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To the fifth hee answereth negatively for … To the fifth hee answereth negatively for that at such tymes as hee this deponent came<br />
to lade the sayd Gilberts part of the sayd salt which was three or 4 tymes<br />
the Commissioners wayters and divers of the shipp ''Brandarys'' company<br />
were on shoare and would not come aboard for two or three howers togeather<br />
to make delivery of the sayd salt, in soe much that this deponent hath bin faine<br />
some tymes to give them money to buy drinke with and pay for their<br />
passage aboard before hee could get them to goe aboard./
To the 6th saving his foregoeing depositions hee cannot answere/
To the 7th hee saith hee knoweth not what day of the moneth the sayd Gilbert<br />
paid the first payment for his sayd salt but saith as hee remembreth it was<br />
in September last soone after the same was bought and the second payment was<br />
made after the sayd salt was delivered but what day hee knoweth not<br />
and further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/
Repeated before doctor Clarke/
Richard Gilbert [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The third day of May <u>.1655:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Andrewes and Clutterbrooke against haselgraves}<br />
Budd. Suckley}
Examined upon an allegation<br />
exhibited and admitted on the behalfe<br />
of the said haselgrave./:-
'''Rp. jus./:-'''
'''George Pattison''' of Ratcliffe in the parish of<br />
Stepney and Countie of Middlesex Mariner<br />
aged 37. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That hee<br />
this deponent was and went Masters Mate in and aboard the Vessell the<br />
''Levant friggat'' arlate the Voiage in Controversie, and thereby<br />
well knoweth That about thirty baggs of pepper were laden in and<br />
aboard the said shipp the ''Levant frigatt'', whereof severall baggs during the<br />
time the said shipp was in her Course from the River of Thames for<br />
Allecant proved to be very rotten and insufficient insomuch that<br />
they burst and the pepper laden therein rann out into the said shipps<br />
bottome and into the pumpe well of the said shipp, so that the pumpe<br />
at the time of her imployment brought up much pepper, which<br />
Captaine hasilgrave this deponent and Companie perceiving did<br />
cause bread basketts and ballast basketts to be sett under the pumpe<br />
for the preservation of the said loose pepper so pumped upp, which<br />
they dryed upon the decks, and putt it into sewerall of the said broaken<br />
baggs, and such their pumping of the said pepper continued for sewerall<br />
daies, but how manie this deponent remembreth not, And saith the said<br />
shipp was a very strong well conditioned and tight shipp, so that the<br />
goods laden aboard her could not receive any dammage by [?XXX XXXX]<br />
(which dammage by [?XXX XXXX]<br />
(which +
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