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Deponent and Company did with much Care pa … Deponent and Company did with much Care paines and Dilligence<br />
stop the said hole made by the said sheat Anchor, and, freed<br />
her of the water, which shee had received in at the the said Hold<br />
and at other places. as aforesaid. and saith that when the<br />
said ship departed from the Barbadoes, and untill the said<br />
storme came and happened the said ship was strong<br />
strong and Tight, and was well fitted with all manner<br />
of necessaryes and materialls for the said voyage, and was<br />
not over laden, but was able to beare the Lading which was<br />
then on board her. and saith her sheath Anchor was well<br />
and sufficiently fastened to the side of the said ship; untill<br />
the same was washed from the same by the said storme,<br />
And saith that what dammage did happen to the said ship<br />
and Lading the said time, happened meerely by the said<br />
tormy and windy weather, and not by any insufficiency<br />
in the said ship, or any fault of or in this deponent, or any of his<br />
Company. The premises hee Deposeth for the reasons<br />
aforesaid: And further cannot Depose.
To the 6th hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
Tho Chevers [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The Tenth day of March 1658
Examined on the said Allegation
'''Rp 2nd'''
'''Richard James''' of Limehouse. Boatswaine<br />
of the ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' aged 30 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and Examined:
To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee verily beleeveth that the arlate Mr Rowland Hill and Company<br />
for theis twelve monethes last, have bin, and at present are<br />
the true and lawfull owners of the arlate ship the ''Oporto''<br />
''Merchant'' (whereof Thomas Cheevers is Master) and of her tackle and<br />
furniture and things belonging unto her, and soe they are Comonly<br />
accounted. The premises hee deposeth for that hee hath bin<br />
boatswaine of the said ship the ''Oporto Merchant'' for about thirteene<br />
monethes last, And otherwise cannot depose:
To the second hee saith that the said ship the Oporto Merchant<br />
Coming from the Barbadoes Laden with Sugars, Cotton & some Indico<br />
for the account of Sir James Drax. Mr Wood and severall other Merchants<br />
Bound for this Port of London; in her Course hether was neere the Westerne Islands<br />
on or about the twentieth day of January, last, there happened and<br />
rose a very great and violent storme; which Continued very violent for<br />
about Eight or Tenn houres, the winde being then at West, and<br />
saith that for the preservation of the said ship, Lading and men on board<br />
her, her Company ranne her before the sea, under her foreCourse<br />
halfe mast high; and which they ranne her soe, her Stemme gave waych they ranne her soe, her Stemme gave way +
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