HCA 13/72 f.253v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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| Folio | 253 |
| Side | Verso |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2013/09/20 | |
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To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee goeing gunner as
aforesayd the voyage in question. knoweth that in the moneths of August
September or October 1657 there were laden aboard the sayd shipp the
Oporto Merchant at Lisbone divers pipes and hogsheads of oyle and
, many chests of sugar to bee thence transported for London this hee knoweth
for that hee helped to stowe them, but for whose Accompt they were laden or
the certayne number of them or who was to pay the freight and average of them
or what rates were to be paid for the freight and average of then hee
knoweth not it being now part of his office as gunner to take any Accompt
of them And further to this article hee cannot depose/.
To the 3 article hee saith that the sayd shipp the Oporto Merchant at the tyme
when shee receaved the sugars and oyles aforesayd aboard her was in this
deponents Judgment and as hee verily beleeveth a good shipp and fitt to
carrie Merchants goods from one port to an other, and this deponent helping
to stowe and as hee beleeveth alsoe to dennage the sayd Oyles and sugars knoweth that they were well and
carefully stowed and dennaged, but saith that in the sayd shipps passage from
Portugall to London hee well knoweth that shee mett with very strong
and tempestious weather in soe much that her company were in great
feare that by the violence thereof their masts would have bin carried
by the board and the shipp and her ladeing might have perished, and her ompany
for the better safegard of her and her ladeing were faine sometymes to
beare up before the winde with only the spritt sayle, and sometymes to
beare only the Mizen sayle and Mizen A[X]ye sayle, by reason of which
stormie weather the sayd shipp did as hee beleeveth receave much
water, and hee beleeveth that the water then receaved was the only
cause of whatsoever dammage is happened to any of the sayd shipps
ladeing and verily beleeveth that had not the sayd shipp mett with
such fowle weather shee had brought home her ladeing well conditioned
And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 4th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of this
court And further cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee hath knowne the Interrogate Joseph
Careswell only since his being shipped in or about the latter end of August or September 1656
to goe the voyage in question, at which tyme hee was reputed one of the Owners
of her, but what part hee was Owner of hee knoweth not, and saith shee
is as by her mould hee Judgeth a fflemish built shipp, and therefore beleeveth
hee did not build but bought what part hee had of her, and saith hee never
sawe any bill of sale for his part of her And further cannot answere
To the 2 hee saith hee as not present at any such agreement as is Interrogated
nor can depose any thing touching the matters Interrogate/
To the 3 hee saith hee sawe most of the ladeing of the sayd shipp delivered
but tooke noe notice to whome they were delivered nor what dammage
happened thereto And therefore cannot further answere to this Interrogatorie
