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sometimes onely two men or two men and a b … sometimes onely two men or two men and a boy aboard, which were not sufficient<br />
for the mooreing of the said shipp) shee came fowle of the said shipp the<br />
''Margarett'' and broke her boltspritt and some roapes blockes and other<br />
things belonging to the said vessell the ''Margaret'', which being then suddenly<br />
to proceed to sea upon a Voyadge, the said Robert ffox her Master after<br />
hee had caused the said shipp the ''Margaret'' to be viewed by understanding<br />
shipps Carpenters procured a new boltspritt with the other dammaged tackle<br />
to be made and repaired and putt in the said shipp, whereby shee was made<br />
fitt and strong for her intended imployment. The premisses hee knoweth<br />
being as aforesaid Gunner of and belonging to the said Vessell the<br />
''Margaret'' when the premisses so happned, and saw and observed the ame<br />
And further hee cannot depose:/
To the fifth and 6th articles hee saith, That shortly after the said new<br />
bolspritt was made and putt in the said Vessell the ''Margaret'' as<br />
aforesaid videlicet towards the Later end of the said moneth of November<br />
<u>1653.</u> the said Vessell the ''May flower'' did the second time by the<br />
carlessnesse of the said White and Companie come fowle upon the<br />
said Vessell the ''Margarett'', and came thwart her hawse, and cracked<br />
the new boltspritt, insomuch that the said ffox and Companie being<br />
then suddenly to depart upon their intended voyadge for Virginia, were<br />
constrained to repaire the said boltspritt with feshes of wood and roapes<br />
bound about to render the same serviceable for their [?XX] intended voyage, and<br />
saith That after the said shipp the ''Margaret'' by reason of the bruising and<br />
disabling of the said boltspritt the second time had with great difficultie and<br />
danger arrived at Virginia, the said foxe and Companie were constrained<br />
to take out the said boltspritt and to putt in a new one there; And this<br />
deponent further saith hee verily beleeveth, That by reason of the said<br />
falling fowle of the said shipp the ''May flower'' upon the said Vessell the<br />
''Margaret'', (as hee hath predeposed) the said Benjamin Crandley Arthur<br />
Baily and Companie, did lay out in necessary expenses for the said new<br />
boltspritt at the first time and repairing of it the second time, and putting in<br />
a new boltspritt at Virginia, the suummes of thirty pounds sterling or<br />
thereabouts in this deponents Judgment and estimation, this deponent, this deponent having heard the<br />
said Robert ffox sewerall times declare before their departure from England<br />
upon the said Voyage, that hee had sett downe in his booke of accompts two<br />
and twentie pounds and fifteen shillings sterling upon the said Owners<br />
accompt upon the Occasion aforesaid, and beleeveth the rest or the<br />
(Valewleeveth the rest or the<br />
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