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sayd two mariners replyed as aforesayd that the same happened by reason the pump was choaked by the meanes aforesayd And further to those articles hee cannot depose./ To the 5th hee saith that the fifteene Chests of sugar aforesayd or the most of them were stowed abaft the mast and all of them in the ground tyre, and this deponent observed that they that lay neerest the pumpe by the Mast were most damnified, soe that it was evident that the dammage which happened to them came by the water that was in the sayd shipp, which as the sayd seamen sayd could not be pumped out by reason the pumpe was choaked in manner aforesayd And further to this article hee cannot depose./ To the 6th article hee saith that hee did observe that the Covers of all the fifteene chests were drye, but that divers of them were wett five or sixe Inches deepe toward the bottome, soe that the dammage happened only in the bottoms of them by reason of the water aforesayd And saith that hee this deponent beleeveth that all the rest of the sayd shipps ladeing, which lay above the sugar in question were dry and well Conditioned for that hee knew divers of their Owners and heard none of them complayne of any damage And further to this article hee cannot depose./ To the 7th article hee saith that most of the goods aboard the sayd shipp were unladen before this deponent came aboard to view the stowage of the sugar in question, and well remembreth that when hee soe came and saw them they stood wett as aforesayd, And further hee cannot depose./ To the 8th hee cannot depose saving hee saith hee hath heard some who were imployed to view the sayd fifteene chests of sugar after they were brought ashoare, saye, that the sayd dammages happened to the sayd sugars would and did in their Judgment amounte to five pounds a chest one with an other./ To the 9th hee saith hee this deponent did by order of the sayd Bence three severall dates require the arlate Joseph Careswell to view or gett and send some freind of his to view and estimate the dammage happened to the sugars in question, and told him that they lay at Chesters Key, and that the sayd Bence or such as hee the sayd Careswell should appoint to the purpose aforesayd, but the sayd Careswell made slight thereof, and the sayd Careswell neglecting to come, this deponent by order of the sayd Bence went to him the sayd Careswell the 5th tyme, and told him that if hee the sayd Careswell would neither come him selfe nor appoint some other person in his behalfe to view the sayd dammage, the sayd Mr Bence would imploy somebody to take view thereof without him, whereupon the sayd Careswell came to Chesters Key and brought a man with him whose name hee knoweth not to view the sayd sugars and those that the sayd Bence imployed thereabout being viewing of them, the sayd Careswell and the man hee soe brought after a little stay went away and seemed to slight the matter, And hee this deponent knoweth that the sayd sugars were kept at Chesters Key in a warehouse above a weeke at the charge of the sayd Bence in expectation of the sayd Careswells coming to view them And further hee cannot depose./ To the 10th hee saith for that hee is noe seaman hee cannot depose thereto/
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