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Robert Cooke had order from his Imployers … Robert Cooke had order from his Imployers to hire and agree with Mariners<br />
for the sayd voyage to receyve their wages att the Barbadoes in<br />
Muscavados sugars att the rate of four pence per pound. And he<br />
knoweth that the sayd James Cooke and Johnson were two of the Mariners<br />
hired for that voyage, and he this deponent did severall tymes<br />
heare them the sayd Cooke and Johnson say and acknowledge that they<br />
were so hired and had so agreed, that is to say that they had<br />
contracted and agreed that what wages should be due to them for<br />
their service in the sayd shipp and voyage they were to receave the<br />
same att the Barbadoes in Muscavadoe Sugar att the rate of<br />
four pence per pound. And the like he heard. the sayd Robert<br />
Cooke the Master severall tymes say and affirme, and allso that the most<br />
of the Mariners had signed to a written Agreement to that purpose<br />
and saving now veiwed and perused the schedule to the sayd allegation<br />
annexed he doth beleive by the names and markes of the Mariners<br />
att the foot thereof especially by the name of William Jeffery<br />
who was one of the mates the sayd voyage, (whole handwriting he is well<br />
acquainted with, and is well assured that he did subscribe his sayd<br />
name thereto as now it appeareth) that the sayd schedule was and<br />
is the originall written Agreement, touching the premisses. And<br />
otherwise he saith he cannot depose.
To the second article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that att the sayd shipps<br />
arrivall in Norway the sayd Batsons and Companies factor there did<br />
putt on board the sayd shipp forty five horses or thereabouts for their<br />
use and accompt to be carryed and transported from thence to the<br />
Barbadoes And the sayd James Cooke and Maynard Johnson as mate<br />
and Boatswayne were by their places to looke unto and have<br />
care of the stowage thereof, and to see that the Stanchions in which<br />
they were to be placed were Strong and good. And they had and<br />
were provided of such materialls for that purpose as they sayd were<br />
good and sufficient and there was enough of other boards spars.<br />
and materialls to have made the sayd Stanchions more strong and<br />
they might have had them if they had pleased of the certayne knowledge<br />
of this deponent who was then there as merchant of the sayd shipp<br />
and had provided such materialls as were strong and sufficient<br />
and they the sayd James Cooke, and Maynard and the rest of the<br />
Mariners concerned in the stowing of the sayd horses did refuse to<br />
make use of them, saying that such as them had was sufficient. And<br />
otherwise he cannot depose.
To the third article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the sayd horses<br />
being so putt on board, the sayd shipp ''Tankervale'' putt out to Sea<br />
and soone after upon the shipps working, the stanchions in which<br />
the sayd horses were placed did breake downe in regard they<br />
were too weake, and the sayd horses by reason of such bad stowage<br />
felleason of such bad stowage<br />
fell +
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