said Cargo of Salt and the said Ship or Vessel having there by
received some damage She afterwards sailed into the Harbour of
Cowes in order to Refit and continued there until the fifteenth day
of the said Month of October when she set Sail from thence and arrived
at her Moorings in the Port of London on the Twenty second day of
the said Month of October when the said Cargo of Salt was unloaded
under the Inspection of One of his Majesty's Salt Officers and it then
Appeared as these Deponents have been informed and believe that
the said Cargo of Salt so as aforesaid shipped on Board of the said
Ship or Vessel was deficient in Quantity One hundred and Eighty
Two Bushels of Salt And these Deponent further severally say
that by Means of such violent and stomy Weather the said One
hundred and Eighty two Bushels of Salt part of the said Cargo of
Salt were lost at Sea And these Deponents further severally say
that the loss of the said One Hundred and Eighty two Bushels of Salt
was not occasioned by any Leekage of the said Ship or Vessel otherwise
than by such violent and Stormy Weather or by any Negligence
or Default of the Deponent the said Robert McElroe the Master of
the said Ship or Vessel or of the Deponent the said Mathew
Mc.Mullen the Mate thereof or any of the Mariners belonging
to the same And lastly the said Thomas Weston< no role > for him self
saith that the duty for all the said Salt so as aforesaid shipped
on board the said Ship or Vessel hath been paid to his Majesty.

Sworn at the General Quarter Session
of the Peace for the City of London
by Adjournment at justice hall in the Old
Bailey within the said City on Wedensday
the first Day of November 1786 }

Thomas Weston< no role >
Robert McElroe
Matthew M Mullar< no role >

By the Court