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other good dennage, and all meanes used by … other good dennage, and all meanes used by the arlate Case and<br />
Company which was fitting for the preservation of the sayd ladeing from damage in its passage<br />
from Scanderoone to London (the port assigned for unladeing thereof) but saith that in the sayd<br />
shipps passage betwixt Scanderoone and London there happened two very violent stormes the<br />
one about the twelfth of January 1654 when the sayd shipp was in a bout thirty eight<br />
degrees and a haf latitude, and the winde blowing then West North West which storme was<br />
soe violent that the Master and Company of the sayd shipp were forced in order to the better<br />
preservation of the sayd shipp and goods and their owne lives for about three dayes space to leave only a peece of the Mizen<br />
sayle of the sayd shipp out (the violence of the storme rendering it not safe to leave mor<br />
sayle) and the other storme happened the winde being South East and by south<br />
about the 13th of Aprill last the sayd shipp being then in the latitude of forty<br />
nyne degrees or thereabouts which storme continued the space of fower and twenty howers<br />
and bette, by meanes of which two stormes the sayd shipp tooke in very much water<br />
the sea working over her decks and sides with such violence that the sayd shipp<br />
was in great danger to be cast away and her Master and Company drowned, And saith that<br />
whatsoever damage is happened to the sayd shipps ladeing was not by any<br />
fault or defect of the sayd shipp, or want of stowage, or neglect of the sayd shipps<br />
company, but meerely by the violence of the seas workeing over the side and decks of<br />
the sayd shipp in the sayd storme, the premisses hee deposeth of his certaine knowledge<br />
being Masters mate aboard the sayd shipp during the sayd voyage and seeing all things<br />
done and happen as aforesayd, and well lnowing the sayd shipp is still a tight and<br />
stronge shipp fitt for merchandizing imployment And further hee cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated before doctor Clarke
John Harris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation
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'''Isaack Allburie''' of dover in the County of Kent Shipp=<br />
wright aged 42 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee was at London<br />
shipped on board the arlate shipp ''hopewell'' to goe and did from thnce goe in her the<br />
whole voyage in question and thereby well knoweth that at her setting forth shee was<br />
a new and a stronge stanch shipp and soe continued during her being at Scanderoone and<br />
at her returne from thence to London, and is still a stronge and stanch shipp and fitt<br />
to receive and carrie Merchants goods the premisses hee the better knoweth goeing<br />
Carpenter of her the voyage in question And further saving his subsequent deposition<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith the sayd shipp did<br />
at Scanderoone take in severall goods and merchandizes to transport them thence<br />
to London (which goods were well stowed upon good and sufficient dennage by<br />
the order of the arlate George Case, and all meanes fitting were used by him and his shipps<br />
Company for preservation of the sayd ladeing, this hee knoweth for that hee helped to<br />
stowe the sayd goods, and sawe that they were layd upon good dennage, And saith that<br />
in the sayd shipps passage from Scanderoone to London shee mett with two very<br />
violent stormes the first in the moneth of January 1654 the winde being West north<br />
West and the violence of that storme was such that the master was forced for the better<br />
preservation of the sayd shipp and her ladeing and his and his companyes lives to laye the sayd<br />
shipp a trye and beare only halfe the mizen sayles for the space<br />
of about three dayes togeather, and the sayd second storme happened about the 13th<br />
ofrme happened about the 13th<br />
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