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1. finde the most of them were leakie in some measure but some more than others of them and used what meanes hee
2. could to stopp them while they were aboard, but could not effect it,
3. which Cooper having viewed them did acknowledge before this deponent
4. and others of the sayd shipps Company that hee could find noe fault
5. in the stowage of them, but sayd they were made of greene wood which
6. had caused them to shrinke and thereby become leakie, and gave
7. this deponent a noate under his hands (which noate this deponent delivered
8. to the sayd david Young the Master) expressing that the caskes
9. which were most leakie were were well stowed And further
10. to this article hee cannot depose/

11. To the 8th hee saith hee knoweth not how many tonnes of oyle the
12. sayd Casks conteyned And therefore cannot depose to this article/

13. To the 9th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of this
14. Court and further cannot depose./

15. To the 10th hee cannot depose not knowing what dammage the sayd
16. Younge gath suffered above his principall by not receiving her freight/

17. To the 11th hee saith hee beleeveth the arlate Bonnell to bee a subiect
18. of this Commonwealth and subiect to the authority of this Court and
19. further hee cannot depose./

20. To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

Repeated in Court before both Judges

Will: Smith [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 19th day of November 1658/

hugh Salisbury and Company late Owners of}
the Shipp the Christopher of Portsmouth against}
William Trevill Merchant in a cause of}
substraction of ffreight ffrancklin Suckley}

Examined on an allegation on behalfe of the sayd hugh
Salisbury and Company./

Rp jus

Joseph Smith of debtford in the County of Kent Shipp
Wright aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

35. To the 1: 2: 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation and the Charterparty in the
36. third article mentioned hee saith that in the moneth of ffebruary one thousand
37. sixe hundred fifty fower English style and during all the rest of the tyme
38. arlate and untill the seizure of the shipp Christopher arlate in the moneth of January
39. 1655 English style the arlate hugh Salisbury and Company were commonly
40. reputed the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the arlate Shipp the
41. Christopher of Portsmouth and of her tackle and furniture And hee this
42. deponent being one of the Company of the sayd shipp during the sayd voyage
43. untill her seizure thereby knoweth that the arlate daniell Bradley was and did
44. goe Master of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage untill the tyme of such her
45. seizure, and was (as hee beleeveth made Master of her for the sayd voyage
46. by the arlate hugh Salisbury and the rest of the Owners of the sayd shipp And
47. further to these articles hee cannot depose, not being any wittnes to the sayd
48. Charterparty now showed to him at this his examination and soe not privie
49. to the contents thereof, but beleeveth the contents thereof to be true and hath heard
50. by others of the sayd Shipps Company that the sayd shipp was leysed by the
51. arlate William Trevill for the voyage in question at the rate of sixty five
pounds