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And saith the said Allert huyberts receive … And saith the said Allert huyberts received the said number of deales<br />
aboard his said shipp, and undertooke and promised to carry and<br />
deliver the same at Waterford aforesaid, and set saile thence with<br />
his said shipp and the said deale boards therein, this deponent seeing<br />
him soe sett saile, and looking after till the said shipp came about<br />
a league off at sea. But saith the said huyberts proved soe<br />
unfaithfull, that in stead of Waterford hee carried the said shipp and<br />
deales to Boston in lincolne shire, and there disposed thereof, for hee<br />
saith that this deponent being advertized of such miscarriage of the<br />
said master, and ordered by letters to goe and looke after him and the said deales,<br />
this deponent departed from Lerwick in a shipp bound for London, which<br />
put him ashore at dunwich, whence hee rode to Boston, where hee<br />
arived about a fortnight since, and there found the said shipp the<br />
''Golden Wine fatt'' lying at a Sluce called the Goate<br />
where hee went round her and viewed and knew her to bee the same<br />
and there this deponent understood that the arlate John Ellis, John<br />
Atkins, Thomas Cheyney and Elisha kell had gutten the said deale<br />
boards into their custody from the said master, and that the said master<br />
having gotten some money there upon his shipp and<br />
goods, had quitted the same, and was run or gonne away, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third article hee saith that this deponent after such his arivall<br />
at Boston and making in quirie into the said busines, heard it there said<br />
and affirmed by severall persons that the said Ellis, Atkins, Cheyney<br />
amd kell were informed and told by divers, that the said deales were<br />
belonging to the said Mr Smith, and that the said master had nothing to<br />
doe to dispose thereof, but was to carry them to Waterford to be delivered<br />
for the said Mr Smiths account, and further there heard that they<br />
paid or gave the said master a summe of money very<br />
inconsiderable and nothing answering the rates of the said shipp and lading,<br />
[?yet] soe inconsiderable a summe then they could not but be convinced that the<br />
said master had noe power to sell the said shipp and lading, but would get<br />
what hee could for the same of any that would be soe dishonest as to buy<br />
them, and soe run away. And further deposeth not.
To the fourth hee saith that the said eight thousand six hundred sixtie<br />
and three deale boards were well worth the summe of seven pounds<br />
sterling per hundred (on hundred with another) and rateably for a lesse<br />
quantitie) or thereabouts at Boston aforesaid at such timme as the said Ellis, Atkins,<br />
Cheyney and kell got the same there into their possession, as this deponent<br />
understood there, and as it was there commonly said by persons there<br />
knowing as that commoditie, with whom this deponent had<br />
conference about the valew thereof at that time and place. And<br />
soe much hee saith they would have yeelded at Waterford if they had<br />
bin carried thither and arived there in November, december, or<br />
January last, and saith that as hee heard the said shipp arived at<br />
Boston on or about the one and twentith of November last and that the<br />
said Ellis, Atkins Cheyney and kell got the said shipp and lading of<br />
deales into their possession, presently upon the said arivall, and<br />
might there have sold the said deales at or after the rate aforesaid. And<br />
saith the said shipp, tackle, furniture and necessaries were commonly<br />
said and esteamed to be at the time of such comming to Boston worth about<br />
foure hundred pounds sterling. And further to this article hee deposeth not
Torther to this article hee deposeth not
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