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To the 6th 7th and 8th articles, hee saith and Deposeth that the said ship
Richard and Martha sailed the said voyage to the Coast of
China in the East Indias, and presently after her arrivall there, there
there (sic) happened an Extraordinary storme and Tempest, soe that the
said shipp, and all her Lading on board her and alsoe her
Company were in very great danger of sinking and perishing
in the sea, And thereupon this Deponent (who was then
the Master of her), called his Officers together, and it was
Concluded and agreed by them that one new sheat Cable
one Anchor and two hauses belonging to the said shipp should
be slipped for preservation of her and her Lading and their
owne Lives, and accordingly her Company did let slip one
sheat Cable Anchor and two hawsers belonging to
the said ship, which were utterly lost in the sea and another Anchor belonging to the ship was then alsoe by reason of the violence of the said storme And saith
that hee verily beleeveth that if the said Cable Anchor[?X]
and hawsers had not bin so slipped the said ship, and
her Lading and Company would have bin lost and
perished in the sea, And saith that the said sheate Cable
two Anchors and two hausers, soe slippe, and lost as
aforesaid, were then and there well worth the summe of Three hundred
Pounds sterling, or thereabouts, And saith that this Deponent
was then forced to buy others in the Indias, and saith hee paid
for a New Cable 170 li sterling or thereabouts, for two Anchors 100 li sterling
or thereabouts, and for two hausers about 48 li sterling, And
saith that at the time when the foresaid Cable Anchors
and hawsers were shipped and lost the said ffreighters
had on board the said ship Goods Merchandizes and
money to the Vallue of 10000 li or thereabouts.
And further cannot depose.

To the 9th hee saith that after the said storme the said ship
sailed upon the said ffreighters account
about a League off of Mucco in China,
Intending to trade there, but after her arrivall there
A Difference happened betweene the Inhabitants of Mucco
and the foresaid Jeremy Carter who went the said voyage
in the said shipp, and a hsort time after the said Difference
happened the said Carter, sent the ships boate to shoare
with about Nine men therein, which said Boate yogether with the
men were seized upon by the said Inhabitants of Mucco
and neither the men or the said ships boate were ever
restored againe, which said boate was then worth about seabven
or Eight pounds sterling And further cannot depose./

To the 10th and 11th hee saith that by the use and Custome
practised amongst Merchants and Mariners and al others trading
to the East Indias, all ships which are there trading and are to come
(from