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shorudes and staye had not bin cutt And sa … shorudes and staye had not bin cutt And saith hee is verily perswaded<br />
in his conscience that had not the sayd shroudes and staye bin cutt<br />
and thereby the mayne mast broke downe togeather with the other tackle<br />
topp mast and [?yardes] and sayles to the sayd masts belonging the sayd shipp and goods had undoubtedly perished<br />
in the sayd storme And further saving his subsequent deposition<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 3 thee saith that the sayd shipps Company by like order of the<br />
Master and for the lightening of the sayd shipp to make her endure the<br />
sayd storme the better did cutt off two Anchors from her starborde bowe<br />
and lett them dropp overboard,<br />
And all this predeposed of was soe<br />
cutt away for the better preservation of the sayd shipp and goods and<br />
hee saith that in his this deponents Judgment and estimate the masts<br />
shroudes staye yardes sayles Skiffe and Anchors soe cut away<br />
and lost for better preservation of the sayd shipp and ladeing were worth<br />
about two hundred pounds, sterling or upwards And further to this<br />
Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee knoweth that the bulke heads of<br />
the sayd shipp ''Saphir'' after the sayd storme and when she laye<br />
in harbour at Plymouth were stronge and sufficient and saith hee<br />
sawe one Captaine Jones a shipwright and an other shipp Carpenter<br />
with him come aboard the ''Saphir'' and saith they went downe into the<br />
hold to view the sayd bulke heads, and hee this deponent and others<br />
of the sayd shipps company being upon the deck when the sayd Jones<br />
and the other Carpenter came up from the hold, hee saith hee heard the sayd<br />
Jones saye that the sayd shipps bulke heads were then very firme and<br />
good, and beleeveth the rest of the shipps company then on deck heard him<br />
alsoe speake the sayd words, And hee further saith that hee well<br />
knoweth, being one of her company and on board that the sayd shipp<br />
before the sayd storme was a tight and strong shipp, and soe continued<br />
after the sayd storme was over, and saith, there were good<br />
tarrpaulins laid and nayled round the hatches of the sayd shipp<br />
and as much care taken as possibly could bee by her Master and<br />
Company to keepe her ladeing free from dammage by any wett<br />
And that what dammage is happened to any of her ladeing happened<br />
in the sayd storme and by meanes thereof (and not before, (as hee<br />
verily beleeveth for the reasons a foresayd And further to this<br />
Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./
To the last hee saith hee knoweth the Interrogate Mathew Plowman<br />
and saith at the tyme the storme aforesayd happened the sayd Plowman was<br />
sick and kept his Cabbin and soe had done for divers dayes togeather before<br />
the sayd storme happened and saith hee is well assured that the saydnd saith hee is well assured that the sayd +
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