HCA 13/70 f.336v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 336 |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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Contents of this article, saying hee heard the said Mr. duck and other
Merchants at Saint Lucar severall times say and declare, that severall of the
said goods brought in the said shipp to Saint Lucar, would there come to a very
badd markett, and that they would have yeilded a farr greater benefitt if
they had come to and been according to order sold and disposed of at Santa Cruz
To the 8th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof/:-
To the 9th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the proceedings of this Court And
further cannot depose:-
To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true:-/
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatories hee saith hee cometh to be a witness in this cause
at the request of the producent James Cowse who desyred this rendent to
testifie the truth of his knowledge therein and saith hee hath noe share or interest
in this cause neither will it bee any benefit to him this rendent that hee knoweth of
if the saud Cowse prevaile therein nor preiudice to this rendent if hee bee overthrowne
therein, and saith hee would give the victory in this cause to them to whome of right
it belongeth if it were in his power, and saith hee is noe waies of kinn or alliance
to the producent nor servant to him otherwise then as hee went in the sayd shipp Masters
mate the voyage in question, and hath receaved nothing nor expecteth ought for his
testimony in this cause And further hee cannot answere/
Ro the second hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp Interrogated and went both Pilott and Masters mate of the sayd shipp
the voyage in question and was put in soe to doe by the said Keene the Interrogant
who undertooke to pay him this rendent his wages for the sayd voyage but refused
to pay the same till this deponent by suite of lawe in Spaine receovered the same
of him and then hee the sayd Keene seeing it was adiudged against hin soe to doe, did
order one Watts a Merchant at Saint Lucars to pay this respondent his
wages adiudged which the sayd Watts accordingly did./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition
to the allegation in this cause given wherein hee hath at full answered the effect of
this Interrogatorie saving hee saith hee beleeveth if the sayd shipp had not put
in at Saint Lucar as shee did shee and her ladeing had perished the sayd shipp being as is
predeposed forsaken of all her company but this respondent and the Interrogant and a
little boy, both which were uselesse to this respondent in conducting the sayd shipp safe
to Saint Lucar, the master being sick and the boy being able to yeild bery little helpe
toward the sayd shipps preservation. And further hee cannot answere
To the 4th hee saith that the sayd shipp Interrogate was very much damnified in
the storme Interrogate and lost her mayne mast and paart of her mizen mast and her Boltspritt
and a great paart of her rigging and her mayne topp sayle and her midshipp [?XXXX] soe that shee could
not have gone from Saint Lucars to the Canaries without being first repayred
but saith as is predeposed that the foresayd Mr Richard
duck did offer to supplye the sayd Keene with moneys necessarie to have repaired
the sayd shipp if hee the sayd Keene would have accepted of it and caused her
to be repayred and proceeded on his voiage to Santa Cruze soe that there was noe
necessitie of the sayd shipps ladeing being put ashoare at Saint Lucar if the sayd
Keene had bin willing to have proceeded on his voyage And hee saith that
the sayd Keene not being willing to proceede on the voyage
to
