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ginger in Controversie and saith hee is none of the warehousekeepers Interrogate but saith hee sawe the ginger in question in the warehouse at Ralphs Key where it lay and hath bin severall tymes in the sayd warehouse during the tyme Interrogate being a porter imployed by the sayd Commissioners, but how often hee was there hee remembreth not./ To the 2 hee saith hee beleeveth there was in all about three hundred baggs and better of ginger in the sayd warehouse and knoweth not of any kottes made touching the same nor who was to have the first lott thereof if it were lotted, and saith they who did fetch a way their parts tooke the same out of the whole as it arose and as it was delivered them out by this deponent and his contests before named porters imployed for the delivery thereof and saith hee was present at the delivery of all the ginger which was taken away thence And further (saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./ To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answere neither doth it concerne him to answere thereto hee having not deposed ought touching the contents of the third article of the allegation in this Interrogatorie mentioned To the 4th hee saith hee this deponent and his contests before named helped to laye by the hundred baggs of ginger Interrogate and saith they who bought the other ginger Interrogate did not meddle with laying by any of the sayd hundred baggs And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere,/ Repeated before doctor Godolphin the marke of the sayd John [MARKE] Betton [MAARKE, RH SIDE] ************************************ The same day. [CENTRE HEADIMG] Examined upon the sayd allegation '''4''' '''Edward Sherwin''' of the parish of Little Allhallowes Cittizen and Leatherseller of London aged 56 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee was not present at the arlate Samuell Swinnock his buying of the Gingers arlate and therefore cannot depose to those articles./ To the 3 hee cannot depose saving hee saith the sayd Swinnock hath not as yet fetched away the ginger controverted and further hee cannot depose To the 4th hee cannot depose saving hee saith the other ginger which laye in the warehouse where the hundred baggs of ginger in question was was taken out of the whole three hundred baggs and carried away by the buyers thereof or by their order and other part thereof removed into an other warehouse this hee deposeth being a porter imployed by the Commissioners for prize goods in delivery of the same And further hee cannot to this article depose for that hee knoweth not when the sayd Swinock bought the ginger controverted./ To the 5th hee saith that they who bought the rest of the ginger which laye in the waarehouse where the sayd Swinnocks hundred baggs laye, had noe greater benefit by takeing their parts of the ginger in the sayd warehouse away first, then they would and should have had if the sayd Swinnock had first taken away his hundred baggs of ginger, This hee knoweth for that hee was a porter imployed togeather with his contests John Betton George Greenewood and Edward ffrancis and others in the delivery out of all the ginger that was delivered out of the sayd Warehouse, and well sawe and knoweth that the same ginger soe delivered out was by this deponent and his contests aforesayd and others imployed as aforesayd thereabouts iustly and impartially divided and sett apart from the sayd Swinnocks 100 baggs of ginger without picking or chooseing out any baggs, but takeing them fayrely only as they did arise
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