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To the first article of the said allegatio … To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth the arlate Christofer Page and hath soe donne for<br />
a yeeres last past, and alsoe well knoweth the<br />
shipp the ''Samuel'' of London, of which hee saith the said Page was the<br />
time arlate master and Part Owner, and for such commonly accounted<br />
and reputed, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent in that time<br />
served Carpenter in her, under the command of the said Page, who<br />
executed the said Master shipp upon her.
To the second, third and fourth articles of the said állegation and the schedul[?e?s GUTTER]<br />
annexed, hee saith and deposeth that the said Christofer Page in the moneth<br />
of August last past, came to this deponent and told him that hee was<br />
freighted to goe with the said shipp from this port to Teneriff to lade wines<br />
and thense to retourne therewith to this port to deliver the same and [?asked GUTTER]<br />
this deponent if hee would goe his Carpenter, whereunto this deponent<br />
condescending, the said Page hired and shipped him to goe the said voyage<br />
Carpenter of the said vessell, and this deponent goeing upon the said shipp<br />
entered into pay on or about the thirtieth of August last, on which day<br />
shee departed from Gravesend, and in or about the end of September or<br />
beginning of October last shee arrived in Laratavo in the said Iland of<br />
Teneriff, where hee saith shee was by mr Rayden and this order lade [?n GUTTER]<br />
with an hundred and twelve tonnes of wine (accounting two pipes to the<br />
tonne) which my Rayden was accounted therein the factor of the arlate mr<br />
Bass; And saith that after the receipt of the said one hundred and<br />
twelve tonnes of wine on board, there was roome to have stowed two or<br />
three tonnes of wine more, which the said Page offered and was ready to<br />
receive aboard, in case it had bin tendred or ready to have bin laden, and<br />
soe much more the said shipp might have taken in conveniently, and having<br />
left sufficient stowage for her victuall and provisions, all which hee<br />
knoweth because hee was Carpenter of the said shipp and helped to stowe<br />
the said wines soe laden, and sawe the premisses soe donne. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose, saving the said shipp might all probabilitie have<br />
brought both the said wines so laden, and the said other two or three tonnes<br />
in case the same had bin laden, in safetie to this port, the danger of the seas<br />
excepted.
To the fifth hee saith the said shipp the said voyage staid on Laratavo in<br />
the said Iland of Teneriff the space of fourtie five dayes or neere thereabouts<br />
and would have staid longer, in case the factors had desired it, and would<br />
have put any more lading aboard her, which hee knoweth for the reasons<br />
aforesaid, and saith there were not any more wines tendered or offered to be<br />
laden aboard than what shee received as aforesaid.
To the sixth 7 and 8th hee saith that on or about the eight and twentieth day of<br />
November last the said shipp with her said wines so laden aboard her<br />
departed from Laratavo aforesaid for this port; where shee a[?rriving GUTTER]<br />
therewith and here made delivery thereof to the assignes of the said<br />
mr [?Bosse], saving what was leaked out by occasion of a greate storme<br />
that the said shipp met with in her said homewards voyage<br />
the month of december last, which was soe greate and dangerous that<br />
the company verily thought that both the shipp and they should have bin<br />
cast away, the said storme continueing tenn or twelve dayes together<br />
[?but GUTTER]e dayes together<br />
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