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licence for the sayd shipp to come within command and into the place where shipps usually trade there, in tymes of peace, when noe warr or difference was betwixt Spaine and England, And hee this deponent did come aboard the sayd shipp ''ffreindship'' and acquainted the arlate Barnabe houldeing the Master of her that the sayd Robert Whitby had procured such a license, and told him that hee might safely bring his sayd shipp as neere shoare there as hee pleased for the more convenient receiving of such wines as were to bee laden aboard him or to that effect The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd And further to this article hee cannot depose/ To the second article hee saith that of his this deponents sight and knowledge severall English shipps did come within command and laye neerer the shoare at Mallaga by about the space of a myle and a halfe than the ''ffreindshipp'' did, and traded there freely having (as hee this deponent hath heard) procured pratique or licence soe to doe, amongst which there was a shipp laden with fish which (as hee hath heard) was consigned to the arlate Mr Edward Bennett And further to this article hee cannot depose/ To the 6th article hee saith, hee knoweth that about two yeares since the foresayd Robert Whitby having delivered a parcell of wines at the place arlate unto one Thomas Raven Master of a shipp called the ''Thomas and John'' of Yarmouth, to be shipped on board his sayd shipp and the sayd Master and Company taking the same and rafting or causeing it to bee rafted with intente to bring the same aboard his sayd shipp, one butt of wine of the sayd parcell broke off from the rafte and was lost in the sea for thirteene or 14 dayes space, and then found againe by certayne ffishermen, who had by order of the then Gouvernour at Mallaga two hundred and odd Ryalls allowed them for their paines in findeing the same, and this deponent well knoweth that the sayd Thomas Raven did by a writing under his hand, oblige him selfe to the sayd Robert Whitby to pay the sayd two hundred and odd Ryalls for (soe paid, to the sayd ffishermen by the sayd Robert Whitby for finding the same) in London to the Merchant for whose Accompt the sayd butt of wine was laden, which hee this deponent beleeveth the sayd Master would not have done, had hee not knowne it to bee the Custome that after wines are delivered at the [?ploy] into possession of the Master of a shipp or his Company hee and they stand chargeable with them till they bee delivered at the Port of their discharge And further to this article he cannot depose./ To the 9th article hee saith that hee this deponent having heard by some Mariners of other English shipps lyeing neere Mallaga that certaine wines which were rafted by the ''ffreindshipps'' company were lost did goe on board the ''freinshipp'' (sic) to knowe the truth thereof and was by divers of the sayd shipps company informed that the rafte of wines which they had rafted for received of the sayd Robert Whitby for Accompt of the arlate ffrancis Lenthall and George Nutt, was brought safe to their sayd shipps side (though they had broke loose (as they sayd) once or twice by the way) and that after they had taken up one butt of the sayd wine and had the same within the tacke of the sayd shipp the remaynder of the sayd raft of wine (being twenty nyne butts) were sunck in the sea by the sayd shipps side And further to this article hee cannot depose/ To the rest of the articles hee is not examined by direction of the producents/ Repeated before doctor Godolphin Samuell Whitby [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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