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