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On the same day.
'''Rp 2.'''
'''Adrian f … On the same day.
'''Rp 2.'''
'''Adrian ffranke''' of horseydowne in the County<br />
of Surry Mariner, aged about 40ty yeares<br />
a wittnes produced sworne and examined he<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth./
To the fourth article of the sayd allegation he deposeth<br />
and saith that he the deponent was One of the Company of the arlate<br />
shipp the ''Golden ffortune'' in the voyage arlate, which<br />
he very well knoweth ánd thereby became acquainted with<br />
the arlate James Read and Morgan Jones, which<br />
said Morgan Jones did take upon him or undertake the<br />
her Mastershipp of the sayd shipp the ''Golden ffortune''<br />
though he was (in this deponents iudgment) much unworthy<br />
and incapable therof, for that he did not seeme or<br />
appeare to this deponent to be any Seaman at all,<br />
insomuch that by his ignorance he was about eight days<br />
to his best remembrance) in finding out the roade of<br />
Palma from Teneriffe which might have bin done in (about) 24 houres And<br />
further he cannot depose./
To the fifth he deposeth that after the departure of the<br />
sayd shipp from Palma, she being bound for the<br />
Barbadoes, the sayd Jones the Master of her did by<br />
his meer ignorance sayle soe much beyond the sayd<br />
Illand of Barbados that there were fourteene days<br />
spent over and above what were needfull in the<br />
gaining of the Barbadoes from Palma aforesayd<br />
And further he cannot depose./
To the sixth he deposeth that of his certaine knowledge<br />
there were fower bailes of goods, th'one of fustian and<br />
the other three of linnen Laden on board the sayd shipp<br />
to be transported for the accompt of the arlate Edmund<br />
and James Cowes unto the Canaryes, and that the sayd<br />
fower bayles were by the order of the sayd Jones the Master<br />
stowed under the scuttle of the sayd shipp, and hee<br />
saith that the scuttle of a shipp is a very bad, and therfor<br />
an unusual place for the stowing of such goods as<br />
linnen, and that ther in he the sayd Jones did show<br />
himselfe not good Seaman, nor fitting to be a Master or<br />
Commander of a shipp, and he saith that by the meanes<br />
of the sayd goods being stowed in that place, they received<br />
wett and were therby much dammaged, The premisses<br />
he deposeth being one of the company of the sayd shipp at the<br />
time and times predeposed of at Teneriffe, Palma and<br />
the Barbadoes And further he cannot depose/
To the seaventh article he deposeth and saith that there<br />
were at Palma arlate by the factors of the arlate<br />
Cowse there, lading aboard the sayd shipp seaventy<br />
seaven pipes of wine to be delivered at the Barbadoes<br />
fordelivered at the Barbadoes<br />
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