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To the 5th hee saith hee knoweth that two … To the 5th hee saith hee knoweth that two Cables of the shipp aforesayd<br />
by reason of their hollennesse were at the Barabados fastened to one<br />
Another the better to make them hold which not withstanding they both<br />
brake with the weight of the Anchor by reason of their rottennesse<br />
and the Anchor was thereby lost though the shipps<br />
company did their Endeavor to save the same, and had as much care<br />
as might bee of the sayd shipps tackle, And hee saith that the sayd<br />
Cables being espied to bee about to breake henry Turpin the<br />
Masters Mate did adventure into the water up to the Arme pitts<br />
to fasten a roape to the Anchor to save it before the Cables were<br />
quite broken, but before hee could gett the same fastened the<br />
Cables brake by which meanes the Anchor was lost this hee deposeth<br />
of his sight and knowledge And further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 6th hee saith that of his this deponents sight and observation<br />
the sayd shipps company did use their best care and diligence to<br />
preserve the sayd shipps tackle and alsoe her lading on board her<br />
from dammage and hurt And hee saith that after the sayd shipps<br />
arrivall at Greenewich with her homewards lading, or soe much<br />
thereof as shee had not delivered before her coming thither, there<br />
lying there a lighter ready to receave goods from on board the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Edward and John'', the sayd shipps company did labour and<br />
lade some goods on board the sayd lighter and then romageing<br />
among the goods with intent to lade more, they found that some<br />
Caskes of suger were about halfe empty and that some caskes<br />
had taken wett to the endamagement of the sugar in them and<br />
the sayd Turpin and other of the shipps company told the sayd<br />
Captaine Tottie thereof and desyred the sayd Toltie that before<br />
any more goods were unladen a view might bee made of what<br />
dammage was happened to the lading that it might appeare<br />
the better what occasioned the same, or to that effect, but the sayd<br />
Totty would not then cause any view to bee made, but commanded<br />
the shipps Company to lade the lighter, and divers of the<br />
shipps Company forbearing to worke and saying they would<br />
have the goods viewed first, the said Totty went on shoare<br />
hyred labourers and with their helpe and the helpe of this deponent<br />
and sixe or eight more of the sayd shipps Company the sayd lighter<br />
was fully laden and sent away by the sayd Totty, And hee saith<br />
that afterwards by the procurement of William huggery the Masters<br />
Mate, and of the Carpenter of the sayd shipp, two men were<br />
procured to survey the sayd shipp and goods, to see by what cause<br />
the dammage came, after which survey the shipps company soe many<br />
as had not ocassion to bee absent, or were not pressed away into the absent, or were not pressed away into the +
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