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23th Februarij 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
Exam … 23th Februarij 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd Allegation
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'''Henry Hughes''' of deptford in the County of Kent Rope merchant<br />
aged twenty four yeares or thereabouts sworne and exa=<br />
mined upon the sayd allegaction and Interrogatories saith and deposeth<br />
videlicet as followeth
To the first Article of the sayd allegation he saith, That the sayd shipp the ''Tho=''<br />
''mas Bonadventure'' arrived the last tyme att Cyprus the voyage in question<br />
about the first day of May 1652. and att that tyme she had on board<br />
her in Cotton Woolls one hundred baggs or thereabouts, and four<br />
hundred and odde baggs of galls. The premisses hee knoweth to bee<br />
true for that he was Purser of the sayd shipp the voyage in question<br />
and tooke an aććompt of her lading. And otherwise hee cannot depose<br />
To the second Article of the sayd allegation he saith that over and besides<br />
the sayd 100 baggs of wooll, there were laden on board the sayd shipp<br />
during her stay att Cyprus after her last coming thither, two hundred and eight<br />
baggs of wooll by Roger ffooke factor of the sayd Mr Alderman<br />
ffrederick and Company fraighters of the sayd shipp, that is to say one<br />
hundred and sixty bags for the sayd ffreighters owne Accompt [INSERTION1] and allso<br />
thirty baggs more consigned to Mr Thomas Rich here in London<br />
the freight of which sayd thirty baggs was to be made good to the<br />
sayd ffrederick Chowne and Company and they were to have the benefitt<br />
thereof, All which hee deposeth being Purser the voyage aforesayd
To the third Article of the sayd allegation hee saith That the sayd shipp<br />
''Thomas Bonadventure'' was and is a shipp of the burthen of two hundred<br />
and eighty tonnes or thereabouts, and had in her the sayd voyage the<br />
number of forty four men and noe more. which he knoweth<br />
for the reasons aforesayd. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the .4th. article of the sayd allegation he saith, that the sayd Cyprus<br />
Woolls (as is usuall att that place) were putt in very great baggs, and<br />
did require very great labour to stow them, especially. after the sayd shipp<br />
had receyved the first 100 baggs of wooll and galls aforesayd on board<br />
her. And saith that in his Judgement. forty four men in a shipp of<br />
the burthen of the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' (there being 100 baggs of<br />
wooll and 400 and odd baggs of galls on board before,) cannot receive<br />
and steive above eight baggs a day one day with another, for hee saith<br />
that the Company of the sayd ''Thomas Bonadventure'' the sayd tyme<br />
att Cyprus did not receyve on board and steive above eight baggs of wooll<br />
eaćh day and day with another during such tyme as the sayd ffrederickes Chownes<br />
and the other thirty sackes of wooll were lading, albeit they did worke<br />
twenty howres of in four and twenty, and that with much labour and Industry<br />
of this deponents sight and observation. neyther could they have taken in<br />
more than eight baggs a day one day with another as he beleiveth, referring<br />
himselfe to the Reasons aforesayd. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the 5th. Article of the sayd allegation, he saith, That the the last of the sayd ffrederickes<br />
and Chownes sayd woolls were not brought on board and steived till<br />
about the two and twentyeth day of May 1652, And that assoone as the<br />
same were steived the Company of the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' carryed<br />
their steeving Instruments on shoare, and applyed themselves to<br />
fitt their shipp for her homewards voyage for London, and shee<br />
might have bene so fitted within two or three dayes, And her master<br />
and Company did resolve to proceed directly for London assoone as their<br />
shipp could be fitted, which he knoweth being then purser as aforesayd.<br />
And otherwise he cannot depose.<br />
To
[INSERTION 1 IN LH MARGIN] as freighters of the sayd a<br />
shipp ''Thomas Bonad=<br />
venture'' and fourty<br />
eight baggs for the<br />
sayd ffrederick and<br />
Company as Owners<br />
of the ''dart frigate''<br />
HHUGHES [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]]t;br />
HHUGHES [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]] +
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