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servant of his precontest William Lee and … servant of his precontest William Lee and George Webber factors of<br />
the said Mr Warren and of the said other persons there, and sawe<br />
there the account of the said goods and effects, and the said seizure<br />
by the said officers of the king of Spaine.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin:/:
Richard Wylde [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 20th of June 1657./
A busines of Assurance promoted by}<br />
Thomas Middleton Commander of}<br />
the ''Elizabeth and Mary''}
Examined on certaine Interrogatories on behalfe of Captaine Thomas<br />
Middleton./
'''Rp X X cop: jus'''
'''Esiah Isbell''' now of Wapping but late of Kerrey in Ireland Mariner<br />
aged 30 yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne before the worshippfull<br />
doctor Godolphin one of the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty<br />
saith as followeth./
To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith hee well know the ''Elizabeth and Mary''<br />
Interrogate whereof hee saith the Interrogate Middleton was Commander, and<br />
was one of her Company as a Common Mariner the voyage Interrogate, and<br />
saith hee thereby knoweth the sayd shipp in her passage home from Zant to London<br />
upon or about the second of January 1656 did meete with very thick weather<br />
by meanes whereof shee came on ground upon the rocks and sands called<br />
the Ow[?re]s neere the Isle of Wight, and there soe beate upon the Rocks and sands<br />
that shee thereby there damnified and brake her false Keele and about<br />
fifteene foote of her mayne Keele, and brake her sand streake on both sides,<br />
and lost her Rudder and Irons thereto belonging, and brake her mayne post<br />
and her Tiller, and lost her longe boate (it being there broken a peeces) and alsoe<br />
the Windles, and davids, and lost there one Anchor of about sixteene hundred<br />
weight, and about halfe of her best bower cable which was a bout a fowerth part<br />
worne and was about fowerteene Inches thick, and about two third parts of<br />
a new hawser of sixe Inches thick, And saith that the sayd shipp afterwards<br />
getting into the Isle of Wight procured a new Rudder to bee sent from Portsmouth<br />
which being put on the sayd shipp put out to Sea againe and the said shipp coming<br />
over a place called the horse neere the fflatts there struck upon the horse by the<br />
violence of the tyde and there broke the sayd new Ruther and lost the Irons thereof<br />
but what the repayres of all the sayd dammages receaved cost, or what<br />
to estimate the sayd dammages at hee knoweth not, the premisses hee deposeth<br />
being one of the sayd shipps Company and seeing all the premisses soe<br />
happen as before us expressed. And further to these Interrogatories hee cannot depose/
Esa: is-bell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd Interrogatories/
'''Rp. 2us'''
'''George Steward''' now of Shadwell but late of Invernesse in<br />
Scotland Mariner and Carpenter of the ''Elizabeth and''<br />
''Mary'' a wittnes sworne as abovesayd saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth.
To the first second and third Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the Interrogate<br />
shipp the ''Elizabeth and Mary'' whereof the Interrogate Thomas Middleton was Master<br />
andhomas Middleton was Master<br />
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