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To the 4 hee cannot answere not knowing of … To the 4 hee cannot answere not knowing of nor having deposed any<br />
thing to the effect Interrogate./
To the 5th hee cannot depose./
To the 6th Interrogatorie soe farr as to these words videlicet (or did use words<br />
to that or the like effect) hee cannot depose, knowing nothing touching the<br />
contents thereof, And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively
Repeated in Court before doctor Godolphin<br />
and Colonell Cock./
Geo Powlett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
Examined on the sayd allegation
'''Rp. 3us'''
'''John Bennetland''' of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Ber=<br />
mondsey in Southwarke in the County of Surrey Mariner<br />
Master of the ''Patience'' of London aged thirty two yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the 6th article of the sayd allegation and the schedule therein mentioned<br />
hee saith that hee this deponent was Master of the shipp ''Patience'' of London<br />
and laye in the River of Morlaix neere the shipp the ''Morlaix Merchant''<br />
arlate during all the tyme shee roade in the sayd River (this deponents<br />
sayd shipp coming thither and departing thense with the sayd shipp the ''Morlaix''<br />
''Merchant'') and saith that the day before the ''Morlaix Merchant'' departed<br />
from Morlaix this deponent and one Mr Varles an English Merchant<br />
were on board the sayd shipp ''Morlaix Merchant'', and saith wile they were<br />
there, there came two french men on board one whereof (whose name hee knoweth not) did<br />
demande of the arlate Robert Bowden Master of the ''Morlaix Merchant''<br />
three fardles of Linnen laden aboard his shipp by the arlate ffrancis<br />
Trenchpayne, and shewed unto the sayd Bowden the schedule arlate<br />
which hee sayd was a noate under the sayd Trenchpaines hand and sent by the sayd Trenchpaine to the sayd Bowden for the<br />
delivery of the sayd three fardles to him, and this deponent knoweth<br />
that the other who came alonge with the french man who made demands<br />
of the sayd three fardles was the sayd Trenchpaines servant, (hee having<br />
seene him often at the sayd Trenchpaines howse and imployed by him<br />
as his servant in his affayres) and saith hee heard the sayd Trenchpaines<br />
sayd servant affirme that the sayd noate or schedule was his sayd masters hand<br />
and [?solely] to the sayd Bowden and that the sayd three fardles were to be delivered by the<br />
sayd<br />
Bowden according to the sayd noate, and alsoe heard the sayd Varles<br />
(upon his perusall of the sayd Noate) saye that hee being acquainted<br />
familiarly with the sayd Trenchpaines hand writeing did verily<br />
beleeve the same noate to bee all of it his the sayd Trenchpaines owne hand<br />
writing, And these premisses passed in manner aforesayd aboard the<br />
''Morlaix Merchant'' in presense and heareing of this deponent and the sayd<br />
Mr Varles And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the rest hee is not examined by direction of the producents proctorned by direction of the producents proctor +
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