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board and hee being come and a great company hee brought with him to helpe
to pumpe and bayle water this deponent and the rest of the Cole heavers told
the sayd Bayly that the shipp had receaved soe much water and the coales were
soe wett that they must stand naked in the water to worke and be faine to
worke night and day and therefore they would not undertake to unlade her sayd
ladeing at the rate formerly agreed upon whereupon the sayd Bayly desired
this deponent and the rest of the Coleheavers for Gods sake to fall to worke
and hee would give them any contente, and this deponent and the rest if the
sayd Coleheavers considering the great toyle they should have thereabout
did demande of him thirty shillings a man, and the sayd Bayley agreed
to give them twenty sixe shillings a man to doe the same whereupon they
and this deponent fell to worke to unlade the sayd shipp and stood
naked in the water soe to doe, and for the more speede heaved them
out the porteholes of the sayd shipp into lighter prepared
ready to receive them the danger the sayd shipp was in not admitting
to measure them on board as the usuall custome is to doe, and the
same being all unladen the sayd Bayly paid this deponent and
the rest of the sayd Coleheavers only three and twenty shillings
a man which (in respecte of the great losse the sayd Bayly had
susteyned) they were contented to accepte of though it were lesse
then their last bargaine made touching the unladeing the sayd shipp
yet more then their first bargaine by 8 li - 16 s And hee
further saith that the sayd Bayly had very many hyred men on board his
sayd shipp to pumpe and bayle water (beside his owne
company and other seamen who helped of curtesie gratis) and this
deponent sawe him pay to divers of those persons who
served for hyre halfe a crowne a man every tyde for severall tydes
togeather, who seemed not to be contented with such pay though the
sayd Bayly alsoe allowed them stronge waters beside to encourage
them to worke And further to these articles hee cannot depose
saving hee saith that there was only about fifty chalder
of Coles unladen before the damage in question happened soe
that the shipp was then neere fully laden./

To the 17th hee cannot depose

To the 18th hee saith by reason hee liveth neere the place where the
sayd shipp Imployment was mended of her damage which
happened to her hee knoweth that shee was in mending and makeing fitt to goe upon a voyage a weeke and better In which
while shee might have made halfe a voyage to Newcastle, by which
losse of tyme this deponent beleeveth her Owners were damnified but