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the River she would have cost above two hu … the River she would have cost above two hundred pounds to have<br />
had her weighed up And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 14th hee saith hee sawe the Master of the shipp ''Imployment'' pay to<br />
certaine labourers for digging to make way for this deponent and another Carpenter<br />
to stopp the leake arlate predeposed of twenty shillings sterling, and sawe<br />
him alsoe pay to the other Carpenter who helped this deponent to stopp the sayd<br />
leake, for his paines abut the same three shillings sterling, And further<br />
hee cannot depose/
To the 15th hee saith hee well lnoweth that when the ''Imployment'' receaved<br />
the damage predeposed of shee was neere fully laden, hee well knowing<br />
shee had only delivered betweene 40 and 50 chaldron before the same happened<br />
And saith hee heard the Master of the ''Imployment'' before the dammage<br />
predeposed of happened say that hee had sold all his Coales then on board<br />
for twenty three pounds tenn shillings and had hyred men to deliver them<br />
out, and hee this deponent heard some of the men who were hyred to<br />
deliver them say that they were to have some of them 9 ''s'' a man and some of<br />
them tenn shillings a man and some more, And saith hee well knoweth<br />
that after the sayd damage happened the men who were hyred soe to<br />
unlade her by reason the Coales had receaved much wett and that by reason<br />
of water in the shipp they must stand in water to the middle to worke<br />
upon them did refuse to worke upon them unlesse they might have<br />
a great deale more then what they had before agreed for, but<br />
what the Master payd them hee knoweth not And further hee<br />
cannot depose/
To the 16th hee saith it is the Custome of Newcastle shipps to measure out<br />
their coales of shippboard and soe hath bin for these 20 yeares of this deponents<br />
knowledge, and as hee hath heard tyme out of mynde, And saith hee knoweth<br />
that by reason of the sayd dammage the master and Company of the<br />
''Imployment'' for the necessary lightning of the sayd shipp were forced<br />
to heave her ladeing into lighters out of the port holes of the shipp<br />
and carry them on shoare and there measure them, by which meanes<br />
and alsoe by reason of the wett the coales had receaved by the dammage aforesayd they were soe<br />
sadd and divers of them washed and wasted away that they<br />
could not choose but fall short in measure of what they would have<br />
done if the damage predeposed had not happened And further to this<br />
article hee cannot depose/
To the 17th hee saith that hee alsoe knoweth that a barrell and a<br />
halfe of powder aboard the ''Imployment'' and belonging to her Owners was by reason of the leake<br />
aforesayd utterly spoiled, And saith hee beleeveth the sayd barrell and<br />
halfeeth the sayd barrell and<br />
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