HCA 13/71 f.448v Annotate

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Roapes towards the said shipps reparation and provision upon the said voiage
hee deposeth not remembring att present the quantity of the said materialls and
goods, and that hee deposeth by order as aforesaid did also fetch and bring
aboard the said shipp three warropes or halsers for the said shipps use from
the house of the arlate John Merrihurst and that new able, and [?aXX GUTTER]
70. fathom of another cable were also from the said place brought on
board and for the use and sevice of the said shipp upon the voiage
and that severall parcells of iron worke for the said shipps use were by order as
aforesaid brought by this deponent and others on board the said shipp from
a Smiths house in Wapping, whose name this deponent remembreth not
And further he cannot depose, save that some small cordage, (the
quantity hee remembereth not) were alsoe brought aboard from the said
Merihursts-house for the said shipps use, by order as aforesaid

To the 3. and 4th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof, save that the
said shipp being att the time aforesaid conveniently fitted and furnished
to sea by the said Fearnes his direction with the necessaries predeposed did under the conduct of his
precontest John Ketch performe a fishing voiage as is arlate, which hee knoweth upon
the grounds aforesaid. And further, cannot depose

To the last hee saith, his foregoing deposition is true

The marke of
William W Barber:/ [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The same day examined upon the same Allegation:-

Rp. 3

Clemens Simpson of Wapping in the County
of Middlesex Mariner late Gunner of the said shipp the
Minorie Busse aged 50. yeares or thereabouts
sworne and examined saith as followeth

To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith that hee deponent (sic) in the yeare
1653. arlate under the Conduct of the arlate John ketch and by direction and
order of the arlate Captain John ffearnes as reputed husband and Agent of
the Corporation of the poore of London arlate went to sea in the
shipp the Minories Busse arlate upon a fishing designe in the quality aforesaid the said
ffearnes then being generally reputed the overseer or Agent for setting
or ffitting out the said shipp and severall others upon the like designe
and accompt, And further hee cannot depose./:-

To the second hee saith, That hee this examinate being by the said Captaine
ffearnes hired to serve in the quality and voiage aforesaid, did by the
said ffearnes especiall direction and in his presence fetch from the house
of the arlate Valentine [?kring] a shipps Chandler in Wapping
forty pounds of powder. fifteene round shott, some musketts, swords
and quarter pikes, three or fower lanthornes, some shott=basketts two
skeines of match, fower paires of bandoliers (not remembering the particulars
otherwise than as aforesaid) save that hee alsoe had a sponge wor[XX GUTTER]
and ladle for the gunne aboard the said shipp, And saith that a
certaine quantity of salt-fish being as hee remembreth halfe a quarter a couple of great blocks and some
stuff for the said shipps necessary reparation and provision were
of this deponents knowledge then fetched from the house of the arlate
Henry Askettle, this deponent not otherwise remembering the particulars
And further cannot depose./

To the third and 4th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof saving his
foregoing deposition, to which hee referreth himselfe