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his said Ship to the Barbadoes, But saith … his said Ship to the Barbadoes, But saith that The said<br />
Wood of this deponents knowledge at Nevis had a pound<br />
of Nevis sugar for a pounds of ffish, And that was<br />
as this deponent verily beleeveth the reason and cause<br />
why the said Wood would not goe to the Barbadoes<br />
with his said ffish: And saith that hee this deponent<br />
is very well versed in the nature, and Quality of<br />
Barbadoes Sugar, and Nevis sugar and therby knoweth<br />
that a pound of Nevis sugar is well worth two pounds<br />
of the Barbadoes sugar; in regard Nevis sugar is a<br />
great deale better Cured or dryed: And saith that<br />
all such damage which happend to the said fish which the<br />
said Luke Wood Laded on board the said ship at Newfound<br />
-Land (saving the small damage which came by the said Oyle<br />
running downe as aforesaid came and happened by<br />
the said Luke Wood Lading of the said ffish on board the said Ship<br />
when the Dew was on the Ground as aforesaid, and by his<br />
keeping of it soe long aboard the said Ship at Nevis; And not by any Carlessnes<br />
of or in the said Grove or any of his Companye yeilding<br />
a reason. of his knowledge as aforesaid: and further<br />
cannot depose
To the seventeenth hee saith that after the said ship<br />
arrived at Nevis, the said Grove did doe his uttmost<br />
endeavours to dispatch the said ship from Nevis to Barbadoes<br />
and to that End did take in stones to stiffen the said ship<br />
and did give notice in the Churches. and other places<br />
(as is usuall) that the said ship ''Peace'', was goeing from Nevis<br />
to the Barbadoes or to that Purpose, but notwithstanding<br />
the said Wood would not Let the said Grove sayle to<br />
the Barbadoes, telling him that fish was then and there<br />
at a Lowe rate, as hee the said Wood was informed by<br />
his Correspondent there or to that effect, And saith that<br />
the said Grove stayed with the said ship and ffish at Nevis<br />
about a Moneth or five weekes, before the said Wood<br />
sent any ffish to Saint Christophers in which time there arrived<br />
many ships Laden with ffish and Provisions at Nevis and Saint Christopherts which Clogged<br />
the market there and did much hinder the sale of the<br />
said ffish brought thither in the ''Peace'' And saith that when<br />
the said ship ''Peace'' did arrive at Nevis there was<br />
there, and alsoe at Saint Christophers great want of Provisions<br />
Espetially of ffish, and if the said Wood would have sent up<br />
his said ffish to Saint Christophers presently, after the Arrivall of the<br />
said ship at Nevis, hee might have disposed of all of his said<br />
(ffishosed of all of his said<br />
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