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Transcription

The 27th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of Alderman}
Riccard touching silke in the}
Alice and ffrancis}

Rp.

ffoscarini Wycke servant unto Alderman
Andrew Riccard of London Merchant aged
20 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right
Worshippful John Godolphin doctor of Lawes - one of
the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath.

That in and amongest a parcell of rawe silke which the said
Alderman Riccard had brought from Smyrna in bales in the shipp
the Alice and ffrancis of London to this port, and have dischardged
about six monethes since, there were two bales endammaged
and came endammaged out of the said shipp, and that upon sale
thereof to the silkeman the said Alderman Riccard was necessitated
to allowe and did allowe fifteene pounds sterling by reason of
the said dammage, which hee knoweth to be true because hee this
deponent is serviceof his said master tooke the said goods up
and tooke notice of the said dammage upon the comming of the said
goods from the waterside, and severall times spake to the Purser
of the said shipp to come and view the same before they were
disposed of, and this deponent was particularly acquainted with
the said allowance to the silkeman and abatement for the said
damage, this deponent making up the accompt for the same.

ffoscarinj Wycke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 28th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

The claime of the foresaid [?Bau?Xse] and}
companie for the Liesde}

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

1./

John Blake native of Galloway in Ireland Merchant
aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined

To the first and third articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
hee well knoweth the producent david kirwan and hath soe donne from
the infancie of the said david, and saith hee was borne at Galloway in
Ireland, and that his fathers name was Edmund kirwan and his mothers name
Aust[?en], and that hee had five brothers and a sister, all whom this deponent well
knew this deponent being alsoe borne and living at Galloway neare the
house of the said davids father, and there this deponent knew the said david
goe to schoole and his breeding up there, and for theise reasons hee
well knoweth the said david to be a subiect of this Commonwealth, and for
such commonly accompted, but for foure or five yeares last the said david hath
lived