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there were remaining and stowed betwixt th … there were remaining and stowed betwixt the decks of the said shipp<br />
the ''harderinne'' and in her greate cabbin, and continued therein to the time<br />
of her bringing into Plimouth and putting into the hands of the States<br />
officers for prize goods there, seventie foure hogsheads of vinagar (as hee<br />
took the contents thereof to be) three and twenty pipes of Brandy,<br />
and eight bales, one containing parchment, and the rest as he beleeveth<br />
paper, this deponent cutting one of them open and finding it to be<br />
paper, after hee had cutt open the bale of parchment, but for the<br />
markes and numbers of the said goods hee saith he did not observe the<br />
same, and saith there might be more of the said goods there which hee<br />
did not see. The premisses touching the said goods and their<br />
bringing in and deliverie with the said shipp at Plimouth hee<br />
deposeth because hee sawe thee same set downe, and there this<br />
deponent saw them under custody of the said officers in the said shipp.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth hee referreth himselfe to the lawe and the Registerie of<br />
this Court, and to what hee hath predeposed, and saving the same<br />
cannot further depose.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
Bennitt fflutte [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The third of January 1656.
Touching the shipp}<br />
the ''Posthorse''.}
'''Rp.'''
'''ffrederick Ixem''' of London Notary, aged 30 yeeres<br />
of thereabouts sworne before the right worshipfull John<br />
Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges of<br />
the high Court of the Admiraltie, saith and deposeth,
That hee this deponent was present at the Mytre taverne<br />
in ffenchurch Streete London on wednesday last being the last day<br />
of december now last past, and did see Peter van Overschild<br />
(mentioned in the bill of sale now by him brought) signe seale and<br />
for his act and deed deliver the said bill of sale of the shipp<br />
the ''Post horse'' therein mentioned to Peter deolieslagher and<br />
daniel Mathews of London Merchants then and there alsoe present,<br />
in all things as therein nowe appeareth, and in testimony thereof<br />
hee this deponent as a witness did (with others) write his name<br />
on the back thereof as nowe alsoe appeareth. And further<br />
that on the same day immediately before the said sealing and deliverie<br />
this deponent then and there saw the said deolieslagher and<br />
Mathews by the hands of John Minet really pay in pecunijs<br />
numeratis tto the said van Overschild the summe of two hundred<br />
fourtie and five pounds mentioned in the said bill, for the said shipp.
Fred Ixem [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]aid shipp.
Fred Ixem [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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