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which was at fower pounds a moneth, but sa … which was at fower pounds a moneth, but saith that the Master discharged this deponent<br />
notwithstanding hee were not comprized in that agreement to sett his hands thereto<br />
for the better keepeing of order and quietnes amongst the rest of the sayd shipps<br />
company upon which consideration and for noe other ende hee this deponent did at the<br />
Masters request subscribe the sayd agreement./
To the 4th negatively
To the 5th hee saith hee hath receaved tenn pounds of the wages due to him for<br />
the voyage in question and saith there is about eighteene pounds more due to<br />
him for the same which hee hath agreed with Batson aforesayd to receive in<br />
sugars at the Barbados./
To the 6th hee saith all the horses taken in at Norway (except one) did<br />
by the violence of stormy weather dye at Sea, and saith the sayd shipp by the<br />
sayd stormes was much torne and spoiled and when shee gott to Newcastle was not<br />
in a condition fitt to put to sea againe without repayreing, and saith shee lost<br />
her head, halfe her mayne sayle, and her mayne shroudes gave way, and the head<br />
of her mayne mast was crackt, and one of her boates lost, and receaved other<br />
damage in her rigging but the value of them hee knoweth not, and further to<br />
this Interrogatorie hee cannot answer otherwise than negatively, well knowing<br />
that she might at Newcastle have bin as well repayred and fitted to<br />
proceed on her voyage to the Barbados, as shee could bee at London/
To the last hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof before soe farr as<br />
hee can./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
William Jeffrey [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 21th of Aprill 1656.
Touching seven packs of}<br />
goods wanting in the ''hare in''}<br />
''the ffeild''.}<br />
'''Suckley} dt.'''<br />
Boone }
'''Rp. j.'''
'''John Kien''' of Middleborow Mariner, master of the<br />
shipp the ''hare in the ffeild'', aged 43 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne in the high Court of the Admiraltie of<br />
England as in by the acts thereof is to be [?seene]<br />
and exámined upon certaine Interrogatories saith and<br />
deposeth by vertue of his oath.
To the first and second and third Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth<br />
that on or about the fifth of May 1655 last past (New Stile)<br />
there were in the Roade of haver de Grace laden aboard the said the<br />
''hare in the ffeild'' of Middleborough (whereof this deponent<br />
then was and still is master) seaven small packs of merchandize numbred 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.<br />
and marked as in the margent, by Jaques d'Acost[?e] to be<br />
transported to the barr of Cadiz in Spaine, and to be delivered<br />
there to [?Maurel] da Castro or in his absense to Don Juan da<br />
Scotty Martines, all which hee knoweth because hee this deponent<br />
master of the said shipp received the same aboard and signed bills of lading for the same<br />
all of one tenor, one of which hee hath nowe seene, and annexed the<br />
samewe seene, and annexed the<br />
same +
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