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To the second article hee saith and depose … To the second article hee saith and deposeth<br />
that the arlate Edward Launder (whom this deponent well knoweth)<br />
being at Berghen in Norway hired and tooke the said shipp to freight of<br />
and from the arlate Peter Johnson (agent or deputie of the said widowe and<br />
heires) to carry tarr, beames and deales from Berghen to this port of<br />
London, which hee knoweth being then at Berghen and frequenting the<br />
companie of the said Launder and Johnson<br />
, And otherwise hee cannot depose, not<br />
knowing the summe or particulars contracted for betweene them.
To the third hee saith that after and upon the said affreightment, the said<br />
Launder laded or caused tarr, beames, deales and stockfish to<br />
be laden at Berghen aboard the said shipp for this port of London, which<br />
lading this deponent sawe and tooke notice of, and saith the said shipp<br />
safely arived therewith, here in or about the moneth of March last<br />
saving such of the tarr as leaked out by the way by stormes and Part of the fish spoiled and here delivered the same to the arlate<br />
John Southwood, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent came<br />
passenger in the said shipp from Norway, and sawe such delivery<br />
here
To the 4th and fifth hee saith there was fish laden aboard the said shipp by the<br />
said Launder amongst other goods as aforesaid, and saith that tarr,<br />
deales and beames or balkes may well be transported in a leakie shipp<br />
without any preiudice to them, but not fish and saith the said ship the ''Justice''<br />
was a tight and staunch shipp, when shee came from Berghen,<br />
but in her course met with excessive stormie weather, which made<br />
her seames yeeld, and made her leakie, and what dammadge<br />
shee received in her fish or otherwise the said voyage, was by the said<br />
stormie and stresse[?ie] weather, and not by any insufficiencie in the<br />
shipp or neglect or default in the master or companie, who all<br />
of them did their best to avoide any dammage, and to keep the<br />
said fish from hurt. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the sixth hee saith that every Rex dollar is worth foure<br />
shillings and eight pence sterling, at the usuall rate and price<br />
which hee knoweth having longe frequented this part, and changed many<br />
Rex dollars into Sterling money. And otherwise hee cannot depose,<br />
saving the said shipp by the said Southwoods detaining and not<br />
paying the freight for the said goods, hath laine here ever since, and<br />
hee estimateth the dammadge of the producents by the said shipps<br />
lying, and her deteriorating thereby, and for victualls and wages<br />
to amount to eight hundred Rex dollars.
To the 7 and 8 hee referreth himselfe to the Registrie of this Court<br />
and otherwise hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
'''[?Clements] dt.'''
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee favoureth the parties and would give the<br />
victory indifferently unto them, and otherwise negatively, saving as aforesaid.
To the second hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and cannot<br />
otherwise answer.
Tod cannot<br />
otherwise answer.
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