Horsle
Great Yarmouth } ss

By this Publick Instrument
of pretest be it knowne & made manifest that on Wednesday
the fifteenth day of August Anno Dni 1705 before me
John Carlow< no role > Notary Publick by tanfull authority sworne
& admitted resident in great Yarmouth in the County
of Norffe in England Psonally appeare Thomas Wilson< no role >
of Bridlington in the County of York Mariner Master of
the pink talld the Friends Adventure of Bridlington
burmen of about seventy Tuns & William Warham< no role > Masters
Mate & Joseph Hoyles< no role > Mariner belonging to the said
Pink who before me the sd. Notary in the Prsence of the
Witnesses hereunder named Did all of them voluntarily &
solemnly depose attest & affirme as followeth (Videlt)
That on Saturday last about six of the Clock in ye morning
the sd Pink being at Sea att acertaine place called Sand-
hope laden with salt taken in at Colourcoates & bound
therewth. for London there happen'd a very great Storme
of winde & name (the wind being at North Northeast
on North & afterward att North North West Wch. storme
continued very voiolent about ten hours during wch.
storme the sd. Pink shippd. a great many seas & had
her deck for the most part full of Water & was in
great danger of perishing & the sd. Pinks rigging & sails
were very much dampnified but by the great mercy
of God the storme abateing they gott the sd. Pink
into Yarmouth roads this morning about two of the
Clock & Doe intend to proceed upon the sd. Voyage
with the first opportunity But these Deponts: fear
that part of the salt wherewith the sd. pink is laden
is wasted & dampnified by the water shipped into
her during the sd. Storine but how much that
Waste or damage is they [..]