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of the Master and Company and passengers were in, and well
knowing that if she should continue long there at Anchor
shee would boate to peeces and all her ladeing and passengers and
Companys lives bee lost, did cutt the Cables of her Anchor
by which shee roade and turne the shipp afore the winds and
runne her before the winds as far as they durst to seeke somme
deeper place to Anchor in and having gone as far as as they durst
that day goe, they cast a sheate Anchor out and roade by that
upon the sande till almost high water, and at high water th
though it were in the night tyme, did to prevent XX as much
as they could the danger the shipp and goods was in cut that
sheate Cable and runne the shipp againe before the winde
and by Gods great blessing brought her with much difficulty
to shoare about a myle below the Reculvers aforesayd
to the great joy of all the passengers and Company aboard who
all accounted themselves while they were soe upon the sayd
sands as lost men, and every moment ˹looked ˺ the sayd shipp and
goods and they should all perish together all which hurt and
damage done to the sayd shipp and losse of her ˹Rudder and˺ Anchor and
such dammage as happened to the sayd shipps goods and provisions
˹on board her˺ were occasioned meerely by the sayd Wareings willfullnes
and refusing to take any advise either from the Master, Company
or ˹such˺ passengers of the shipp as were seamen, and his commanding and
causeing the sayd shipps company to put up the mayne sayle and his
carelessness in not observing the boyes aforesayd and neglecting
and refusing when they were showed him to prevent the danger by timely
casting Anchor, And he saith by the meanes aforesayd the sayd
shipp also became unserviseable and unfitt to proceede on her sayd
voyage and the sayd voyage was thereby lost And further saving his
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./

To the 6th and 7th articles of the sayd libell he saith that by reason
of the hurt done to the sayd shipp and the sayd Wilkinson and company the
Owner of her their looseing the sayd voyage and looseing their Anchor and
Cables and by reason divers of their goods were spoiled by water
which Came into the hold of the shipp by meanes of her being bruised and
hurt upon the sands and all her provisions spoiled with wett the sayd
Wilkinson and Company were ˹and are˺ damnified to the value of two thousand pounds ˹sterling˺
at the least in this deponenets judgement and estimate besides the losse of
divers cases and vessells of stronge water and sack ˹belonging to the passengers aforesayd˺ which was staved and utterly
lost and other goods belonging to the sayd passengers which by wett taken was
spoiled and dammified and the passengers put to great charge to bring such
goods as were saved back to London and beside all moneys paid for their
passage and forfreight of theirin goods all which losses of the sayd passengers
besides the sayd Wilkinson and Company their losse did in this deponents judgement
amount to two thousand pounds sterling at the least All which hee saith
as aforesaid happened through the willfullnesse and negligence of the
sayd Waring and by noe other meanes, And he saith the sayd Wareing
after the

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