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The 11th day of december 1654:- Beale and Company against the shipp ''Expectation'' and} Birdsey and others. Smith. Suckley.} Examined upon the said Allegation and upon the schedule remaining on the file 1651 annexed to a premium decretum No: 311:-/ '''2us/''' '''Josias Harrison''' of the parrish of Saint Michael Crooked Lane London ffishmonger, aged 25. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and examined./ To the first second and third articles of the said Allegation and to the schedule aforesaid remaining upon the file and beginning thus '''Delivered the 6th''' '''day of July 1648, for the use of the said shipp the ''Expectation'' by John''' '''Cooke fishmonger as followeth,''' written in one sheete of paper and read and perused by this Examinate at the time of his examination, hee saith and deposeth, That in or about the moneths of June July August and September in the yeare 1648. last past, the allate John Ramsey the Master and Commander of the shipp the ''Expectation'' of London allate, came to the shopp of the said John Cooke a fishmonger at the signe of the three Pidgeons in Thames street, where this deponent then was and served as an Apprentice, and then and there in this deponents presence and hearing the said John Ramsey declared unto the said John Cooke, That hee then stood in need of some provisions for his said shipp the ''Expectation'' then being bound upon a voyage to sea and thereupon hee the said Ramsey agreed with this deponents said Master for and and singular the Provisions of fish mentioned and expressed in the said schedule for and at the severall rates and prices therein expressed, the said fish and incident Charges for the Carrying thereof and otherwise amounting to the summe of 30 ''li'' and 10 ''d'' sterling money. [#] [#] Videlicet a half hundred of North Sea Codd the best at 5 ''li'' per ''C'' amounting to 2 ''li'' 10 ''s''/ Three hundred of new North Sea Codd dry at 5 ''li'' per ''C'' amounting to 15 ''li'' ffive hundred and a halfe of stockfish at 44 ''s'' per Cent: amounting to 12 ''li'' 2 ''s'' for matts and porters and other Charges about the conveying of the said provisions aboard the said shipp ''Expectation'' amounting to 8 ''s'' 10 ''d'' making in all to the said summe of 30 ''li'' 10 ''d''/ And saith That after such agreement made, the said provisions of fish were by this deponent by his said Master his order, delivered unto a Waterman, to be brought aboard the said shipp ''Expectation'' then being in the River of Thames according to the direction of the said John Ramsey the Master thereof, as they accordingly were, And after the deliverey and sending aboard the said provisions, the said Mr John Ramsey came to the shopp of the said John Cooke, and there in the presence of this deponent acknowledged the said deby of 30 ''li'' and 10 ''d'' due upon the accompt aforesaid Unto the said John Cooke, and obliged himselfe and his said shipp for the due payment thereof, The premisses this deponent knoweth being present at and assistant in the premisses, and for that this deponent saw the said particular provisions togeather with their severall pieces entred into the debt booke of his said Master John Cooke, whereby this deponent hath very perfect and pertinent (knowledge
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