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therefore is fully convinced in conscience … therefore is fully convinced in conscience that the sayd Cowse<br />
by the sayd Keene his delivery of the sayd goods Schedulate at Saint<br />
Lucar and not bringing them to Palma (according as by bill of<br />
ladeing it appeared to this deponent hee was bound to doe) hath suffered<br />
great losse and dammage especially in the Aurellas<br />
Cheynies and ffloramides Schedulate being (in all forty peeces of Norwich<br />
stuffs) which by reason they could not bee sold at Saint Lucars were<br />
afterwards transported for Palma, and the sayd Cowse his Agents<br />
being forced to pay three, (if not fower) severall Customes for the<br />
sayd stuffes, beside severall other charges, (this deponent him selfe<br />
paying one of the sayd Customes in the Island of Palma and Mr<br />
John Lasby an other of Cowse his Correspondents an other Customes<br />
for the sayd stuffs in the Island of Teneriff, beside the customes paid<br />
at Saint Lucar for them) and hee knoweth that the sayd Cowse by the sayd<br />
stuffes being landed at Saint Lucar and afterwards of necessitie being transported<br />
to Palma did suffer other losse and dammage alsoe for that after this<br />
deponent had sold a part of them at Palma hee this deponent by<br />
reason of the Imbargo upon Englishmens estates occasioned by<br />
the warrs betwixt England and Spaine (which broke out before hee this<br />
deponent could dispose of the sayd stuffes) could never recover any thing<br />
for them of those hee had sold them to, soe that the<br />
sayd Cowse was of this deponents knowledge damnified in the<br />
sale of the sayd stuffes only, at the least fifty pounds sterling by<br />
the meanes aforesayd but what his further dammage was hee<br />
this deponent cannot estimate And further to this article hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 8th article hee saith that this deponent being the tyme arlate the<br />
Correspondent of the sayd James Cowse at Santa Cruse and<br />
having also in the behalfe of his this deponents father Elias Watson a third part of the Tonnage taken by the sayd Cowse in the shipp<br />
the ''John and Elizabeth'' aforesayd (where of the sayd Keene was Master) for<br />
the voyage in question, the sayd Cowse did by letters of advice signifie to this<br />
deponent that hee the sayd Cowse had taken tonnage for threescore tonnes<br />
in the sayd shipp, videlicet forty tonnes for him selfe the sayd Cowse, and twenty<br />
tonnes for the sayd Elias Watson senior this deponents father, and gave<br />
order to this deponent by the sayd letters to provide one hundred and<br />
twenty pipes of wine to be laden from Palma to England on the sayd<br />
vessell in the tonnage taken in her as aforesayd, to come thense for the Port of<br />
London for Accompt of him the sayd James Cowse, and the sayd Elias<br />
Watson senior, (that is to saye) eighty pipes for Accompt of the sayd<br />
James Cowse and forty pipes for Account of the sayd Elias Watson<br />
senior, which wines this deponent in expectation of the comming of the<br />
sayd shipp to the Island of Palma did accordingly provide for the<br />
severall Accompts aforesayd, and would have laden aboard if shee<br />
had come thither, but the sayd shipp not comming thither this deponent<br />
was forced /after hee had kept the sayd wines five moneths and upwards)<br />
by reason of the sayd Keenes not coming to take them in and lade them and noe other<br />
oportunitiethem and noe other<br />
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