, till afterwards the same morning that a certaine person stiling himselfe<br />
Steward of the Earle of Arundell came downe, to whom this deponent<br />
respectfully addressed himselfe and besought him to be a meanes<br />
and to bee assistant in saving the said shipp and goods from the rapine<br />
of those countrey people, offering him any satisfaction that hee<br />
would demannd for such assistance and to pay all duties whatsoever<br />
for the salvage of the said shipp and goods, the shipp howbeit notwithstanding then aground<br />
on the shore, and that this deponent and company were all in<br />
safetie in his sight, the said steward (or person soe stiling himselfe)<br />
answered, that shee was a wreck and belonged to his lord of<br />
Arundell or to that effect, which when the countrey people present<br />
heard, they cried out, if shee belongs to the Eaarle of Arundell<br />
shee belongs to us, and therewithall they fell in greate numbers and<br />
with greate violence aboard, and encreasing more and more they<br />
with swords, axes, hatchets and other Instruments fell to cutting<br />
the shipp into peeces and to plundering and pillaging her and<br />
tooke and cutt and carried forcibly away her tackle, rigging, sailes<br />
yards and all her appertenance and all her lading and goods<br />
whatsoever together with this deponents and companies chests<br />
clothes, and utensills, and having wholly plundered away<br />
the said lading, they cut downe her masts and cutt the shipp<br />
all to peeces, and did not nor would suffer this deponent and<br />
company or any of them to save and take ought to them selves;<br />
which violence and spoile to prevent, hee saith the said Steward<br />
used noe meanes not with standing the said addresse of this deponent<br />
and his humble request to him with his hat in his hand for<br />
assistance as aforesaid, all which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid<br />
being present and seeing the same donne.
To the nineth hee referreth himselfe to the Registrie of this Court
To the tenth hee saith that in case the said disaster had not happened<br />
this deponent and company had in all probabilitie carried the said<br />
shipp and lading directly to Amsterdam, and there delivered the same,<br />
that being their full purpose and designe, the shipp being bound<br />
there to discharge/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
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