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specified if they had come to the Canaries … specified if they had come to the Canaries as was expected would<br />
have come to a good market and the quantity of such goods sayd so be laden on the sayd shipp would have produced a<br />
good quantity of wynes but how much he is not able to say.<br />
And this deponent upon his arrivall here found Canarie wynes [TEAR IN PAPER]<br />
high prized, att thirty three, thirty four, and some thirty [TEAR IN PAPER]<br />
seven pounds per pipe. And otherwise hee ćannot depose
To the seventeenth articles hee saith, he heard the sayd Stephen say<br />
that hee had about fifty pipes of wines to be laden on board the<br />
sayd shipp for the sayd Body over and besides what the lading of the<br />
sayd shipp would have produced if shee had arrived there; And<br />
saith the sayd fifty pipes as hee beleiveth were not nor are sent from<br />
England and the sayd Body is thereby like to be much damnifyed<br />
but to what value knoweth not.
To the eighteenth and nineteenth articles of the sayd Libell, This deponent<br />
saith that there were severall English shipps which came and<br />
arrived att the Canaries whilest this deponent was there and after<br />
the Embargo layd upon English shipps and goods, which (the sayd<br />
Embargo notwithstanding) were there laden and returned from<br />
thence for England without danger or dammage, upon three of<br />
which shipps he this deponent did lade severall quantities of<br />
goods after such embargoe; And hee knoweth that the sayd<br />
Stephens did expect the ''Little Mary'' as aforesayd , and had provided<br />
dutch dispatches and writings for her in case she had come. which<br />
this deponent saw to be in readines. And for theis reasons he<br />
saith he knoweth and is well assured that in ase the sayd shipp<br />
''Little Mary'' had arrived there in the monethes of October, November<br />
or December <u>1655</u>. Last past she might have taken in her<br />
lading of wynes and returned for England in safety the<br />
sayd Embargo notwithstanding) as well as other English shipps<br />
did twelve whereof att the least were there laden after the sayd Embargo whilst this deponent was the{re} And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 20th. hee saith he cannot depose.
To the 21th. article he saith the sayd fferdinando Body is much<br />
damnifyed as he beleiveth for that the sayd shipp ''Little Mary''<br />
did not performe her designed voyage, but howmuch knoweth not.<br />
And otherwise cannot depose.
To the 22. 23. and 24th articles he referrs himselfe to the Acts of this<br />
Court and to the law, and to his precedent depositions which hee<br />
saith are true. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the Crosse=Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the 1. Interrogatory hee saith that he comes to be a witnes att the Request of the<br />
Plaintiff who hearing of this Rendents late comeing from the canaries<br />
had discourse with him about this matter, And this Rendent told him<br />
he could depose to the effect abovesayd. And otherwise negatively.ffect abovesayd. And otherwise negatively. +
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