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Transcription

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that
hee this deponent is by trade a Cooper and servant to one Alexander
ffowler a Cooper usually imployed by the producent Mr Bence, and Mr
Edward Bushell in their affayres , and by that meanes was sent by his
sayd Master aboard the Oporto Merchant lying in the River of thames
to looke to and see in what condition certayne chests of sugar which the
sayd Mr Bence had aboard the sayd shipp and were brought home in
her the voyage in question were, And to mend them if they wanted any mending
And this deponent observed that the fifteene chests of sugar arlate belonging
to the sayd Mr bence were all stowed upon the ground tyre of the sayd
shipp and that the water stood in the dennage whereon the sayd
cests (sic) were stowed soe that all or most of them were wett And as
hee beleeveth could not choose but bee much dammaged thereby and
further to these articles hee cannot depose for that hee was not present
at the opening of the sayd Chests of sugar./

To the 3 hee saith hee knoweth the sayd shipp had the sayd voyage severall
pypes of oyle aboard her which shee brought home that voyage, this hee
knoweth for that hee receaved some of the sayd pypes of oyle
from on board the sayd shipp And further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 4th article hee saith that hee this deponent being in hold and
seeing the sayd fifteene chests of sugar removed and hoysted up
from the place where they were stowed did observe that most of them
were well in the bottom and that when they were removed the
water continued in the dennage and this deponent thereupon spake
to some of the mariners who were in hold, and asked them what
was the reason that there was soe much water in their shipp and
why they did not pumpe it out whereto they answered and sayd they
could not helpe it their pumpe was stoaked soe that they could
not cleere their shipp of water and this was while the sayd shipp
laye in the River of Thames delivering out her ladeing shee had brought
home And durther to this article hee cannot depose

To the 5th hee saith the fifteene chests of sugar arlate were stowed abaft
the Mast all togeather, in the ground tyre, and it was evident that
the sayd Chests most of them were wett in the bottoms and sydes some
i[in the] deepe, some more, and some lesse, soe that they could not choose
but be damnified by the wett they had taken by reason of the water that
was in the sayd shipp, which as the seamen sayd for the reason aforesayd
they could not cleere her of And further to this article he cannot depose saving
his foregoeing deposition./