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foresaid Thomas Grove came on board and or … foresaid Thomas Grove came on board and ordered<br />
the Company to set sayle, and then went a shore (but<br />
upon what occasion hee knoweth not) and about two of<br />
the Clock the next morning came onboard the<br />
said ship, (she then lying at Anchor a little space of of<br />
Pendennis Castle), and ordered the said ship to be made<br />
ready to saile out from thence: which was accordingly<br />
done, and saith hee beleeveth that the said Groves<br />
staying at or neere ffalmouth or Pendennis Castle<br />
did not hinder the said Voyage. And further cannot<br />
answer:/.
To the third hee saith that the said Grove did not<br />
take in all the salt sent by the said Wood to be Laden on board<br />
the said ship in the River of Nants; and saith the said<br />
Ship was full Laden before the said Grove did<br />
refuse to take in the said Salt, and the said Grove did<br />
send a noate to the said Wood (who was then on shore there)<br />
that hee the said Grove could not take in any more<br />
salt, or to that purpose, and saith hee doth not nowe<br />
remember whether the said ship was Laden above her<br />
Lading markes, nor how many feete shee drewe<br />
at her head or Sterne; and further saith that<br />
if the said Grove should have taken in the said salt<br />
sent by the said Wood to be laden on board the said<br />
ship, it would have endagered the foundring and<br />
sinking of the said ship. and the losse of her Companys<br />
lifes, if shee had met with stormes in her passage<br />
from Nantes to Newfoundland: And besides the said<br />
salt which was onboard the said Ship, the said Luke<br />
Wood had then on board her for his owne private<br />
Account. thirty Coyles of Rope, two Trunkes, and<br />
severall Quarter Caskes of Wine and Oyle, and other<br />
Merchandizes. and further cannot answer./:
To the fourth hee saith that all the Company of the<br />
said ship (except about four or five) were Imployed ashore<br />
by the said Wood at New found Land. at such time<br />
as the said Wood had occasion to use and Imploy them<br />
and saith that there was necessity for the keepeing<br />
of about foure or five of the said Ships Company<br />
on board her, to Looke to her, and to helpe to deliver out<br />
and take in her Lading, and saith that the said Wood<br />
had at Newfoundlands 300 Kintalls and upwards<br />
ready to Lade on board the said ship, and saith hee knowne<br />
or heard that three hundred quintalls of fish were<br />
stowed in one day, and saith that some of the said ffish<br />
which the said Wood laded on board the said ship at Newfound land<br />
was ill conditioned at and before the Lading thereof,<br />
(thatfore the Lading thereof,<br />
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