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said ship the said Voyage; or to that effe … said ship the said Voyage; or to that effect which did much<br />
disparage the said Grove, and was a great meanes to<br />
make his Company slight him and ContennXX him<br />
and further hee cannot depose:/.
To the 12th hee saith that the said Thomas Grove did<br />
not at any time in the least (that this deponent Knoweth<br />
of hinder the said Wood of any ffreight that hee<br />
might have had the said Voyage. But of this<br />
deponents Knowledge. the said Grove did during the<br />
whole Voyage; further the said Wood in taking<br />
and getting of ffreight. and selling of his Goods. And at<br />
Saint Christophers the said Grove did get two ffreights<br />
for the said Wood, though it was not the said Groves<br />
part or duty soe to doe, And saith that it is a Comon<br />
practise for planters at Saint Christophers and Mevis<br />
and parts thereabouts to make Verball Agreements<br />
and to make Great and Large promises, And saith<br />
the said Wood might have gone from Saint Christophers<br />
aforesaid when hee had pleased,<br />
but hee did stay there longer than hee needed to have done<br />
And the said Grove was not as hee saith<br />
the Cause of the said ship (or the said Woods) staying there soe long, And<br />
further hee cannot depose:/
To the 13th hee saith that upon the arrivall of the said ship ''Peace''<br />
at Nevis and at the Leeward Islands this deponent found that Hurricanoes and Stormes<br />
had spoyled most of the Sugar Canes, Tobaccoe, and Indicoes<br />
in those places, and had rooted many of them up, and<br />
saith hee alsoe then found many of them up, and<br />
saith hee alsoe then found many houses upon the said<br />
Islan which were blowne downe (As this deponent was<br />
there Credibly Informed by many of the Islands) alsoe<br />
by the Violence of the said Stormes, and Hurricanoes,<br />
And saith that the greater part of those goods which were<br />
not spoyled as aforesaid were laden on board the<br />
fflemish ships which were then there, And the English<br />
themselves which were then. there. (in regard of the Difference<br />
betwixt England and Spaine) did Lade their goods, and<br />
embarque themselves on board the said fflemish ships<br />
And saith that one Captaine Thorne, Comander of an<br />
English ship, did stay at Nevis and Saint Christophers about<br />
three monethes to receave in a Lading of goods there<br />
but at Length came away from thence for London a great Part dead<br />
ffreighted, And the reason was for that the Hurricanoes and stormes<br />
as aforesaid had spoiled most of the Sugar Canes, Tobaccoe<br />
and Indicoes, And alsoe for that the fflemings tooke away most<br />
ofe fflemings tooke away most<br />
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