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there arrived about the two and twentith d … there arrived about the two and twentith day of October 1654<br />
last past, and that in the months of November and<br />
December she tooke in the number of (about) two hundred<br />
and twenty barrells of herrings for the proper use and<br />
accompt of the interrate Michael horton, And he further<br />
answereth and saith that in the month of January last<br />
past the sayd shipp sett sayle from thence videlicet Wexford<br />
in Oreland and were bound for this Port of London having<br />
on voard her the said barrells of herrings laden for the<br />
account (as he hath predeposed) of the said horton, And that<br />
in therir voyage they had very foule and tempestuous weather<br />
by the violence and extremity whereof the interrate shipp<br />
the ''Storke'' was forced into or neere unto Brit hempson in Sussex, where<br />
the said shipp and her lading of the herrings<br />
aforementioned were all either lost or what was<br />
not lost much damnifyed, The premisses he deposeth<br />
being Commander of the sayd shipp when the herrings interrate<br />
were laden on board the sayd shipp, and alsoe when the said<br />
shipp and goods suffered wreck, which was by reason of<br />
the stormy, foule and tempestuous weather that then was<br />
and not otherwise, And further he saith he cannot depose<br />
knowing not the quality of the said herrings./
Repeated before Doctor Clarke./
henry <u>Gaell</u> [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The last day of May 1655: [CENTRE HEADING]
Slany and Chappell against}<br />
Stancliffe. Budd Smith}
'''5)'''
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'''Arthur [?fflet]''' of Somers key in the<br />
parish of Saint Botolph Billingsgate haberdasher<br />
where he hath lived fourteene yeares or thereabouts<br />
aged about 28 yeares a wittnes sworne<br />
and examined deposeth as followeth./
To the first and second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seaventh and<br />
eighth articles of the said Libell and to the schedules in the said<br />
articles or some of them mentioned he cannot depose.
To the ninth article he deposeth and saith that he the deponent<br />
knoweth a Lighter, which (as he beleiveth) was made of a<br />
french bottome, and that the said Lighter did (about the<br />
latter end of December last or the beginning of January<br />
last past (the time he doth not more certainly remember) come<br />
to Somers=key by Billinsgate from aboard a Barbado's<br />
shipp laden with sugars, and that after the said Lighter<br />
had layen at the said key two floods and an Ebb she<br />
sprange a leake, wherby some of the goods aboard her<br />
received damage, And further he cannot depose./
To the 11th 12th, 13th and 14th articles he cannot depose./
To the last he saith his former deposition is true.
To the Interrogatoryes. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he commeth to testify<br />
at the request of the producents, and that he is not any wayes<br />
concerned or interessed in the cause, And otherwise he<br />
knoweth not to answeare.
Toe<br />
knoweth not to answeare.
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