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To the first Interrogatorie first hee sait … To the first Interrogatorie first hee saith hee well knew the shipp ''James''<br />
and is him selfe the Interrogate George Cobden, and was Master of her at her<br />
last being in the Island of Barbadoes Interrogate and saith shee was then bound<br />
from thense on a voyage to this Port of London (the casualties of the sea excepted)<br />
And further to this Interrogatorie he cannot answere/
To the 2 Interrogatorie and the bills of ladeing threin mentioned hee saith<br />
that the three bills of ladeing in the sayd Interrogatorie mentioned are<br />
signed with the proper hand writing of him this deponent the forenamed<br />
George Cobden and the contents of them are true and saith the severeall goods in<br />
the sayd bills of ladeing specified were at the Barbadoes aforesayd in the moneth of September 1654 laden aboard<br />
the sayd shipp ''James'' under the markes and numbers in the sayd bills specified<br />
and for Accompte of the severall persons in the sayd bills named and were<br />
for their Accompt to bee thense transported to this Port of London And<br />
further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd shipp sett sayle<br />
from the Barbadoes aforesayd with the goods in the sayd bills of ladeing<br />
specified on board her intending directly for London and saith hee well knoweth<br />
that the sayd shipp in her direct course for London mett with very stormie and<br />
tempestious weather which caused her to spring divers leakes soe that<br />
shee receaved in at those leakes five foote water in hold, but was with<br />
continuall pumpeing and much labour kept above water till shee and her company<br />
were by the sayd stormie weather driven in to the River of Waterford in<br />
Ireland, where the sayd shipp being haled as neere shoare as shee could<br />
bee gotten, did by reason of her sayd leakes sinke, by meanes whereof the<br />
goods in the sayd shipp mentioned in the sayd bills of ladeing were all of<br />
them soe wett and damnified that the sugars the most part of them rann to<br />
Molasses, or Sirrupp, and all though the Casks wherein the same was were<br />
gotten a shoare in to Warehouses at a place called Passag[?e] scituate<br />
on the River of Waterford yet the sayd Mollasses ranne the most part of it<br />
out of the sayd Casks in the warehouses where they lay and was thereby lost And<br />
hee saith the Cotton wolls soe much as could bee gotten out of the water<br />
was alsoe gotten into the sayd warehouses, but soe rotten with wett and damnified<br />
that the same is of little or noe value and will not as this deponent beleeveth<br />
be worth to the Owners soe much as will pay for the rent due for the warehouses<br />
wherein they lye, And saith all the sayd Sugars or Molasses and Cotton wolls<br />
3soe damnified which remayne are now in the hands of mr George Cauldron<br />
Treasurer of this Commonwealth for the Cittie of Waterford, and are of little<br />
or noe worth to the Owners thereof And further to this Interrogratorie hee<br />
cannot answere./
Repeated before Col Cock/..</margin>
George Cobden [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./
Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories../
'''Rp.'''
'''William Inians''' of ffanchurch Streete London Mariner<br />
late Masters Mate of the ''James'' aforesayd aged twenty<br />
two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
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