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for if wee bee forced to pay for your ship … for if wee bee forced to pay for your shipp and Cargo, it will [?XXX]<br />
amount to above three dollers a man for the share of every one<br />
belonging to the dutch East India Company to make satisfaction for<br />
the ''Postillian'' and her Cargoe, and therefore wee value it not our<br />
Company hath money enough And this deponent shewing the sayd<br />
Generall his this deponents protection which hee had from his<br />
Highnes the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of<br />
England the sayd Generall in a slighting manner refused to<br />
view it and sayd that though the Protector was Master in<br />
England yet, the dutch were Masters in the East Indies And<br />
farther hee deposeth not.
Jo:° Kingsman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 13th of September 1658
Smith against the ''Golden Winefat'')
Examined upon the same said allegation
'''Rp.'''
'''3us'''
'''Peter Rich''' of London Merchant, aged<br />
27 yeeres or therabouts sworne and examined
To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth that in or about the<br />
moneth of August 1657 the producent Edward Smith (being<br />
then in Ireland) wrote and sent a letter to this deponent (correspondent<br />
of the said Smith) to this citie, ordering him thereby to write to Albert<br />
[?Brumson] his correspondent in Amsterdam to freight a shipp<br />
there and send her for Larwick in Norway to receive a lading<br />
of deales and transport the same to Waterford in Ireland for this<br />
the said producents account, which this deponent did accordingly<br />
and after received answer from the said Albert that hee had<br />
freighted a shipp accordingly named the ''Golden Winefat''<br />
(Allen huynrechts master) and sent this deponent the Charter<br />
partie of the said affreightment, Whereupon this deponent<br />
according to the said producents further order, forthwith dispatched<br />
letters to his precontest Richard Rich the producents factor residing<br />
in Norway to lade the said shipp with deales and dispatch her<br />
for Waterford aforesaid upon the said producents account, [?and ?saith]<br />
that afterwards namely in or about November next following<br />
this deponent received answer from the said Richard that hee had<br />
accordingly laded the said shipp with deales at Larwicke amounting namely<br />
to 8663 deale boards, and consigned them for Ireland, for the [?XXX]<br />
account, and [?received] order to pay the money here for the same, which this<br />
deponent did accordingly, amounting to one thousand and [?seaventy]<br />
dollars and three [?quarts], which hee the said Smith repaid to this [?deponent]<br />
And saith that afterwards namely in or about ffebruary last [?this]<br />
deponent heard that the said huybrechts instead of Ireland had<br />
carried the said shipp and lading of deale boards to Boston [?and]<br />
[?XXX]boards to Boston [?and]<br />
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