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<DATE>2008-05-02</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF <HI>John Degrave, Francis Min&s;hall</HI> and others, Owners of the Seven Sail of Ships taken up in <DATE><HI>July,</HI> 1697.</DATE> by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the <HI>Tran&s;port.</HI></HEAD>
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<P><HI>Humbly pre&s;ented to the</HI> Honourable Hou&s;e <HI>of</HI> Commons, <HI>That the</HI> Tran&s;port <HI>did endeavour to hire Ships to carry Provi&s;ions to</HI> Newfoundland, <HI>but it being &s;o late in the Year were generally refu&s;ed becau&s;e it was &s;o extreamly dangerous to undertake; They would not run the hazard of their Shipping and Men in &s;o difficult an Undertaking.</HI></P>
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<P>THAT the &s;aid <HI>Degrave</HI> and <HI>Min&s;hall</HI> with others, who under&s;tood the Country and Dangers thereof, being informed that the &s;aid Country mu&s;t needs peri&s;h except they were &s;upplied, did conclude among&s;t them&s;elves to run all Dangers whatever to perform &s;o great a Service as they found that would be to His MAJESTY and GOVERNMENT; and &s;o forthwith did Contract with the <HI>Tran&s;port</HI> to perform the &s;ame, and did agree to be paid out of that Years Funds; &s;o that then their Ships did proceed accordingly, tho' when they came on the Coa&s;t, it being &s;o late in the Year, they underwent great hard&s;hips and lo&s;&s;es both in the Rigging and Sails, and other Inconveniencies both to Men and Ships; &s;o that in Seven Sail but Four could attain to the Relief thereof; and yet notwith&s;tanding this Service was faith|fully performed with &s;o great a difficulty and lo&s;s, and to be paid out of the Funds as afore&s;aid, there is no &s;atisfaction as yet received by the Performers thereof, altho' the Accompts are &s;ettled, made up and allowed by the <HI>Tran&s;port.</HI></P>
<P><HI>All which is Humbly &s;ubmitted to the Con&s;ideration of this</HI> Honourable Hou&s;e.</P>
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