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who as hee sayd well understood Dutch told this deponent and others
of the Isaacks company that they sayd that (meaning the sayd person they were soe displeased with) was
the cause of that mischeife which was befallen the Isaack hee being at the helme
of the Saint Jacob and turneing it one way when hee should have turned it
other And further hee cannot answere./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

the marke of the sayd
John I ffletcher [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

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Thomas Hoare of Plymouth Mariner aged forty
fower yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne before
the sayd doctor Godolphin saith as followeth videlicet./

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee knew the shipp Isaack interrogate
being a Common or foremastman of the Company the voyage in
question And saith the sayd shipp tooke in at Plymouth about eighty tonnes of goods
tinne, trane oyle, butter capers, and olives, and herings, and Indico and Sydder and other
goods to be transported thence to London but the particuler quantities
of every sort of goods hee remembreth not nor knoweth for whose Account
they were laden but referreth himselfe to the bills of ladeing And further
hee cannot answere saving hee saith a great part of the Tinne laden was
for Accompt of the Interrogant Thomas [?Tr]eggs./

To the 2 3 and 4th Interrogatories hee saith hee knoweth the shipp Saint Jacob Interrogated
John Clason Master which shipp hee saith was at Plymouth at the same
tyme the Isaack was, and the Isaack having taken in her sayd ladeing
shee and the Saint jacob sett out of Plymouth upon one and the same day, videlicet the
seaventeenth of ffebruary last, the Isaack bound for London under an
English Convoy, and the Saint Jacob for holland under a dutch Convoy,
And saith that the very next night after the sayd shipps soe sett out
from Plymouth, the Isaack being in her course after her English
Convoy for London, the Saint Jacob by the negligence
of the Master and Company of her (though they had tymely notice given them
by the Company of the Saint Jacob who called out to them and desyred them to
beare under their sterne for feare of coming fowle of them, which
they might then very well have done the Saint Jacob then having two courses
out to helpe her soe to doe and the Isaack but one Course) rann fowle
of the Isaacks bowe, and brake downe all her masts, and brake downe
her larboard side, and continues soe beating upon her, the space
of three quarters of an hower, and thereby made the Isaack
leakie, and ready to sinke, which her company perceiving the master and they
and three passengers for preservation of themselves gott aboard the Saint
Jacob, and twelve other passengers who could not gett out of the Isaack
to save themselves continued aboard her and were as hee beleeveth all drowned
and perished in the shipp Isaack togeather with the ladeing by reason of the Saint Jacobs
soe falling fowle of the Isaack and further hee cannot answre saving hee saith
hee