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To the first article hee saith and deposeth that hee hath seene the Charter partie arlated and was privie to the contract therein contained, and to the making thereof by and betweene the producent Isaac Tailer on the one part, and the arlate John Southerton and Thomas Bernard on the other part, all which persons hee this deponent then well knew and was acquainted with them, And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the second article hee saith that with the first good winde after the making of the said Charter partie, and in persuance thereof namely on or about the sixth day of March 1652 English stile the said Isaac Tailer sett saile from this port to goe with the shipp arlate the ''Abraham'' (whereof hee was commander or master) for Cadiz in Spaine and with the said shipp arived there on or about the fifteenth of Aprill then next following, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent in the shipp the ''Thomas'' (whhereof Thomas Yokely was master and bound for the same port) went passenger in her company, and that the arlate Thomas Bernard went alsoe a passenger in the said shipp the ''Thomas'', the said Bernard and this deponent being factors for that voyage for both the said shipps, but comming off the Straights mouth the said shipp the ''Thomas'' was chased by a Turkes man of warr and forced for succour to put into ffaro, and soe it was about three dayes after the arivall of the ''Abraham'' in Cadiz that the said shipp the ''Thomas'', and therein the said Bernard and this deponent came and arived alsoe at Cadiz, namely on or about the eighteenth of Aprill next following their said departure from this port. And further saith that shortly after the arivall of the said Bernard in Cadiz, namely on or about the 20th of May 1653 (old stile) the said Bernard and Tailer came to a new contract, or agreement and waving and laying aside the foresaid Charter partie, the said Thomas Bernard for himselfe and the said S[?atheron] on the one in persuance of the said new contract did lade aboard the said shipp, and the said Tailer the other partie to the said new contract did receive aboard her 35 tonnes of salt, one and thirtie butts of sherry wine, and two butts of [?tent]; And that the said Bernaard upon the said lading did order and impower the said John Tailer under his owne hand to depart from Cadiz for dublin in Ireland and there to dispose and doe with the said goods in all things as in the schedule annexed (and nowe showed unto him) is contained and this hee saith was and is true and publique, all which hee knoweth being present and privie to the said new agreement, and by the said Bernards order drawing the same up with this deponents hand, And saith the said Chaarter partie was thereby intended to be waved and laid aside, inasmuch as they contracted for a newe
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