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To the 4th hee saith fower servants shippe … To the 4th hee saith fower servants shipped for Accompt of the<br />
arlate Cooper did at Gravesend make an escape out of the shipp the<br />
''Edward and John'', which servants were never taken charge of by any of the<br />
shipps company that this deponent ever heard of, they being persons that<br />
had bin released out of Bridewell, and noe order given to restraine them<br />
of their liberty in the shipp that ever this deponent heard of, And hee<br />
saith the Captaine being absent when they escaped was made acquainted<br />
therewith when hee came on board, and the shipps company<br />
telling him that they doubted least hee should make them pay for the<br />
sayd servants escape, the sayd Captaine Tolty openly before his<br />
Mates huggere and Turpin and this deponent and divers others<br />
of the shipps company and some of their wives then alsoe on board,<br />
did promise that the shipps company should not bee troubled or<br />
questioned touching their escape, for hee would satisfie their<br />
Master with other passengers in the shipp who had noe Master,<br />
and spake to this deponent and desyred him to lett him have one of his<br />
this deponents servants then on board to make to helpe to make up<br />
their number, And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth that two of the Cables<br />
belonging to the sayd shipp were at her being at the Barbadoes soe<br />
rotten, that though both of them were fasened to one Anchor the<br />
better to make them hold, yet upon weighing up of the Anchor<br />
they both brake, and while they were in breakeing one of the shipps<br />
Company adventured very deep into the water to have saved the<br />
Anchor but could not, This hee knoweth being one that helped to weigh<br />
the sayd Anchor, and knoweth all possible dilligence was used by<br />
the sayd shipps company to preserve the same but the same was<br />
lost meerely by the rottennesse of the sayd Cables, And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 6th hee saith hee knoweth that the sayd shipp the ''Edward and''<br />
''John'' with her homeward ladeing being come to Greenwich articulate,<br />
and a lighter lying ready by her side to bee laden with goods<br />
from on board her, the sayd Totty Commanded the Company to<br />
lade her with goods, and they in obedience to his Command did lade<br />
divers goods into her, and at length romageing among the goods<br />
on shipp board, found some Caskes of sugar which had receaved<br />
dammage by wett by reason whereof a great part of it was consumed<br />
whereupon the Mates came and told the sayd Tottie thereof and in<br />
behalfe of them selves and the shippes company desyred that before<br />
any more ladeing were delivered from on board the shipp shee<br />
and her ladeing might bee surveyed by the Trinity Masters or whome the Trinity<br />
Masters should appointe that it might bee knowne by what meanes<br />
the dammage came, and who was to beare it, or to that effect whereto<br />
the or to that effect whereto<br />
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