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To the fifth hee saith that the said shipp … To the fifth hee saith that the said shipp ''Saint Jacob'' at the time<br />
of her entrance upon the said voyage at Lieba was a tight<br />
strong and staunch shipp and fit for the same, and that during<br />
the whole terme of the voyage the master and company were very<br />
carefull and diligent in looking to the pump, and preserving to<br />
their utmost the goods drie and keeping them well conditioned; for<br />
in case any dammage have happened to the goods aboard her or any<br />
of them more then they came aboard with, hee saith the same was<br />
solely caused and occasioned by meanes of the said stormes and tempests<br />
and the sea water shipped thereby, and not by any defect of the<br />
said shipp or neglect or default whatsoever of the company or<br />
of any of them or the master, which hee knoweth for the reasons<br />
aforesaid.
To the sixth hee saith that the linnens or [?XXXus] canvas arlate<br />
brought to this port of London in the said shipp the ''Saint Jacob'' were<br />
(as the common fame and report were at Lieba) saved out of a shipp<br />
that was there cast away a little before the lading thereof aboard<br />
the ''Saint Jacob'', and soe they were reported and affirmed to be by the<br />
boat men that brought them aboard the ''Saint Jacob'', in which comming<br />
aboard (they comming in an open boate and in fowle weather) the se<br />
beate in and it rained upon them soe that they came wet aboard<br />
besides the dammadge they had received by being cast away in the said<br />
other shipp, out of which they were regained; And saith they came<br />
three English miles or more thereabouts in the said stormie and rainy<br />
weather from the shore to the said shipp ''Saint Jacob''; which hee deposeth<br />
because hee sawe the same, and sawe the said goods laden in the same<br />
damp and wet condition they came aboard, soe that as hee saith<br />
whatsoever dammage was found or appeared to be in them at the<br />
time of their delivery here, came by the meanes predeposed and<br />
not by any insufficiencie of or in the shipp or any neglect or default<br />
of the master and company or any of them. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose saving hee giveth a reason of his knowledge as aforesaid.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was pilote of the said shipp the said voyage<br />
and otherwise answereth negatively.
To the second hee saith that as hee was informed at Lieba the said goods<br />
soe saved out of the said shipp soe cast away, were after such saving there<br />
washed and dried as welll as they could be, before their<br />
putting into the boate to be carried aboard the ''Saint Jacob''
To the third and 4th hee cannot answer, for hee saith hee was not aboard at the time<br />
of the delivery interrogate, nor sawe the condition of the said goods when they came to be<br />
delivered.
Tothey came to be<br />
delivered.
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