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of the Master and Company and passengers w … of the Master and Company and passengers were in, and well<br />
knowing that if she should continue long there at Anchor<br />
shee would beate to peeces and all her ladeing and passengers and<br />
Companys lives bee lost, did cutt the Cables of two Anchors<br />
by which shee roade and turne the shipp afore the winde and<br />
runne her before the winde as far as they durst to seeke somme<br />
deeper place to Anchor in and having gone as far as as they durst<br />
that day goe, they cast a sheate Anchor out and roade by that<br />
upon the sands till almost high water, and at high water<br />
though it were in the night tyme, did to prevent as much<br />
as they could the danger the shipp and goods was in cut that<br />
sheate Cable and runne the shipp againe before the winde<br />
and by Gods great blessing brought her with much difficulty<br />
to shoare about a myle below the Reculvers aforesayd<br />
to the great ioy of all the passengers and Company aboard who<br />
all accounted themselves while they were soe upon the sayd<br />
sands as lost men, and every moment looked that the sayd shipp and<br />
goods and they should all perish together all which hurt and<br />
damage done to the sayd shipp and losse of her Rudder and Anchor and<br />
such dammage as happened to the sayd shipps goods and provisions<br />
on board her were occasioned meerely by the sayd Wareings willfullnes<br />
and refusing to take any advise either from the Master, Company<br />
or such passengers of the shipp as were seamen, and his commanding and<br />
causeing the sayd shipps company to put up the mayne sayle and his<br />
carelessness in not observing the boyes aforesayd and neglecting<br />
and refusing when they were showed him to prevent the danger by timely<br />
casting Anchor, And he saith by the meanes aforesayd the sayd<br />
shipp also became unserviseable and unfitt to proceede on her sayd<br />
voyage and the sayd voyage was thereby lost And further saving his<br />
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 6th and 7th articles of the sayd libell he saith that by reason<br />
of the hurt done to the sayd shipp and the sayd Wilkinson and company the<br />
Owner of her their looseing the sayd voyage and looseing their Anchor and<br />
Cables and by reason divers of their goods were spoiled by water<br />
which Came into the hold of the shipp by meanes of her being bruised and<br />
hurt upon the sands and all her provisions spoiled with wett the sayd<br />
Wilkinson and Company were and are damnified to the value of two thousand pounds sterling<br />
at the least in this deponenets judgement and estimate besides the losse of<br />
divers cases and vessells of stronge water and sack belonging to the passengers aforesayd which was staved and utterly<br />
lost and other goods belonging to the sayd passengers which by wett taken was<br />
spoiled and dammified and the passengers put to great charge to bring such<br />
goods as were saved back to London and beside all moneys paid for their<br />
passage and for freight of theire goods all which losses of the sayd passengers<br />
besides the sayd Wilkinson and Company their losse did in this deponents judgement<br />
amount to two thousand pounds sterling at the least All which hee saith<br />
as aforesaid happened through the willfullnesse and negligence of the<br />
sayd Waring and by noe other meanes, And he saith the sayd Wareing<br />
after theith the sayd Wareing<br />
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