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1. To the fifth hee saith hee well knoweth that there were two cables belonging
2. to the sayd shipp the Edward and John which were by reason they were very rotten
3. and badd hXX (the shipp having rodden by them in the Barbadoes for about
4. ˹eight or˺ nyne moneths) made both fast to one Anchor, but by reason of their
5. rottennesse brake by the weight the Anchor as the shipps company
6. were at the Barbadoes having it up, which one of the company perceiving
7. as it was the cables were in breakeing and almost broke did endeavour
8. to have fastened, another rope to the Anchor thereby to save it ˹and adventured which should act in water soo to doe˺ but before
9. hee could fasten the same the Cables both broke quite a sunder
10. by which meanes the sayde Anchor was lost this hee deposeth of his
11. owne sight and knowledge helpeing alsoe soe much as hee could
12. to preserve the sayd Anchor and saith that what dammage did happen
13. to the sayd shipps tackle happened by the insufficiency of the sayd
14. Cables and other tackle of the sayd shipp and not by any carelessnesse
15. or fault of this deponent or any other of the sayd shipps company who
16. did all as hee beleveeth their best endeavour to preserve the same

17. To the 6th hee saith that hee this deponent ˹did˺ and other the Mariners
18. of the sayd shipp did doe alsoe did soe farr as hee this deponent could
19. or did observe their utmost Endeavour to preserve the sayd shipps tackle
20. and alsoe her ladeing or goods, And saith that the sayd shipp being
21. with her ladeing come to an Anchor at Greenwich and a lighter lyeing
22. ˹there˺ by her side ready to receive goods from on board this deponent and
23. other goods espied a hogshead which was wett and little above TO DO: halfe GUTTER
24. full of sugar ˹and˺ told the sayd Captaine Tottey thereof and desyred
25. him that before ány more goods were unladen (there having ˹bin˺ before
26. that ˹at˺ Woollwich one lighter of goods unladen out of the sayd shipp)
27. there might bee a survey taken of the goods in the shipp that it might
28. appeare how and by what meanes the sayd dammage had happened
29. but the sayd Captaine Totty would not harken ˹nor consent˺ thereto but sayd hee
30. would have the goods unladen as the lighters came for them
31. but this deponent and the rest of the sayd shipps Company except
32. X one Ryder refused then to worke upon delivery of the
33. sayd goods unlesse a survey were first made of them, but the sayd
34. Tottey procured labourers and would and did cause the sayd lighter
35. to bee laden with goods ˹from on board the sayd shipp˺ before any survey was made and saith
36. after that, the sayd shipp removed from Greenwich with the rest of the
37. ladeing on board her to deptford, where the sayd shipps company
38. by order of the sayd Tottey did helpe to unlade and did unlade the
39. other ligher full of goods from on board the sayd shipp noe survey
40. being still taken by the sayd or procured to bee taken by the sayd
41. Tottey after which the sayd shipp removed with the rest of her
42. lading to Bell wharfe neere Ratcliff where all the rest of the
goods

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