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Transcription

hee were the Owner and proprietor of them hee knoweth not And that at the
same tyme there were aboard the sayd shipp twenty butts of wine or thereabouts which
were consigned to be delivered to the arlate Richard Baker And that at
the same tyme there were aboard the sayd shipp sixe butts of oyle which
were consigned to be delivered to the arlate George Clarke this hee knoweth
being Master of the shipp the Pilgrim and seeing the sayd wines and oyles laden
aboard her And further to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 2 3 and 4th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that in the yeare 1655
and in or about the moneth of June that yeare the arlate shipp the Pilgrim
laye at Anchor with the goods and Merchandizes predeposed of on board her
neere dicks shoare in the River of Thames in a safe and convenient place where
shipps use to ride and that in the tyme of her soe rideing at Anchor there
the arlate shipp the Exeter Merchant whereof was then Master the arlate
Thomas Woodfin did by the carelessenesse and negligence of the sayd
Woodfin and Company came and drave crosse the hawse of the Pilgrim
and brake the Cable and boltspritt and head and drave her
on shoare with all her sayd ladeing above mentioned and also severall
other goods on board her wherewith shee was deepe laden
belonging to other persons besides the foresayd Bathurst Baker and Clarke
by meanes whereof the sayd shipp Pilgrim being deepe laden as aforesayd
was much wronge and hurte and became thereby very leakie
and many of the Casks wherein the oyles belonging to the arlate
Bathurst and Clarke were conteyned became thereby very leakie
and this deponent and Company of the Pilgrim shortly after her being
soe driven on shoare by the meanes aforesayd makeing use of their
pumpe to cleare the sayd shipp Pilgrim of water did thereby finde
that there came up a very great quantitie of oyles at the pumpe
and that hee this deponent and company haveing
deiver tymes within a fortnight next before such her being driven on
ground pumped the sayd shipp well knoweth that there came very
little oyle up in that tyme at the pumpe before sych her being driven on shoare
And alsoe saith that hee beleeveth that by reason of such her being driven
on shoare some casks of wine belonging to the arlate
Richard Baker became alsoe leakie, for that hee sawe afterwards
that some of themn had leaked out a good quantitie of the wine that
was in them, but whether any of the wines soe leaked out came up at
the pumpe hee cannot depose it being a thinge not to be discovered
as oyle may bee, the premisses hee deposeth being then Master of the
Pilgrim and on board and an eye wittnesse of them And further to
these articles hee cannot depose/

To the 5th article hee saith that hee knoweth that a good quantitie of
oyles belonging to the arlate Bathurst and Clarke and beleeveth some wines
belonging to the arlate Baker, were leaked out by the meanes
aforesayd, but the number of butts hee knoweth not, but saith for that
hee had oyles then on board for his owne Accompte hee knoweth that oyles were then
worth twelve or fowerteene pounds sterling a butt And further to this article
hee cannot depose./