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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined u … The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
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'''Claes Williamson''' of Amsterdam Mariner late Stiersman of the<br />
said shipp the ''Wheele of ffortune'', aged 35 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth the producent william davison and hath soe donne for theise twelve<br />
weekes last past or thereabouts, and saith the said williamson for all the said<br />
time and to the time of the casting away of the ''wheele of ffortune'' arlate was commonly<br />
accompted and reputed owner of her and of her tackle and furniture, and<br />
that the said william was and is a merchant of Amsterdam, and sent her<br />
out thence about October last for Gottenburg to lade pitch and tarr<br />
for this port of london, which hee knoweth because this deponent went<br />
thence Stiersman of her; And otherwise hee cannot depose
To the second hee saith and deposeth that in or neere about the end of Novermber and<br />
beginning of the moneth of december last past one hance Marl[?XXX] at Gottenburgh as<br />
factor or Agent for the arlate Anthony Phillips and William Smith of this Citie Merchants<br />
laded the sayd vessell the ''Wheele of ffortune'' with three and twenty lasts and a halfe of<br />
tarre and halfe a last of pitch to be thence transported to this Port of London for the proper<br />
Accompt and adventure of the sayd Anthony Phillipps and William Smith and here to bee<br />
delivered unto him And saith that on or about the 21th of this instant december (new<br />
style) the sayd shipp the ''Wheele of ffortune'' having receaved her sayd ladeing aboard departed<br />
from Gottenburgh for this port of London the place of her discharge, and at or about<br />
the 28th of the same moneth (new style) towards evening comming (as this deponent<br />
guessed) within three leagues of North fforeland and fearing in the darke to bee to much<br />
ingaged upon the Coast the sayd shipps company shortned their sayles and laye a [?trice] with<br />
a course of the mayne sayle soe to drive till day light came on that they might come in with<br />
more securitie, and that as soone as the night came on they put out their light in the strome,<br />
which continued constantly up and giving a good light till eight of the clock at night at<br />
which tyme hee saith a shipp of fflushing named the ''Yonge Prince William'' (Claus<br />
doubleyupe Master) came from fflushingwards bound for Biscay and came right<br />
before the winde without any light and ran right uppon the ''wheele of ffortune'' (having then her<br />
light out upon her sterne, soe that the ''yonge Prince William'' might easily have seene her<br />
and passed by her) and sayled her and sunck her downe in the sea with the foresayd goods<br />
soe laden aboard her for the Accompt of the sayd Phillips and Smith, and one halfe<br />
last of tarr for the Accompt of this deponents precontest Lawrence Johnson, and all the<br />
Company of the said shipp ''Wheele of ffortunes'' cloathes saving what they had on their<br />
backs, and soe the sayd shipp and hoods perished and were cast away tgeather with<br />
one of the Company of the sayd shipp ''Wheele of ffortune'' named Lawrence Williamson<br />
who was drowned in the sayd shipp, and all by meanes of the sayd shipp ''Yonge''<br />
''Prince William'' soe remaining upon the ''Wheele of ffortune'', which might have bin avoided<br />
if the Company of the ''Yonge Prince'' had looked out and taken care, the ''wheele of ffortune''<br />
having her light out as aforesayd and this deponent and the rest of the<br />
Company of the sayd shipp ''Wheele of ffortune'' and the Master thereof had much adoe to serve<br />
them selves and gett into the ''Yonge Prince'' And this hee saith was and is true and publique And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose./
To the third hee saith the ssayd shipp the ''Wheele of ffortune'' with her tackle and furniture at and to<br />
the tyme of her being cast away as aforesayd were worth the summe of three and<br />
twenty hundred Guilders and the sayd tarr was worth thirteene pounds sterling per<br />
last and the half last of pitch nyne pounds sterling,<br />
soe much the sayd pitch<br />
and tarr (according to the Common report and estimation would have yeilded at this port, And<br />
alsoe saith that the Mariners cloathes and Instruments were worth the summe of two hundred<br />
guilders And otherwise hee cannot depose/
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