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the said shipps Companie sold imbeazeled o … the said shipps Companie sold imbeazeled or made away-/
To the 10th hee saith, That the interrate Mr [XXX] (according as the said<br />
Master hath declared to this deponent) did write to him to discharge the<br />
interrate Thomas Attwood and this rendent and accordingly the said<br />
Master denyed to lett them have Victualls any longer which was done<br />
to this rendent upon or about the last of March last and not before<br />
And further cannot depose:/
To the 11th negatively-/
To the 12th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof./
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin
John vennitron (sic) [SIGNATURE ON RH SIDE]
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The 2. day of May. 1656:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Nathaniel Marriott against William Bowtill and}<br />
Thomas Jagoe. Smith}
Examined upon a Libell given and admitted on the<br />
behalf of the said Marriott./
'''Rp. jus./'''
'''Thomas Marriott''' of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney<br />
Mariner aged 59. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes produced<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet/
To the first Article or position of the said Libell hee saith, that in the moneth of<br />
May June July and August 1655. last past the arlate Nathaniel Marriott<br />
was sole Owner and Proprietor of the shipp the ''Aprill shower'' arlate and of her<br />
tackle apparrell and furniture, And for and as such the said Nathaniel Marriott<br />
was generally accompted reputed and taken, Which hee knoweth, for that hee this deponent<br />
being father to the said Nathaniel hath had and hath as hee beleeveth in his Custodie a<br />
writeing under the hand of one of the Officers of the Commissoners for Prize goods in Ireland<br />
importing the said Nathaniels payment for 1/4 part of the said shipp, by him bought of<br />
them in Ireland and for that the said Nathaniel bought the 3/4. parts more of one<br />
Samuel Barber here at London, this deponent being present at the buying thereof<br />
And further cannot depose-/
To the second Article and Charterpartie annexed and now showed to this examinate hee<br />
saith, that hee this deponent was present when the said Agreement of Charterpartie<br />
was made between the arlate Bowtill and Jago, and the producent in this Cause<br />
being the Charterpartie now showne unto this deponent and signed sealed and delivered<br />
by the said Bowtill and Jago in the pressure of his deponent and the Wittnesses<br />
whose names to the said Charterpartie were and are subscribed, And further<br />
referring to the said schedule or Charterpartie, hee saith hee cannot depose<br />
otherwise or more than that the Contents thereof were and are reall and true, and<br />
soe hath and done at therein is conteyned./
To the third hee saith that upon and according to the said Contract of Charterpartie<br />
the said Nathaniel Marriott did fitt furnish and prepare the said shipp the<br />
''Aprill shower'' with all necessarie Tackle apparell and furniture. Virtualls and<br />
Mariners requisite for her intended voyage, and proceeded and went to Ireland from<br />
whence shee returned to dartmouth the 22th day of August <u>1655.</u> last past being<br />
then fitted and accommodated to undertake her further voiage for Alicant or Civita<br />
Vechia for the said imployers service according to Charierpartie, and immediately after such<br />
her arrivall at dartmouth this deponent on the behalf of<br />
the said Nathaniel Marriot repaired to the said Thomas Jagoe at dartmouth and<br />
acquainted him with the said shipps arrivall and readines to take in the goods<br />
of the said Jagoe and Bowtill according to the said Charterpartie. and the deponent<br />
and Roger hall master of the said shipp did in the said moneth on the behalfe<br />
aforesaid severall times presse and importune the said Jagoe to lade the goods of<br />
him and his said partner Bowtill and to dispatch away the said shipp upon her<br />
saidy the said shipp upon her<br />
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