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Transcription

The same day/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation

Rp. 3

John Tyle of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney and County
of Middlesex Mariner Quarter Master of the shipp the Levant
ffrigott aged 28 yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that
hee this deponent was a Quarter Master of the sayd shipp the Levant ffrigott
during the voyage in Question and knoweth there was carried in her the voyage afore=
sayd noe pepper save about thirty baggs which
were laden (as he hath heard and beleeveth for the Accompt of the arlate Andrewes
and Clutterbrooke And saith that in the sayd shipps passage from London
towards Allecant diver of the sayd baggs proved to be rotten and burst whereby
much pepper rann out and rann into the bottom of the shipp and into the pumpe well
thereof, and was first discovered by those who worked at the pumpe, and the same
being discovered, the arlate haslegrave and Company did sett bread basketts and
ballast basketts at the pumpe mouth to save the pepper as the pumpe brought it up, and
dryed the pepper soe saved upon the decks and the same being dryed kept the
same, and when the baggs were mended put some of it in one bagg and some into another
as convenience offered to receave the same And saith the sayd pepper was pumped
up at the pumpe for a good while (but for how many weekes hee knoweth not)
and preserved allwaies when it came up, And saith the sayd shipp was a strong
tight shipp and soe tight that noe goods receaved aboard her could receave
any damage by any Leakines or defect in her, and soe still continueth, the
premisses hee deposeth being an eye witnesse and a Quarter Master of the sayd
shipp the voyage aforesayd And further to this article hee cannot depose for
that hee came not on board the sayd shipp till shee was falne downe to dover
Roade./

To the 2 article hee saith that of his sight and knowledge being at the
unladeing of the same the sayd pepper was well stowed in the midst of the
shipp a little abafte the mayne Mast and three tyre of Lead and bavins
for dennage upon them were layed under the sayd pepper, to keepe and preserve the
same the better from damage, and divers packs of perpetuanas and baggswere
stowed on the topp of the sayd pepper, and knoweth that there were divers other
packs of perpetuanas and bayes that laye some abafte and some before the sayd pepper
but lower and neerer the bottom of the shipp then the sayd pepper did and receaved
noe damage by reason of any wett, soe that hee thereby knoweth the sayd baggs
of pepper could have receaved noe damage by any weltt receaved in the sayd shipp
if the baggs had not bin rotten and soe suffered the same to runne out as aforesayd
And in deede most of the sayd baggs were soe rotten that the arlate haslegrave
and Company were forced to mend them with sayle cloathes and other canvas before
they could remove them out of the hold to hoyse them over the shipp sides the
premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd And further to this article
hee cannot depose./

To the third article of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that the
sayd shipp the Levant ffrigott in her course towards Allecant was chased at
sea by certaine dutch men of warr (there being then hostility betweene the dutch
and English) and the arlate haslegrave and Company were forced the better to
avoide being taken by the sayd men of warr and made prize, to come
into Cadiz arlate, where they continued divers dayes and durst not make out
to sea for feare of the dutch men of warr who hovered up and downe there
neither