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great dammage and prejudice of the arlate … great dammage and prejudice of the arlate Edward B[?u]ssett<br />
which dammage in this deponent judgement and estimate did<br />
amount to two hundred pounds sterling at least And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose
To the 3 article hee saith that of his this deponents sight and knowledge<br />
while the shipp ''Negro'' remayned at Saint Christophers the voyage<br />
in question, shee having formerly sprunge a leake at Sea these<br />
arlate Whitfeilds mate hendrick man, and one Albert Johnson who<br />
assisted therein neere endeavouring to stopp and amend the sayd<br />
leake as shee lay at Saint Christophers and the sayd Whitfeild having<br />
bin a shoare in Saint Christophers and being farr overgone with drinck<br />
came aboard, and being come the sayd Whitfeild went downe into<br />
the hold where his mate and the sayd Johnson were at worke and<br />
had well neere finished their worke about stopping the sayd leake<br />
and this deponent being upon deck and lookeing down into the [?hold GUTTER]<br />
heard the sayd Whitfeild wrangle with the sayd hendrick<br />
Man and Johnson and reprove them for meddleing with the stoppeing<br />
the sayd leake and asked them who bidd them be soe bold to meddle<br />
with the stopping thereof without him, the sayd Whitfeild, and sayd<br />
that was not the way to gett their wages, but they should rather<br />
have lett the sayd shipp alone till shee had bin filled with water<br />
that shee might have bin haled ashoare as Brownes<br />
shipp was, (meaning a shipp whereof one Browne was Master<br />
which was haled a shoare being ready to sinke) and then [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
might perhapps sayd hee recover our wages as they (meaning Brownes<br />
men) have done, or words to<br />
that effect And further hee cannot depose
To the 4th article hee saith that while the shipp arlate did lye neere<br />
the Maderas there happened an extraordinary storme by meanes<br />
whereof the shipp was in great danger of perishing and hee<br />
heard the arlate Captaine Lockier speake then to the sayd Edwards<br />
and Whitfeild to have a care of the preservation of her according<br />
to their severall places, but what answere they gave hee knoweth not<br />
for that hee this deponent was goeing downe into his stewards roome and<br />
thereby heard not their answere, but heard the Masters mate<br />
and some others of the shipps Company saye that the sayd Whitfeild<br />
and Edwards did both of them answere and replyed as is arlate<br />
or to the like effect And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee well<br />
knoweth that at New England there was a quantitie of Corne<br />
videlicet pease and wheate put aboard the shipp ''Negro'' to bee<br />
thence carried to the Maderas and saith hee heard the arlate<br />
Captaine Lockier publiquely upon the dock before this deponent and<br />
severall others of the sayd shipps company order the sayd Whitfeild<br />
as Carpenter to have a speciall care to make the bulk heads<br />
of the sayd shipp firme and to soe that the sayd Corne were well<br />
dennaged which the sayd Whitfeild sayd hee would doe and the sayd Whitfeild sayd hee would doe and +
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