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Transcription

The 28th of July 1660 [LEFT HEADING]
Examined on the foresaid allegation

Rp. [?4th]

Christoper Eviling of Ratcliffe
Mariner Master of the Ship the Thomas
and Anne, aged 36 yeeres or thereabouts
Sworne and Examined./.

To the first second 3 and 4th articles of the said Allegation hee saith
and deposeth that the arlate Francis Wheeler Deceased
did about this latter end of October or beginning of November
last in Virginia give notes to this Deponent (who was then in Verginia with the
Ship the Thomas and Anne whereof hee was Master) to [?XXXX]
Tobaccoes from places on the shore that hee appointed
And saith that accordingly there were the number of
One and thirty hogsheads of Tobaccoes fetcht, and brought on board
the said ship Thomas and Anne. And were as this
deponent verily beleeveth then belonging to the said Wheeler
and were shipd to be brought for his account to England as hee
likewise beleeveth. And Francis Wheeler the younger
son of the ffore said ffrances Wheeler deceased did
here at London before the said ship [?departed] on the
said voyage take tonnage in the said Ship of this
deponent her Master by a Contract made in writing by
which hee was obliged to pay dead ffreight if the said
Tobaccoes had not bin Laden. And saith that there
were alsoe other Tabacooes laden on board the ship
Honor arlate in the place, and about the time aforesaid
by the said [?ffrai] Wheeler deceased as this deponent hath
bin Credibly informed, And the said Wheeler oftentimes
told this deponent that hee did intend to have come over
in the Honor but before either of the said Ships came
from Virginia the said Francis Wheeler the elder
Departed this life in Virginia, and hee had not
before his death received any bills of Lading for the
said 31 hogsheads of Tobaccoe of this deponent or his [?order]
but not long after his death one Mr Nicholas Trott
a merchant in Virginia came to this deponent's Mate (to whom
this deponent had given power to Signe bills of Lading in his
absence) for bills of Lading for the said 31 hogsheads of
Tobaccoe, and the said Mate (as hee told this deponent) gave
him three bills of Lading for the same, as Laden by him and
the said Nicholas, and Consigned to his brother here in
London, although in truth the said Nicholas had noe hand in