| Transcription
|
salt this deponent( though he were not pre … salt this deponent( though he were not present at the unladeing thereof<br />
by reason hee went noe further in her then to the English ffleete<br />
at Elsenore) knoweth that the same could not choose but be much<br />
damnified thereby, by reason that he knoweth that heer Company<br />
and hee this deponent (though but a passenger) in her were forced after<br />
such her setting upon her Anchor and upon the ground to keepe<br />
her with continuall pumping to preserve her from sinking<br />
during all the tyme, and this deponent remayned aboard her after<br />
the sayd iniuries soe done unto her and for the same reason knoweth<br />
she was alsoe much damnified in her hull thereby, all which hee<br />
saith might have bin prevented in case the sayd shipps ladeing had not<br />
bin by sayd Wigarts and drewes and their Confederates removed from the<br />
place where shee first lay neere Embden shee being then of this deponents<br />
sight and knowledge a strong and a tight shipp And as to the value of<br />
the dammage hee saith by reason hee left the sayd shipp before the delivery<br />
of her sayd salt, hee cannot testify or depose thereto but beleeveth it did amount to a<br />
considerable value And further to these articles hee cannot depose.
To the 6th article article hee saith hee did observe that the sayd shipp the ''Redd''<br />
''Rose'' (after the injurie received in manner aforesayd was dead<br />
freighted to othe quantitie of thirty tonnes or better, And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose not knowing what further goods or ladeing<br />
the sayd Edmund Lemmon the master of her was offered or might<br />
have had if she had not been made leakie by means aforesayd/
To the 7th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee being then on board<br />
the sayd shipp ''Redd Rose'', well knoweth that after such tyme as the sayd<br />
shipp and her ladeing aforesayd were taken and carried away in manner<br />
aforesayd while the arlate Edmond Lemmon and five of his Company<br />
were on Shoare at Embden, the sayd Lemmon and his Company who were<br />
soe on Shoare, came after the sayd shipp to delphes Island, and would<br />
there have come on board her, but were hindered from soe doeing by<br />
the souldiers and mariners of the sayd Wigarts and drewes who were in<br />
possession of her, and threated to shoote the sayd Lemmon and his<br />
Company if hee offered to come on board and saith that the sayd mariners<br />
and souldiers soe in possession would not deliver the sayd shipp and ladeing<br />
back to the sayd Lemmon and his Company but kept it in their possession for<br />
the space of two days or somewhat lesse whereby the sayd Lemmon<br />
and Company were hindered about five dayes tyme in getting their shipp<br />
to her place of ladeing where she was seized And further to this article hee cannot depose for that hee was not<br />
on shoare to heare what passed betwixt the sayd lemmon and the sayd<br />
Wygarts and drewes before a Notary./
To the 8th and the schedule therein mentioned hee saith he cannot depose<br />
knowing nothing thereof/
To the 9th hee saith that during the tyme the sayd shipp ''Redd Rose'' did<br />
remayne under siezure of the sayd Wigarts and drewes and their souldiers and<br />
mariners, one of the masters of the sayd shipp came to the shipps side<br />
with intente to fetch his cloathes and desyre leave of the souldiers and mariners<br />
aforesayd to come on board and fetche them which they refused to suffer him to<br />
doe, and sett their musketts to his breast, and threatned to shoote him and then<br />
aatned to shoote him and then<br />
a +
|
