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but by whome they were hyred or at what ra … but by whome they were hyred or at what rates for that hee was<br />
not privie to their hyreing hee cannot depose, and further saving his<br />
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 3 hee saith that all the persons schedulate (except the sayd John<br />
Cooper) entered into whole pay at Gravesend on or about the sixteenth day<br />
of October last 1656, when shee sett sayle thense with her ladeing of goods<br />
bound for Waxford in Ireland, where (after hee had touched at Portsmouth<br />
and there shipped the sayd John Cooper) shee safely arrived with her ladeing<br />
and there discharged the same, and there tooke in other goods for Nants in<br />
ffrance where alsoe shee safely arrived, and about the latter end of ffebruary<br />
1656 English style there made a full discharge of all her ladeing brought<br />
thither, and then tooke in there other goods and sett sayle therewith bound<br />
for Corke arlate or some other Port in Ireland, but in her course thitherward<br />
was upon or about the thirteenth day of March 1656 after a fight man=<br />
teyned (wherein the arlate John Lindley was slayne out right, and the arlate<br />
Keeble the Master had his legg shott off soe that hee dyed therof soone after)<br />
seized and taken with her ladeing by a dunkirke man of warr,<br />
who having taken her, tooke the sayd Sandford and this deponent and most<br />
of the sayd shipps Company from on board the ''Elizabeth and dorothy''<br />
and put them aboard the man of warr, and the sayd dunkirker not<br />
longe after meeteing with a holland shipp the dunkirker did with<br />
much entreatie put this deponent, and the sayd Sandford, Roufeild, Kenyon,<br />
Abbott, Oadwell, and Cooper, mentioned in the schedule aforesayd, with other<br />
of the sayd shipps company to the number in all of tenn, on boar the<br />
sayd dutch shipp, who brought this deponent and the rest soe put aboard to<br />
Plymouth, And further of his certayne knowledge hee cannot depose<br />
but saith hee hath credibly heard and beleeveth that shortly after this<br />
deponent and the rest of the sayd shipps Company were put aboard the dutch<br />
shipp as aforesayd, the sayd dunkirke man of warr was mett with<br />
at sea by a ffrigott in the imediate service of this Commonwealth and by<br />
that meanes the ''Elizabeth and dorothie'' and her ladeing (consisting of<br />
wine salt vinegar rosin and Iron) were rescued from the sayd<br />
Dunkirke man of warr and brought (as hee hath likewise heard and<br />
beleeveth) to Plymouth,and since restored (as hee hath heard) both<br />
shipp and goods to her Owners./
To the 4th hee saith that the rates schedulate, are usuall rates for<br />
mariners that serve in the like places and offices and in the like shipps and<br />
voyages as the parties schedulate did, and for that hee this deponent was<br />
Cooper on board the ''Elizabeth and dorothy'' till her seizure, hee knoweth<br />
that (except the sayd Cooper who came a little while after on board at<br />
Portsmouth) the arlate Sandford and all the rest of the Mariners schedulate<br />
did serve in the sayd shipp ''Elizabeth and dorothy'' from the tyme of her<br />
setting sayle from Gravesend as aforesayd till her seizure afore<br />
sayd, and performed their duties according to their places faithfully<br />
and well, and in this deponents Judgment well deserved the severall<br />
rates schedulate for such their service, And further hee cannot depose
Toservice, And further hee cannot depose
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