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was att the said forenoone of the same day … was att the said forenoone of the same day very good and the sea<br />
calme, soe that the said Mr Whitby might have sent off<br />
very easily a raft of wines unto the said shipp the<br />
''ffreindship'', as well as he did to the shipp the ''Maydenhead''<br />
which shipp did then alsoe lye in the said roade of Malligoe<br />
The premisses he deposeth because he was at the time arlate<br />
one of the sayd shipp the ''ffreindship'' her Company videlicet<br />
Quarter Master of her, and soe knew the matters predeposed<br />
to bee true, And further to that article he cannot depose
To the sixth article he deposeth and saith that the said Mr Whitby<br />
neglecting to send any wines aboard the said shipp in that<br />
forenoone the arlate Barnaby holding did send out in the<br />
afternoone the skiffe belonging to the said shipp with six oares<br />
(whereof this deponent was one) and a stiever, to fetch off the<br />
long boate in regard the Sea was very high, but he saith<br />
that the arlate Mr Whitby commanded those that were in the<br />
boate and in the skiffe to raft off the wines arlate, and that<br />
they that were in the said boate and skiffe were very unwilling<br />
to meddle with the sayd wines, and acquainted the sayd Mr<br />
Whitby with the great danger there was in medling with them<br />
at that time in regard of the temepstiousnes and violence of<br />
the Sea, but upon his threats and commands they went about it,<br />
and that by that time they had rafted off thirty peeces of the<br />
wines (for the said Whitby told them that they showld and<br />
must raft off forty) they were forced away, and such was<br />
the violence and tempetiousnes of the Sea , that notwithstanding<br />
all the endeavoures of all those in the long boate, and skiffe<br />
and of others who came in to their assistance that the ropes<br />
were in peeces, and the empty butts that were to buoy up<br />
the said raft of wines were twice broken loose, and that the<br />
said shipp by reason of the then high sea did leane and sett<br />
about five foote deepe, and that neither the said boate nor<br />
skiffe were able to lye by the said shipps side, and that although<br />
(all the care and diligense that possibly could was used by<br />
those of the said shipps company that were in the boate and<br />
skiffe and by others that came in to their helpe all the thirty<br />
peices of wine except one butt were suncke, The premisses<br />
he deposeth being one of the sixe Oares sent out in the said skiffe<br />
by this said Master to give order to those sent before in the boate<br />
not to meddle with any raft of wynes in soe dangerous a sea<br />
and afterwards upon compulsion of the said Whitby working<br />
in the rafting off of the said wynes; and soe knowing what hee<br />
hath predeposed to bee true/ And farther he cannot depose./
To the seaventh he saith that the said Barnaby holding the Master<br />
did not goe ashoare at all, and that the said ropes were bought by<br />
the said Whitby, who was ashoare and that the said ropes were<br />
broken by the violence of the Sea, And further he cannot depose.
To the eighth he deposeth that he being ashoare at Mallegoe about 3 of<br />
the clock of the said twenty fifth of October 1655 did heare Mr<br />
[?Grene] and others Merchants of the ''Olive Branch'' arlate give order<br />
unto those that came with the said shipps Longboate for to fetch off<br />
wines to the said shipp to returne without any wines in regard of<br />
the then high Sea, And further he cannot depose.
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin./
The marke of '''I P''' John Page./ [MARKE, RH SIDE]of '''I P''' John Page./ [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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