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together, to Consult, about the savegard o … together, to Consult, about the savegard of the said ship<br />
and their owne lives, and it was agreed by and amongst<br />
them that the sheete Cable and Anchor, and One Hawser<br />
Belonging to the said ship, should be shipped which<br />
accordingly Done, and the same were utterly lost at<br />
sea, And saith that hee verily beleeveth that if they had<br />
not soe done the said ship and Lading would have [?been GUTTER]<br />
driven upon an Island which was nere the place where<br />
the said ship then was, and shee her said Lading<br />
together with her Companyes lives thereby have been utterly<br />
lost, and saith that the Cable two Anchors and two<br />
Hawsers soe lost as aforesaid were then well worth<br />
the summe of two hundred and fifty pounds sterling<br />
and upwards, and the said Looker was forced to<br />
buy others in their roomes in East India and saith that hee paid<br />
there for a Cable about 160 pounds and saith that hee doth<br />
not knowe howe much the said Looker paid for<br />
the two Anchors and two Hausers which hee there bought<br />
but beleeveth that they cost about one hundred and<br />
Tenne pounds Sterling And saith that hee verily beleeveth<br />
that at the time when the said Cable Anchor and<br />
Hawser was shipped as aforesaid the ffreighters<br />
onboard the said ship Goods, wares, Merchandizes<br />
and moneyes, to the Vallue of Tenne Thousand<br />
pounds sterling The premisses hee deposeth being<br />
of the said ship, and being onboard her when the said<br />
Storme happend and when the said Cable Anchor and<br />
hawsers were shipped and lost as aforesaid and further cannot depose
To the 9th hee saith that after the said storme the said ship<br />
sailed neere Mucco in China, and a while after her<br />
arrivall there there happened a Difference betweene<br />
Mr. Carter one of the freighters of the said ship, and<br />
Supracargo of her, and the Inhabitants of Mucco<br />
And the said Carter sending the said Boate on shore<br />
with some of the said men therein presently after the<br />
Difference happened, the said Inhabitants of Mucco<br />
seized the said Boate, and men, and never made<br />
restitution, And saith that the said Boate at the time of<br />
the said seizure together with the saile mast and [xxxx]<br />
belonging thereunto was worth the summ of Ten pounds<br />
in this Deponents Estimation, and further cannot depose
To his 10th and 11th hee saith that hee hath used the sea<br />
about twenty yeeres last and<br />
hath made two voyages to the East Indias and thereby Knoweth<br />
it is the use and Custome amongst Merchants and the use and Custome amongst Merchants and +
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