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3rd May <u>1637</u>
Hough con … 3rd May <u>1637</u>
Hough con Tasker.}
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'''Alexander Howe''' de Horsey Downe in Comitatu Surria nauta aetats<br />
35 annorum aut ciciter testis in hac parte productus iuratus et<br />
examinatus. dicit quod Tasker partem producen per 7 annos aetapss<br />
aut circiter bene novit sed Hough partem con qua producit [?ut]<br />
non novit/
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... That about three yeares since he was one of the quarter masters<br />
of the arlate shipp the ''Little Neptune'' in a voyage made by her to New<br />
England and from thence to the Canaryes, and the butter Suffolke cheese<br />
part of the pease and all the oat meale laden abord the said shipp for her provision<br />
in that voyage were naughte and ill conditioned and nott fitt to be eaten by any<br />
men or to be caryed to sea in any shipp, reddens racieum scien sua<br />
he sayeth that the sayd butter was soe rancke, that theu could not eate it<br />
with bread or fish, unlesse it were fryed with some of the best of it which was in the middle of the casks and<br />
some of the sayd butter was soe badd that none of her companye or<br />
passengers could eate it, soe that they tallowed the masts with that which<br />
laye next the casks it beinge fitt for noe other use but to be used<br />
as tallowe, and the foresayd Suffolke chease was quite rotten and<br />
had in it many wett springs or places which stuncke very much<br />
and the rest of it was soe hard and drye that they could not eate it,<br />
but heaved a great part of it over bord, and that one barrell of the<br />
sayd pease was reasonable good, but the other barrell of pease was<br />
soe hard that they were boyled never soe longe they would continue soe<br />
hard that the company could scarce eat them, and all the oat meale was<br />
soe mustye that unlesse they had been forced to eat it of want of other<br />
provision they could not have eaten it, and that he hath heard the gunner<br />
of the sayd shipp often complayne in the sayd voyage that the<br />
powder abord the sayd shipp was very badd and was soe small and<br />
ould that it had very ltttle strength in it, and would not fire well<br />
nor give a good reporte, but would furr the ordenance very much<br />
Et alr nescit deponere./
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Et alr nescit deponere./
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