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Transcription

The 24th day of November 1653.

Keepers et cetera against the ffortune

Examined upon the sayd allegation

6)

Robert Bowther of Lymestreet in London
merchant aged 34 yeares or thereabouts a
witne sworne and examined deposeth and saith
as followeth videlicet.

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this deponent having severall dayes bene and read an Intimation
from the Commissioners for Prize goods publiquely affixed upon the
Exchange London for and touching the sale of certayne wheat
laden aboard the arlate shipp the ffortune

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he found the sayd wheat very hott
heavy musty and clotted and baked together and some of it quite spoyled
and perished, and in such a condition that in this deponents Judgement
it would in twenty dayes longer in case it had not bene removed have
become unserviceable and unfitt for use for the most of it.

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The sayd William Cotton to the Crosse Interrogatories

To the .1st. he saith he was sent over by the producent from Rotterdam to looke for
restitution of the sayd goods, and is produced as a witnes by the advise of
Mr