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C10/160/41 f. 2

Abstract

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//The Answeare Of David Hamilton of Limehouse in the County of Middx Marriner//
//defendant to the Bill of Complaint of Daniell Gates Complaynant//

//This Defendant savinge

//about the tyme in th bill

//was such an Indenture

//be of the content of

//contract and charter party

//hande and seale

//that the said

//and twentieth day

//defendant

//the eight and twentieth day

//voyage was not putt on board

//defendant

//Thousand six hundred sixty and eight

//untill he should have further

//Thousand six hundred sixty and eight

//or att any time

//received divers direccons

//by not proceeding

//this defendant saith

//Tarr but saith

//this defendant is informed

//lost by not carryinge

//when she went out as

//during all the time that the shipp stayed in the said river of Thames

//that this they beinge

//as he declared

//One hundred and sixty Tunns

//thereupon by the complayn:ts direccon Ballast

//complayn:ts account and yett the owners of the shipp at his request did voluntarily beare the charge of the putting in and takinge out the said ballast beinge about Two and Twenty pounds and which the com:lt in justice ought to have paid and this//

//defend:t saith and doth averr that he did proceed

//be true that the wind well enough served him to goe on his intended voyage but saith that the said shipp being freighted with comodities and beinge a ?rich shipp he the defendant had order from the said complayn:t to stay two or three dayes at Tangier to informe himselfe whether there were warres//

//with Algeers or not and to gett a convoy there which this Defend:t endeavoured to doe but the weather being bad and fowle by reason of a storme of winds att ?North west this def:t durst not goe into Tangier but afterwards went into Malaga XXX to gaine some advice whither we had warres with Algeers//

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