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Transcription

and deposeth that hee this deponent was one of the Company of the
Anne PInke of Bristoll which shipp was by the rage and violence of
a great storme which happened thereto about a league off of Saint
Lucar in Spaine in the moneth of January last past cate awaye And saith
that hee this deponenta nd sixe more which were the whole company
of the said shipp having preserved their lives by running the shipp as neere
shoare as they could and soe getting on shoare at lowe water after they
had spent three or fower dayes in lookeing after the preservation of the ladeing
on board their sayd shipp and had as well as they could preserved the same
came to Saint Lucar, where at their coming they found the arlate shipp
the John and Elizabeth then lying in the harbour at Saint Lucar and
saith her Midshipp was then broken downe soe low as to the water,
and her Mizen Mast and boltspritt spent and lost, and shee had
alsoe lost her mayne Mast, as it appeareth and gotten a new one sett
up after her comming to Saint Lucar, all which dammage happened as this
deponent hath credibly heard at Saint Lucar by the common reporte of
Merchants and Sea men there, and alsoe of the English Consull then
resident there by reason of an extraordinary storme
which the sayd shipp John and Elizabeth mett with at sea before
her comming to Saint Lucar and by reason that a certaine shipp which was
in company with her in the sayd storme called the Supply (whereof
as this deponent hath heard the arlate fflute was Master) was forced fowle
and did fall fowle of the sayd shipp John and Elizabeth and thereby broake
her Midshipp in manner as this deponent sawe at Saint Lucar and brake thereby alsoe her mayne mast downe and her mizen mast and bolsprit
And saith hee alsoe heard by the like reporte and fame that the company of the sayd
shipp John and Elizabeth seeing her soe greatly endamaged and the storme still
continueing and they being out of hope ever to bring her safe to any port did all
of them except the arlate Keene the master of her and one man more and a boy
forsake the sayd shipp John and Elizabeth and get on board and goe away with the
sayd shipp the Supply, and left the John and Elizabeth to the mercie of the
sea, and this deponent knoweth they came noe more on board her for that
hee this deponent was one who helped to sayle her from Saint Lucar to London
after shee was repayred, And alsoe saith that by like report hee alsoe heard
that after her company had soe forsaken her the John and Elizabeth shee laye beating
up and downe the sea without mast or sayle to helpe her and noe more persons on
board her save the sayd Keene and a man and a boy, soe that shee could not
possibly in that condition reach the Canaryes arlate or any other port but
what it should please God to drive her unto, which happened to be the Port
of Saint Lucar aforesayd where this deponent sawe her in the tattered condition
before expressed, And hath heard by like reporte that shee there arrived about sixteene dayes
after shee had bin damnified in manner aforesayd by the sayd shipp the
Supplyes falling fowle upon herr and by the violence of the sayd storme and
further to these articles hee cannot depose/

To the sixth article hee saith hee hath heard and beleeveth the sayd Edward Keene did cause