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Taverne in Saint Nicholas Lane London, and … Taverne in Saint Nicholas Lane London, and that then and there<br />
they did bargaine and agree with this deponent to buy an<br />
eight part of the said shipp at the rate or value of (about<br />
3000 ''li'' for the said shipp) and that the said Eight part was<br />
made up of this deponents sixteenth part, a 32th part of the arlate<br />
John Taylor and a 32th part of the sayd Thomas Rawlinson<br />
and they did alsoe then covenanta nd bargaine to cleare all<br />
accounts aswell due unto this deponent as unto the sayd<br />
Rawlinson and all the rest of the Owners, soe to whom<br />
any thing was due and comming upon the proceed of her<br />
severall ladings of salt and fish, and that alsoe they<br />
promised then upon their faith and as they were honest<br />
men that he the deponent showld have and that they would<br />
give him a 100 ''li'' in liew of his Mastership, which upon the<br />
performance of that promise this deponent promised to part with<br />
unto one Joseph Warwen; And he further saith that by<br />
his the deponents relying upon the execution of their promise<br />
thinking that they would be as good as their words, he lett the<br />
said Warwen bee putt into the possession of Mastershipp<br />
of the sayd shipp, and that afterwards upon hearing that<br />
the sayd shipp was falne downe to Gravesend and going<br />
upon a voyage without the lnowledge or consent f this<br />
deponent and the arlate Taylor and Rawlinson the<br />
producents, and the bargaine predeposed of in noe part observed<br />
he the deponent with them went to the arlate Skinner (the<br />
arlate [?hallett] and Gregory Nosworthys servant being gone<br />
into the Countrey) and that the said Skinner did before<br />
them acknowledge the former bargaine or contract, though<br />
subtly and cunningly he would not declare what the particulars<br />
were, And further he cannot depose.
To the fourth article he deposeth that because the said [?hullett]<br />
and Skinner snf Gregory Noseworthys servant did not make<br />
good their bargaine predeposed of the shipp the ''Truroe'' was at<br />
the action of the producents and this deponent arrested, and he saith<br />
that they the said [?hallett] and Skinner and Nosworthy did<br />
never yet come to any accompt with this deponent or the producents<br />
for the said shipp or her goods for her last voyage And<br />
further he cannot depose
To the last he saith his former deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth that the interrate Rawlinson<br />
and Taylor were Owners at the tyme interrate of a 32th part<br />
of the shipp interrate respectively, that they bought their severall<br />
parts of him this deponent, at the rate of 2200 ''li'' for the whole<br />
shipp, that the money was payd at the house of<br />
him this Rendent, and that the bills of sale were made<br />
by a Scrivener (one Bowes (as he remembreth) who<br />
liveth by the Exchange, And further he cannot answeare.
Tohange, And further he cannot answeare.
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