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sayd two mariners replyed as aforesayd tha … sayd two mariners replyed as aforesayd that the same happened by reason<br />
the pump was choaked by the meanes aforesayd And further to those articles<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 5th hee saith that the fifteene Chests of sugar aforesayd or the most of them<br />
were stowed abaft the mast and all of them in the ground tyre, and this deponent observed<br />
that they that lay neerest the pumpe by the Mast were most damnified, soe that<br />
it was evident that the dammage which happened to them came by the water that<br />
was in the sayd shipp, which as the sayd seamen sayd could not be pumped<br />
out by reason the pumpe was choaked in manner aforesayd And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 6th article hee saith that hee did observe that the Covers of all the<br />
fifteene chests were drye, but that divers of them were wett five or sixe<br />
Inches deepe toward the bottome, soe that the dammage happened only<br />
in the bottoms of them by reason of the water aforesayd And saith that<br />
hee this deponent beleeveth that all the rest of the sayd shipps<br />
ladeing, which lay above the sugar in question were dry and well<br />
Conditioned<br />
for that hee knew divers of their Owners and heard none of them complayne of any damage<br />
And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 7th article hee saith that most of the goods aboard the sayd shipp<br />
were unladen before this deponent came aboard to view the stowage of the<br />
sugar in question, and well remembreth that when hee soe came and saw<br />
them they stood wett as aforesayd, And further hee cannot depose./
To the 8th hee cannot depose saving hee saith hee hath heard<br />
some who were imployed to view the sayd fifteene chests of sugar after<br />
they were brought ashoare, saye, that the sayd dammages happened to<br />
the sayd sugars would and did in their Judgment amounte to five pounds<br />
a chest one with an other./
To the 9th hee saith hee this deponent did by order of the sayd Bence<br />
three severall dates require the arlate Joseph Careswell to view<br />
or gett and send some freind of his to view and estimate the dammage<br />
happened to the sugars in question, and told him that they lay at<br />
Chesters Key, and that the sayd Bence or such as hee the sayd Careswell<br />
should appoint to the purpose aforesayd, but the sayd Careswell made slight<br />
thereof, and the sayd Careswell neglecting to come, this deponent by order<br />
of the sayd Bence went to him the sayd Careswell the 5th tyme, and told<br />
him that if hee the sayd Careswell would neither come him selfe nor appoint<br />
some other person in his behalfe to view the sayd dammage, the sayd Mr<br />
Bence would imploy somebody to take view thereof without him, whereupon<br />
the sayd Careswell came to Chesters Key and brought a man with him whose name hee knoweth not to view the sayd sugars and those that the sayd Bence<br />
imployed thereabout being viewing of them, the sayd Careswell and the man hee soe brought after<br />
a little stay went away and seemed to slight the matter, And<br />
hee this deponent knoweth that the sayd sugars were kept at Chesters Key in a warehouse<br />
above a weeke at the charge of the sayd Bence in expectation of the sayd<br />
Careswells coming to view them And further hee cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith for that hee is noe seaman hee cannot depose thereto/e is noe seaman hee cannot depose thereto/ +
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