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proceede on with the delivery of the rest … proceede on with the delivery of the rest at the same rate but saith that<br />
as this deponent and his contest and the rest hyred to unlade the sayd shipp were<br />
comeing to proceede on in the delivery thereof the sayd John Bayly the master<br />
of the ''Imployment'' met them by the way and desyred them to make<br />
haste on board the sayd shipp and worke hard to deliver his ladeing for<br />
that she was almost sunke and told them hee would goe to Billingsgate<br />
and get men to helpe to [?XXX] the sayd shipp and preserve her from sinkeing, whereupon this deponent and<br />
his contest and the rest soe hyred to unlade her went on board the sayd shipp<br />
but at their comming found her very deepe of water in the hold and when<br />
the Master returned on board with a great company of men that hee brought<br />
with him to helpe to pumpe and bale the sayd shipp, this deponent and the rest<br />
soe hyred to unlade her, told him that there was soe much water in the<br />
shipp and the Coales were soe wett that it would much endanger their<br />
lives to worke in the wett and water continually night and day till shee<br />
were delivered as they must of necessitie doe, and that therefore they would<br />
not worke at the rate of twelve shillings a man as formerly they<br />
had agreed, whereupon the sayd John Bayly desyred them for Gods sake<br />
to fall aworke upon delivery of the Coales and hee would give them<br />
any content that was fitting, and soe came to a new agreement with<br />
this deponent and the sayd other fifteene labourers and agreed to pay them<br />
sixe and twenty shillings a man to deliver her sayd ladeing of Coales<br />
and thereupon this deponent and the rest soe hyred fell to worke upon unlading<br />
the sayd Coales and wrought naked in the water, soe to doe, and heaved them<br />
out at the ports for hast into lighters prepared to receave them, wothout<br />
measuring them aboard as is usuall and acustomed to bee done And the sayd John Bayley<br />
did pay to this deponent and the other fifteene men soe hyred to unlade her<br />
twenty three shillings a man for such their labour which was eight pounds sixteene shillings more then they first bargained for which hee this deponent<br />
and the other fifteene men were contented to accepte of, though it were lesse<br />
then what they last bargained for, in respecte of the great losse and<br />
damage they sawe the sayd bayley was like to suffer, and<br />
hee saith that of his this deponents sight and knowledge the sayd<br />
Bayley had a great many men on board his sayd shipp (beside his owne<br />
company) to helpe to pumpe and bayle water out of her severall tydes and<br />
hee this deponent sawe him pay to divers of them halfe a Crowne a tyde<br />
and observed that they were not well contented therewith<br />
but grudged and thought it too little, but knoweth the summe hee paid<br />
them amounted in all, hee knoweth not, And further to these articles<br />
hee cannot depose, saving hee saith the shipp ''Imployment'' was neere<br />
fully laden when the damage in question happened./
To the 17th 18th 19th and 20th hee cannot depose
To the 21th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Registrie of this Court and<br />
further cannot depose/urt and<br />
further cannot depose/ +
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