| First transcribed
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25 December 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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213 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 25/12/2013 +
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| Transcription
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To the first article of the sayd allegatio … To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee this deponent was Mate of the<br />
arlate shipp ''Catherine'' the voyage in question and knoweth that the arlate david young was<br />
and went master of her and had the care and charge of her as master that voyage And saith<br />
that in the sayd voyage the sayd younge did within the moneth and tyme arlate remayne<br />
with the sayd shipp in and neere Genoa and came thence to Vado a Port neere<br />
Genoa about the latter end of May or beginning of June last./
To the 2: 3 and 4th articles hee saith that in the moneth of June last there was at Vado<br />
put aboard the shipp ''Catherine'' by one Mr Angelo of Genoa twenty seaven butts of<br />
oyle (how man tonnes they centeyned or the rate agreed upon the freight hee knoweth not)<br />
to bee transported thense to London and there deivered to the arlate Bonnell or his Agents and the<br />
same oyles being laden the sayd shipp departed therewith and arrived safely at<br />
London with the sayd oyles in the moneth of August last, and there delivered them to the<br />
Agents of the sayd Bonnell who disposed thereof this hee deposeth of his<br />
owne sight and knowledge being Mate aboard the sayd shipp And further<br />
to those articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith that the freight of a tonne of<br />
oyle from Vado to London is usually when at the lowest rates three pound sand some tymes three pounds tenn shillings<br />
sterling and hee this deponent hath knowne such rates<br />
paid for freight of a tonne of oyle to London./
To the 5th and 6th articles hee saith that for that hee helped both to stowe<br />
and to unlade the sayd oyles hee hee (sic) knoweth that they were well stowed bedded and<br />
Coyned according to the Custome of the sea and that whatever leakeage happened<br />
was by the insufficiencie of the Caske which as appeared by them were made of<br />
greene unseasoned wood and thereby shranke when they came to be dry stowed<br />
upon the Orlopp deck with only a little loose hempe and some few boxes or chests of<br />
lemmons over them, and not through any want of good stowage or default of<br />
the Master and Company of the ''Catherine'' or of the sayd shipp And the stowage of the<br />
sayd oyle being surveyed at debtford before the delivery thereof by two able Seamen<br />
Masters of Shipps they did upon view thereof declare before this deponent and<br />
others of the sayd shipps company that the sayd twenty seaven butts of oyle were<br />
very well and sufficiently stowed and that what dammage was happened unto<br />
them was occasioned by the insufficiencie and badnesse of the Caske and<br />
by noe other meanes And further saving heis subsequent deposition hee<br />
cannot depose/
To the 7th that the sayd shipp and oyles in her being arrived at London<br />
the arlate John Collins a Cooper by order (as hee sayd) from the sayd<br />
Bonnell came aboard the sayd shipp to view the Caske wherein the sayd Oyles<br />
were and to see in what condition they were And upon view of them the sayd<br />
Cooper did finde them to be very leakie yet did before this deponent and his<br />
precontest William Smith and others acknowledge that the caske was well stowed<br />
and that the cause of their leakinesse was meerely in the Caske for that they<br />
were greene and by that meanes had shrunke and desyred this depinent<br />
and the rest of the company to put the Butts aboard lighters which came<br />
to receave them and told them that hee would give and did accordingly<br />
give a noate under his hand expressing that the sayd Butts were<br />
well stowed and that the cause of their leakinesse was only the baddnesse<br />
of the Caske or to that effect And this deponent remembreth that upon the<br />
sayd Coopers view of them panns and basons were put under the heads of such<br />
of the butts as could bee come at to receave the oyle which leaked from them<br />
which pannes and basons the next morning when the Cooper came againe neere<br />
filledooper came againe neere<br />
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