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Transcription

The 4th of July 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

Taylor and company against ffowke and Chewne}

Examined upon the foresaid allegation in
the acts of Court.

2.

Captaine John Wall of the parish of Saint
Mary Magdalen Bermondsey Mariner aged
45 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that the allegate 13 butts and
six carratells of Currants laden by William
ffowke at Petras aboard the Castle frigot whereof this deponent was
commannder, and brought to this port of London, were and are for the
proper accompt of the producents henry Chewne and ffrancis ffowke
And that six butts and one carratell of currants
laden and brought as aforesaid were and are for the proper
accompt of the allegate Captaine Thomas Middleton, and that they
respectively have borne the risque of the said respective parcells, and were
and are commonly accompted respectively the lawfull owners and proprietors
of the said respective parcells, which hee knoweth because hee this
deponent was master or commander of the said shipp and received
the said currants aboard in the Roade of Petras for the said respective
accompts and signed bills of ladeing for the same. And having nowe
seene the two bills of lading mentioned and exhibited in the said allegation
hee saith that the said bills were and are subscribed with this deponents
proper handwriting, and that all and singular the contents thereof
were and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contained, saving
hee did not then knowe the [?inceard] consition nor weight of the said
currants. And further hee saith that in the monthes of January or
ffebruary last past, and to the time of the lading of the said respective
parcells of currants, all the currants predeposed or the greatest part thereof
were in the custodie and possession of the said William ffowke or his assignes
in a warehouse under lock and key, whence the same were taken and
laden aboard the said shipp, which hee knoweth seeing the same in the
said warehouse ashore at Petras and seeing the same laden thence by the
order of the ssaid William ffowke, and helping to fetch and lade them from thence
aboard the said shipp the Castle frigot; And the said currants were as
hee beleeveth bought and paid for by the said William ffowke before
such lading thereof, for that as hee beleeveth (unlesse hee had bought and
paid for them) hee could not have laden them thence. And hee moreover
deposeth that the said shipp the castle frigot came and arived at
Petras on or about the 22th of december last past, and shortly after
such her arivall this deponent went ashore and sawe the said currants
or the greatest part thereof in the custodie and possession of heny
Page a merchant upon the place, as owner thereof; and while the said
shipp remained there the said Page transferred and delivered over the
same to the said William ffowke and gave him the possession thereof in the
warehouse wherein they were lying, being the same warehouse out of
which they were laden as aforesaid, and gave him the keyes of the said warehouse
which hee knoweth being there and privie to the doing thereof. And hee further saith
that after the said shipps arivall the said Mr William ffowke bought
about tenn thousand weight of currants of other persons at Petras,
and
some other men namely some of the seamen bought about two thousand
weight