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1. during all the sayd storme, doe and discharge
2. their dutyes respectively, And further he cannot
3. depose./

4. To the third article he deposeth that when he this deponent
5. went to Captaine Croford at the Barbadoes to speake
6. his passage and freight, the sayd Captaine told this deponent
7. that hee would keepe his decks cleere that he might have liberty
8. to use his gunns, but he saith that when this deponent
9. came away in the sayd shipp he found that the sayd Croford
10. had stowed her betweene decks all along, with hoggs=heads
11. Butts and other goods, and that she had more goods
12. aboard her than she was well able to carry, and that
13. in the storme predeposed of the sayd shipps chaine=
14. pumpe was not nor could be made use of Nor
15. indeed could the gunns have bin made use of (in case
16. there had bin an occasion) unless the some goods had
17. first bin heaved over board her, And further he
18. cannot depose/

19. To the fourth he deposeth that on or about the 18th of
20. January 1656 the sayd shipp did arrive at Aberdee
21. which was a place altogether unknowne unto the sayd
22. Croford and Company, and that therupon many
23. gunns were fired and shott off, and that alsoe lights
24. were hanged out upon the shrowds to have had some
25. helpe or releife to have come unto them, though none
26. came áll that night And further he cannot depose

27. To the fifth article he deposeth that betweene the time that the
28. storme predeposed of happened to the sayd shipp and her
29. arrivall at Aberdee, she sprange a leake in her stemme
30. which was very dangerous to both shipp and lading, and
31. that the sayd leake was stoppt (as was reported in the
32. sayd shipp) by peeces of beif and putting of Okum
33. into the said leake with hands only And further he cannot
34. depose./

35. To the sixth article he deposeth and saith that when the
36. sayd shipp the Gilbert was at Aberdee there was aboard her
37. Mariners and passengers to the number of about 55 persons
38. and that of this deponents certaine knowledge the sayd
39. shipps Mariners did indure great hardshipp and wer
40. much pinched in their allowance, Insoemuch that during the sayd voyage he
41. this deponent did and doth much wonder how they could doe their
42. labour soe well as they did with soe .. short allowance
43. And further he cannot depose.

44. To the seaventh and eighth articles, that whiles the sayd shipp
45. was at Aberdee she having noe boate to goe ashoare some
46. of the Mariners of the sayd shipp did make a boate of
47. boards to send some of the Company ashoare to look[e GUTTER]
48. for helpe concerneing the sayd shipp and her lading, and
49. he saith there was noe use made of the sayd boate, And
50. that upon or about the 19th day of January 1656 the arlate
William