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To the fourth Interrogatory he answereth t … To the fourth Interrogatory he answereth that the sayd shipp<br />
being in her homeward voyage and in the degree of 31 and ½<br />
or 32 mett with a very violent and furious storme which<br />
continued about 24 houres, and that the sayd shipp did<br />
(as the best shipp in the world will) did in the sayd storme<br />
give way a little, but he saith that he doth not know[e GUTTER]<br />
of any necessity there was for staving or braking in peeces<br />
of the long boate interrate) And further he cannot answere
To the fifth interrogatory he answereth that during all the storme<br />
interrate there was but one pumpe going, and that after<br />
the storme was ended a leake sprang upon the shipp<br />
interrate, and that then there were two hand pumpes going for<br />
nigh the space of a day, and that during the sayd storme<br />
all the shipps company did their dutyes, and wrought<br />
labouriously and prayd to God though before and after the storme there was<br />
nothing among them but swearing and cursing and<br />
other villany, And further hee cannot answeare./
To the sixth and seaventh Interrogatorys he answereth that [the GUTTER]<br />
Aberdey was an unknowne place to the sayd Croford and<br />
Company, but the shipp did rise there very well and<br />
safety, and that the Captaine had a mind to have sayled the<br />
sayd shipp (as very well he mought) directly from thense<br />
to London And otherwise negatively.
To the eighth Interrogatory he answereth that upon the said<br />
shipps arrivall at Aberdy, the place being unknowne unto<br />
the sayd Croford and Company she shott off about<br />
twenty peices of Ordnance, and that thereupon a pilott<br />
named William Spencer came aboard the sayd shipp the<br />
''Gilbert'' and that he conducted the said shipp by the order<br />
of the Master interrate to Penarth, but it was because<br />
the Mariners of the sayd shipp would not carry her to<br />
London as the sayd Master would have had her, And further he cannot answere./
To the ninth interrogatory he answereth that the sayd shipps carpenter<br />
made a small boate, wherof there was never use made, And<br />
that saving the predeposed mutiny and tumult of the sayd<br />
mariners, they behaved themselves in the sayd voyage<br />
well enough as to the preservation of the interrate shipp<br />
ánd her lading, And otherwise negatively./
To the tenth interrogatory he answereth that the interrate Captain[e GUTTER]<br />
Croford did after the said shipps arrivall at Penarth goe<br />
ashore at Cardiff on or about the 21th of January last<br />
and that the say after, the sayd Croford send for him<br />
this Rendent and the interrate John Nicholls and John<br />
Cobb to come ashoare to him the sayd Croford at<br />
Cardiff, where this Rendent and the sayd Nicholls and<br />
Cobb before the Magistrate of the place made a protest<br />
against the sea; that by stresse of weather<br />
shethat by stresse of weather<br />
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