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Exeter Merchant did fall fowle of the sayd Pilgrim
and brake the Ca[?ble GUTTER]
and bolspritt and head of the Pilgrim, and drave her a ground by meanes
whereof the sayd vessell the Pilgrim being heavie laden was much hurt and
damnified and wrunge, and divers of the casks where in the wines
and oyles belonging to the sayd Bathurst Baker and Clarke were, by vertue
of the sayd blowe receaved by the Exeter Merchant falling fowle of
the Pilgrim and her driveing her soe on ground (as this deponent beleeveth) became leakie
and were soe bruised and crushed that some of them thereby leaked out
all or the most part of the wine and oyle that was in them, And
hee well knoweth that the Company of the Pilgrim makeing use
presently after of their pumpe to cleere their shipp of water
pumped up great store of oyles and wynes, which hee beleeveth
was occasioned by the sayd Exeter Merchants soe falling fowle
and running the Pilgrim aground for that hee knoweth, the sayd
shipp Pilgrim was before not very leakie but reasonable and alsoe the sayd Casks wherein the sayd wines
and oyles wa, were soe stanche and good before the sayd shipps being driven aground that
during the whole voyage there was very ;ittle
oyle or wine pumped out at the pumpe of the Pilgrim And further
to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 5th article hee saith That by reason of the sayd shipp the
Exeter Merchant her falling fowle of the Pilgrim and running her
on ground as aforesayd the arlate Mr Bathurst suffered much
dammage by the leakage of oyles some butts the oyles being halfe leaked out
of them, and others the oyle quite leaked out of the, soe that hee could not
loose less then the quantitie of sixe butts of oyle every butt whereof was in
this deponents Judgment worth twenty pounds sterling, And hee saith that by the
meanes aforesayd the arlate Richard Baker lost two butts of Spanish wine
worth in this deponents Judgment nyne pounds sterling a butt, and hee saith
there were two butts of oyle more leaked out but for that this deponent
did not observe the markes of them hee knoweth not certainely to whome they
belonged, The premisses hee deposeth being Cooper and Steward of the Pilgrim
as aforesayd, and seeing the sayd wines and oyles surveyed by the Masters
of Trinity house And further hee cannot depose/

To the 6th hee saith that the Pilgrim did receive damage as is predeposed by
the sayd Exeter Merchants breaking her boltspritt and head and running her
a ground as aforesayd being heavie laden, and saith shee was put into the dock arlate
and there repaired and amended, but what the repaires amounted to hee knoweth not
And further hee cannot depose/