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A.12.

The 22th of Aprill 1656 [CENTRE HEADING]

Richard Bancock and Sarah Bancock Administrators of}
the goods chattells and debts of Christopher Mitchell}
and deceased during the minority of William Mitchell}
and Christopher Mitchell children of the sayd Christopher}
Mitchell deceased against John Harris and }
Lawrence Chambers Smith}

3us

Examination the foresayd allegation fXXXXX XXXXX DXXXXXX
and the behalfe of the sayd Richard XXXXX XXX XXX and
Sarah Bancock xxxxx date the x the 7th XXXXX of
mXXXX 165X ./

Christopher Neck of Rederiff in the County
of surrey mariner aged thirty years or thereabouts
a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth videlicet./

videXX XX A.s. of 2nd A.3./ Rp

22. To the first article of the sayd allegation that ˹he saith˺ during all the
moneths and
23. tyme arlate in the respecting yeares 1647. and one thousand sixe hundred
24. forty eight the arlate John Harris and Lawrence Chambers were the freight
25. Owners and imployers of the arlate shipp the Little George and see commonly
26. reputed this hee the better knoweth for that hee this deponent was one
27. of the Company of the sayd shipp during the voyage in question And
28. further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose

29. To the 2. 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allogation hee saith and deposeth
30. That hee well knoweth that the XXXX arlate Christoper Michell during
31. all the tyme arlate happening before the tenth day of November 1648 did
32. serve in the sayd shipp as Master of her and was made Master of her
33. by the arlate John Harris and Lawrence Chambers for a certain voyage
34. from this port of London to the Barbadoes and other parts and plans beyond
35. the seas and back to this port of London and the sayd Chambers and
36. Harris did (as hee ˹hath credibly heard and˺ beleveeth being at the first goeing out upon the voyage
37. in question a servant to the sayd Christopher Mitchell) agree with the sayd
38. Christopher to pay unto him for such his service as Master of the sayd
39. shipp the sayd voyage the summe of five pounds a moneth for every moneth
40. hee should serve in her as Master and alsoe to pay unto him thirty shillings
41. a moneth for the service of this deponent in the sayd shipp the sayd voyage
42. hee being then ˹upon he sayd˺ servant to the sayd Chistopher, and alsoe twenty shillings
43. more a moneth for the service of the arlate william Posters the sayd voyage
44. hee alsoe being then a servant to the sayd Christopher, and hee alsoe saith
45. that hee well remembreth that the sayd Christopher Mitchell hee this
46. deponent and the sayd william Posters did enter into pay in the sayd shipp
47. about the first day of March 1647 and sayled in the sayd shipp ˹the˺ Little
48. George to the Barbados and severall other places beyond the seas in the
49. imployment and service of the sayd Harris and Chambers and continued
50. in their imployment many moneths videlicet the sayd mitchell from about the
51. sayd first of march 1647 till the tenth day of November 1648 (on which day
52. the sayd mitchell dyed) and this deponent from about the sayd first of march
53. 1647 during the space of twenty months and upward next following the sayd first
of

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