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was true Owner of them the tyme arlate and knoweth hee was soe commonly reputed And alsoe beleeveth the arlate Richard Baker
the tyme arlate was Owner of twenty butts of spanish wine and the arlate
George Clarke of fifty butts of oyle which wines and oyle hee saith of this
deponents knowledge were consigned to them and they were commonly
reputed the true Owners of the sayd wine and oyle And further to this article
hee cannot depos/

To the 2 article of the sayd libell hee saith that hee being Masters Mate
as aforesayd well knoweth that in the Moneth of May last the
Pilgrim arlater did with all the oyles and wines above expressed
and other Merchandize on board her ride at Anchor nneere dicks shoare
arlate in a safe and convenient place where shipps use to ride And futher
to this article hee cannot depos

To the 3 and 4th articles of the sayd Libell hee saith that in the moneth of May
last at such tyme as the dammage in question happened the arlate
Thomas Woodfin was commonly Accompted to be Master of the
Exeter Merchant And hee saith that while the Pilgrim and her sayd ladeing
soe lay at Anchor neere dicks shoare the Exeter Merchant did through
the carelessenes and neglect of her sayd Master thereof and company of her
in the moneth of May last fall fowle of the Pilgrim and brake her cable and her boltspritt
and the knee of her head and alsoe draw her a shoare by which meanes shee being
heavie laden was much wrung and hurt in her hull and divers of the casks wherein the oyles
and wines aforesayd were by reason of the Exeter Merchants soe falling fowle
and driving the Pilgrim a shoare were much damnified, and became
leakie, and leaked out much of the oyles and wine in them, And hee
saith after the sayd disasrer soe happened the Company of the
Pilgrim makeing use of their pumpe ro cleere their sayd shipp
of water pumped up much oyle thereat, whereas before teh sayd
disaster happened there was very little oyle pumped, this hee
knoweth being aboard and seeing the premisses and alsoe knowing
that there was little oyle came up at the pumpe through the
whole voyage in question untill after the sayd disaster, And
further to these articles hee cannot depose./

To the 5th hee saith hee knoweth that by the disaster aforesayd divers
butts of Oyle belonging to the arlate Batthurst did leake out much
oyle, but to what quantitie or the value thereof hee knoweth not
And hee saith hee alsoe knoweth that two butts of wine belonging
to the sayd Baker did by the disaster aforesayd soe leake out that
there was not above five Inches deepe left in each caske which was
only lees this hee knoweth for that hee gaged the sayd two butts and saith that his this deponents estimate the sayd wines soe leaked was worth at least 13 li a butt And hee
alsoe saith that some of the caskes of oyles belonging to the sayd Clarke did
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