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ffrederick and Companie hee knoweth not./: … ffrederick and Companie hee knoweth not./:-
To the 6th hee saith hee hath been severall voiages in Turkey<br />
and hath for 7. yeares and upwards observed that there hath bin<br />
warr betwixt the English and those of Tripoly, and saith that for<br />
about 7. or 8. yeares last past as hee remembreth or thereabouts the french<br />
have used hostility against the English at sea, and beleeveth so much<br />
hath been observed by Masters and mariners using the Straights<br />
and that by meanes thereof there was danger for English shipps that trade to and from<br />
Turkey:-/
To the 7th hee referreth himself to his foregoeing deposition, And<br />
further or otherwise cannot depose/
To the Interrogatories ministred december 1[?5]. <u>1654:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith this Interrogatorie concerneth not the rendent:-/
To the 2 hee saith hee was not at Leghorne in the moneths and<br />
yeare interrate. And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition cannot<br />
depose./
To the 3. hee saith hee knoweth nothing of the delivery interrate, as<br />
not being present at the same./
To the 4th and schedule interrate hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof
To the 5th hee saith That from the time that the English Convoy arrived at<br />
Cyprus as aforesaid till the time of their departure thence with the<br />
English Merchants shipps as predeposed, the feare and apprehension<br />
of an eruption of warr betwixt the hollanders and English was at<br />
an equall stand, so farr as this rendent then heard or observed, and the<br />
like hee saith concerning the crumor of the dutch fleet interrate./
To the 6th hee referreth himself to his foregoeing deposition, And further<br />
cannot depose saving that the ''Mary Rose'' and ''William and Thomas''<br />
discharged at Porta fferrara when the said shipp ''Thomas Bonad<br />
venture'' there dischared their goods./
To the 7th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof.
To the 8th hee referreth himself to his foregoeing deposition as to the<br />
letter interrate. And further or otherwise cannot depose/
To the 9th hee saith the galls and Cotton woolls interrate were<br />
delivered into the Lazaretta interrate by baggs and not by weight<br />
and saith hee observed not any deterioration in the said goods at their<br />
said delivery saving that some of the baggs being torne, as in such<br />
cases is usuall, the same were then and there repaired/:-
To the 10th negatively for his part, saying this rendent was<br />
severall times ashoare at Scanderoon, and never observed any<br />
weighing of any goods there received aboard
To the 11th hee saith the shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'' interrate<br />
was and is an English built shipp, and saith that her Master<br />
and Company belonging to her in the Voiage in Controversie<br />
(weree Voiage in Controversie<br />
(were +
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