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salarie or allowance out of such shipps as … salarie or allowance out of such shipps as they so conduct, and are<br />
in that respect well knowne to be men very [?cautelous] and circumspect<br />
in such their undertaking, upon which their Creditt and Livelihood<br />
depends, And saith That all the voyages this deponent hath beene at Porto<br />
Port aforesaid, the shipp wherein hee served was usually conducted and<br />
reconducted over the said barr by such Pylotts as by him is predeposed<br />
And further hee cannot depose saving the said barr, the danger in<br />
passing the same, and the use of such pilotts for that purpose<br />
are publique and notoriously knowne to all that frequent the said Port<br />
pf Porto Port/:-
To the 15th hee saith, That during the time the said shipp ''John'' being [?XXX]<br />
as aforesaid, and readie to passe the barr of Porto Port, remained there as<br />
predeposed, to the best of this deponents observation the wind still remaineing<br />
contrarie to such her passage for about a moneth together, and that<br />
during that time no shipp of that or the like burthen or draught<br />
of water did or could, as was then generally observed amongst Marchants<br />
there proceed outwards over the said barr. And otherwise saving his<br />
precedent and subsequent depositions hee saith hee cannot depose./:
To the 16th hee saith, That during the time of the said shipp the ''John''<br />
remaining at Porto Port aforesaid there was in the same port a shipp<br />
or Vessell of hamburgh (as shee as there reputed) which being laden<br />
with oranges lemmons and other Commodities, and drawing about 10<br />
or 11. foot water according to the then computation, and estimate of this<br />
deponent and others; went from Porto Port toward the said<br />
barr about 4. or 5. daies before the ''Johns'' descent thitherwards, with<br />
designe, as was then and there commonly reported to passe the same, as<br />
having very perishable goods on board her, much whereof was in the<br />
time of her stayeing there throwne overboard being rotten and perishing.<br />
And saith that in this deponents sight the said hamburgher shipp and the<br />
''John'' aforesaid went over the said barr at one and the same time<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the 17th hee saith, That it was generally observed and taken notice<br />
of by this deponent and others, that the said shipp ''John'' after such her<br />
lading at Porto Port as aforesaid was one of the first shipps<br />
of or about her burthen that did or could passe the barr aforesaid<br />
And further cannot depose./
To the18th hee saith, hee knoweth nothing thereof, not being aboard the<br />
said shipp the ''John'' when any such Pilotts, as is arlate were sent<br />
aboard her, nor knowing by any other meanes any certaine knowledge thereof<br />
And further cannot depose./
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And further cannot depose./
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