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he same day Examined upon the sayd Allegat … he same day Examined upon the sayd Allegation
'''Rp.2.'''
'''Robert Lunn''' of Redriffe in the County of Surrey Mariner<br />
late Gunner of the sayd shipp ''Susan and Ann'', aged<br />
forty three yeares or thereabouts sayth and deposeth as<br />
followeth. videlicet.
To the .1. 2. and 3. articles of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith, That the sayd<br />
shipp ''Susan and Anne'' whereof the arlate George Boys was Master<br />
having taken in her lading being Sugars att the Barbadoes departed<br />
from thence upon her homewards voyage for London about the tyme<br />
allegat, and after her being att Sea abeit twelve dayes mett<br />
with a furious Hurricano, which continued in very great extremity<br />
for about five or six and thirty howres, so as the sayd Master and<br />
Company of the sayd shipp were enforced and did for the preservation of<br />
the sayd shipp and lading and their owne lives, cutt downe their<br />
mainmast. and the foremast hee saith was carryed away by the violence of<br />
the Storme. and so much water came in betwixt deckes that the weight<br />
thereof did endanger the oversetting of the sayd shipp for preservation<br />
whereof a hole was of necessity to be cutt to lett the sayd water into<br />
the hold that the pumps might worke; And the sayd shipp being so<br />
disabled was carryed to the Bermudaos and there fitted with such things<br />
as were necessary, and being provided of a Pilot departed from there<br />
and about the tyme arlate (having her Pilot on board) the winds<br />
proving scanty struck upon a Rock whereby she tooke a leake, and the<br />
pumpe was afterwards very carefully plyed to prevent dammage as much as<br />
might be; And he further saith that afterwards the sayd shipp<br />
having her sayd lading still on board and being not farr from the<br />
Coast of England about three dayes before Christmas last mett with<br />
a very violent storme, which for the tyme it continued was of such<br />
force as that it rent and carryed away the greater part of the sayles<br />
that were then out videlicet the mainsaile foresayle and mizzen, and the sayd shipp<br />
was for the tyme in great danger of perishing. Of the premisses<br />
this deponent was an eyewitnesse being Gunner in and aboard the<br />
sayd shipp the foresayd voyage. And otherwise he cannot depose
To the fourth and fifth articles of the sayd allegation he saith, the sayd shipp<br />
before the sayd Hurricano so fell on her was an able and stanch shipp<br />
and well provided and fitted to performe the sayd voyage. And hee saith<br />
that the goods and lading of the sayd shipp were well and sufficiently<br />
stowed and dennaged, and that the losse and dammage which befell<br />
the sugars and casks was occasioned by the sayd Hurricano, and working<br />
of the sea which through the [XXXXoney of the winds and storme [XXXXX GUTTER]<br />
in great quantityes of water into the sayd shipp. And there was not (as<br />
he by vertue of his Oath saith) any fault or neglect of the sayd<br />
Master and Mariners in reference in the sayd shipp in the quality aforesayd<br />
And for his part he doth not know beleive or hath heard that the Master<br />
or Mariners did breake upp the heads of any Casks, or did embezell any<br />
of the goods and lading, but saith that the sayd Casks did loose some of the<br />
heads by the working of the sea, and Stresse of weather, by meanes<br />
whereof the sugars became endammaged and in part washt away as aforesayd<br />
And otherwise he cannot depose.
Robert '''R''' Lunn. ]MARKE, RH SIDE]<br />
his markenn. ]MARKE, RH SIDE]<br />
his marke +
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