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answering noe, the sayd ffactors hee gave … answering noe, the sayd ffactors hee gave order that<br />
the sayd Corne should bee delivered without measure and<br />
with all speede for that the sooner it were delivered the more<br />
advantage it would bee to the Merchant owners thereof in<br />
Markett, And those or the like words in effect passed<br />
betweene the sayd ffactors, Mates, and boatswaine upon<br />
the deck of the sayd shipp (the Master and Purser<br />
being then absent on shoare) in presence and hearing of this<br />
deponent and divers others of the sayd shipps Company And this<br />
deponent saith heee sawe divers boate loades of the sayd Corne<br />
carried a shoare and observed that in all those boateloades hee<br />
sawe carried, one of the sayd shipps company went in the<br />
boate with it, And hee this deponent verily beleeveth the sayd<br />
corne was all well conditioned saving that some smale<br />
qualities thereof was about the after hatch of the shipp damnified<br />
by water it had taken in at the hatches for want of Calking<br />
them, but saith the sayd ffactors received the same Corne<br />
and never made any protest against any of it that ever this<br />
deponent heard of And further to this Interrogatory<br />
hee cannot<br />
depose/
To the third Interrogatory hee saith hee heard Thomas dobson<br />
brother of John Dobson one of the factors aforesayd, after the voiage to Cassandria<br />
was layd aside confessed and sayd that the sayd shipps Company<br />
had in deede noe reason to venter upon that voyage for that<br />
Cassandra was an unlawfull Port and that Masters and Mariners<br />
if they be taken there by any of the Grandsigniore men of warr<br />
are in hazard to bee made perpetuall slaves And hee alsoe<br />
saith that the sayd dobson being present with the Master Purser<br />
and this deponent when the Providore asked them whither they were<br />
willing to goe the voyage to Cassandra and they replyed yes<br />
that the sayd Providore speaking in Italian (which this deponent<br />
understood not till the sayd dobson interpreted the same to him)<br />
sayd if you (meaning the Master and Purser) bee willing I will<br />
make the rest of the Company willing, and as the sayd dobson<br />
told this deponent threatned to imprison some of the officers<br />
if they came on shoare, which was the reason as this deponent<br />
beleeveth that they durst not come on shoare for divers dayes<br />
but kept close aboard to secure them selves from any violence<br />
which should bee attempted by the sayd Providore And saith<br />
that the tyme Interrogate this deponent came on board in company<br />
with the Master and Purser aforesayd and well knoweth there was<br />
noe violence offered to them but they were handed over as<br />
usually they were occasioned to bee and noe notice taken by the Master<br />
soenotice taken by the Master<br />
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