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27.o Februar. 1655.
Examined upon the say … 27.o Februar. 1655.
Examined upon the sayd Allegation
'''5.'''
'''Samuel Dun''' of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex Mariner late cheife<br />
masters mate and Steevador on board the shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure''<br />
Captaine Hughes Commander the voyage in question, aged 36 yeares or<br />
thereabouts a witnes produced sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth. videlicet
To the 1. and 2. Articles of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith, that the arlate shipp<br />
arrived the last tyme att Ciprus the voyage in question to take in her lading the<br />
first day of May 1652 and not before, and had then about one hundred baggs<br />
of cotton woolls on board her and also a four hundred and odd baggs of galls,<br />
And saith that after her such arrivall she receyved on board her about<br />
two hundred and five baggs of Ciprus woolls, which he beleiveth were<br />
all or most of them for the accompt of the freighters, and were all or most<br />
of them laden by the arlate Roger ffooke. And otherwse (not particularly<br />
remembring the number of baggs laden otherwise than as aforesayd, nor certainly<br />
knowing the particular aććompt for who the same were laden, this deponent<br />
attending principally to his owne office and imployment in the sayd shipp) he cannot<br />
depose, saving that there was a report on board as hee saith, that tenne<br />
baggs did belong to one Mr Rich./
To the third and fourth articles of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that the sayd<br />
shipp was of the burthen of about two hundred and eighty tonnes and had<br />
forty four men belonging to her the tyme aforesayd and noe more. And as<br />
for the Ciprus Woolls arlate, he saith, they are putt in very great baggs<br />
and are steeved with much difficulty after such tyme especially as any<br />
considerable number of them are laden. And he further saith that being<br />
steevador of the sayd shipp, and having undergone that office in other shipps<br />
he thereby knoweth, that forty four men in a shipp of the tonnage aforesayd<br />
having about 100 baggs of woolls and 400 odd baggs of galls on board<br />
before, cannot receyve and take on board and steeve above eight baggs<br />
of Ciprus woolls a day one day with another, And moreover saith that the<br />
Company of the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' the tyme arlate did attend diligently<br />
to their labour about twenty howres a day, and yet they did not receive and<br />
steeve above eight baggs a day one day with another, nor could they perfor=<br />
ming their worke as it ought to be done have so stowed above eight a day<br />
one day with another. All which he deposeth for that hee saw the said worke<br />
performed, and was steevador of the sayd shipp as hee hath predeposed. And otherwise he ćannot depose.
To the fifth and sixth articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith he well concei=<br />
veth that after the sayd shipps sayd last coming to Ciprus there was a great<br />
parcell of woolls in 170. or more baggs laden, and that the last of<br />
them were laden and steeved upon the two and twentyeth of May: 1652<br />
which being done this deponent caused all the steeving geare to be sent on<br />
shoare the next day; and the Company of the shipp fell to fitt their shipp for<br />
her voyage to London whence they intended to sayle assoone as their sayd<br />
shipp could be caulked and fitted which might have bene done in three<br />
or four dayes. And he saith that the sayd steeving geere being so carryed<br />
on shoare, the arlate Roger ffooke and Richard Chowne came to this deponent<br />
and acquainted him that they had two parcells more of woolls to be laden, and<br />
desired him to be carefull in the steeving of them, and prayed him earnestly<br />
to fetch the steeving Instruments agayne on board. And this<br />
deponent att such desire and by the order of the sayd ffooke and Chowne did<br />
fetch the sayd Instruments on board agayne, and they the sayd ffooke and Chowne<br />
senthe sayd ffooke and Chowne<br />
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