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Transcription

at all remember the quantities or qualities thereof carried aboard
a shipp then lying at the Barbadoes, whereof one Pensack was Master
to be transported in the same for Virginia. And further cannot answer

To the last hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition
and further hee cannot depose./

Thomas: Hastler [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 2d day of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

A busines of Ensurance on the}
behalfe of John Steevens of Lee}
in the County of Essex Mariner}
concerning an Average susteyned in}
the shipp London.}

Jacob Gray of Stepney in the
County of Middlesex Master of the said
shipp the London, aged 38 yeares
being sworne and examined before the worshippful Doctor Clarke one of the Judges he deposeth
and answereth by vertue of his corporall oath
as followeth videlicet.

To the first and second Interrogatoryes in this behalfe administred
he deposeth and saith that he the Respondent hath knowne the
interrate shipp the London for these fourteene yeares last past
and that he was Master of her in the moneth of September
1653 (she then being in the service of this Commonwealth against
the Dutch then this Commonwealths enemeys) And that the
sayd shipp being in the sayd month of September 1653 about
10 Leagues off from Yarmouth a more violent and tempestuous
strome happned then he this Rendent ever hath seene or knowne
(who hath bin a Seaman for two and twenty yeares past)
and that the said most violent and tempestuous stormy weather
continued about five or six dayes, and begann about the 7th or
8th of the said month. And he saith and answereth that
onely and noe otherwise then by the said stormy weather the
interrate shipp received her damage interrate in the hull, and
that for the preservation of the said shipp and her Company they
were forced (for otherwise they had perished) to cutt away
three cables and anchors with the Boyes and Boy ropes, and
the said shipp which their Ropes, Oares and other furniture were
lost, and alsoe a Gunn called a brasse Basse with her appurtenances
was strangely washt over board by the violence of the sayd storme
And he answereth that the hull of the sayd shipp was much damaged
but the value of what she was damnifyed, he saith he cannot
certainly guesse at much lesse depose. but that the Anchors, Cables
and oates and the brasse basse with her appurtenances that were
lost by the onely occasion of the said tempestuous storme doth amount
unto (of this Rendents certaine knowledge) about five hundred
pounds And further he cannot depose

Repeated before Doctor Clarke

Jacob Gray [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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On the same day. [CENTRE HEADING]

2)

William Lary of Lymehouse in the County of Middlesex
Mariner where he hath lived about 30ty yeares past
aged 57 yeares or thereabouts, a wittnes produced
and sworne before the worshipfull Doctor Clarke one of the Judges
of the high Court of Admiralty, and being examined
deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet

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