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Transcription

the River she would have cost above two hundred pounds to have
had her weighed up And further to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 14th hee saith hee sawe the Master of the shipp Imployment pay to
certaine labourers for digging to make way for this deponent and another Carpenter
to stopp the leake arlate predeposed of twenty shillings sterling, and sawe
him alsoe pay to the other Carpenter who helped this deponent to stopp the sayd
leake, for his paines abut the same three shillings sterling, And further
hee cannot depose/

To the 15th hee saith hee well lnoweth that when the Imployment receaved
the samage predeposed of shee was neere fully laden, hee well knowing
shee had only delivered betweene 40 and 50 chaldron before the same happened
And saith hee heard the Master of the Imployment before the dammage
predeposed of happened say that hee had sold all his Coales then on board
for twenty three pounds tenn shillings and had hyred men to deliver them
out, and hee this deponent heard some of the men who were hyred to
deliver them say that they were to have some of them 9 s a man and some of
them tenn shillings a man and some more, And saith hee well knoweth
that after the sayd damage happened the men who were hyred soe to
unlade her by reason the Coales had receaved much wett and that by reason
of water in the shipp they must stand in water to the middle to worke
upon them did refuse to worke upon them unlesse they might have
a great deale more then what they had before agreed for, but
what the Master payd them hee knoweth not And further hee
cannot depose/

To the 16th hee saith it is the Custome of Newcastle shipps to measure out
their coales of shippboard and soe hath bin for these 20 yeares of this deponents
knowledge, and as hee hath heard tyme out of mynde, And saith hee knoweth
that by reason of the sayd dammage the master and Company of the
Imployment for the necessary lightning of the sayd shipp were forced
to heave her ladeing into lighters out of the port holes of the shipp
and carry them on shoare and there measure them, by which meanes
and alsoe by reason of the wett the coales had receaved by the dammage aforesayd they were soe
sadd and divers of them washed and wasted away that they
could not choose but fall short in measure of what they would have
done if the damage predeposed had not happened And further to this
article hee cannot depose/

To the 17th hee saith that hee alsoe knoweth that a barrell and a
halfe of powder aboard the Imployment and belonging to her Owners was by reason of the leake
aforesayd utterly spoiled, And saith hee beleeveth the sayd barrell and
halfe