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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined u … The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''Rp. 3.'''
'''Thomas Bee''' of Salcombe in the County of devon mariner<br />
one of the Quarter masters of the said ship the ''Chase'',<br />
aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that in<br />
the homewards course of the said ship the ''Chase'' from Scanderon<br />
and Cyprus, coming off Cape ffinis-terre shee met with very<br />
furious and stormie weather in or about November last, which lasted<br />
about 28 dayes together, saving that for some part of that space<br />
the weather was nowe and then lesse violent, and<br />
yet stressie; and saith that in and by occasion of the said stormes and<br />
tempestuous weather the vessel unavoidably tooke in much water<br />
by shipping of seas and otherwise; and further that whatsoever<br />
damage is befallen the merchandize aboard her, the same came<br />
and happened mearly by meanes of the said fowle weather and not by<br />
any insufficiencie of or in the said vessel or by any neglect of the<br />
master and companie or of any of them, for the said ship was (as<br />
hee saith) staunch and sufficient till shee met with the said stormes<br />
and for the master and companie, hee saith that they in all the<br />
terme of the voyage used all care and diligence like faithfull<br />
mariners to preserve the said lading from hurt or damage,<br />
which hee knoweth being one of the Quarter masters and all the<br />
said voyage in her. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated with his two precontests before<br />
doctor Clerke.
The marke of<br />
'''B'''' William Bee [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The 19th of ffebruary 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.<br />
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'''John Curtis''' of Greenwich Mariner, Boatswaines<br />
mate of the said ship the ''Chase'', aged 22 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the said ship the ''Chase'' in her homewards voyage from Scandaron and<br />
Cyprus, namely about three monethes since coming neere the heights<br />
of the Northerne Cape of Portugall otherwise called Cape ffinis-terre,<br />
met with very storme and stressie weather, which hee saith continued about<br />
28 dayes space and was soe violent for a greate part of that time that<br />
albeit hee hath used seafaring theise nine yeares last past, yet hee saith hee<br />
was never in soe greate peril of perishing by storme, as in that fowle weather<br />
[?for] which hee saith the sea wrought soe hie and soe beate over and into the<br />
shipp beate over and into the<br />
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