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from the said time of his coming to serve … from the said time of his coming to serve in the said shipp, and never knew<br />
him in Spaine, and saw him last about three r foure dayes since in this house,<br />
and saith hee was the Sopra cargo and alwaies looked to and after the shipps<br />
marchandize, And otherwise cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the Interrogatorie in the second place hee answereth that hee knoweth not any<br />
vessell by the name of ''Propatria'', but saith the foresaid fflute that soe<br />
mett the foresaid shipp the ''Saint Mary'', was a dutch vessell, and<br />
had taken in about six thousand of the said hides into her when the said<br />
seizure happened, and should have taken in all the rest or as many of them<br />
as shee could carry if the said seizure had not happened, and as was said<br />
should gave carried them to Amsterdam. And further hee cannot answer<br />
saving as aforesaid.
Theise three witnesses repeated<br />
before doctor Godolphin.
The marke of the said '''+++''' [MARKE] John Eering [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The 6th day of May 1659
Croford against Middleton aforesaid:}<br />
Cheeke, Suckley}
Examined upon the foresaid Allegation:
[GUTTER '''XXXX''']
'''Rp. 3'''
'''John Bennet''' of Wapping Mariner aged<br />
60 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and Examined
To the first hee saith that the arlate Thomas Middleton was<br />
Master and Comander of the arlate ship the ''Elizabeth Mary'' for<br />
and during all the yeeres iof our Lord 1645: 1646. 1657. 1648<br />
1649 and 1650, and had for all that time the care and charge<br />
of her as Master and soe hee was Commonly accounted which this Deponent<br />
knoweth for that hee was on or about the 18th day of the moneth of October 1645<br />
hired by the said Thomas Middleton to goe Quartermaster of the<br />
said ship, and hath ever since belonged to the said ship; And<br />
further cannot depose./.
To the second and 3d Articles of the said Allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that, when this Deponent came first on board the said ship ''Elizabeth''<br />
''and Mary'', which was about the Latter end of October 1645 hee found<br />
the arlate Andrew Hill on board the said ship; who served as Cooke<br />
in her, but knoweth not the precise time that hee was hyred<br />
for howe much hee was hyred, But verily beleeveth that hee<br />
was hyred by the said Thomas Middleton, And saith that<br />
of this Deponents Certaine knowledge the said Andrew Hill<br />
did well Deserve the summe of Thirty shillings per moneth, for<br />
the time hee served in the said ship; And saith that the<br />
said Andrew Hill and this Deponent and the rest of the Mariners<br />
of the said ship did enter into whole pay on the seaventh day<br />
of December 1645. (being the Day that she departed from Gravesend)<br />
And the said Hill sailed in the said ship from Gravesend to<br />
the Straights and up and downe in the Straights, and served<br />
in her from the time of his coming on board her here in the<br />
River of Thames untill about foure yeeres after, and then dyed<br />
in the said ships service, during all which time hee the said Hill<br />
served time hee the said Hill<br />
served +
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