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is about 500 leagues, which is about 80 le … is about 500 leagues, which is about 80 leagues out of the very direct<br />
way from Zant to the Straights mouth and so commonly accompted. And<br />
such that to saile from Zant first to Legorne and thence to the Straights<br />
mouth is faster by tenn leagues or thereabouts, than to saile from<br />
Corsica to the Straights mouth, all which hee knoweth for the reasons<br />
aforesaid, having often sailed in those parts.
To the nineth article hee saith and deposeth that from Salina Roade<br />
in Cyprus to saile to the Straights mouth by the way of Zant, and
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thence to Corsica is about 740˹ ˹795˺˺˹ seven hundred and fortie˺ leagues, which is about XX ˹ninetie˺ leagues<br />
out of the direct course from Salina Roade to the Straights<br />
1mouth; parting a reason of his knowledge as aforesaid.
To the 16th árticle hee saith and deposeth that the way of steeving<br />
cotton woolls is to lay a certaine number of baggs underneath and<br />
as many on the topp of them, and then to steeve in betweene<br />
them as many as the space or placeX betweene them are capable to contain GUTTER<br />
and otherwise to this article hee saith hee ćannot depose, not<br />
knowing of any such necessitie of steeving such a quantitie in a day<br />
saving hee saith that if there be eight<br />
bagges steeved in a day there may be 24 baggs received aboard in that<br />
day; which is small, especially the first day, and afterwards there<br />
are usually sixteene baggs or more received aboard each day,<br />
which hee knoweth having bin severall times at Cyprus and at<br />
the receiving Cottons aboard shipps, and seein{g} the lading and steeving<br />
thereof: him and saith that each day after the first there may<br />
be so many baggs receaved aboard as to lay and steeve as may<br />
amount one day day with another to the 17 or 18. baggs per diem. And<br />
otherwise cannot depose.
To the seaventeenth hee saith that fourtie foure men working<br />
20 houres or but 16 houres in 24 houres. for 12 dayes together<br />
may lay and steeve within that time 170 or at least 160 baggs,<br />
and may receive within the said 12 dayes 50 baggs more (winde and<br />
weather permitting) and may steeve them afterwards, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose. saving that if there be roome in the shipp [?over ?and]<br />
upon the rest hee is not exámined by direction of the producent.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that hee cometh required by Mr ffrancis<br />
ffooke to be a witnes in this cause, wherein he hath noe interest<br />
nor will it be any dammage or advantage tohim which sale seeing<br />
prevailes or be overthrowne therein.
To the 2 hee saith hee hath bin at Ciprus steeving woolls twice<br />
namely once in the Mercury and once in the Chase, which Mercury<br />
was of the burthern of 330 tonnes or thereabouts, and the Chase of<br />
180 tonnes or thereabouts, and had 38 men and the Mercury betwixt<br />
40 and 50, and the Mercury had 3 decks and the Chase two, and<br />
that hee was last there in the yeare 1654 in or about
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July, and saith that Cyprus baggs are for the most part bigger<br />
than other baggs
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aboard the receipt of 38<br />
baggs of cotton woolls and<br />
400 sacks of galls, to steeve<br />
38 baggs and yet have 30 tonnes<br />
of dead tonnage left, there must be<br />
roome [?sufficient] [?and]<br />
take in 50 baggs more<br />
and steeve them afterwards<br />
Ben Gunson [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]br />
Ben Gunson [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN] +
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