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and after shee had taken in her ladeing ap … and after shee had taken in her ladeing appeared to bee very leakie soe that<br />
her company of this deponents sight did pumpe her while shee was in<br />
harbour a hundred and odd strokes every halfe hower<br />
and alsoe before shee went out of harbour caused a thing called a dredge<br />
made with roapes and Okam to be made and stretched under her<br />
the better to stopp her leakes and went to sea therewith, and saith<br />
that after the sayd shipps were put out in Company to sea, upon<br />
the sayd Nynteenth day of November at night fowle weather<br />
happened, by meanes whereof (the ''Recoveries'' rigging being badd<br />
and rotten and shee leaky before shee came out) her mayne mast had<br />
was cracked and severall of her sayles splitt and severall of her<br />
shroudes broken, and shee grew thereby more and more leakie, in<br />
soe much that the sayd Tawley and others aforenamed and<br />
the rest of her Company with the assistance alsoe of this deponent who wrought<br />
for his passage, had much a doe with continuall labour at the pumpe<br />
to keepe her above water, and in order to the better coming at her<br />
leakes to stopp them as well as for the present they could, the Master and<br />
Company heaved overboard a parcell of ffustick, but not withstanding<br />
all they could doe, the sayd shipp continued soe leakie that her company<br />
were faine to keepe the pumpe continually goeing, and soe kept<br />
the same goeing severall dayes togeather, in which tyme the shipp<br />
''Gilbert'' coming sometymes within a pretty distance of the ''Recovery''<br />
Mr Croford Commander of the ''Gilbert'' did severall tymes call out to<br />
the sayd Bartlett and aske him what cheere howe, and the like, and<br />
was answered by the sayd Bartlett, that his shipp (meaning the<br />
''Recovery'') was a very leakie shipp, whereupon the sayd Croford<br />
replyed and sayd you were best therefore to beare up in tyme before<br />
you bee to farr gone from the Islands (meaning the Islands that lay<br />
to the leewards) which notwithstanding the sayd Bartlett kept on his<br />
Course with the shipp ''Recovery'' and followed the sayd<br />
Crofords shipp severall dayes, by which meanes the sayd shipps<br />
Company by their Continuall labour at the pumpe were very much<br />
wearied and spent and complayned to the sayd Bartlett that they<br />
were soe wearied with continuall pumpeing that they were not able<br />
to hold out, and desyred him to beare up for some of the Islands<br />
that they might there stopp their leakes and preserve the shipp and goods<br />
and their lives, which notwithstanding the sayd Bartlett still continued<br />
on his course after the ''Gilbert'', but at length the sayd Bartlett<br />
wanting candles and other necessaries, went with his longe boate<br />
aboard the ''Gilbert'', but what discourse hee had there with the sayd<br />
Croford hee knoweth not for that hee went not with him, but saith that<br />
the sayd bartlett after a while returned from aboard the ''Gilbert''<br />
and brought with him aboard the ''Recovery'' some oyle to burne for light and and nayles<br />
ande for light and and nayles<br />
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