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and further saith that fourtie foure men m … and further saith that fourtie foure men making workeing sixteene howers<br />
in twenty foure houres daily for twelve dayes may lay<br />
and steeve within that time 160 bagges, and may within the said<br />
twelve dayes (winde and weather permitting) receive 50 baggs<br />
more aboard and steeve them afterwards, if there be soe much<br />
roome in the shipp as to lay and steeve 38 baggs more over and<br />
above 308 baggs of cotten woolls and 400 sacks of galls and<br />
there being left about 30 tonnes of emptie tonnage in the said<br />
shipp. All which hee knoweth having often received and steeved<br />
woolls aboard at Cyprus, and other places and bin present at the steeveing of<br />
greate quantities and assisted therein, and otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
Upon the rest hee is not exámined by discretion of the producent
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee cometh required by mr ffowke and Mr Chowne<br />
as to speake the truth in this businesse, wherein hee hath noe<br />
interest at all, nor will it be any either benefit or disadvantage<br />
therein which way soever the cause goeth.
To the second hee saith hee hath bin at Cyprus six times or<br />
more steeving of cottt cotton woolls, namely first in the<br />
''London'' of the burthen of 500 tonnes and upwards, and carrying<br />
550 sacks of wooll, and upwards, besides many other goods; secondly in the<br />
''Mary'' of the burthen of 400 tonnes, and carrying 370 sacks of<br />
wooll besides other goods, the third and fourth times in the<br />
''Imployment'' of the burthen of 360 tonnes. and carrying first<br />
340 sacks and the second time 300 sacks of wooll and much other<br />
goods. And hath bin often both there and at other places steeving of<br />
Cotton wolls. And saith the ''London'' had 3 decks and 75 men<br />
the ''Mary'' 3 decks and 52 men and boyes, and the ''Imployment'' 50<br />
men and two decks, and that this deponent was last there at Cyprus in<br />
the yeere 1650 or 1651, and saith that Cyprus baggs are<br />
of greater bulk then other baggs.
To the third hee saith that this deponent hath made thrice made<br />
Cyprus his last port for of lading homewards, and came once<br />
(upon occasion to put a Consell on shoare) from Cyprus to<br />
Zant, and saith it is not usuall for shipps bound for from Cyprus<br />
for London to touch at Zant, unlesse they leave their provisions<br />
there outward bound, as in former times they used to doe, And<br />
otherwise hee referreth him selfe to his foregoing deposition.
To the fourth hee saith that hee knoweth the ''Thomas''<br />
''Bonadventure'' interrogate, which hee saith is of the burthen of 280<br />
tonnes or thereabouts, and hath two decks, and that a shipp<br />
of that burthen hee saith cannot well saile without fourtie five<br />
men, and otherwise hee referreth him selfe to his foregoing depostion<br />
wherein hee hath satisfied the rest of the contents of this Interrogatorie
To the fifth hee saith that hee cannot depose for then hee was not<br />
there at the time.
Towas not<br />
there at the time.
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