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To the sixth hee saith that if George hugh … To the sixth hee saith that if George hughes or any other had sailed any<br />
shipp to goe in a right course from Salina Roade to the Streights mouth, or<br />
to goe or saile from Zant right from the Streights mouth hee or they must not<br />
have come to Corsica, which hee saith is alsoe notorious amongst mariners<br />
using those parts and places for saileing as this deponent hath donne for theise<br />
30 yeeres last, ˹and upwards˺ and therefore thereby hee knoweth speaketh knowingly what hee deposeth<br />
in this behalfe and saith that if the dutch fleete was at Corsica (as the comon<br />
common fame is that they were) the said George hughes in his direct course<br />
of sailing from Salinas Roade to the Streights mouth, or from Zant to the<br />
Streights mouth had not met with themin all probabilitie. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the seaventh article hee saith and deposeth that the direct way to saile<br />
from Salina Roade of Cyprus to the Streights mouth is 645 leagues or<br />
thereabouts and not above, and that from Salina Roade aforesaid to goe first<br />
to Zant and thense to the Streights mouth is not lesse than 662 leagues or<br />
thereabouts, which is 17 leagues or thereabouts out of the way from<br />
Salina Roade to the Streights mouth, which hee knoweth having severall<br />
times and often bin all all these places, and come both immediately from<br />
Salina Roade to the Streights mouth and from Salina to Zant and thense<br />
to the Streights mouth.
To the eighth hee saith that the direct course of saileing from Zant to the<br />
Streights mouth is about fower hundred leagues, and that to saile from<br />
Zant first to Corsica and thense to the Streights mouth is about 490 leagues<br />
which is 90 leagues or thereabouts out of the way of sailing from Salina to<br />
the Streights mouth, (meaning if such shipp saile to the North ward of Corsica<br />
as this deponent hath bin informed George hughes did) And further saith<br />
that to saile from Zant first to legorne and thense to the Streights mouth<br />
is further than to saile from Corsica to the Streights mouth, by 15<br />
leagues or thereabouts, all which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid.
To the nineth article hee saith and deposeth that from Salina Roade in<br />
Cyprus to saile to the Streights mouth, and in the sailing to goe to and<br />
stopp at Zant and thense to goe to Corsica and thense to the Streights mouth<br />
is about ˹745 or˺ 750 leagues or thereabouts, which hee saith is 105 leagues and not<br />
X or thereabouts out of the direct course of sailing from Cyprus to<br />
the Streights mouth, all which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid.<br />
And further hee cannot depose.
To the sixteenth article hee saith and deposeth that the way and manner<br />
of steeving Cotton woolls is to lay a certaine number of baggs under neath<br />
and as many on the topp of them, and then to steeve in betweene them the<br />
like number of them or more, soe that if there be eight baggs steeved<br />
in a day for severall dayes together; there ought and tis expedient that<br />
the first day when they begin to steeve they should receive 24 baggs, or more<br />
aboard, and still they ought to have daily many more sacks or baggs<br />
aboard than they can steeve that day to supplie occasions, and for as much<br />
as the weather may soe fall out that they cannot goe daily ashore<br />
for their supplies. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the seaventh I think this is a mistake by the scribe árticle hee saith and deposeth that a shipp of the<br />
burthen of 280 tonnes having in her 100 baggs of Cyprus Cotton<br />
woolls steeved, and 400 sacks of galls stowed, may with 44 men take in<br />
with much case 20 baggs more of cotton woolls every day for twelve<br />
dayes together, winde and weather permitting them to be fetcht aboard,<br />
and them to be fetcht aboard,<br />
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