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salt is of a melting nature if it take wet … salt is of a melting nature if it take wett and that the paper<br />
was not stowed thereon but before and abaft as aforesayd and therefore was<br />
not damnified by lying up on it./
To the 3 hee saith hee sawe divers bayles of the sayd Carbonell and Sewards<br />
paper opened at Buttolphs wharfe and saith they had receaved<br />
little or noe dammage soe farr as hee this deponent could or did observe<br />
and saith hee neither sawe the paper laden into the shipp nor unladen out of it but only<br />
sawe it in the shipp after it was laden and sawe it upon the wharfe<br />
aforesayd takeing care of the delivery thereof as purser of the sayd shipp<br />
and knoweth not whether it were inspected before the unladeing And further<br />
hee cannot answere/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
John Vincent [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 10th of May 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
Pett against the ''Ruth'' and}<br />
Morrice Tompson.}<br />
and others}
Examined upon an allegation on behalfe of the<br />
said Tompson and others.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Edward Tompson''' of Shadwell in the County of<br />
Middlesex Mariner, aged 49 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and exámined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee this deponent was commander of the shipp the ''Ruth'' arlate<br />
the time when the worke in question was donne aboard her, which was<br />
in the yeeres 1648 and 1649 or thereabouts, and did oversight and<br />
looke after her doing the worke about her áltering repairing and<br />
fitting, and from time to time paid all the workemen evry<br />
Satturday night during the continuance of the said worke every<br />
Carpenters, cawkers, Seamen and others, and dischardged all wages<br />
and worke donne upon her by the day, and all that was donne<br />
while she was in the dock of Peter Pett deceased; saving<br />
two sheathings that were donne by the said mr Pett by this<br />
[?greate], and stuff about the fore said repairing and altereing, howbeit<br />
hee saith that hee this deponent paid the said Mr Pets man (by his order)<br />
the summe of two hundred and fiftie pounds for stuff and timber in part of discharge of the<br />
bill of the said mr Pett for the said repaires. And saith that when<br />
the foresaid worke (saving the said sheathing) was almost finished<br />
this deponent having long sustained the trouble of payment of<br />
the workemen weekely, advised the said mr Maurice Tompson to advise<br />
with mr Pett and (seeing the rest of the worke was even almost<br />
finished) to agree with him by the greate for her two sheathings;<br />
which accordingly hee did in the house of William Tompson the Cawker<br />
in the said mr Petts yard in the presense of the said William Tompson<br />
and of this deponent, and that then and there they comming to termes<br />
about the charge of the said sheathing, they after much discourse thereabouts<br />
cameuch discourse thereabouts<br />
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