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|Parent volume=HCA 13/68
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|First transcriber=Colin Greenstreet
|First transcribed=2015/11/11
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|Transcription=The same day &#91;CENTRE HEADING&#93;

Examined upon the sayd allegation.

'''2'''

'''John Nutshall''' of the parish of Saint Saviours Southwarke
Corne Porter aged 55 yeares or thereabouts a
witnes sworne and examined deposeth and saith
as followeth. videlicet.

To the first second and third Articles of the sayd allegation this deponent
saith he knoweth nothing thereof.

To the fourth fifth sixth and seventh articles of the sayd allegation this
deponent saith and deposeth That he this deponent in or about the
moneth of July last past of this present yeare 1653. was imployed by
the Commissioners for prize goods with his precontest Richard Staples, one
Edward Sprigs and his contest Henry Walter and others for the
unlading of a certayne shipp lyeing over against Lyme house
dock in the River of Thames being the shipp arlate commonly called
the ''ffortune'' of Statin which was then laden with wheat. And
saith the sayd wheat was then in a very perishing condition and
some of it actually perished, and that after the removall of about
two foot in depth thereof It was very heavy white musty and hard baked together
so as it was forced to be loosened and broken with Crowes of
Iron and the like Instruments, and being loosened and broken up
did rise in great lumps and flakes as big as a mans body, and
was so excessive hott that one of the Labourers that wrought with
the Crow of Iron and happening to Chopp his Crow upon a Ring
of Iron which it seemes had laine in the sayd Corne his fingers
were singed in taking of the sayd ring from his Crow, and saith
that the dust heat and stench of the sayd wheat was so great
&#91;?naysome&#93; and stifling that the Labourers that wrought in the hold
of the shipp were forced and faine of this deponents sight to
worke naked, and one of them videlicet the foresayd Edward Spriggs
was so distempered thereby that he became sick and dyed of his
distemper then gott, and many others of the sayd Labourers
receyved much preiudice in their health thereby and were ill att
ease long after, and some were forced to leave the worke before
it was quite finished being overcome with stifling heat and this
deponent amongst the rest. And saith the sayd wheat had receyved
much hurt by water that came in att her port holes and elsewhere
and great quantityes of water were daily pumped out, and such
corne as lay neere the sayd port holes and in the bottom of the
hold next the mattes was quite perished and unfitt for any use
and indeed not fitt for hoggs, to the quanitty of about 12
quarters which was as he beleiveth throwne overboard. And this
deponent having bene a Corne porter for theis eight yeares now
past by the skill and experience he hath in wheat thereby knoweth
that
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