| First transcribed
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1 November 2012 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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261 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| Side
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Verso +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 01/11/2012 +
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| Transcription
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that hee well knoweth ánd was Cooke of the … that hee well knoweth ánd was Cooke of the Interrogate shipp<br />
the ''Saphir'' the voyage in question (which was her last from London)<br />
wherein when shee was about eighty legues to the Southwest of<br />
Scilly shee was surprized with a very violent storme which con=<br />
tinued with great force for about five howers and better soe that<br />
by reason thereof the sayd shipp her ladeing and her Master and company<br />
were thereby in eminent danger to be cast away whereupon the Master<br />
iudging it to be the best way to preserve the sayd shipp and goods<br />
and their owne lives commanded the Company to cut downe the mayne<br />
mast by the boards and to cut the shroudes whereupon the Company began<br />
fairst to cutt the mayne mast, but soone gave over that and cutt the<br />
shroudes and the mayne stays, verily being cutt (and not before) the mayne<br />
mast with the rowleing of the shipp by, violense of the sea brake in<br />
sunder a good way above where it was begunne to be cut, which hee<br />
beleeveth it would not have done (it being a stoute stronge maste)<br />
if the shrouds and [?stay] had not first bin cutt and hee saith that the sayd shrouds and stay being cutt and mast broken the<br />
topp mast and the mayne yarde and mayne topp mast yarde and their sayles<br />
fell downe and were lost in the sea and the sayd Master and company<br />
were forced alsoe for the better safing of the shipp and preserving her<br />
and her ladeing from being cast away by the sayd storme to cutt the<br />
skiff a peeces it being full of water and heave it overboard and alsoe to<br />
cutt and dropp two Anchors from her star board side all which<br />
was done in order to the preservation of the sayd shipp and ladeing And hee<br />
saith the sayd Masts Anchors and rigging and boate and other things soe cutt<br />
away were in this deponents Judgment worth fower hundred pounds<br />
sterling or thereabouts And further to these Interrogatories hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 4th hee saith that after the sayd storme was past and the shipp<br />
gott safe to Plymouth her bulke heads were there viewed (in presense)<br />
of this deponent who went downe into the hold with them) by carpenters<br />
and this deponent heard them there saye that the sayd ships bulke heads<br />
were then very stronge and sufficeint as ever they sawe bulke heads or<br />
words to that effect, And hee further saith that hee knoweth that the<br />
hatches were before the sayd strome well covered with good and sufficient<br />
tarr paulings and nayled downe with hoopes to jeepe them from flying up<br />
and all care used by the Master and Company to preserve the sayd shipps<br />
ladeing from dammage And saith the sayd shipp before the sayd<br />
storme was a tight and strong shipp and of this deponents sight and [?observation GUTTER]<br />
both[?e] before the storme, and alsoe afterwards soe soone as the wa[?l]ter shipped<br />
in the storme was cle[?e]red out of her stood very seldome in any neede of<br />
pumpeing And therefore beleeveth that what dammage her ladeing<br />
hath receaved was receaved in the sayd storme, and by reason thereof, and not<br />
before And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./
To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth the Interrogate Mathew Plowman<br />
and saith hee was sick and in his Cabbin when the storme predeposed of<br />
happened and came not out thereof till after the mayne mast and<br />
shroudeser the mayne mast and<br />
shroudes +
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