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acquainted the sayd Jagoe and Bowtill or o … acquainted the sayd Jagoe and Bowtill or one of them that the sayd shipp<br />
laye there ready fitted and furnished with all necessaries and in a readinesse<br />
to take in their goods and proceede on the voyage, and severall tymes pressed<br />
them to lade their goods and dispatch the sayd shipp away on her sayd voyage<br />
but the sayd Bowtill and Jagoe of this deponents sight and knowledge did neither<br />
of them cause any goods to bee laden aboard her, by which meanes the sayd<br />
shipp was by the sayd Bowtill and Jagoe kept at dartmouth in expectation<br />
of ladeing, the space of about three moneths after the sayd her sayd arrivall<br />
there, for all which tyme the Mariners did eate and drinke upon the cost<br />
of the sayd Nathaniell Marriott And this deponent sawe the sayd Thomas Marriott in behalfe of the sayd Nathaniell Marriott pay divers<br />
of them their wages for the sayd tyme, the premisses hee deposeth of his owne sight<br />
and knowledge being one of the sayd shipps Company and on board all the sayd tyme,<br />
And further saith that after the sayd shipp had soe layne at dartmouth about<br />
three moneths in expectation of goods to bee laden on board her by<br />
the sayd Jagoe and Bowtill, the sayd Thomas Marriott seeing that noe<br />
goods were by them laden according to agreement, was forced to give<br />
over, and did give over, the sayd imployment, And this hee deposeth<br />
alsoe for the reasons aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/
To the 6th hee saith hee well knoweth that in case the sayde shipp had pro=<br />
ceeded on her intended imployment according to to the sayd Bowtill and<br />
Jagoe their agreement, shee could have carried five and twenty<br />
tonnes of goods at the least And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the 7th hee saith hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his<br />
conscience that it cost the sayd Nathaniell Marriott during such tyme<br />
as the sayd shipp ''Aprill Shower'' was by order of the arlate Jagoe and<br />
Bowtill stayed at dartmouth in expectation of ladeing, as much<br />
in fitting and prepareing the sayd shipp with victualls and other<br />
necessaries and for mens wages and other chargdes by reason of such<br />
her staye as it would have done had shee proceeded on the voyage<br />
according to agreement And further hee cannot depose/
To 8th hee saith that of his this deponents knowledge severall Merchants<br />
of Dartmouth (in the tyme the sayd shipp soe stayed there in expectation<br />
of receaving ladeing from the sayd Bowtill and Jagoe according to agreement<br />
did offer the sayd Thomas Marriott (who as by the sayd Nathaniell<br />
Marriott entrusted with the sole management and ordering of the sayd<br />
shipp) to take the sayd shipp to freight of him to goe upon other voyages,<br />
wherein (as hee verily beleeveth) the sayd Nathaniell Marriott might<br />
have made as much profitt for the freight of her, as hee was to have<br />
had of the sayd Bowtill and Jagoe And further hee cannot depose
To the 9th hee saith that the arlate Nathaniel Marriott by say the<br />
sayd Bowtill and Jagoe their detayning and not imploying the sayd<br />
shipp ''Aprill shower'' hath suffered losse and damage to a very<br />
considerable value but what to estimate the same at hee knoweth<br />
not And further hee cannot depose/
To the 10th hee cannot depose/
To the 11th he saith hee knoweth the sayd Bowtill and Jagoe and<br />
saith they are as hee beleeveth subjects of this Commonwealth and<br />
subject to the authority of this Court and further hee cannot depose/
To the lastnd further hee cannot depose/
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