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The 3d day of ffebruary 1658./
Browning a … The 3d day of ffebruary 1658./
Browning against Bulkeley aforesayd}<br />
Smith Suckley}
Examined upon the said Allegation on the behalfe of the<br />
said Browning.
'''Rp. 4us'''
'''James Boord''' of Deale in the County of Kent<br />
Mariner, aged 35 yeeres or thereabouts sworne<br />
and Examined:/.
To the first and second articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that for all the moneths of January ffebruary, and March 1654, and alsoe<br />
for the monethes of March, Aprill May and June 16555: English stile<br />
the arlate Wm Browning Mr Pratt, and Company were the<br />
true and Lawfull owners and Proprietors of the arlate shipp the ''Plaine''<br />
''Dealing'', and the said Browning was for all the time aforesayd<br />
Master and Commander of the said ship. and for such Comonly<br />
accompted, Amd saith that on or about the 28th day of<br />
the said moneth of Aprill 1655 the arlate John Pratt and<br />
Anthony Wills did hire and take to ffreight the said ship the<br />
''Plaine Dealing'' of and from the said Wm Browning for a<br />
Certaine Voyage or Voyages to be made with the said ship<br />
from this Port of London, to New England, and other places beyond the<br />
Seas, and to returne againe to this Port and having nowe<br />
perused the first Charter party arlate, hee verily beleeveth that the saud<br />
name (John Pratt/subscribed to the same, to be the Propper hand<br />
writing of the [?factor] John Pratt, and the said name Anthony Wills<br />
also subscribed to the said Charterparty to be the Proper hand writing<br />
of the arlate Anthony Wills: and to be Respectively sealed<br />
and delivered by them the said Pratt, and Wills, and saith hee<br />
verily beleeveth the said Charterparty to be true, And the foresaid<br />
Premises hee deposeth Goeing all the voyage in Question<br />
Mate, and boatswaine of the said shipp ''Plaine Dealing'', and further<br />
hee cannot depose./:
To the 3d hee saith that not long after the making the foresaid first<br />
Charterparty, and at such time as the said ship was ready to set<br />
saile on the foresaid voyage, there happened and was a<br />
difference betweene Mr William Bulkely, and the said Anthony<br />
Wills, by reason whereof the said ship was hindred to proceed to<br />
sea, untill such time as the said difference was reconciled and ended<br />
and saith that some dayes (after the said difference betweene the said<br />
Bulkeley, and Wills, was reconciled, there was another Charterparty<br />
made betweene the said Wm. Bulkely, Anthony Wills and John<br />
Pratt and the said Browning, And further hee cannot depose, to<br />
this article.
To the 5th hee saith that after the signing sealing and delivereing<br />
of the said second Charterparty, namely on or about the 28th<br />
day of May 1655: the said ship ''Plaine dealing'' set saile from<br />
Gravesend on her foresaid bound voyage, with a quantity of [?Mault]<br />
Consisting of about 300 Quarters, sixteene pipes of wine a hogshead<br />
of Malassa's, hooks bales of Serges, tenn Baggs of hopps, three fatts of<br />
Cheesef hopps, three fatts of<br />
Cheese +
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