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much water in manner aforesaid which rann … much water in manner aforesaid which rann among the sayd tobaccoes<br />
and could not be prevented from so doeing, and not through any neglect<br />
or fault of the sayd Master and Company of the sayd shipp, nor through any<br />
insufficiencie of the sayd shipp (as this deponent beleeveth) other than what<br />
the sayd stormes occasioned And further to these articles he cannot depose
To the 10th he saith the sayd shipp and her ladeing arrived in theX<br />
Port of london downes the 21th of March last and at this port of<br />
London about the latter end of the sayd month where the sayd Tobaccoes<br />
were afterwards unladen and delivered out of the sayd shipp this he<br />
knoweth for the reasons aforesayd as alsoe for that he helped to unlade<br />
and deliver the sayd tobaccoes and further he cannot depose./
To the 11th article of the sayd allegation he saith the arlate Allen<br />
and Peniston (with others their company whose names he knoweth not) during<br />
the whole voyage in question were, and still are, commonly reputed<br />
the lawfull Owners of the sayd shipp the ''King of Poland'', and this<br />
deponent knoweth and well remembreth that before the sayd shipp sett sayle<br />
from Gravesend towards Bermudas on the voyage in question, the<br />
sayd Peniston and Allen did at Gravesend as Own two of the Owners<br />
of the sayd shipp pay this deponent and others of the sayd shipps company<br />
their halfe pay then ánd for the tyme they had bin shipped aboard the sayd<br />
shipp the company being then to enter into whole pay for the voyage<br />
in question And further to this article he cannot depose./
To the last he saith his foregoing deposition is true./
To the interrogatories./ CENTRE HEADING
To the first Interrogatories he saith he was Masters mate of the shipp Interrogate<br />
and that all his wages from the tyme of his entrance into whole pay at Gravesend<br />
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Peniston and the rest of the Owners of the sayd shipp or from ffrederick<br />
Johnson the Master of her And to the rest of the interrogatorie he answereth<br />
negatively./
To the second interrogatorie he saith that saving his foregoing deposition to which<br />
he referreth he cannot answer otherwise than negatively having heard nothing<br />
nor knowing anything to the effect Interrogate/
To the 3 he saith all shipps are lyable to stormes and further to this interro=<br />
gatorie he cannot answere otherwise than negatively not knowing the sayd<br />
shipp to be anyway insufficient, and saith he beleeveth and in deede knoweth that other shipps came<br />
out from Virginia in Company with the ''King of Poland'' and were parted<br />
from her in the sayd first stormes but what damage they suffered he knoweth<br />
not but heard one of them was much damnified by the sayd first storme<br />
and received much water into her hold And further saving his foregoing<br />
deposition hee cannot answer.
To the last hee saith that the dammage happened meerely by the stormes,<br />
and soo hee hath deposed, knowing it to be truth, and well knowing there was<br />
noe defect of pumpeing nor were the goods ill stowed and the shipp was<br />
in thisowed and the shipp was<br />
in this +
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