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The 19th of September 1657/

John Jeffreyes and Robert Lewellin against}
Jacob Moulson Smith ffrancklin}

Examined upon the allegation given in on the behalfe
of the sayd Moulson./

Rp. jus

Robert Oldfeild of Spalding in the County of Lincoln
gentleman aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

10. To the 1: 2: and 3 articles of the sayd allegation hee saith hee was not privie to the
11. bargaine made betweene the arlate John Jefferies and Robert Lewellin
12. touching the hyre and takeing to freight of the shipp Unitie arlate
13. of the arlate Smith Roberts and Moulson, and therefore
14. cannot depose at what rates or upon what conditions shee was hyred nor can
15. depose ought touching the provisions or victualls put aboard the sayd
16. shipp either as to the quantitie or by whome put on board And therefore
17. cannot depose to those articles./

18. To the 4th article hee saith that hee this deponent went a passenger in
19. the sayd shipp the Unitie
20. the voyage in question and was to have resided
21. in Mary Land, in Virginia with a ffactor of the sayd Lewellin there and
22. by theat meanes knoweth that in the moneth of June 1654 the sayd
23. shipp sett sayle from Gravesend upon the voyage in question but by
24. Contrary windes arrived not in dublin Roade till about the second
25. of August next after./

30. To the 5th article hee cannot depose/

31. To the 6th article hee saith that soone after the arrivall of the sayd
32. shipp Unitie in the harbour of dublin hee heard one Mr White a
33. factor for the sayd jjeferies and Lewellin saye that hee had provided
34. noe servants passengers on the behalfe of the sayd Jeffreyes
35. and Lewellin to goe ˹in˺ the sayd ship, And saith that while
36. the sayd shipp stayed there which was about a moneths tyme, there were to
37. the number of thirty servants and and (sic) upwards provided as passengers
38. servants for the sayd Jefferies and Llewellin, {a}ll which servants
39. soe provided or the most of them were provided by the meanes and
40. procurement of the sayd Moulson, but the certayne number that
41. of all that were provided hee remembreth not, And saith of those
42. servants provided two of them runne away and carried away the
43. shipps skiff with them, and an other of them (being a woman) was
44. vehemently suspected to bee a witch, and for that reason was
45. sett a shoare the company fearing shee might prove dangerous to
46. the voyage And further to this article hee cannot depose/

47. To the 7th article hee saith hee being a passenger aboard as a foresayd
48. did observe that there were a great quantitie of deales (but the
49. number hee remembreth not) cut out while the sayd shipp
50. remayned at dublin and in the voyage arlate, to make cabbins for
51. the servants and passengers and to make a bulke head and other conveniencies
for