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and (the Corne being in ladeing) hee this deponent heard the sayd Captaine severall tymes openly upon the deck before this deponent and others of the shipps company aske the sayd Whitfeild whether hee had bin carefull to provide good dennage for the sayd Corne and to make the bulke heads firme whereto the sayd Whitfeild answered and saye I warrant you all is well and as it should bee, or to that effect, And saith that not withstanding the [?often] charge thereof given him by the sayd Captaine the sayd Whitfeild did neglect to make good dennage for the sayd Corne and to make the bulke heads tight by meanes whereof the Corne rann downe night and day into the bottomes of the pumpes and often choaked them soe that the corne was much of it wasted many buckets full thereof being at severall tymes taken from out the bottomes of the pumpes when they were choaked therewith was for want of fresh water to cleane it throwne aboard and the corne remayning thereby alsoe much dammified by wett by reason the pumpes were so often choaked but what the Owners deducted out of the frieght for dammage thereof hee knoweth not And further cannot depose To the 6th hee saith hee being steward of the ''Negro'' and having the provisions of the sayd shipp committed to his custody knoweth that the sayd Whitfeild did purloyne three peeces of porke of the shipps provision, and that search being made for the same the same was by Captaine Lockier found in the sayd Whitfeilds Cabbin And saith that an other tyme this deponent having delivered nyne stockfish to the Cooke to bee dressed for the provision of the shipp [?for one] day the same were purloyned away and being missed, they were afterwards found to be purloyned by the sayd Whitfeild and by him conveyed on shoare at the Islands of St Christopher to a house to which the sayd Whitfeild used to resorte and goe to have his linnens washed and upon other occasions, And hee alsoe saith hee sawe the arlate Edwards once breake open the hatches of the shipp the ''Negroe'' and this deponent reproveing him for soe doeing the sayd Edwards answered and sayd hee would doe it and hee would answere it for hee had some friends come on board and hee would goe downe to gett wine for them or words to that effect, and the sayd Edwards hath seuerall tymes beaten this deponent on shipp board for endeavouring to hinder him the sayd Edwards from purloyneing wine and other provisions of the sayd shipp in the night tyme, And this hee saith was and is notorious and knowne to severall of the sayd shipps company And further hee cannot depose/. To the 7th hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot more fully depose thereto./ To the 8th hee saith hee heard the sayd Edwards confesse that hee had some pipe staves laden aboard the sayd shipp at New England and that they were transported for his Accompt to the Mederas but the number of pipe staves or what hee was to pay for the freight of hee knoweth not and saith the sayd Edwards had alsoe at the Maderas some wines (but the quantitie hee knoweth not) laden aboard the sayd shipp for his accompt, which were transported
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