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the sayd voyage and thereby the better knoweth that they were well stowed, and
for that hee was on board her during the whole voyage and during the sayd storme and
knoweth shee continued tight noth in and after the sayd storme and that what water shee
receaved was only by the violence of the sea beating and washing over her and
her seames soe opening as aforesayd And further to these articles hee cannot
depose saving hee saith that hee alsoe well knoweth that by the violence of the
sayd storme three packs of wooll were washed off and carried away by the
violence of the sea from off of the Quarter deck of the sayd shipp and
were irrevocably lost./

To the 4th hee saith that being gunner and on board as aforesayd haee well
knoweth that the Master and Company of the Concord aforesayd did in the sayd
strome doe their faithfull and utmost endeavour to preserve the sayd shipp and
her ladeing by any wett receaved, was not through the fault and neglect of the
Master and company thereof, or any defect or insufficiency of the sayd
shipp, but only through the violence of the sayd storme which caused her
seames of her deck to open as aforesayd whereby the sea washing,
often over her the water sanke downe and ranne in to her through those seames
soe opened, And saith hee is well assured the sayd shipp after the sayd
storme (saving her sayd seames soe opened) was a tight and stronge shipp
And hee is well assured had shee not bin a tight and strong shipp shee had perished
in the sayd storme the violence thereof was soe great And further to this
article hee cannot depose./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

Repeated in Court before doctors
Godolphin and Collonel Cock

John hawley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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To the same day./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation

Rp. 2

William Colquett of ffoy in Cornewall Mariner
aged 22 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that
hee this deponent was boatswaine of the arlate shipp the Concord during
her last voyage and well knoweth that shee was a tight and stanch shipp
and that her homewards bound lading was well and sufficiently stowed
And saith the sayd shipp in her homewards voyage off of [?fflXXXy]
upon the coast of Norwary mett with a very violent storme which continued
from