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merchants acquainted therewith, and furthe … merchants acquainted therewith, and further that they would put the<br />
wine into the same pipe wherein they had drawne it, which this deponent<br />
willed them to doe, whereupon the Gunner tooke the runlet and carried<br />
it into the hold, and this deponent going along with him, sawe him put the<br />
said wine out of the Runlet into a pipe marked '''R. B.''' which lay neere the<br />
said false scuttle and wanted much wine, out of which hee confessed<br />
the same to have bin drawne. And saith the said Carter called severall times<br />
to the masters mate to make the said scuttle fast, but hee being in badds<br />
would not rise, nor did fasten the same. And otherwise hee cannot depose
To the seaventh hee saith hee heard some of the shipps company say that<br />
they had sold a greate quantitie of wines in the west countrey that<br />
came the said voyage in the said shipp.
To the 8. and 9 hee saith that in case of storme if any had befallen the<br />
said shipp the said voyage, the caske would in probabilitie have bin some of<br />
them crushed or broken, which soe farr as hee could see, had not happened<br />
to any of the caske aboard. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the tenth hee saith there were wines that came that voyage hense<br />
in the same shipp, sold for some for 35li other{s} for 36li per pipe;
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was not the voyage in question in the s{aid}<br />
shipp, but only went to watch aboard as aforesaid.
To the second hee saith hee heard the shipps company say that they<br />
were not greate stormes the said voyage, And otherwise hee cannot answer,
To the third hee conceiveth the wine that wa{s} in the said runlet was<br />
worth 6s per gallon at least, and otherwise hee cannot answer, saving<br />
hee did not belong to the shipp.
William Ward [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said allegation.
'''Rp. 3'''
'''Richard Brian''' of the parish of Saint Mary at hill london<br />
Wine Cooper, aged 30 yeeres or thereabouts sworne<br />
and exámined.
To the second and third árticles hee saith and deposeth that after the<br />
arival of the shipp ''Samuel'' arlate from the voyage in question to this<br />
port, this deponent being Cooper to one of the Merchants went at<br />
his instance aboard to looke to the condition of his wines, namely<br />
mr Bakers wines, and found that eight pipes of his wines<br />
lying in the upper teare were quite drawne out and for and, and<br />
halfe another traversed or turned over, and was drawne or run halfe<br />
out, and halfe the wine thereof wanting. And saith the said eight<br />
pipes that were soe drawne out and run or lost therein, and the<br />
said other pipe that was halfe out, very firme, tight and good<br />
caskes, and had wine of their stews or char[?ni]es broken cracked or hurt<br />
that this deponent could perceive, but as good caske as they were<br />
at first putting in, which hee knoweth being a wine Cooper and<br />
well experienced in the condition of wines and caske.
To the fourth hee saith the said caskes were soe ill stowed in the<br />
said shipp that they had neither bedds nor coines, but were all loose<br />
loose when this deponent came to see and take notice of them, and saith<br />
thatnotice of them, and saith<br />
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