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to that purpose employed by the said Maste … to that purpose employed by the said Master the preservation of the said<br />
shipps tackle and furniture being in the meane time neglected by the said<br />
Master and Companie which he knoweth for the reason aforesaid And<br />
further cannot depose./
To the tenth hee saith, that as this examinate hath severall times understood from the<br />
said Eleazar Le Merchaut, a boate by him employed in an about the preser=<br />
vation of the said Aquavites being was lost and perished, hee the said Le Merchaut<br />
was by order of Justice of that place compelled to pay for the same the summe of five<br />
and fortie livers or thereabouts being about fower pounds sterling money. And<br />
further hee cannot depose./:-
To the 11th article hee saith that the said Aquavites being as aforesaid preserved<br />
the said Le Merchaut was necessitated to hire men to looke to and guard the<br />
the same from the Countrey people, who came in and attempted to take away the same, as<br />
as being as they pretended and gave out, wracked goods, which men soe hired<br />
togeather with the hoyes wherein the said Aquavites then were preserved, were<br />
by the said Le Merchaut kept in pay untill the said shipp was weighed up and<br />
repaired and fitted out againe to Sea, The premisses hee well knoweth for<br />
and upon the reason aforesaid. And further cannot depose
To the 12th hee saith that the said shipps Rudder was broken, and some<br />
of the plankes of the said keele were broken and splitt in peeces and a great part of the keele carried away and the said<br />
shipp became soe much damnified that about thirty daies in all were<br />
spent in the weighing up and reparation of the said shipp, during all which<br />
time the hoyes wherein the said Aquavites were kept, and the men that<br />
looked to and defended the same from the Countrey people were kept in pay by the<br />
said Eleazar Le Merchaut, And saith, That the worke of Carpenters and others and materialls,<br />
and payment of the said hoyes and men for the preservation of the said goods<br />
and reparation of the said shipp, besides the Victualls and wages of the<br />
said shipps Companie did as hee this examinate is in Conscience assured and<br />
fully beleeveth amount to eight or nyne hundred Livers french money, or about foure<br />
score pounds English money, all things being in that place and upon such an<br />
occasion very deare and costly. And further hee cannot depose
To the 13th hee saith hee doeth not particularly know what or how much the said<br />
Eleazar Le Merchaut expended for the hire of the sayd hoyes and garding of<br />
the said brande wines by day and by night during the reparation aforesaid<br />
but verily beleeveth, that the same for the time by him predeposed could not<br />
amount to lesse than twenty pounds sterling and soe much hee verily<br />
beleeveth was really and well deserved by those that undertooke and performed the same.
To the 14th and 15th hee saith, That shortly after the shipps reparation<br />
the said Aquavites were reladed on board her, and brought to this Port<br />
of London, and have since beene here delivered to the said Andrew Kirby<br />
or his order, and saith, That if the said Aquavites were any way damnified<br />
the same did not happen by any fault or deficiency of the said shipp, the<br />
same being tight and in very good condition till the time that shee soe bilged<br />
at the place and upon the occasion predeposed, which this examinate saith<br />
hee very well knoweth being Masters mate of the said shipp during the<br />
voyage in question, And further cannot depose/
To the 16th 17. 18. and 19th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Acts and proceedings of<br />
this Court, And further cannot depose; saving that the lilate Andrew<br />
kirby was and is an English man, and subject to the Jurisdiction of the high<br />
Court of Admiraltie of England as this examinate hath heard and beleeveth
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true
To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith, hee cometh to declare the trueth of his knowledge<br />
in this matter at the requests of the said Eleazar Le Merchaut<br />
and saith hee hath noe interest in the matter nor shipp in questionterest in the matter nor shipp in question +
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