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what monthly wages hee agreed with them fo … what monthly wages hee agreed with them for, but knoweth the rates sett<br />
downe in the sayd schedule were the usuall rates then given to persons goeing<br />
such voyages as the voyage in question in the like qualities and places as the sayd persons<br />
schedulated served in in the sayd shipp ''Thomas and Lucie'' And further saving<br />
his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 4th 5th 6th and7th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that the sayd shipp<br />
''Thomas and Lucie'' in her course from Newfound land towards Naples mett with<br />
a very violent storme wherein shee sponet her mizzen mast and foretopmast and<br />
her master and Company in order to the better preservation of the sayd shipp and her<br />
ladeing and their owne lives were foreced to cut downe her mayne mast by the board and<br />
throwe over board all or the greatest part of the ffish that belonged to the sayd shipps<br />
Company, and some part of the fish belonging to the Merchants, and the sayd shipp by<br />
reason of the sayd storme grew very leakie and tooke in much water, yet by the<br />
industrie of the company with much and continuall pumpeing shee was cleered<br />
thereof and preserved from sinkeing, and by their sayd paines and labour was after<br />
the sayd storme was over made reasonable tight, and soe continued, and the sayd<br />
Company after the sayd storme in stead of their mayne mast cut by the board as afore=<br />
sayd did make a Jury mast of a spare mayne top mast they had remayning aboard<br />
the sayd shipp, and a missen mast of a spare sparr remayning aboard<br />
and could have made a foretopp mast alsoe of other provisions in the sayd shipp if<br />
the sayd Maples the Master would have suffered them soe to doe And saith that<br />
the sayd storme being over and the sayd Jury mast and missen mast made and provided as<br />
aforesayd and the winde standing fayre to that purpose this deponent and the rest<br />
of the sayd shipps company did desyre and move the sayd Maples their master<br />
that they might proceede on their voyage to the Straites and soe to Naples<br />
at least make for some parts of Spaine or Portugall to sell their sayd<br />
ladeing of fish the winde blowing then fayre for any of those places, but the<br />
sayd master sayd the sayd shipp was soe much damnified by the sayd<br />
storme that her ladeing would not be sufficient to repayre her in those<br />
parts and make her fitt to sayle home to England or to the like effect, but<br />
gave expresse order and command to the company thereof to sayle her<br />
towards England, Whereas hee might as well and with as little stresse to the sayd shipp have sayled to the Straights Naples<br />
or to Spaine or Portugall as for England the weather being<br />
then fitt soe to doe and the sayd shipp as neere to the Straights, Spaine and<br />
Portugall as to England, when hee was soe desyred by his company<br />
to proceede on his voyage to Naples, which hee the sayd Maples refused<br />
to doe although he sawe other shipps which were in company of the<br />
''Thomas and Lucie'', and had receaved as much harme by the sayd storme<br />
as shee had done did notwithstanding (the storme being over) steere<br />
their course towards the straights in prosecution of their intended voyages, and as this deponent hath heard) one<br />
of the sayd shipps soe in company of the ''Thomas and Lucie'' did arrive safely<br />
at Naples whether the''Thomas and Lucie'' was to have gone, And thereupon<br />
the Company of the sayd ''Thomas and Lucie'' perceiving that their sayd Master<br />
William Maples was resolved to goe for England did in obsedience to<br />
his Command sett sayle for England and arrived safe at Bristoll<br />
there, not being able to reach Plymouth whether hee and they endeavoured to<br />
have gone the premisses hee deposeth being one of the Company of and aboard<br />
the ''Thomas and Lucie'' and an eye and eare witnes of them when they soe happened<br />
and further saving his subsequent depositions hee cannot depose/ subsequent depositions hee cannot depose/ +
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