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To the 6th hee saith that formerly, namely … To the 6th hee saith that formerly, namely [?thirtee] yeeres since small shipps<br />
in the streights have used to stay a weeke or tenn dayes for company but of late times<br />
hee never knew any stay, unlesse nowe and then upon the coast of Spaine,<br />
but this deponent never did nor durst stay without his principalls order.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the 7th hee saith that there is noe way from Cyprus for England for a shipp<br />
but to come through the Streights mouth, that ever this deponent heard<br />
of or beleeveth, and hee beleeveth that the ''Thomas Bonadventure''<br />
came that way having noe other way to come. And commonly<br />
it happens that a shipp cannot keepe a direct course from Salina to that<br />
Streights mouth, but must saile sometimes one way and sometimes another<br />
according as the winde is, and the winde taking them right contrary<br />
they may tack sometimes seaven leagues or more on one board and after as many<br />
on the other and may traverse to and fro continually till the winde comes<br />
fare for {the} most advantage of the shipps tending towards her desired port,<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 8th hee saith that hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition<br />
and otherwise cannot answer, saving that Corsica is out of the way as<br />
aforesaid.
To the 9th hee saith that according to the windes and seasons<br />
this deponent and others use to goe for their advantage to the Barbary shore<br />
from the Christian shoare, but noe shipp can saile in a direct line<br />
from Salina roade to the Streights mouth the land being in the way.<br />
And some places of the Christian shoare are neerer and some further off<br />
the Barbary shoare. And otherwise saving as aforesaid hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the tenth hee saith that a master of a shipp is to observe his Commission<br />
and order of his principalls, otherwise hee looses his provison, and<br />
otherwise hee saith hee cannot answer, not being acquainted with<br />
proteste in the matter interrogated.
To the eleaventh hee saith that still the factor must followe his<br />
principalls order who had rather sometimes that the shipp should come<br />
away halfe laden than stay, but tis true that many times the factor<br />
supplies his principalls emptie tonnage with other mens goods, wherein<br />
it is to be supposed hee hath their procedent order, which the master is not<br />
to dispute, unlesse hee have particular order from the imployers for his<br />
conduct in the voyage- And otherwise hee cannot answer
To the twelveth hee saith then a shipp useth to stay to fitt her steeving<br />
ge[?a]re, and often the same breakes or otherwise miscarriesin the worke<br />
and delayes [the] time, as is interrogated, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 13th hee saith hee conceiveth that if a master receives the goods<br />
interrogated by weight, hee must deliver them by weight, and this deponent<br />
never tooke in or delivered out Cottons or gauls by weight, but by marke<br />
and number, howbeit they are usually weighed a shore before their coming<br />
aboard. And otherwise hee cannot answere saving as aforesaid, and saving<br />
hee never knew galls come rotten from Aleppo, and saving the factor marine<br />
useth to give or send aboard a factorie of the weight
To the 14th hee saith the baggs of cottons and gaulls especially<br />
cottons oftentimes break and [?teare] in steeving and stowing, and in unlading,<br />
and the gaulls suffer some small wast in shooting, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer.
To the 15th hee saith hee hath bin at Porte fferranse, where hee saith there<br />
is a Lazaretto, whereinto such goods are used to be put that are landed<br />
there, and saith the same is a safe and [?cenre] place to putt goods into,<br />
but this deponent never sawe any goods there weighed. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
Toherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
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