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[inci]dent dammages or charges [on] a ship … [inci]dent dammages or charges [on] a shipps voiage at sea according to the<br />
commonly received sente in this (being as this producent understandeth the [XXX] thereof) this rendent not understanding<br />
the signification of the word Perilodmonage, and that in English bills<br />
of lading, primage, averidge, and freight are usually expressed, and in<br />
charterparties usually are expressed freight primage averidges and port=charges And<br />
otherwise saving his foregoing depositions hee cannot depose/
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith, that according to the Custome received amongst<br />
Merchants and Masters of shipps here in England primage and averidge<br />
usually expressed in the bills of lading are understood to belong to the Masters<br />
and Companie for their care and charge to bee had in and about such shipps<br />
lading of goods, to see them well stowed and placed, And saith, That according<br />
to the Customes received in Portugall upon the voiages interrate, such Masters<br />
and Companies have á small duty allowed them called Guindage.<br />
and further saith, That this deponent in Portugall aforesaid hath<br />
in the yeare 1649. being in dispute with one Captaine John Wills<br />
Master of the shipp the ''good Successe'' belonging to the rendent and other<br />
English Merchants and coming and arriving at Lisborne aforesaid from<br />
Ria da Genero in Brazeel, concerning the aforesaid Averidge, the said<br />
difference upon the motion of the said Captaine Wills was by this deponents<br />
contract referred to two antient English Merchants there residing, by<br />
whom it was awarded; part the said Captaine Wills should have<br />
an allowance for primage and averidge two hundred and forty Ree's<br />
per Tonne, togeather with a grauity in consideration of the hazard and<br />
danger of the said voiage amounting to fforty pounds sterling [XXXXXXX XXXX]abouts<br />
And further cannot depose as to the priviledges interrate/
To the third hee saith hee rendent cannot make any disquition in point<br />
of the severall dangers and hazards herby Interrate saying that according to<br />
common and constant observation, this rendent hath understood that shipps sayling<br />
for the Brazeel are much exposed and subject to the wormes/
To the 4th hee hee saith hee cannot of his owne knowledge or expeience depose<br />
any thing concerning any such [?Protest] or Co[XXX] as is interrate, And further<br />
cannot depose any thing to the rest of the demands of this Interrogated/
To the 5th hee saith hee rendent well remembreth, That one Captaine haddock<br />
master of the shipp ''hannibal'' of London being by his Owner designed to goe<br />
from London to Lisborne to seeke a freight from there to the Brazeele (upon which<br />
voiage hee did not effectually proceed) the said Owners or some of them to prevent<br />
any such dispute or difference concerning such averidges in that voyage [?mentioned]<br />
aforesaid, did treat with the said Captaine haddock, to allow him some consideration<br />
for the same, and that hee insisted upon a third part of such averidge, but that<br />
there was nothing then concluded thereupon, nor doeth this rendent [XXXX] remember<br />
the [XXXXX] of any other Treatie or Treaties of that Nature/:
To the 6th hee saith That hee rendent welll knoweth, That upon such Brazeele<br />
Voiages [XXXXXX] or security is usually given by the Owners of shuch shipp or<br />
shipps or their factors in great summes to returne the said shipps and lading into the<br />
Dominions of the king of Portugall there to pay the said kings Customes<br />
And saith, that such voiages are usually procured by the Owners of such<br />
shipp or shipps, or by their factors or Agents resident in Portugall And<br />
further, [XX] to the actuall procuremenent of the voiage in f[XXXXX] , or of the security<br />
in such Cases usually taken as aforesaid, hee saith hee cannot of his owneforesaid, hee saith hee cannot of his owne +
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