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To the last hee saith hee cannot answere o … To the last hee saith hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively<br />
having never heard anything to the effect Interrogate./<br />
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
Larence Aurizes [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 18th of January 1655. [CEMTRE HEADING] [THIS DEPOSITION IS STRUCK OUT]
Examined upon the foresaid libell.
'''4.'''
'''Edward ffell''' servant and Apprentice to John Parker of the<br />
parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Scrivener aged 19<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first second third fourth and fifth article sof the said libell hee<br />
saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the producent<br />
Richard hammond and the arlate George (sic) Carey, which George<br />
Carey hee saith was and is commonly accompted and reputed the master<br />
of the shipp called the ''Sisters'' of Ipswich; and [END OF STRIKING OUT]
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The 19th of January 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
A businnesse of examination of witnesses to}<br />
perpetuall remembrance concerning certaine stormes}<br />
happened to the ''Saint Jacob'' of Lubeck, Evert}<br />
Penning master. Suckley. francklyn:}
Examined upon the allegation given in<br />
on the behalfe of the said Penning<br />
and company.
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Peter Winter''' of Lubeck Mariner, aged 46 yeares<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first article hee saith and deposeth that in the moneth of September<br />
last past the said shipp the ''Saint Jacob'' (Evert Pening master) was at or in<br />
the port of Lieba on the coast of Pomerland; And while shee was soe<br />
there remayneing, namely on or about the twelveth day of the said moneth<br />
of September last (the winde then blowing at West Nor-West),<br />
there happened a very greate and violent storme, which continued two<br />
dayes and nights space together in greate extremitie, and that by the<br />
violence and force thereof the sayd shipps boate was [?sheered] and<br />
carried away, and utterly lost to the owners thereof, and the shipp<br />
herselfe was inextreame danger of being cast away, together with<br />
the said master and company, who were in danger to loose their lives<br />
notwithstanding all their care and diligence and continuall labour and<br />
watching for the said [?space], which hee knoweth being one of the<br />
said shipps company and then and there present on board.
To the second hee saith that on or about the second of October last<br />
the said shippof October last<br />
the said shipp +
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