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otherwise remembreth not) sett sayle there … otherwise remembreth not) sett sayle therewith from [?Pilloe] Roade arlate<br />
for the Port of London And the sayd shipp was at that tyme a tight<br />
[?stanch] and strong shipp well fitted with sayle masts yards cables anćhors<br />
and all other provisions tackle and necessaries fitting for such a voyage<br />
which he knoweth being Carpenter of her as aforesayd. And otherwise he<br />
saith he ćannot depose.
To the 4th article he saith that from the tyme of the sayd shipps departure from [?Pilloe]<br />
as aforesayd for the space of five or more dayes there happened every day<br />
Contrary winds and stormy tempestuous weather which he knoweth sailing<br />
in the sayd shipp Carpenter of her as aforesayd. And otherwise he saith<br />
he cannot depose.
To the 5th article he saith that about the fifth or sixth day after the sayd shipp ''Hopes''<br />
departure from [?Pilloe] (the particular day of the moneth he remembreth not) the<br />
wind then blowing from the South=Southwest poynt a very violent storme<br />
happened whereby the foresayles of the sayd shipp were carryed away as is arlate<br />
ánd the shipp receyved much water by reason of the high Seas, and she was<br />
forced back by that tempest neere fifteene leagues towards the Pilloe<br />
And he saith that the sayd Master and Company of the sayd shipp did what was<br />
possible to be done for the preserving the sayd shipp and her lading, which by<br />
Gods blessing they did preserve, and after some seven or eight dayes<br />
came into the Sound, and the winds being still Contrary stayd there<br />
about six or seven dayes, which he knoweth for the reasons aforesayd, and<br />
otherwise ćannot depose.
To the 6th article he saith that the sayd shipp after six or seven dayes stay, departed<br />
from the Sound for this Port of London and about three dayes after mett with<br />
a {?most} violent raging storme of wind and tempest from the North North<br />
west, which began about three of the Clock in an afternoone and continued<br />
allnight and to the next day. during which storme the sayd shipp could beare<br />
noe sayle saving her mainsayle which was lett downe very low, and by<br />
three of the Clock the next morning the sayd shipp was driven upon the<br />
Coast of Jutland neere the [?holmes], and there being twelve fathom<br />
water then found there were two anchors cast out one after the other<br />
which by reason of the continued violence of the storme could take noe hold<br />
whereupon the sayd Master and Company for preserving the sayd shipp and her lading<br />
with their owne lives were forced and did cutt downe the maine mast of<br />
the sayd shipp which with the yards sayles and cordage thereto belonging were<br />
carryed overboard into the Sea, and perished and were lost; And then and<br />
not before the sayd anchors caught fast hold, and there the sayd shipp lay [?till GUTTER]<br />
the afternoone of the day att which tyme the wind came to South South [?west GUTTER]<br />
And then the sayd Master and Company to preserve shipp, lading, and their lives<br />
were forced and did Cutt one of their Cables, and one of the anchors did breake<br />
in weighing, and both anchors were lost, onely one peice of one anchor<br />
was haled upp with the cable fastned to the sayd broken anchor: This done the<br />
sayd Master and Company sett sayle for the Coast of Norway to preserve their shipp [?if ?it GUTTER]<br />
might be, and being come neere the Coast the weather grew so darke<br />
that the Land could not be discovered nor any haven found All att length<br />
a fisherman whom they by chance found conducted them into Gasthaven in<br />
Norway. The premisses he knoweth to be true seeing and well remem=<br />
bring the foresayd passages. And otherwise he ćannot depose.
To the 7th article he saith that by the great violence of the sayd Storme and rage of<br />
the sea the sayd shipp received in much water, inso much as there was great danger<br />
of having her swallowed upp in the Sea, by the high Seas that fell upon her<br />
oftentymes. And the sayd Master and Company did all that was possible for men to [?doe GUTTER]<br />
to preserve the sayd shipp. And many other shipps were lost in that Storme [XX GUTTER]<br />
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