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<margin value="Left">80</margin>
2. is about 500 leagues, which is about 80 leagues out of the very direct
3. way from Zant to the Straights mouth and so commonly accompted. And
4. such that to saile from Zant first to Legorne and thence to the Straights
5. mouth is faster by tenn leagues or thereabouts, than to saile from
6. Corsica to the Straights mouth, all which hee knoweth for the reasons
7. aforesaid, having often sailed in those parts.
8. To the nineth article hee saith and deposeth that from Salina Roade
9. in Cyprus to saile to the Straights mouth by the way of Zant, and
10. <margin value="LEFT">740</margin>
11. thence to Corsica is about 740˹ ˹795˺˺˹ seven hundred and fortie˺ leagues, which is about XX ˹ninetie˺ leagues
12. out of the direct course from Salina Roade to the Straights
13. mouth; parting a reason of his knowledge as aforesaid.
14. To the 16th árticle hee saith and deposeth that the way of steeving
15. cotton woolls is to lay a certaine number of baggs underneath and
16. as many on the topp of them, and then to steeve in betweene
17. them as many as the space or placeX betweene them are capable to contain GUTTER
18. and otherwise to this article hee saith hee ćannot depose, not
19. knowing of any such necessitie of steeving such a quantitie in a day
20. the XXXXX being XXXXXX lesse disposed and imployed imXXXXXed
21. worke than XXXXX XXXXX XXX XXXXXX or other; and on shore dayes steeving
22. XXXX XXXXX XXXXX lesse ˹saving˺. how{beit} hee saith that if there be eight
23. bagges steeved in a day there may be 24 baggs received aboard in a ˹that˺
24. day; which is small, especially the first day, and afterwards ˹XXX XXXX day wherein eight baggs XX XXXX˺ there
25. are usually sixteene baggs or more received aboard ˹each˺ day, whXXXXX
26. which hee knoweth having bin severall times at Cyprus and at
27. the receiving Cottons aboard shipps, and seein{g} the lading and steeving
28. thereof: him and saith that each day after the first there may
29. be so many baggs receaved aboard as to lay and steeve as may
30. amount one day day with another to the 17 or 18. baggs per diem. And
31. otherwise cannot depose.
32. To the seaventeenth hee saith that fourtie foure men working
33. 20 houres or but 16 houres in 24 houres. for 12 dayes together
34. may lay and steeve within that time 170 or at least 160 baggs,
35. and may receive within the said 12 dayes 50 baggs more (winde and
36. weather permitting) and may steeve them afterwards, And otherwise
37. hee cannot depose. saving that if there be roome in the shipp ever X GUTTER
38. upon the rest hee is not exámined by direction of the producent.
39.
40. To the Interrogatories. CENTRE HEADING
41. To the first hee saith that hee cometh required by Mr ffrancis
42. ffooke to be a witnes in this cause, wherein he hath noe interest
43. nor will it be any dammage or advantage tohim which sale seeing
44. prevailes or be overthrowne therein.
45. To the 2 hee saith hee hath bin at Ciprus steeving woolls twice
46. namely once in the Mercury and once in the Chase, which Mercury
47. was of the burthern of 330 tonnes or thereabouts, and the Chase of
48. 180 tonnes or thereabouts, and had 38 men and the Mercury betwixt
49. 40 and 50, and the Mercury had 3 decks and the Chase two, and
50. that hee was last there in the yeare
51. <margin value="Left">1654</margin>
52.
53. 165X 1654 in or about
54. July, and saith that Cyprus baggs are for the most part bigger
55. than other baggs
56.
57. <margin value="Left">[IN LEFT MARGIN]
58. Good her receipt of 38
59. baggs of cotton woolls and
60. 400 sacks of galls, to steeve
61. 38 baggs and yet have 30 tonnes
62. of dead tonnage left, there XXX must be
63. roome firstXXXXX to XX
64. take in 50 baggs more
65. and steeve them afterwards
66. XXXX
67. Ben Gunson SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN</margin>

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