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and is an illiterate and unskillfull perso … and is an illiterate and unskillfull person, and one that<br />
cannot write his name and was not Capable of his said<br />
Office or place; and had noe Instruments on board the said<br />
ship to doe and performe his said place, but a fores staffe,<br />
and saith that hee beleeveth the reason of the said Ships<br />
missing the Barbadoes the said Voyage was occasioned<br />
and came by the said hurricanes; and Calmes, and<br />
Contrary winds, And further cannot answer:/.
To the 8th hee sayth that after the said Grove by the meanes<br />
aforesaid had missed the Barbados the<br />
said Wood gave the said Grove order to saile to<br />
Martinice and from thence to Nevis, and the said<br />
Grove did soe doe, And further cannot depose for<br />
that he was Imployed by the said Wood at Saint<br />
Christophers the greatest part of the time the said ship lay, at Nevis,<br />
saving the said Wood at Saint Christophers said to this deponent<br />
That it was a folly for the ship to goe upp to the<br />
Barbados. for that ffish was there at a lowe rate:/
To the 9th hee saith that the said ship arived at Nevis<br />
on the Eighth of November 1657: and there<br />
lay about four or five weekes before the said Wood<br />
sent any fish or goods. to Saint Christophers: and in<br />
that time there arrived att the said Islands severall<br />
Vessells laden with fish, and other Comodityes.<br />
which did much glut the market there; and thereby<br />
did hinder the Sale of the ffish brought in the<br />
''Peace''; and saith that when the ''Peace'' arived at Nevis<br />
there was (as this deponent was informed by the Islanders<br />
great want of ffish, and then as hee beleeveth the<br />
said Wood might have had a good market for it<br />
and saith that at the first, comming of the<br />
said shipp the ''Peace'' to Nevis the said Wood sold his fish<br />
after the rate of a pound of fish, for a pound of Sugar, and saith<br />
that Nevis Sugar is accounted better than Barbadoes<br />
Sugar, and further cannot Answer:/:
To the 10th hee saith that a little before the arrivall of<br />
the said ship ''Peace'' at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico<br />
and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward<br />
Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of<br />
Hurricanoes (which happened there. And saith that at<br />
Nevis and Saint Christophers and other of the Leeward<br />
Islands the fflemings (at and about the time of the arrival<br />
of the said ship ''Peace'' there) did carry away most of<br />
the goods which were there left. And saith that most of the<br />
English that were then in Nevis and Saint Christophers did lade their<br />
goodsistophers did lade their<br />
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