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lading her, the roade being open, and dang … lading her, the roade being open, and dangerous in respect of<br />
pirates and enemies, one whereof (speaking of the said man of warr)<br />
they said was then in the roade, and that but few dayes before the same<br />
man of warr that was then there riding or some other like him<br />
had boarded and plundred from a dutch shipp there in provisions,<br />
sailes, cables and anchors, to the valew of foure hundred crownes,<br />
and therefore hee said hee would not lade her there, but would have her removed and<br />
brought into a more safe place to receive her lading and to that purpose hee<br />
provided and sent a pilote along with this deponent in the boate<br />
aboard the said shipp, soe to remove her.
To the fourth and fifth Interrogatorie sixth and seaventh Interrogatories<br />
hee saith and deposeth that the said pilote soe sent aboard removed<br />
the said shipp ''ffortune'' (after shee had laine about 4 howers at that<br />
place and to such place where it was agreed betweene the said<br />
pilot and Monsieur du daisné that shee should be in more safetie,<br />
and lie more commodious for the taking in of her lading; and<br />
in such removall the said pilot brought her upon a banck of<br />
sands, whereon shee was speedily gott off againe, and then hee caried<br />
her to such place which hee conceived to be safe for to ride in<br />
but it proved for otherwise, for it was soe neere a ledge of<br />
rocke, that when the sea fell away upon the ebb tide of ebb,<br />
the weather being tempestuous (as hee saith it was) and the increasing<br />
in stormines and the night being come, shee bilged upon the said<br />
ledge of rock, and sunck in the sea, and was soe beaten and<br />
opened that shee her rudder was broken off, and about fourteene<br />
foote of her keele carried away and two or three of her plankes<br />
neere the keele broken, and thereby and by her greate leakinesse<br />
or opening upon such bilging, shee became full of water in hold<br />
at upon every comming in of the tide, and shee became soe unserviceable<br />
that without much repairing and amending her, shee was made unfit to proceede<br />
againe to sea, having remained six or seaven dayes under water<br />
(as every comming in of the tide) before they could know whether<br />
shee could be saved and recov or not. And saith that in order<br />
to her saving there were sometimes two, sometimes three or foure and sometimes<br />
six five or six boates and 20 or twenty or five and twenty men<br />
and sometimes more imployed about pumping and other work<br />
about her for her weighing up, and saving, and that at greate<br />
rates, some at 30 thirtie sols, some (namely the Carpenters)<br />
at sixetie sols some and some at 55 sols and others at 45 sols<br />
per day for their worke, which lasted which they were forced<br />
to doe aswell by night as day (as the tide served) till shee<br />
was weighed and brought into a place for her trimming, which<br />
weighing and bringing her into such place lasted about seaven<br />
or eight dayes, and it was three weekes or thereabouts before<br />
shee was trimmed and fitted. The charge of which<br />
weighing, repairing and fitting, together with materialls (occasioned<br />
by the said bilging) hee saith amounted unto and cost this deponent,<br />
twelve hundred livers Tournois, comprising therein to the valew<br />
of two hundred livers in rigging, shipps store and materialls stolen<br />
awayore and materialls stolen<br />
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