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shipp did not nor was capable to containe … shipp did not nor was capable to containe 240 tonnes of ffish by at<br />
least 30 tonnes as aforesaid, alr nescit.
Ad quartam deponit that there was stowed betweene the said shipps decks<br />
the voyage in question from Newfound land to Saint Lucar not above the<br />
quantitie of 130 kintalls of fish or thereabouts, and the same<br />
did not make or containe above 6 tonnes and a halfe, and all<br />
the rest of the said shipps lading of ffish hee saith was<br />
as well and sufficiently stowed as it was possible to be, which<br />
hee knoweth being one of the said shipps company the said voyage and<br />
helping to stowe the same. alr nescit.
Ad 5 deponit that one of the beames betwixt the deckes of the said<br />
shipp was soe rotten and insufficient that it was broken while<br />
only the companies chests and bedds were thereupon, and before<br />
any fish was stowed upon the same. Reddens raconem ut supra<br />
alr nescit.
Ad 6 deponit that the arlate Wiltshire the voyage in question went<br />
alonge in the said shipp as masters mate and received wages for that<br />
place, by which hee was to looke to and have a care of the stowage<br />
of the goods on board her, alr nescit.
Ad 7 deponit that hee did not in all the said voyage heare the said<br />
Wiltshire finde fault with or contradict the stowage of the said goods<br />
alr nescit.
Ad 8 deponit that the ballast in the said shipp the ''Jonas'' the voyage<br />
in question was laded and stowed in the most usuall and convenient<br />
place where ballast useth to be stowed, and the said shipp in her homewards<br />
voyage did not carry above 11 tonnes of ballast at the most,<br />
whereas a shipp of the burthen of 140 [Editor: This is a manuscript error for 240 tons] tonnes (as the said shipp the<br />
''Jonas'' is pretended to be) doth usually carry 30 or 40 tonnes of<br />
ballast of this deponents knowledge reddens racionem scientia sua<br />
ut supra, alr nescit.
Ad 9 deponit that the said Piles and company could not have removed<br />
the two gunns arlate (if they had endeavoured the same) from abaft<br />
and brought them forwards, or have put the two other guns arlate which<br />
were before the bulke head into the gunroome; for the stowage of<br />
their goods quite hindered the same, neither (in case the same could<br />
have bin donne) would it have advantaged the stowage of goods<br />
at all, nor have made roome for the stowage of one but more than<br />
there was, and in case they had bin removed hey must have laine<br />
useles though the shipp had mett with an enemye, by reason that<br />
there were goods stowed against the other port holes that had noe<br />
guns to them, alr nescit.
Ad 10 deponit that this deponent<br />
hath well knowne the arlate Miles Piles for all the time of his<br />
this deponents rememembrance which hath bin for 18 yeares last past<br />
and upwards, for all which time hee hath taken the care and charge<br />
of shipps as master thereof, and for an able and experienced seaman<br />
hee hath for all the said time bin commonly accompted, and this deponent<br />
(whoe hath used to goe to sea theise twelve yeares last past)<br />
iudgeth and esteemeth him the said Piles to be as able and skilfull<br />
a seaman for all parts, as any in England. Et alr nescit.
Ad 11 deponit that the said ffish the voyage in question could not be<br />
stowedn question could not be<br />
stowed +
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