| Transcription
|
the rate they had formerly agreed with him … the rate they had formerly agreed with him for, for that the coales were<br />
very wett and they must stand deepe in water to worke upon them or words<br />
to that effect, but what the sayd Master paid for their worke hee knoweth<br />
not nor what their first agreement was but hath heard the sayd labourers<br />
some of them saye that by their first agreement they who wrought in hold were<br />
to have 14 ''s'' a man and they who wrought between decks and at the falt<br />
9 ''s'' a man And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 16th hee saith that for these 15 yeares last (during which tyme or the most part thereof hee<br />
hath used the trade of a Collyer from Newcastle) hee hath observed that<br />
Newcastle shipps doe usually and constantly measure out their coales on<br />
shipp board, And saith that by reason of the dammage aforesayd the<br />
coales were soe wett that the Master and Company of the ''Imployment'' for<br />
speedier cleereing of their sayd shipp and easeing her of her ladeing to<br />
prevent further dammage which might happen thereby were forced to cause<br />
her ladeing of coles then on board to be heaved out at the<br />
portholes and carried on shoare un lighters without<br />
being measured on shipp board, and beleeveth that by reason of the wett<br />
received the sayd Coales could not chuse but arise to a lessse number<br />
of chalderons, then they would have done if the sayd dammage had not<br />
happened And further hee cannot depose./
To the 17th hee saith hee knoweth that by reason of the leake arlate a<br />
barrell and a halfe of powder belonging to the owners of tghe sayd shipp<br />
and then aboard, was utterly spoiled, And further hee cannot depose<br />
not knowing the rates of such commodities and therefore cannot value the same/
To the 18th hee saith hee well knoweth that by reason of the damage<br />
aforesayd the shipp ''Imployment'' did loose at least a weejes<br />
tyme of her imployment, wherein (the winde and weather favouring)<br />
shee might have performed about halfe a voyage to Newcastle,<br />
whereby her owners were damnified but to what value hee<br />
knoweth not And further hee cannot depose./
To the 19th hee saith that all the dammage predeposed happened<br />
to the ''Imployment'' by her resting upon the Anchor of the ''James and''<br />
''Martin'', which hee the better knoweeth for that hee helped to under runne<br />
the Cable of the ''James and Maartin'' at a lowe tyde after the dammage<br />
receaved and under runne it soe farr as till hee could feele the stock<br />
of her Anchor with an Oare, and saith the sayd dammage was occasioned<br />
meerely by the neglect and fault of the Master and Company of the<br />
''James and Martin'' aforesayd, and their lying at Anchor as aforesayd<br />
without a boy, and alongst the River partly water shott, And further saving<br />
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/s foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/ +
|
