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To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth that at G … To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth that at Gravesend fower servants<br />
consigned to the arlate Cooper did there make an escape from on<br />
board the sayd shipp in a boate which brought some company to<br />
visite friends they had on board the sayd shipp, and the shipps boate<br />
being then gone to London about the shipps busines her company<br />
having noe boate could not speedily make after them, by which [?meanes GUTTER]<br />
they escaped and the shipp comming afterwards into the downes<br />
Captaine Tottey upon enquire found that they were one (sic) board a<br />
shipp whereof Generall Sedgewick was Commander and did<br />
endeavour to get them againe, but could not, they being in the States<br />
service but as this deponent hath heard the sayd General Sedgewick<br />
gave the sayd Totty a noate to shew that they were in the states service<br />
that hee might satisfie their master soe<br />
much And hee saith hee this deponent heare the sayd Tottie<br />
on board his shipp ''Edward and John'' at Gravesend<br />
publiquely promise to the arlate huggery and company of<br />
the sayd shipp that they should not bee troubled about the escape of those<br />
servants but hee the sayd Totty would himselfe satisfie for them<br />
with fower other servants which hee had on board that had noe<br />
Masters, or words to that effecte And further to this arle hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth that the cables of the sayd<br />
shipp were rotten and insufficient and well remembereth that t<br />
the Barbadoes by reason of their rottennesse and insufficiency<br />
two cables were tyed to one Anchor, which not withstanding<br />
they both brake with the weight of the Anchor, And saith that then<br />
Turpin the Masters mate perceiving some twists of the Cables to<br />
bee broken and others ready to breake did adventure up to the [?stXXX GUTTER]<br />
in water to fasten another rope to save the Anchor from being<br />
lost, but before hee could fasten a roape both the cables [?brake GUTTER]<br />
and the Anchor became lost, And indeede the sayd shipps [?company]<br />
did doe their endeavour to preserve the sayd Anchor and other the [XX GUTTER]<br />
of the sayd shipp, and what dammage happened thereto was through<br />
insufficiency and rottennesse of the sayd Cables and not through<br />
default of the sayd shipps company And further hee cannot<br />
depose/
To the 6th hee saith that the arlate huggery and Company [?of ?which GUTTER]<br />
this deponent was one did use all diligence they could to preserve<br />
the sayd shipp, tackle, and goods on board her from any dammage<br />
And saith that the sayd shipps Company having delivered [XXX GUTTER]<br />
goods from on board the sayd shipp at Woolwich and the [?shipp GUTTER]<br />
coming to Greenewich afterwards and a lighter being ready to<br />
receave more out of her the Company romeageing amongst [?the GUTTER]<br />
goods did perceive that some of them were dammaged and some<br />
caskes of suger three quarters empty and the sayd huggery<br />
and Turpin both Masters Mates did acquainte the sayd [?Totty GUTTER]<br />
therethe sayd [?Totty GUTTER]<br />
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