MRP: C10/160/41 f. 2
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//
//as this defend:t was informed ??as then had and this defendant went on shoare for that purpose intending to have sayled in lesse than eight hours but being becalmed was forced to stay neere twoe & twenty houres in the whole in the said port but departed from ?thence XXXX in that tyme and//
//did not merchandize there att all otherwise than that he sold or gave away one or twoe barrells of beere there of his owne proper goods And this defendant saith it is true that he received orders from the complayn:t not to XXXX in any port in his returne homewards XXXXXX he ?should//
//be thereunto necessitated but saith that in his XXXXX XXXX ?words off ?Calry upon the Island of Sardinia ??not with S:r Edward Spra??gie whoe then informed this defend:t that we had warre with Algiers and that they had shipps about ffourteene or ffifteene sayle and told him XXXXX/
//that it was ?scarce possible for him to escape them but promissed this defendant a convoy And this defend:t thereupon for p:rsewacon of the said shipp and goods and merchandizes therein did as he conceived & was advised that by his orders from the comp:lt he ought to doe in such XXX goe into XXX//
//port of ?Mahowns in the bill mentoned and there staye twoe or three dayes and not longer but denyes that he spent any tyme there in or about his owne affaires or pleasure but what this def:t did therein was for the comp:lts advantage this defend:t being compelled by such ?extremity as aforesaid//
//for the p:rservaton of the said goods & merchandizes soe to doe there beinge severall English shippes as this defend:t was advised taken in or about those seas by the Algeruies for want of a convoy about that tyme that the defend:t in the said port of Mahowns & this defend:t haveinge//
//gotten a convoy there was XXXX for the company of the said convoy to goe into Alicant & Malaga when the said convoy did take upp another merchant shipps to convoy
Commentary
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