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of the steeving geere are burst and other … of the steeving geere are burst and other inconveniencies happen<br />
to the great retarding of the worke, so as he saith that ordinarily<br />
the number of men interrate in a vessell of the tonnage interro=<br />
gate may receyve on board and steeve about eight baggs a day<br />
one day with another, And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the 15th he saith that on the say interrate there was not roome in the<br />
sayd shipp to have receyved the number of baggs interrate without<br />
steeving, for he saith there was not roome enough safely to have<br />
layd att that tyme one bagg without steeving. And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose.
To the 16th he saith that when the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' ćame from Ciprus<br />
shee could not have ćarryed thirty tonnes of cotton woolls more than were<br />
laden in her, howbeit when she ćame to Zant she might and did<br />
receyve thirty tonnes of Currants; the reason of which difference is<br />
from the different qualities of the sayd merchandizes bećause Currants may<br />
safely and well be stowed any where in the hold and in the traveway of<br />
woolls, but the sayd traveway was not halfe long enough to receive such<br />
a quantity of woolls in regard of the great length of the sackes, and<br />
for that Currants are laden without steeving which wools cannot<br />
safely be, neyther ćan be steeved without a sufficient trave way. And<br />
otherwise saving that the sayd Currants were in butts he ćannot depose.
Samuell Donn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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29th February 1655. ORIGINAL ANNOTATION USES "o", NOT "th"
Examined upon the sayd Allegation
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'''Gregorie Creyk''' of Marton in the County of Yorke merćhant,<br />
aged twenty four yeares or thereabouts a witnes produced<br />
sworne and examined deposed and saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first and second Articles of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith, That the arlate<br />
shipp The ''Thomas Bonadventure'' arrived att Ciprus from Scanderon<br />
the voyage in question, after which her arrivall there<br />
were laden on board her a great quantity of Cotton woolls by the allegat<br />
Roger ffooke English Consull there, of the certayne knowledge<br />
of this deponent, who was then att Ciprus (as he had bene for about four<br />
yeares before) and lived and lodged in one and the same howse with the<br />
sayd Consull, and saw the sayd woolls weighted. but the number of the<br />
baggs hee remembreth not. And the greatest part of the sayd woolls<br />
were, as he then heard, for the freighters of the sayd shipp, and<br />
one smaller parcell was as he likewise heard, for one Mr Rich of London.<br />
And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the 3. and 4th articles of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd shipp the ''Thomas''<br />
''Bonadventure'' was in this deponents Judgment of the burthen of about<br />
two hundred and seventy, or two hundred and eighty tonnes, and had<br />
about the number of men arlate in her the tyme aforesayd, which<br />
number of men, by what he hath seene, observed and heard, during his<br />
sayd four yeares abode att Ciprus, may receyve, and steeve upon a shipp<br />
of such tonnage, about eight or att most nyne baggs a day one day with another<br />
from the first beginning of her steeving till she have recyved her full<br />
Cargo, and not more, the reason whereof he hath observed to be partly the greatnes<br />
of the baggs and their bulke and weight, which renders them<br />
difficult to mannage and steeve, and partly the extraordinary labour that<br />
still encreases as the shipp fills, so as the greater quantity of goods a<br />
shipp hath in her, the more and greater is the labour and difficulty of steeving<br />
wools upon her. And soe much he hath well seene and observed as<br />
aforesayd. And othewise cannot depose/gt;
aforesayd. And othewise cannot depose/ +
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