HCA 13/70 f.370v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 370 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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Captaine hasilgrave did with all possible prudence and circumspection endeavour
the presrevation thereof for the use and interest of the Owners
he knowingly deposed the premisses as being the matter of his [?sole GUTTER]
andserious observation in the quality hee had in the voiage aforesaid
And further cannot depose/
To the 4th hee saith hee cannot depose:-
To the last hee saith heis foregoeing deposition is true/:-
george pattison [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The fowerth day of May 1655./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
2.
Samuell Symonds of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and
County of Middlesex Marinner aged 40 yeares or thereabouts
a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
videlicet./
To the first article hee saith that by reason hee this deponent was Quarter Master
of the Levant ffrigott arlate during the voyage in question hee well knoweth that the sayd
ffrigott carried and had in her the sayd voyage noe other or more pepper then the thirty baggs of
pepper now in question which baggs hee saith were taken in on board the sayd shipp
the Levant ffrigott by take and not by weight out of a boate which brought the same to the
ffrigotts side as shee laye neere dicks shoare And hee saith that hee this deponent
being aboard when the sayd baggs were laden on board the frigott did well
observe that they were then very wett which was (as hee beleeveth) the only cause
why when the sayd ffrigott came to sea divers of the baggs proved rotten and
brake and the pepper (although the sayd baggs were very commodiously stowed)
ranne out of the baggs and into the pumpe well of the sayd shipp which was
first discovered by the workeing at the pumpe, and soe soone as ever the same
was discovered the arlate haslegrave and Company did doe their best endeavour
to preserve the same by setting bread basketts and ballast basketts under the pumps
mouth that the pepper might in them be preserved, and did soe save much thereof
and caused it to be dryed upon the decks and mended the baggs which they
found to be rotten with Canvas which was on board the sayd shipp and then
put the same pepper which they had preserved at the pumpe and dryed into those
baggs they had mended some into one bagg and some into an other, and saith that
the pepper came up at the pumpe at such tymes as the pumpe worked for the space
of three weekes togeather soe that had not the sayd shipp bin a good tight
shipp as indeed shee was, the sayd loose pepper had bin lost And
further to this article hee cannot depose saving hee saith the arlate haslegrave
was not on board the sayd shipp when the sayd baggs of pepper were brought
and laden aboard the sayd shipp The premisses hee deposeth being on board and Quarter
master and an eye witnesse of them./
To the second hee saith that hee well knoweth that the sayd thirty baggs of pepper
were all very well stowed above three foote high from the seeleing of the sayd
shipp and that divers piggs of lead and denage of bavins upon the lead, laye under the
sayd baggs of pepper, and divers perpetuanas and bayes which lay som what abafte
the
