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was a letter on board signifying as if the … was a letter on board signifying as if the [?corne] or lading aboard was to bee<br />
transported for Middleborowe, but the same was only a [XXX-brief], or [?colourable GUTTER]<br />
letter, and that the said charter-partie was and is the true Writinge for<br />
the said voyage, and hee denieth that there were any papers or writings burnt<br />
throwne over board or otherwise concealed.
To th elast hee saith that the said shipp and lading were by Captaine<br />
Greene taken on the high and open sea (and not in any port or harbour)<br />
on satturday last was three weekes. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that the said shipp before shee was<br />
taken came last from the haven of B[XXdet] in Bretagne in the<br />
kingdome of ffrance where shee tooke in her lading of wheate, rie,<br />
and oates, videlicet 141 tonnes of Wheate, 120 tonnes of Rie, and<br />
fiftie tonnes or ates, all corne and graine of the growth of<br />
ffrance, and laden by a ffrenchman, and were to be carried to and<br />
delivered at honfleur in the said kingdome, but for which accompt<br />
hee knoweth not. And otherwise hee cannot answer, saving there were #
[# LH MARGIN] at the time of the seizure<br />
about 200 deale boards aboard<br />
the said shipp, which were [?laid]<br />
under the corne to keepe it<br />
from being wet, which deales<br />
hee saith were the proper<br />
goods of and belonging to the<br />
said owners of the said shipp.<br />
J[?an] [?Jansson XXXXXXX]
Repeated before doctor Stephens.
[Jan] [JXXX] [XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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30. Julij 1651<br />
h[?ewitt] against Cockayne<br />
and Company of the [XXXX ?Merchants]
Examined upon the libell given in on the behalfe<br />
of the said H[XXX]./
'''[XXXX] 1us'''
'''William [?Masters]''' of Redriffe in the County of Surrey<br />
Marriner aged 4[?0] yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
Examined deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the fourth article of the said libell he saith and deposeth That the Shipp<br />
the ''William'' arlate did sett forth from Gravesend upon the voyage arlate and<br />
in the imployment of the arlate William C[XXXXXX] upon the 16th day of<br />
the month of October in the yeare 164, and did safely arrive in the<br />
roade of [XXXX] in or upon the 16th day of November followeing, and<br />
did there deliver such goods as were to bee transported in the said shipp for<br />
the use and Accompt of the said [?ConXXXXt], and so traded from Port to<br />
Port and place to place upon the Coast of Barbary untill the 14th day<br />
of Aprill then next followeing, which hee saith was [?five] monthes<br />
and an half wanting two days or thereabouts All which he knoweth for that<br />
hee this deponent went out Master Gunner of and in the said shipp for and<br />
dureing all the said voyage And otherwise referreing himselfe to the Charter party<br />
for the said voyage hee saith he cannot depose./
To the 5th??3] article he saith and deposeth that upon or about the 14th day of<br />
Aprill 164[?3] the Agents and ffactors of the said C[?ourteene] did lade and putt on<br />
board the said shipp the ''William'', a parcell of Gould being<br />
Barbary ducketts, vallued att foure thousand five hundred pounds, att [XXXXX]<br />
[XXXX] arlate, and also two peeces of [XXXX] Ordnance which were left to the<br />
[?Charge] of the arlate Thomas Cox B[XXXX] of the said shipp, and chargeavle unto<br />
the arlate Symon Turg[?i]s and [?Richard] [?Batson], and [XXXXth] the said shipp<br />
as sett saile from the [XXXX] in Barbary bound for the East Indies Att which<br />
time he saith there was due (according to the [XXXXX]} seaven hundred and forty<br />
pounds for the freight of the said shipp, and further he saith hee cannot depose<br />
saveing that in case they had gott safely to the Indies the said Gould and Ordinance was<br />
to have [?defrayed] [?theire] [?charges] [?untill] which time as they had arrived at the Port<br />
appointed./
To thet the Port<br />
appointed./
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