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The 4th of July 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Ta … The 4th of July 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Taylor and company against ffowke and Chewne}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation in<br />
the acts of Court.
'''2.'''
'''Captaine John Wall''' of the parish of Saint<br />
Mary Magdalen Bermondsey Mariner aged<br />
45 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that the allegate 13 butts and<br />
six carratells of Currants laden by William<br />
ffowke at Petras aboard the ''Castle frigot'' whereof this deponent was<br />
commannder, and brought to this port of London, were and are for the<br />
proper accompt of the producents henry Chewne and ffrancis ffowke<br />
And that six butts and one carratell of currants<br />
laden and brought as aforesaid were and are for the proper<br />
accompt of the allegate Captaine Thomas Middleton, and that they<br />
respectively have borne the risque of the said respective parcells, and were<br />
and are commonly accompted respectively the lawfull owners and proprietors<br />
of the said respective parcells, which hee knoweth because hee this<br />
deponent was master or commander of the said shipp and received<br />
the said currants aboard in the Roade of Petras for the said respective<br />
accompts and signed bills of ladeing for the same. And having nowe<br />
seene the two bills of lading mentioned and exhibited in the said allegation<br />
hee saith that the said bills were and are subscribed with this deponents<br />
proper handwriting, and that all and singular the contents thereof<br />
were and are true and soe had and donne as therein is contained, saving<br />
hee did not then knowe the [?inceard] consition nor weight of the said<br />
currants. And further hee saith that in the monthes of January or<br />
ffebruary last past, and to the time of the lading of the said respective<br />
parcells of currants, all the currants predeposed or the greatest part thereof<br />
were in the custodie and possession of the said William ffowke or his assignes<br />
in a warehouse under lock and key, whence the same were taken and<br />
laden aboard the said shipp, which hee knoweth seeing the same in the<br />
said warehouse ashore at Petras and seeing the same laden thence by the<br />
order of the ssaid William ffowke, and helping to fetch and lade them from thence<br />
aboard the said shipp the ''Castle frigot''; And the said currants were as<br />
hee beleeveth bought and paid for by the said William ffowke before<br />
such lading thereof, for that as hee beleeveth (unlesse hee had bought and<br />
paid for them) hee could not have laden them thence. And hee moreover<br />
deposeth that the said shipp the ''castle frigot'' came and arived at<br />
Petras on or about the 22th of december last past, and shortly after<br />
such her arivall this deponent went ashore and sawe the said currants<br />
or the greatest part thereof in the custodie and possession of heny<br />
Page a merchant upon the place, as owner thereof; and while the said<br />
shipp remained there the said Page transferred and delivered over the<br />
same to the said William ffowke and gave him the possession thereof in the<br />
warehouse wherein they were lying, being the same warehouse out of<br />
which they were laden as aforesaid, and gave him the keyes of the said warehouse<br />
which hee knoweth being there and privie to the doing thereof. And hee further saith<br />
that after the said shipps arivall the said Mr William ffowke bought<br />
about tenn thousand weight of currants of other persons at Petras,<br />
and<br />
some other men namely some of the seamen bought about two thousand<br />
weightught about two thousand<br />
weight +
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