Francis Lightly< no role >
of Whitby
In the County of York
Marriner
acced Six & twenty Yeares or thereabouts And Mate
to Thomas
Bowmer< no role >
Master
of the Mary Flower Vessell of Whitby
aforesaid
Maketh Oath That in the Moneth of August 1705. There was
Loaded on board the Said Vessell Three Thousand Nine hundred &
Twenty Bushells of White Salt att Sheilds in the Same County
on the Accompt of Mr. Ambrose Cox< no role >
& Mr. Job Pope< no role >
of London
Mechants
whoe had paid to her Majesty the Duty for the Said
Salt And That They Sailed From thence on the Tenth day of August
last past 1705 And in their passage from Sheilds
to London being
the Port to which They were bound There was lost Fower hundred
Thirty and twoe Bushells of the said White Salt by violent and
Stormy weather And not by any Leakage of the Said Shipp or
Vessell or by any Negligence or Default of this Deponent Or the
paid Mater or any of the Marriners
Jur in Cur Prinne die July 1706
Francis Ligthely< no role >