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deserted the sayd shipp all the freighters … deserted the sayd shipp all the freighters who had taken tonnage<br />
in the sayd shipp deserted the same and would not imploy the sayd shipp,<br />
where by the sayd shipp after shee had stayed there from June 1655 till<br />
december her following was served to for then thence in her ballast, the the<br />
great dammage of the arlate Edward Bushell and Company which<br />
dammage in this deponents Judgment and estimate did amount to<br />
at least three hundred pounds sterling And further to this article hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 3 hee saith hee cannot of his certaine knowledge depose of the contents<br />
thereof for that hee was not present and heard the words spoken, but saith<br />
that the sayd shipp had sprung a leake and that this deponent having<br />
severall tymes commanded the sayd Whitfeild being Carpenter to doe his<br />
dutie in stopping the sayd leake the sayd Whitfeild from tyme to tyme<br />
in this deponents absence neglected the stopping thereof And further hee cannot<br />
depose saving hee saith his this deponents mate told him that<br />
the sayd Whitfeild coming from on shoare did speake words to the<br />
effect in this article mentioned.
To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth that while the ''Negro'' remayned neere<br />
the Maderas there happened an extraordinary storme to the great<br />
endangering of the sayd shipp and saith this deponent did in generall<br />
give Command to the whole Company to performe their duties<br />
for preservation of her, and further cannot of his certaine knowledge<br />
depose for that hee himselfe heard not the arlate Edwards and Whitfeild speake<br />
any of the words arlate, but saith that Carter one of this deponents<br />
mates told this deponent that the sayd Edwards and Whitfeild did<br />
then speake words to the effect arlate, which this deponent doth and did then<br />
beleeve to be true, yet durst not punish the sayd Edwards and Whitfeild<br />
for the same for feare they would raise a mutinie and<br />
deserte the sayd shipp And further hee cannot depose
To the 5th hee saith hee knoweth that at New England there was a quantitie<br />
of Corne taken in, to bee carred thence to the Maderas, and this deponent<br />
gave order to the arlate Whitfeild being Carpenter to have a<br />
care to make all things strong and firmie that the Corne might come<br />
to noe dammage, and the sayd Whitfeild undertooke to doe soe, and<br />
answered to this deponent that hee would warrant if that all things<br />
should bee strong, and that this deponent need not lacke care thereof,<br />
which notwithstanding the sayd Whitfeild neglected this deponents<br />
Command, and thereby the corne runne downe into the pumps severall<br />
tymes and Choaked them, by meanes whereof the Corne was much<br />
dammaged with wett receaved, and this deponent knoweth that seaven=<br />
teen pounds was abated out of the frieght of the sayd Corne for the<br />
dammage happening thereto by the meanes aforesayd And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 6th hee saith that hee this deponent once seaching the arlate<br />
Whitfeilds Cabbin did finde therein two or three peeces of rawe<br />
Porke which hee had purloyned out of the shipps store And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 7th hee cannot depose saving hee saith hee knoweth there was<br />
some moneys (but how much hee remembereth not) paid to some owners of<br />
winet) paid to some owners of<br />
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