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aboard the shipp arlate for the said voyag … aboard the shipp arlate for the said voyage, which<br />
sayd Accompt soe sent him he at this time of his<br />
examination he having and comparing with the schedule<br />
arlate, he findeth to agree in very particular, And he<br />
alsoe saith and deposeth that the same Accompt sent<br />
him by the said John Billiard, mention, and particular[?yse]<br />
all and singular the goods and merchandizes mentioned<br />
in the said schedule, And that they were all laden for<br />
the accompt of the said Nicholas Philipps the producent,<br />
upon whose Accompt it was that this deponent received the<br />
advice concerining the said shipps voyadge, and her lading<br />
and provisions, And further he cannot depose.
To the third article he deposeth and saith that he the<br />
deponent hath knowne the arlate david Billiard for<br />
abiut fourteene yeares last past, and that for all that<br />
time he hath bin resident and an Inhabitant of Ipswich<br />
and that the said David Billiard was putt in Master of<br />
the arlate shipp for this voyage in which shee was seized<br />
by the arlate Nicholas Philipps the producent, who did<br />
alsoe putt him in Master for a former voyage to the<br />
same Islands of this deponents knowledge, who did then<br />
victuall the said shipp and therby well knoweth the<br />
premisses predeposed by him, And further he deposeth<br />
and saith that the said David Billiard did goe three<br />
severall voyages to Nants in ffrance Master of a<br />
shipp called the ''Peter'' of Ipswich for the account of him<br />
the said Nicholas Phillips and that in every of the sayd<br />
voyages in her returne homewards she was taken, twice<br />
by shipps belonging to this Commonwealth, and once by<br />
a private man of warre, and that of the deponents<br />
certaine knowledge (who as Agent of the producent was<br />
imployed therin) he was released and discharged from<br />
every of the said seizures by order of this Court And<br />
further he cannot depose saving that he this deponent<br />
had alsoe an Inventary of the goods mentioned in the<br />
schedule arlate laden for the account of the sayd<br />
David Billiard, and alsoe for the accompt of one<br />
George White an Englishman, which sayd Inventary soe<br />
sent unto him he saith doth in every particular agree with<br />
the schedule arlate.
To the fourth article he deposeth and saith that he the deponent<br />
hath received advice from Plymouth by many Letters from<br />
divers of very good quality of the extreame pillaging and<br />
plundering of the Company of the said shipp and the<br />
passengers in her by the ''Brazeele ffrigatt'' and the [?XXXX]<br />
arlate, and that the said Letters speake the losse by pillaging<br />
andake the losse by pillaging<br />
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