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Plowman came not out of his Cabbin in the … Plowman came not out of his Cabbin in the sayd storme untill<br />
after the mayne mast and shroudes and other tackle predeposed of were cut<br />
away and gone, and after they were gone and not before (a great sea coming into the<br />
sayd shipp and breakeing into the sayd Plowmanns Cabbin) hee thereupon<br />
came out of his Cabbin and satt in the steerage, for that when the sayd<br />
Plowman came out of his sayd Cabbin there was nothing then in action<br />
by the shipps company for him to discover, save that hee might see them<br />
pumpeing and baleing water out of the sayd shipp, And this deponent<br />
as well assured that while the sayd Plowman soe kept in his cabbin<br />
hee could not discover or see what the shipps company were doeing<br />
in any part of the shipp for that the bulke heads of the great<br />
Cabbin and steerage of the sayd shipp, were betweene him and the<br />
shipps company and hindered him soe that it was not possible for him<br />
to see any thing what was done while hee stayed in his Cabbin And<br />
further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
John Sutton: [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories
'''d Smith'''
'''3'''
'''Robert Catmar''' of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and<br />
County of Middlesex Quarter Master of the shipp<br />
the ''Saphyr'' aged thirty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith hee was Quarter Master of<br />
the Interrate shipp the ''Saphir'' the voyage in question and therefore well knoweth<br />
her and saith in her sayd voyage (being her last from London) shee was<br />
about eighty leagues southwest from Scilly surprized with a very<br />
great tempest which held with much violence for the space of about<br />
twelve howers togeather soe that the shipp and ladeing and her companys<br />
lives were in great danger to bee cast away and saith that this deponent<br />
and others of the shipps Company did by the Command of the Master in<br />
order to the preservation of the sayd shipp and her ladeing begin to cutt<br />
the maine mast by the board, and having cutt the same a little did by<br />
the sayd Masters order cutt the shroudes and the mayne staye of the<br />
sayd mast which being cutt and not before the sayd Mast though it were a new and<br />
a strong mast) brake a good height above the place where it was begun<br />
to bee cut, (which without cutting the sayd shroudes and stay it would not<br />
have done) and it and the shroudes and mayne stay and yardes and sayles<br />
thereof and alsoe the topp mast and yardes thereof and sayles thereof were<br />
all tumbled in to the sea, and other tackle and furniture of the sayd shipp videlicet<br />
the shipps skiffe was cutt in peeces and throwne over board and two Anchors<br />
cutt away from her starr board side to ease and lighten the sayd shipp the<br />
better to preserve her and her ladeing from perishing in the sayd storme<br />
andrishing in the sayd storme<br />
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