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Hance Rauce of Quinsborough}<br />
H … Hance Rauce of Quinsborough}<br />
Harrison and others.}
The 29th day of March 1656
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''3:'''
'''Jan Polo''' of Flushing in Zealand Mariner aged 51. yeares<br />
or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and<br />
sayth as followeth. videlicet.
To the 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5th Articles of the sayd allon he saith he cannot depose.<br />
saving that the sayd shipp the ''Hope'' came and arrived at Elsineur in the<br />
Soundt of denmarke in September 1655 last past, where this deponent<br />
att that tyme was expecting some shipp whereon hee might come as a<br />
Passenger to theis Seas and saving that the shipp ''Hope'' had hempe Clapboard<br />
and deales on board her,
To the 6th. article of the sayd allegation he saith, That on or about the 29th<br />
day of the sayd moneth of September, the foresayd shipp the ''Hope''<br />
sett sayle from the Soundt aforesayd under the Command of Martin<br />
Barnhide as Master of her, And about four dayes after being upon<br />
her course for London there happened a very high and violent<br />
wind from about the West North west poynt in the afternoone, so<br />
as the sayd shipp could not nor did beare any other sayle but her maine<br />
sail very much lowerd, And the says wind increasing the night following<br />
there happened an extraordinary furious storme, which by two of the<br />
clock the next morning drave the sayd shipp neere to Jutland<br />
upon a place called the holmes. and upon sounding it did appeare<br />
that the sayd shipp had then about thirteene fathom water, whereupon<br />
being allso neare to the Lea shore the sayd Master and Company<br />
for the preservation of the sayd shipp and her lading did cast out<br />
two anchors one after the other the first anchor by reason of [?the]<br />
violent fury of the sayd Storme not taking hold; and after both were<br />
cast out they could not yet hold, so strong and raging was the sayd<br />
storme, so as the sayd Master and Company for preservation of the sayd shipp<br />
and her lading were enforced and did cutt downe her mainmast<br />
which with the yards sayles and tackle thereto belonging was immediately<br />
carryed by the sayd Storme of wind into the sea and so perished, and<br />
then and not before the sayd Anchors did take hold and fastened<br />
themselves. And the shipp lay so att Anchor till the afternoone of<br />
that day att which tyme the wind shifted something to the Southward.<br />
And the sayd Master and Company were forced and did cutt one of the<br />
Cables, and endeavoured to weigh the other anchor but it brake in<br />
weighing. and one perice of it was recovered; and the rest of it as<br />
also the other anchor were lost. And that night the sayd shipp with much<br />
adoe andwith great danger came to the Coast of Norway, and was by<br />
a ffishermans yall conducted betwixt the Rockes to a small haven called<br />
[Gusd GUTTER]all haven called<br />
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