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to Saint Johnstons aforesayd and there del … to Saint Johnstons aforesayd and there delivered to the Agents of this<br />
Commonwealth for the supply and use of their souldiers. all which<br />
this deponent knoweth being one of the sayd shippes Company and<br />
assisting att the receyving and stowing aboard the sayd bedds<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose referring himselfe to the Acts of this Court
To the third article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that about the same<br />
tyme or not long after there were likewise laden aboard the sayd<br />
shipp for mr fflints accompt and others of this citty severall fatts<br />
Chests boxes and ffardalls to be carryed to Scotland and there<br />
delivered, the particulars of which goods or kinds of them or names of<br />
the partyes to whom the same doe belong otherwise than as aforesayd hee<br />
cannot depose. And saith he assisted at the stowing of the sayd<br />
boxes chests and ffardells ad further cannot depose.
To the fourth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that after the lading<br />
of the sayd bedds and goods aforesayd videlicet about three weekes now<br />
past the sayd shipp ''Abraham '' being ready to sett sayle and proceed<br />
upon her sayd voyage was in the River of Thames within the flowing<br />
and ebbing of the sea of the sight of this deponent bilged upon an<br />
anchor then lyeing in the sayd River without any buoy to it, and<br />
by the meanes thereof the sayd shipp and her lading sanke in the<br />
sayd River and became much spoyled and damnifyed. And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose.
To the fifth and sixth articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that<br />
the sayd shipp and her lading being bilged as aforesayd lay under<br />
water three dayes and upward before she could be weighed, And saith<br />
the sayd beds were ill wett and fowled with mud and dirt and thereby<br />
much damnifyed, and the hull of the sayd shipp was fowly broken, and<br />
two of her hawzers broken, and much cordage broken and lost, and<br />
a Capsten lost, and the sayles much damnifyed and great charges<br />
and expenses were made in providing of Lighters for unlading<br />
the sayd bedds and goods and in weighing the sayd shipp and her<br />
lading and provideing warehowses and men to preserve and looke<br />
to the sayd goods and in repairing and amending the sayd shipp<br />
and her furniture; but how much the sayd dammages in the whole<br />
or the dammage done and sustained in any of the particulars above<br />
specifyed did or doth amount unto he is not able to sett forth, not<br />
having seene any valuation made, or the moneyes for repaire of<br />
the same expended and disbursed; howbeit he saith the sayd<br />
dammages did really and truly happen of his certaine knowledge<br />
and sight. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the seventh article of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd goods belonging<br />
to Mr fflint and others as aforesayd were wett and receyved some dammage<br />
by the bilging of the sayd shipp, but to what value not knoweing what<br />
goods they were in kind, not the quality of them he knoweth not and otherwise<br />
cannot depose
To the eighth and ninth articles of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that all<br />
and singular the sayd dammages did happen by the [?bilging] of the shipp [?''Abraham'']<br />
as aforesayd, And saith that the Anchor whereon the shipp ''Abraham'' was<br />
bilged of the sight of this deponent did belong to and ws the Anchor<br />
of the sayd shipp the ''Supply'' whereof the arlate Mr Oakes was and is<br />
in [?parte]r Oakes was and is<br />
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