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The 22th August 1656/
Examined upon the s … The 22th August 1656/
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''Rp. 3us'''
'''Cornelius Symonson''' of Wapping Mariner borne in<br />
dromond in Norway aged twenty three yeares or there<br />
abouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee was a foremast<br />
man of the shipp the ''Edward and John'' the voyage in question And that<br />
the sayd shipps Company all entered into whole pay for their service<br />
therein on the second day of June 1655 and continued their service<br />
on board her untill the two and twentith day of July 1656 during<br />
which tyme hee saith they did performe their duties as Mariners<br />
on board her according to the Commands of the arlate Totty the<br />
Master or Commander of her and further saving his following deposition<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 2 hee saith hee being one of the shipps Company as aforesayd<br />
knoweth that the arlate Totty did take aboard twenty five horses and<br />
gueldings and two mares to be transported in the sayd shipp to the Bar=<br />
badoes for severall mens Accompts whereof the arlate Chamberlaine<br />
was one, And saith two of those horses or gueldings dyed by the way<br />
at Sea and the rest were all safely transported to the Barbadoes and<br />
saith that they being arrived there, their severall Owners came to make<br />
demand of them, and thereupon as they were demanded they were put<br />
on shoare and as hee beleeveth delivered on shoare to their Owners<br />
and saith that after all the horses guldings and mares aforesayd save<br />
fower horses or gueldings and one mare were soe disposed of on shoare,<br />
the arlate Chamberlaine came on board the sayd shipp and demanded<br />
such horses or gueldings as hee sayd belonged to him (but how many<br />
belonged to him hee remembreth not) and desyred they might be brought<br />
on shoare that night, whereupon this deponent and his contest Thomas Lindsey and Edward Cooke by Command of the<br />
Master Captaine Totty and of henry Turpin and William huggey his<br />
Mates, did take the sayd fower horses or gueldings and one mare one of them being the horse in question and carried them<br />
on shoare in the boate and were ordered by the sayd Master and Mates to<br />
deliver them or carry them to the same place where the rest of the<br />
horses had bin carried and there leave them and returne on board<br />
againe, and this deponent and the sayd Lindsey and the sayd Cooke the Carpenters mate<br />
being come on shoare with the sayd horses and mare John hunt the<br />
boatswaines Mate and John [?honie] the gunners mate being on shoare and<br />
having bin imployed formerly to carrie other horses to the place where<br />
they were to bee delivered) told this deponent and the sayd Lindsey and Cooke<br />
that they would shew them where the rest of the horses were delivered and<br />
soe gott up upon two of the horses and went with them and the sayd hunt, [?honie]<br />
Cooke Lindsey and this deponent brought the sayd fower horses or gueldings and<br />
one mare unto a hovell or boarded house neere the Indian bridge in<br />
the Barbados (having a rack and manger in it) and there tyed them<br />
and put hay before them, and having the sayd hunt and [?honie] told<br />
this deponent that they were informed on shoare that one of the sayd<br />
Chamberlaines men was appointed to come to looke to the sayd horses<br />
that night, where upon this deponent and the sayd hunt, [?honie], Cooke and Lindseythe sayd hunt, [?honie], Cooke and Lindsey +
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