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To the xith. hee saith that when a shipp is lett out to freight, and the factors abroad have not a full Cargo of their principalls goods, It is usuall for such factors to provide other mens goods to supply that defect, unless it be to the freighters better advantage to bring their owne goods to a speedyer market. And hee ćonceyveth that in the case propounded the master of a shipp (if the factors require him so X to doe) ought to receyve such other goods aboard as and provided though they bee not the freighters goods, thereby to prevent dammage of dead freight. And otherwise or further hee cannot answer. To the. 12th. he saith he ćannot depose. To the 13th he saith he ćannot depose having had noe experience in the lading of galls. To the.14th. hee saith hee cannot depose. To the .15th. hee saith he hath beene att Porto fferrava, but it is so long since that hee hath at present noe memory of the manner and orders used in that Port, nor touching the weights there used. And further ćannot answer. To the 16th. he saith he knoweth nothing thereof To the 17th Interrogatorie touching the case of a Convoy and staying a short tyme as for example eight or nyne dayes for the same hee saith he would in such case doe what himselfe hath allwayes done for 16 yeares that hee did command severall shipps, that is he would precisely follow the order of his principalls and not transgresse the same, and in so doing he conceyveth he could not be endammaged or punished whatever happened And otherwise he cannot depose. To the .18th. he saith he knoweth not what galls were bought att Scanderoone or woolls at Ciprus in the tyme interrate. And further ćannot answer To the .19th. he saith he knoweth the sayd George Hughes. And further or otherwise he cannot answer. In this case have propunded touching the following of such Convoyes from Port to Port. James Lutton SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN] To the .20th. he saith he did never command any Convoy in the Streights, nor doth he know what the Course or usage of Convoyes is ˹XXXXXXXX˺ it being seldome used when this Rendent followed Sea imployment which he hath now left of for severall yeares last past. And touching the case of not following the Convoy and a losse thereupon he referreth himselfe to the law whether any punishment be to be inflicted or not. To the 21th. he saith that all Convoyes are sent out purposely by the State to conduct and sećure shippes from an enemy. howbeit he beleiveth that it is free for any man to putt him selfe under such Convoy or to sayle without it unlesse hee have Order from his principalls to sayle with the same. And this Rendent for his part, as he hath predeposed, would in the case propounded, keepe himselfe exactly to the Order of his principalls. And otherwise he ćannot depose. Repeated before Doctor Godolphin./ James Lutton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ***************************** The 4th day of March 1655. CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd allegation '''2.''' '''Captaine Thomas Chinn''' of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged forty yeares or therabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith as followeth. To the .5. 6. 7. 8. and 9th articles of the sayd allegation. This deponent saith That the direct Course for a shipp from Salina Road in Ciprus to England is to sayle as direct a Course as may be to the Streights mouth, and is by generall computation five hundred forty five leagues or thereabouts, And that to goe from the sayd Road, first to Zant and so to the Streights mouth is about 15 or 16. leagues out of the way and so accounted: And he further saith
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