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and is an illiterate and unskillfull person, and one that cannot write his name and was not Capable of his said Office or place; and had noe Instruments on board the said ship to doe and performe his said place, but a fores staffe, and saith that hee beleeveth the reason of the said Ships missing the Barbadoes the said Voyage was occasioned and came by the said hurricanes; and Calmes, and Contrary winds, And further cannot answer:/. To the 8th hee sayth that after the said Grove by the meanes aforesaid had missed the Barbados the said Wood gave the said Grove order to saile to Martinice and from thence to Nevis, and the said Grove did soe doe, And further cannot depose for that he was Imployed by the said Wood at Saint Christophers the greatest part of the time the said ship lay, at Nevis, saving the said Wood at Saint Christophers said to this deponent That it was a folly for the ship to goe upp to the Barbados. for that ffish was there at a lowe rate:/ To the 9th hee saith that the said ship arived at Nevis on the Eighth of November 1657: and there lay about four or five weekes before the said Wood sent any fish or goods. to Saint Christophers: and in that time there arrived att the said Islands severall Vessells laden with fish, and other Comodityes. which did much glut the market there; and thereby did hinder the Sale of the ffish brought in the ''Peace''; and saith that when the ''Peace'' arived at Nevis there was (as this deponent was informed by the Islanders great want of ffish, and then as hee beleeveth the said Wood might have had a good market for it and saith that at the first, comming of the said shipp the ''Peace'' to Nevis the said Wood sold his fish after the rate of a pound of fish, for a pound of Sugar, and saith that Nevis Sugar is accounted better than Barbadoes Sugar, and further cannot Answer:/: To the 10th hee saith that a little before the arrivall of the said ship ''Peace'' at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of Hurricanoes (which happened there. And saith that at Nevis and Saint Christophers and other of the Leeward Islands the fflemings (at and about the time of the arrival of the said ship ''Peace'' there) did carry away most of the goods which were there left. And saith that most of the English that were then in Nevis and Saint Christophers did lade their goods
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