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'''Rp. 2.'''
'''William Compton''' of the … '''Rp. 2.'''
'''William Compton''' of the parish of Saint Giles Cripplegate<br />
London Mariner, aged 35 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the first Interrogatorie hee deposeth and saith that hee was Steward<br />
of the said shipp the ''Anne Pinke'' at the time of her casting away<br />
hereafter mentioned, and had soe bin about eleaven weekes, comming first<br />
aboard her at Bristoll, upon her outward proceeding thence on the sayd<br />
voyage wherein shee was lost, and that hee was hired and shipped by<br />
hugh Jones her master. And saith hee hath knowne the said shipp about<br />
foure yeares last past. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that<br />
shee soe proceeded from Bristoll on or about the seaventh day of<br />
November last past.
To the second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the said Mr Jones was an eighth part owner (as himselfe affirmed) of<br />
the said vessell at the time of her said proceeding and of her casting away<br />
And that one Mr Tomlin was another part owner, and saith shee<br />
was of the burthen of ninetie tonnes or thereabouts, and that the said<br />
Jones was master of her at the time of her proceeding from Bristoll<br />
and casting away, at which time of her departure from Bristoll shee<br />
was laden withwett or [?redd] fish, which shee carried to and delivered<br />
at Lisbone, where shee tooke in caske to goe to Pharo to receive<br />
oiles for Bristoll, about 50 tonnes of which caskes were filled with water<br />
for Ballast, and alsoe there was a parcell of clapboard<br />
amounting to about foure or five hundred, and 23 Rolls of tobaccoe<br />
received aboard her at Lisbone, with which said caske, clapboard and<br />
tobaccoe, shee sett saile and departed from Lisbone on or about the<br />
fifteenth of January last, intending for Pharo to receive her said<br />
lading of oiles: but in her course of proceeding shee as surprized<br />
with a very violent storme and stresse of weather, which continued<br />
three dayes and three nights, and put her by her said intended<br />
port upon the coast of Spaine where after much striving and<br />
labour of the said master and company for the preservation of the shipp<br />
and goods and their owne lives, shee was at length namely at<br />
or about the foure and twentieth day of the said moneth of January<br />
by the fury of the said storme forced ashore betwixt Cales and Saint<br />
Lucars and more particularly betwixt Chippione and Rota<br />
and there bilged and cast away of this deponents sight and knowledge,<br />
but the said clapboard, tobaccoes and caske were as hee hath heard saved and carried to the<br />
possession of the English Consull at Saint Lucars. And saith the said<br />
and stresse of weather as aforesaid, and not by any insufficiencie<br />
or leakinesse of her. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated with his precontest before Collonel Cock.
the marke of the said<br />
William '''WC''' Compton [MARKE, RH SIDE]<br />
shipp was a tight and staunch shipp, and cast away by the force staunch shipp, and cast away by the force +
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