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which the premisses this deponent certaine … which the premisses this deponent certainely knoweth as being Masters Mate<br />
of in and aboard the said shipp during the Voiage in Controversy, and<br />
thereby seeing and observing so much as by him is predeposed. And<br />
further saving his subsequent depositions hee saith hee cannot depose
To the second article hee saith, That the said baggs of pepper were stowed<br />
in the midst of the said shipp upon dennidge or faggotts under which<br />
were three laires of leade, and under some of the said baggs some other<br />
goods such as perpetuana's and bayes, so that it was utterly impossiblle for the<br />
said baggs of pepper to receive any dammage or detriment by any<br />
Leakage or water entring into the said shipp, And saith, That many of the<br />
said baggs of pepper were so rotten, that the said Captaine haselgrave<br />
and Company were necessitated to repaire and amend them with some<br />
of the said shipps sailes ere they could discharge them from aboard the said<br />
shipp, The premisses hee well knoweth and declareth to be true upon<br />
the grounds predeposed. And further saving his subsequent depositions hee<br />
saith hee cannot depose:-/
To the third article hee saith, That the said shippp the ''Levant friggat''<br />
being in her Course for Allecant as aforesaid was chased by some<br />
dutch men of warr during the hostility between the two Commonwealths<br />
of England and the United Provinces, whereupon the said Captaine and<br />
Companie for the preservation of their said shipp and ladeing were<br />
constrained to putt into Cadiz in Spaine, where they remained severall<br />
dayes not daring to adventure out by reason of the said dutchmen<br />
of warr which hovered thereabouts, and in regard that pepper was<br />
and is a prohibited Commoditie in the parts of Spaine, the said<br />
Captaine Hadelgrave kept without the Command of Cadiz<br />
and sold aor disposed of a great quantity of the said pepper<br />
to the Spanish fleet of [?Gallioons] then bound from thence<br />
for the West Indies as hee beleeveth, All which this deponent saw and observed<br />
but what summe or summes of money hee received for the same this<br />
deponent knoweth not; And saith hee hath severall times heard the<br />
said haselgrave say and declare, That hee had made even and<br />
dicounted with the Merchants to whom the said pepper belonged<br />
and that hee had with his owne moneys supplied the defect of<br />
what the said Merchants pretended, And saith moreover That<br />
the residue of the said pepper was delivered by the said haselgrave<br />
at Allecant to the ffactors or Consignatories therein concerned<br />
And that this deponent did constantly and well observe , that none of<br />
the said pepper was imbeazeled or diminished; but that the said<br />
(Captained; but that the said<br />
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