| Transcription
|
''Exeter Merchant'' did fall fowle of the … ''Exeter Merchant'' did fall fowle of the sayd ''Pilgrim''<br />
and brake the Ca[?ble GUTTER]<br />
and bolspritt and head of the ''Pilgrim'', and drave her a ground by meanes<br />
whereof the sayd vessell the ''Pilgrim'' being heavie laden was much hurt and<br />
damnified and wrunge, and divers of the casks where in the wines<br />
and oyles belonging to the sayd Bathurst Baker and Clarke were, by vertue<br />
of the sayd blowe receaved by the ''Exeter Merchant'' falling fowle of<br />
the ''Pilgrim'' and her driveing her soe on ground (as this deponent beleeveth) became leakie<br />
and were soe bruised and crushed that some of them thereby leaked out<br />
all or the most part of the wine and oyle that was in them, And<br />
hee well knoweth that the Company of the ''Pilgrim'' makeing use<br />
presently after of their pumpe to cleere their shipp of water<br />
pumped up great store of oyles and wynes, which hee beleeveth<br />
was occasioned by the sayd ''Exeter Merchants'' soe falling fowle<br />
and running the ''Pilgrim'' aground for that hee knoweth, the sayd<br />
shipp ''Pilgrim'' was before not very leakie but reasonable and alsoe the sayd Casks wherein the sayd wines<br />
and oyles wa, were soe stanche and good before the sayd shipps being driven aground that<br />
during the whole voyage there was very ;ittle<br />
oyle or wine pumped out at the pumpe of the ''Pilgrim'' And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 5th article hee saith That by reason of the sayd shipp the<br />
''Exeter Merchant'' her falling fowle of the ''Pilgrim'' and running her<br />
on ground as aforesayd the arlate Mr Bathurst suffered much<br />
dammage by the leakage of oyles some butts the oyles being halfe leaked out<br />
of them, and others the oyle quite leaked out of the, soe that hee could not<br />
loose less then the quantitie of sixe butts of oyle every butt whereof was in<br />
this deponents Judgment worth twenty pounds sterling, And hee saith that by the<br />
meanes aforesayd the arlate Richard Baker lost two butts of Spanish wine<br />
worth in this deponents Judgment nyne pounds sterling a butt, and hee saith<br />
there were two butts of oyle more leaked out but for that this deponent<br />
did not observe the markes of them hee knoweth not certainely to whome they<br />
belonged, The premisses hee deposeth being Cooper and Steward of the ''Pilgrim''<br />
as aforesayd, and seeing the sayd wines and oyles surveyed by the Masters<br />
of Trinity house And further hee cannot depose/
To the 6th hee saith that the ''Pilgrim'' did receive damage as is predeposed by<br />
the sayd ''Exeter Merchants'' breaking her boltspritt and head and running her<br />
a ground as aforesayd being heavie laden, and saith shee was put into the dock arlate<br />
and there repaired and amended, but what the repaires amounted to hee knoweth not<br />
And further hee cannot depose/lt;br />
And further hee cannot depose/ +
|
