HCA 13/71 f.572v Annotate

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shipp the Plough was at the tyme articulate and during the whole voyage
untill the stormes and casualtyes predeposed as happened a stronge
tight and stanch shipp and fitt for the imployment shee was in
and saith that what dammage happened to any of her ladeing the
same happend not through any insufficiencie of the sayd shipp (shee
being still a strong tight shipp) nor through any default of the
articulate Noyes and his Company but meerely by the violence of
the stormes and by the casualtyes predeposed of, and hee well knoweth
that the sayd Noyes and Company did labour very earnestly and
actively and doe their utmost diligence to preserve the sayd shipp
and her ladeing and that if they had not soe done hee is well
assured the sayd shipp and ladeing and theor owne lives would
have bin lost And further hee cannot depose

To the last hee saith his foregoing depositon is true/

Walter Webber [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day

Examined on the sayd allegation

Rp. 2

John Bradley of Wapping in the parish of Saint
Mary Matsellon at Whitechappell Mariner Carpenter
of the shipp the Plough aged forty five yeares
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that of his this
deponents knowledge being Carpenter of her and on board the articulate shipp the
Plough did in the moneth of January last in her homewards voyage
Westerne Islands to the Port of London meete with many
stormes and other casualtyes, and in particular the sayd shipp did upon the
seaventh of the sayd moneth neere Saint Michaells Roade meete with
a very tempestious storme of wynde hayle and rayne which con
tinued for above twenty fower houres with great furie by reason
whereof the sea brake divers tymes and ranne over the sayd
shipp and with the force thereof flew in at the steereage
doore and went downe into the Gunne roome and shee shipped
soe much water by reason of that storme that this deponent
and others of the shipps company stood sometymes knee deepe in
water upon the forecastle, and the sayd shipp and her ladeing
and her Companyes lives were by violence of the sayd storme
in eminent danger perishing in the Sea, And saith in deede
through the sayd shipps whole homewards voyage shee had
much stormie and tempestious weather, And hee alsoe saith that
upon the 13th day of the sayd moneth, the sayd shipp being gott
in or neere the Channell and in Company of the Prudent Mary
articulate