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On the 24th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEAD … On the 24th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2)'''
'''Rp. EA.'''
'''Bartholomew Greene''' of Radcliffe in the County of<br />
Middlesex servant unto the sayd Symon Beale the<br />
producent, aged 19 yeares and upwards, a wittnes<br />
produced and sworne and being examined he deposeth as followeth
To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and<br />
saith That he was one of the shipp the ''Providence'' her company<br />
in her voyage arlate to Norway, and that he was there<br />
present when the deales were brought home in the sayd shipp<br />
to this Port of London were there laden by the arlate<br />
Nicholas Christianson the Agent or factor there of the<br />
arlate Goodwin and Langdon for their accompt, and that<br />
he the deponent being soe present did see the cutting of the<br />
sayd Deales brought home in the sayd shipp, and that of<br />
his certaine knowledge they were cutt bny Danes such as<br />
were imployed to that purpose of the said Christianson, and<br />
he saith that they were soe cutt for the more convenient<br />
stowing of them into the sayd shipp, and that the peices of<br />
Deales brought home in the sayd shipp were cutt off of<br />
the long peices of Deales brought home in the sayd shipp<br />
and of noe other deales, of the deponents certaine knowledge<br />
who first saw the cutting of the sayd deales and afterwards<br />
the stowing of them into the sayd shipp And further he<br />
saith he cannot depose saving that the sayd Deales were laden<br />
aboard after the rate of sice score to the hundred and noe more
To the last he saith his former deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he is at this present<br />
servant unto the producent as he was at the time he saw the<br />
deales interrate laden aboard the shipp in Norway, and he<br />
saith that there were some deales (but what number he knoweth<br />
not) at the shipps side which were not taken in because the<br />
shipp was fully loaden, And otherwise referring himselfe to his<br />
former deposition he answereth negatively./
To the second Interrogatory he answereth that the peeces of deales<br />
cutt in this Rendents sight by Danes putt in that worke by<br />
the sayd Christianson the Agent of Goodwyn and Langdon<br />
but he saith he kept noe reckoning or account how many peeces<br />
there were, And to the rest negatively.
To the third Interrogatory he saith he knoweth not to answere it<br />
not belonging to him but to the Bozen of the shipp to<br />
take account of what goods were taken in and what delivered out of the said shipp.
Repeated with his precontest befor<br />
the two Judges in Court.
Bartholomew Greene [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE].
Bartholomew Greene [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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