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and saw them carried aboard the said shipp … and saw them carried aboard the said shipp, all by the order of the said<br />
William ffowke the factor aforesaid. ffurthermore that<br />
upon the comming of the<br />
said shipp (wherein the said William ffowke and this deponent went) from Zant to Petras, this deponent sawe that the said Currants<br />
or the greatest part thereof videlicet to the number or quantitie of 40000<br />
weight or thereabouts were in or about the moneth of January last in the custodie<br />
and possession of the allegat henry Page, a merchant upon the place<br />
who was then and there commonly accompted the owner of the same, and<br />
saith that shortly after the said shipps arivall the said Page and the said<br />
William ffowke having speach together, the said Page delivered over the<br />
said currants to the said William ffowke with the possession thereof in<br />
the same warehouse wherein they were at their said comming thither<br />
and gave him the keyes thereof, having before the said deliverie sold<br />
them unto him, for hee saith that hee this deponent after and upon<br />
such deliverie sawe an accompt in the hands of the said ffowke<br />
given him by the said Page (and being of the said Pages owne hande<br />
writing, which this deponent well knoweth) for and upon the said<br />
currants and some other things, wherein the said Page acknowledged<br />
the receipt of about 1000 [?chickeins] of and from the said William ffowke for<br />
and in payment of the said currants, and some other things, and saith<br />
the said ffowke gave the said Page bills of exchange to Zant for the ballance<br />
of the said accompt of this deponents knowledge, And saith that the<br />
rest of the said currants soe laden by the said ffowke for the foresaid<br />
accompts, over and above the parcell soe by him bought and<br />
received of and from the said Page, amounting to about 10000 weight<br />
of currants, were bought by the said William ffowke<br />
and his agents of and from severall men that sold them to them, and paid for<br />
by the said William after sich somming of the ''Castle frigot'' to Petras,<br />
and saith that severall other men alsoe bought currants at Petras<br />
after the said arivall of the said vessell thither, and further that<br />
when shee came thence there were severall parcells of currants<br />
left remayning besides in the Morea, all Which hee knoweth for the<br />
reasons aforesaid, being present on the place and privie to what<br />
hee hath predeposed.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the said Interrogatorie hee answereth that hee hath not any<br />
interest in the currance in controversie, nor is any wayes concerned<br />
therein; and saith that as to those currants bought as aforesaid by the<br />
said ffowke of the said Page, they being beforehand and in the warehouse<br />
in caskes, this deponent did not observe or see of what sort they were,<br />
but for those that hee bought of other persons as aforesaid after the<br />
said shipps arivall at Petras, hee saith that some of them were<br />
currants of Lepanto and therest of Petras,<br />
howbeit hee desireth this may not seeme to this Court<br />
any contradicting of himselfe in respect of what hee hath<br />
predeposed, by calling the said currants laden as aforesaid, Morea<br />
currants, when as some of them that weere bought of other men after the<br />
shipps comming as aforesaid, are by him said to be currants of Lepanto (which<br />
lieth on the other side the gulph) for hee saith it is usuall to call<br />
them all currants, that are laden a Petras which is the<br />
Morea Morea currants, albeit some of them come from L:epanto or other places thereabouts
Repeated before Collonel Cock.
John Erlysman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Cock.
John Erlysman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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