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To the first and second Interrogatoryes on … To the first and second Interrogatoryes on the behalfe of the<br />
sayd John Steevens administred he deposeth and answereth<br />
that he the Respondent hath knowne the interrate shipp<br />
the ''London'' for twenty yeares past, and that he was<br />
Gunner of her in the month of September 1653 when shee<br />
was in this Commonwealths service against the dutch, And<br />
that the interrate shipp the ''London'' riding at anchor with the<br />
ffleete under the command of Generall Monke off of Yarmouth<br />
there happened a most strange, violent and tempestuous<br />
storme (for this Rendent (who hath been a seaman these<br />
forty yeares) never saw the like though he hath bin in many)<br />
about the midst of the month of September 1653 and<br />
continued for many dayes And that by the reason and<br />
meanes only of the sayd very violent strong and<br />
tempetuous weather the interrate shipp the ''London'' susteyned<br />
much dammage in the hull, And that the said shipps<br />
Company were compelled for their lifes preservation to cutt<br />
away three cables and anchors with the Boyes and boy=ropes<br />
which with two boates with their ropes and oares were quite lost<br />
and that alsoe a brass gunn called a Base was by the violence of<br />
the said tempest rolld over board with her carriage and all<br />
materialls belonging to her, And he answereth that he cannot<br />
guesse at the value of the damage the said shipp received in<br />
her hull by reason of the said tempest But that he doth<br />
estimate that the Anchors Cables and boats and the<br />
sayd brasse Base which were lost by the onely reason of the<br />
said violent strong and tempestuous weather, were worth<br />
about fower hundred pounds And further he cannot<br />
depose
Repeated before Doctor Clarke./
The marke of the sayd<br />
William '''WW''' Lary [MARKE, RH SIE]
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The 9th day of June <u>:1655</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
A businesse of Examination of Wittnesses concerning the}<br />
shipp the ''String Roland'' of Sardam, of which Peter}<br />
[?Simpson] was Master, on the behalfe of John doone}<br />
and others Owners of the said shipp and lading}
Examined upon certaine Interrogatories<br />
ministred on the behalf of the said<br />
John Doone and Companie
'''Derrick Cornelisson''' of Raerop neere Amsterdam in<br />
holland Mariner aged 28 yeares or thereabouts sworne<br />
before the right Worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of Lawesd<br />
one of the Judges of the high Court of Admiraltie<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first hee saith hee hath knowne and sailed in the shipp the ''Strong Rowland''<br />
interrate for about 14. moneths before her seizure by the Englisdh at Barbadoes<br />
and saith the said shipp belongeth to the Port of Amsterdam, And saith that<br />
John doone and one Vertsegan Merchants of and living in Amsterdam<br />
and others there alsoe living and subiects of the States Generall of the United<br />
Netherlands were and are generally and commonly esteemed and reputed the<br />
true and lawfull Owners of the said shipp and of her tackle apparrell and<br />
furniture, and of the goods seized in the same, Which the premisses hee<br />
deposeth, for that hee this examinate sailed in the said shipp upon her last<br />
Voiage from the Texell in holland to Martiniga in the West Indiesin holland to Martiniga in the West Indies +
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