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did by reason of the disaster aforesaid ne … did by reason of the disaster aforesaid necessarily expend to the best of<br />
this deponents Judgment about two or three and twenty pounds sterling for<br />
the hoysting out of the broken boltspritt, setting up the new one; and<br />
repairing of it when it was crackt, and beleeveth not that the same could<br />
be procured to be done for a lesser summe. he premisses hee deposeth<br />
upon the reasons aforesaid, And further cannot depose:-/
To the 7th hee saith, The said shipp the ''Margaret'' being arrived at<br />
Virginia was there, as this deponent remembreth, retarded and hindred for<br />
about 5. or 5. dayes from her homewards voyage, by reason they were<br />
constrained to stay there so much longer then they need to have done expressely<br />
for the procuring fitting and putting in of a new boltspritt in the said shipp in<br />
the place of the other so crackd as aforesaid, by meanes of which retardation<br />
this deponent beleeveth the arlate Cranley and Companie sustained losse and<br />
Dammage, but the valew thereof this deponents aith hee cannot estimate<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose:-/
To the 8th hee saith hee hath heard that on the behalfe of the said Crandley<br />
and Companie satisfaction hath bin demanded of the said White for<br />
the dammages sustained by the meanes aforesaid, but that hee hath and<br />
doeth refuse to give any manner of reparation to them, And further<br />
referring himselfe to the Acts of this Court, hee saith hee cannot depose:
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated before doctor Clerke and<br />
doctor Godolphin:-/
Tho:s [MARKE] Wills:-/ [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day examined upon the said Allegation
'''Rp. 3,.us/'''
'''Richard Simmonds''' of Wapping in the parish of<br />
Stepney in the Countie of Middlesex Cooper aged 53:<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith<br />
as followeth videlicet:-/
To the first second third and 4th articles of the said Allegation hee saith That hee<br />
hath knowne the shipp the ''Margarett'' arlate (Robert ffoxe arlate<br />
Master) for about 18. moneths last past, having for all that time belonged to<br />
her as Cooper, and saith That the arlate Benjamin Crandley Arthur<br />
Bailey and Companie have for the time predeposed bin and are<br />
commonly and generally observed knowne and reputed the true and<br />
lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the said shipp her tackle and<br />
furniture, And saith That about the moneth of October <u>1653.</u> last<br />
past, this deponent was present and assistant when the said shipp<br />
was graved and hauled off from Mr. Tailor the shipp-wrights wayes<br />
(nere the shipp-wrights wayes<br />
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