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and her boate (which the master had bought instead of the former that was
soe lost) beaten to peeces; After all which adversities,
hee saith the said shipp arived at or under the foreland and soe to this
port in this her last voyage. All which hee knoweth for the reasons
aforesaid. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the Saint
Jacob at the time of her entrance upon the said voyage was a tight
strong and staunch shipp and fit for the performance thereof; and
saith that in and during the said stormes and the whole terme of the
voyage, the master and company of the said vessell were very
deligent and carefull to look to the pump, and to keep and preserve
the vessell and goods laden aboard her, drie and well conditioned,
and used their utmost endeavour therein, soe that if any
dammage hath befallen the goods that were in the said shipp or any
of them in the said voyage, hee saith the sae soe happened
and befell them by reason of the said stormes and tempests, and
not by any insufficiencie of the said shipp or default or neglect of
the master and company or any of them. And this hee saith was and
is true and notorious, And hee yeeldeth a reason of his knowledge as
aforesaid.

To the sixth hee saith that the linnens or [?clothes ?canvass] arlate which were
brought in the said shipp to this port of London, came aboard her
at Lieba aforesaid in an open boate in fowle and rainie
weather, and had received very much wett by raine and stormie weather
in the said boates passage from shoare to bring them aboard whcih was
two English miles at the least, and came very wet aboard by reason
of raine and water falling and beating in upon them. And further
that (as it was commonly there said) they had bin saved out of a shipp
that was wrecked, and saith that whatsoever dammage is found
to be in or to have happened to the said linnens, the same was caused
by the wet and dampnes they had received before they came aboard
the said shipp, and came not by any insufficiencie of or in the shipp
or default or negligence of or in the master or any of his company
which hee knoweth seeing the said linnen come aboard in such
conditiomn as aforesaid, and being aboard and out of the said shipps
company all the said voyages And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the Interrogatories.

To the first Interrogatorie hee answereth that hee this deponent performed the office both of
Cooke and Purser aboard the said shipp the said voyage, and that in case the
dammage could be made to appeare to have happened through the companies default