HCA 13/71 f.265r Annotate

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in the County of Northumberland Mariner
Carpenter of the shipp the Julian aged
sixtie yeares and upwards a wittnes sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth

To the first second and third 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation
hee saith that hee this deponent being Carpenter and aboard
the Julian arlate the voyage in question and bound for Roane in
ffrance well knoweth and remembreth that the sayd shipp being
then lying at or neere the hermitage stayers in Wapping there
sawe a lighterman with a lighter to the same shipps side in the
moneth of december 1653 (and as hee remembreth upon Christmas
Eve that yeare) and in absense of the arlate Richard Bryan the
Master of the sayd shipp spake to the boatswaine of her
and required him to take a board the sayd sayd (sic) shipp twelve
hogsheads of Copperis which hee had then in his lighter and
were sent as hee sayd by one Mr Tether to bee shipped aboard her
whereto the sayd Boatswaine replyed in presense and hearing of
this deponent and others of the sayd shipps Company to this effect
videlicet that the sayd shipp was now fully laden and that her sayd
Master was absent and had given Command before hee went
from on board that her Company should take in noe more ladeing
aboard her and therefore the sayd Copperis could not bee taken
in but the sayd Lighterman sayd hee was ordered to bring it
thither and soe left his lighter and the Copperis aforesayd in it by the
sayd shipps side, and saith hee this deponent was
not present on board when the sayd Copperis was laden aboard
the sayd shipp, but saith hee hath heard that the same was putt
on board the sayd shipp towards Evening that
day
but by whome hee knoweth not nor hath heard and hee saith
that the sayd shipp being full laden before receipt of the
sayd Copperis was soe pressed with the weight thereof that
the next day after the same was soe putt on board her shee would
not floate, and thereby the tyde overflowed the sayd shipp
and all her ladeing this hee knoweth for that the next
day hee this deponent coming to goe on board her
found that shee was sunke and nothing of her appearing
above water but a little of her sterne, and the tyde being
fallen this deponent came aboard her the same
day being Christmas day and helped to pumpe her and same