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in Conscience, that the said Invoyce was and is wholly written with the proper handwriteing of the said Jacob Sheafe, and that the marke in the margent thereof expressed was and is the usuall and constant marke wherewith the said Sheafe doth marke such goods as hee sendeth and consigneth to his said Correspondent Henry Ashurst And further cannot depose, saving hee this deponent within the space of ten yeares, as is arlate, hath brought over severall goods and marchandise from New England to London, from the said Sheafe to the said Ashwell marked with the marke aforesaid. To the 4th article and schedule annexed now seene and seriously perused by this examinate hee saith, That upon the receiving of the barrill and goods in Controversy aboard this deponents said shipp By the said Richard Browne this deponents Contest and then Masters mate hee this deponent signed three bills of ladeing all of one tenor for the same togeather with some other goods to the said Sheafe belonging, and saith, That the said schedule being the second schedule annexed was and if one of the said bills signed by this deponent att or neere Boston aforesaid according to the Date thereof, and saith that as in the said bill is sett downe (the Contents I know not) if it usuall and constant with this deponent to signe all bills of Lading that hee signeth for goods packed or barrilld up the particulars whereof hee doeth not see nor observed otherwise then by the Laders relation To the 5th hee saith, That the said barrill of goods marked and numbred as aforesaid after such the lading thererof as predeposed arrived in this Port of London, where it was unladen and discharged out of the said shipp this deponent having since seene the same in the custody of Robert Hubbart allate being the party defendent in this cause. And further cannot depose, being this deponent was sicke and not present at the unLadeing thereof:-/ To the 10th hee saith, That there was noe other barrill of goods marked with the marke aforesaid Laden aboard the said shipp the Johns Adventure the voyage aforesaid, which was, as predeposed, Laden by the said Sheafé, and that this deponent is in conscience fully convinced and assured that the said Robert Hubbart did not Lade any such barrill of goods aboard the said shipp in the said voiage, And further cannot depose To the 11th hee saith, That shorly after the said barrill of marchandise marked and numbred as aforesaid was by the said Robert Hubbart unduely taken and conveighed out of the said shipp to the said Hubbarts Lodgeing, this deponent with his precontest Thomas Glover, went to the said Hubbart and desired to see the said barrills, which the said Hubbart permitted them to doe, and then the said Thomas Glover told over the beaver skinns with the said Hubbart said hee had brought and received from new England in the said barrill, and found them to be 97. or ninety eight beaver skinns, and then the said Glover demanding of the said Hubbart whither hee had got likewise reveived some otter and minck skins in the said barrill, the said Hubbart acknowledged that he had received five otter skinns, but noe minck skinns at all, and saith that at the same time the said Thomas Glover compared the Invoyce and bill of Ladeing predeposed with the marke and number sett upon the said barrill which of this deponents sight and observation did exactly answer one to the other, and that from the said invoyce were and are mentioned ninety eight beaver skinns, seaven otter skinns and foure mink skinns And further, this deponent referring himselfe to the said Invoyce saith hee cannot Depose. (To the 13th
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