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To the 12th hee saith that hee hath bin at … To the 12th hee saith that hee hath bin at Mevis, and thereby<br />
knoweth that the Planters and and others there doe make<br />
Agreements and Promisses to lade goods on board ship. and<br />
yet breake their premisses, and sometimes they breake the [X GUTTER]<br />
Agreements in that kind, which they have made<br />
in writing And this Deponent hath knowne severall Masters<br />
deceived by them in trusting to their promises And<br />
further cannot depose./:
To the 13th hee saith that hee was at the Island Nevis when the<br />
said ship the ''Peace'' was there the Voyage in question<br />
and then hee saith that the hurricanoes (which as aforesaid<br />
were then very great in those parts). had blowne<br />
downe some of the houses on Nevis and spoyled the<br />
Sugar Canes and Tobaccoe Plants and Indicoes, and had<br />
much Impoverished the said Island of nevis, and (as this<br />
deponent hath bin certainely informed) the said Hurricanoes<br />
had likewise spoiled the sugar Canes and Tobaccoe Plants<br />
and Indicoes on the other Leeward Islands, And by reason of the said Hurricanoes<br />
many English ships were foreced to come away from<br />
those Islands dead ffreighted, And further hee cannot<br />
depose:
To the 16th and 17th hee saith that after this Deponents comming to Nevis<br />
hee there found the Arlate Luke Wood, and this Deponent<br />
saying to him, what you have missed the Barbadoes<br />
as well as I; and asking him why hee did not beate it<br />
up againe, as this Deponent had done hee made answer and told this<br />
deponent saying, Wee did endeavour it but wee could not,<br />
therefore I gave order to beare up to the Leeward<br />
Islands or to that effect, and this Deponent then told him,<br />
that fish was very plentifull at the Barbadoes, and was<br />
and there sold at a Lowe rate or to that effect
To which hee the said Wood made Answer, that hee hoped<br />
hee should make as good a Market heere (meaning<br />
Nevis) as if hee had gone to the Barbadoes, and said<br />
that Nevis sugar is generally better than Barbadoes<br />
sugar, And further Deposeth that While the ''Peace'' lay<br />
at Nevis severall vessells Loaden with Provisions<br />
did arrive at Barbadoes, and did there glutt the market<br />
And further cannot Depose./.
To the 23th hee saith that hee hath knowne the said<br />
Thomas Grove, for about theise ffifteene yeeres last during<br />
all which space hee hath bin a seaman, and well [knowe GUTTER]<br />
[(him GUTTER]l [knowe GUTTER]<br />
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