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Sarah, three of which Sarahs Company were taken into the sayd
Man of warr and the sayd Lockyer have order to carry the Sarah to
England, and accordingly the Sarah shaped a Course thitherward
And further he cannot depose.

To the 10th and 11th he saith that the sayd vessell in he Course for England
did meet with a storme and was cast away in that storme
and all the sayd Lockiers men that were in her were drowned
but saith the sayd shipp was not cast away by the violence of
the storme but the unskilfullnes of the sayd Lockiers men none
of whome one man excepted could or did mannagge the sayles
or doe any other necessary worke in such a case, one of the sayd Lockiers
men being a land souldier and [?XXX] and 2 more boyes unable to worke in a storme
and the 4th who did assist was an impotent old man that wanted
strength requisit in such a case: and saith that in case the sayd
persons had beene skillfull and sufficient seamen the sayd barke
and lading might easily have made to Land and bene
preserved. And further he cannot depose saving that this deponent
and the sayd old man did their best endeavour to preserve the
sayd vessell ad her lading aforesayd.

[?MXXstack] [INTERPRETER?, LH SIDE]

Tomas [XX CXXXz] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE}

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The third day of March . 1653

Examined upon the sayd allegation

On behalfe of the sayd}
Gilbert Keat}
against a 16th part}
of the Hanniball}

Smith dt.

2

Richard Beare of Gravesend merchant aged
60 yeares a witnes sworne and examined
deposed and saith as followeth videlicet.

To the 1 and 2. articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that
in the yeares 1647. 1648. 1649. 1650. 1651. 1652. and monethes
therein respectively concurring the arlate Timothy Sharpe
was and att present is Owner and proprietor of one
sixteenth part of the sayd shipp the Hanniball and of 1/16th part
of her tackle furnitire and apparell and so accounted the
premisses he knoweth to be true for that during all the sayd tyme
he had bene and is a partowner of the said shipp himselfe and knoweth
that the sayd Shory did occasion the building of her in the yeare 1647. for
Captaine [?Tatham] the first Master of her and that he did contribute to
the building and setting forth of 1/16th part of her and her tackle
and that in or aboutthe yeare 1648 a dividend of the sayd shipps
profitts was made at Lisboa where the sayd Shory and this deponent
att that tyme both were, the sayd shipp being then there likewise
and that the sayd Shory as owner of 1/16 part of her as aforesd did
then receyve his proportion of the sayd Dividend, and hath ever
sithence continued Proprietor of the sayd 16th part of the
sayd shipp and for such hath bene and is accounted by this deponent
and other the Owners thereof and others that know the sayd shipp
and the Interest of her right Owners therein And further cannot
depose.

To the 3. and fourth [?XXXX]. he cannot depose saving as aforesayd

Richard Bere [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]