HCA 13/71 f.341r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 341 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2012/10/30 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Edited on 23/04/2014 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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was one of the Company of the shipp the Edward the voyage in question
and helped to lade the wynes laden on board the sayd shipp at [?ffiall] by the
arlate Andrews his ffactor and saith that some pipes of the sayd wine there
laden by the sayd ffactor such as were the strongest casks and would
best endure cutting (but how many hee remembreth not at present but
beleeveth either seaven or nyne at the most) were as is usuall in such cases
their [?chines] a little cutt to make the better roome for their stowage, and all
those casks whose wynes were soe cut were as hee beleeveth stowed in the
hatch way And hee saith that hee having used the sea as a mariner
for these seaven yeares last and in that tyme seene much wyne stowed hath
observed and knoweth that it is a usuall and ordinary thing amongst
Merchants who lade wines and amongst Masters of shipps that
[?chines] of such caskes of wine as they stowe in the hatch waye of
their shipps and doe for that and usually [?referre] the strongest casks and
such as will best endure cutting And further to this article hee
cannot depose./
To the second article of the sayd allegation and the schedule therein
mentioned and to the same annexed hee saith that hee being one of
the Company of the sayd Shipp the Edward the voyage aforesayd well
knoweth that at such tyme as the sayd shipp arrived in new England
the sayd voyage the arlate Richard Russell factor at Charlestowne
in New England to the arlate Samuell Andrews, (which Russell was the
person to whome the sayd wynes were consigned) did before the sayd
wines were there unladen come on board the sayd shipp and brought
with him the arlate Thomas Brigd[?en] a Cooper who by the order and
appointment of the sayd Russell did survey all the wines in the sayd
shipp belonging to the sayd Andrews and company before they were any
way broke loose or recovered out of their places to bee unladen and
did upon such his survey finde the sayd wines to bee all well and
sufficiently stowed and that what leakadge had hapened out of any
of them was occasioned by the badnesse of the Casks or else by the
rottennesse of the hoopes and did under his hand give a certificate
to that effect and this deponent and Thomas Yo[?n]ge and one John Cliff
and others of the sayd shipps Company were present and sawe the sayd survey
made and this deponent and the sayd Young sett their hands to the certificate
soe made and signed by the sayd Brigden And well knoweth the schedule
arlate to bee the same certificate and those words John Sa[?naker] at
the bottom thereof to be his this deponents owne hand writing And this he[?e] saith the contents of the sayd schedule are true and soe [XXX]d and done [XXX XXXX XXX XXXX] And
further hee cannot depose./
To the 3 hee saith that the pipes of wine soe cut in the [?chigne] and
stowed (as hee beleeveth) all in the hatch way, were delivered at New England
to the sayd Russell or his Agents well conditioned and with noe other leakages th[?e]n
ordinary this hee knoweth helpeing to unlade them And saith that
such other pipes as were there delivered to the sayd Russell or his
Agents
