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<document-start>
1. ánd Ambrose Smith whilest the said vessell was at Shoram and before
2. her proceeding thense on the said voyage, laded aboard her two hundred fiftie
3. and seaven quarters of malt to be carried and transported in the
4. said vessell to Bergen aforesaid, as alsoe a tonne of stronge beer, and
5. saith they were both perpetually at the lading thereof, and managed and
6. ordered such lading as for their owne account, and the said Smith embarqued
7. himselfe therewith to goe merchant and to sell and dispose the
8. said goods for their account and best advantage, yeelding a reason of
9. his knowledge, for that hee was master as aforesaid, and received the
10. said goods aboard.
11. To the fourth hee saith that after such the said vessells departure
12. with the said malt and beere from Shoram, and being in prosecution
13. of the said voyage for Bergen, and comming off harwich
14. the weather being fowle and the seas high, shee was cast away and
15. lost on a sand called the Sunck, on the nineteenth of this instant in
16. the night, and all her said lading alsoe perished and was lost, and
17. this deponent and company and the said mr Smith in exceeding greate
18. danger of being alsoe cast away and drowned, and very hardly escaping
19. By which unhappie desaster hee saith the said howell and Smith
20. lost utterly lost their interest and shares aforesaid in the said vessell, and
21. alsoe all their said malt and beere, of this deponents sight and
22. knowledge.
23. Robert harthly SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
24.
25. The same day. CENTRE HEADING
26. <margin value="Left">Rp. 2.</margin>
27. Peter Smith of BrightHampton in the County of Sussex
28. Sailor, aged 23 yeeres or thereabouts, sworne and examined
29. as aforesaid..
30. To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew and was one of
31. the company of the vessell the Endeavour of Arundell interrate, at
32. the time of her last departure from Shoram and casting away hereunder
33. mentioned. And saith shee departed from Shoram on the thirteenth instant
34. bound on a voyage for Bergen in Norway, which hee knoweth being
35. a foremast man of her and shipped at Shoram for the said voyage.
36. To the second hee saith hee well knoweth the interrate John howell and
37. Ambrose Smith, and saith they were commonly reputed part owners
38. of the said vessell and of her tackle and furniture at the time of
39. such her departure and losse and hee beleeveth that they were soe, for
40. that hee saw them disburse moneys for worke donne towards her
41. fitting out on the said voyage, namely for Carpenters worke.
42. To the third hee saith that the said John howell and Ambrose Smith
43. while the said vessell was soe at Shoram, intending her said voyage
44. laded there aboard her upwards of two hundred and fiftie quarters
45. of malt, and a tonne of strong beere, to be transported in the said
46. vessell to Bergen aforesaid, and there to be disposed for their account
47. by the said Ambrose Smith who embarqued himselfe therwith.
48. The premises touching the said lading hee knoweth because hee was
49. present at the same and helped in the stowage thereof.
50. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">To</margin>
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