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taken the said shipp and lading they cared … taken the said shipp and lading they cared not who answered or<br />
made satisfaction for the same or words to that or the like effect,<br />
and the said Lieutenant and Companie at the first meeting at sea also told the said Gainer and others of the<br />
''hopewells'' Companie that the said man of warr belonged<br />
to holland, and as the said Gainer and Contests have since understood<br />
was called the ''dove''. The said gainer and Contests aforementioned<br />
doe futher joyntly declare, That the said shipp ''hopewell'' was very<br />
much damnified by the said fight in her hull tackle and<br />
furniture, her masts all broken and shattered, and her sailes all<br />
shott in peeces to the valew of 500. or 600. ''li'' sterling as they verily<br />
beleeve, and that the lading of Corne which was then aboard her<br />
was damnified wett and spoyled by meanes of the water received<br />
into the said shipp by the great shott of the said dutchman of warr<br />
discharged into her betwixt wind and water, insomuch That the<br />
said William Watts the Commander upon his arrivall at Mallega<br />
finding his said shipp and her lading in that sadd condition and<br />
not able to proceed further, was constrained with much<br />
difficulty and expence to unlade the said Corne though in that<br />
wett and perished condition, so that theise deponents verily beleeve<br />
the said lading of Corne was and is utterly lost to the<br />
Owners thereof, the same being as they can best estimate it<br />
about 280. tunns of barley and wheate The premisses theise<br />
deponents declare for a certaine trueth, as being all of them in<br />
their severall qualities aforementioned belonging to the said shipp<br />
''hopewell'' in the Voiage aforesaid And thereby<br />
taking speciall notice and observation of the encounter and<br />
transactions predeposed And further cannot depose./
24th of Aprill Sworne and<br />
repeated before me<br />
William Clerk [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
William Watts<br />
John weimath<br />
Henry Paige<br />
Robert Carr<br />
William Gainer<br />
George Lea<br />
daniell Barton<br />
Marmaduke Moore
[SIGNATURES, MIDDLE AND RH SIDE]ke Moore
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