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belonging to the said Ship or Vessel jointly and severally make Oath and
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first the said Joseph Fletcher for himself saith that on or about the
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past Six Thousand Bushels of English refined
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Salt were Shipped on Board the said Ship or Vessel at the Port of Liverpool
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aforesaid and cleared there in Order to be conveyed by Sea to the Port of London
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for and on Account of the said John Davies and of
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the Owners of the said Salt And these Deponents the said
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Joseph Fletcher and John Stott for themselves severally say that on or about the
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Nineteenth Day of the said Month of December the said Ship or Vessell with
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and that in the Course of her Voyage to London on the seventh Day of February
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last past the said Ship or Vessell met with very violent and stormy Weather
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at Sea near the Islands of Scilly and drove on a Ledge of Rocks in the said
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Islands notwithstanding those Deponents and the Rest of the Ships Crew
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used their utmost Endeavours to prevent the same And these Deponents further
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severally say that in Consequence of a Signal of Distress many Persons came
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in Boats from Shore and from another Ship in Harbour there on Board the
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able to effect the same by Means whereof the said Ship or Vessel on the
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Ebb of the Water from her lay on her Starboard Side and afterwards in the
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Night of the said Seventh Day of February by the said Violent and Stormy
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Larboar'd Side and soon afterwards filled full of Water by Means
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whereof and by the said violent and Stormy Weather the said Six Thousand
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that the Loss of the said Salt was not occasioned by any Leekage of the
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