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The 26th of Aprill 1660./.
[GUTTER ?XXXX … The 26th of Aprill 1660./.
[GUTTER ?XXXX against Alderman Barker}<br />
[GUTTER ?XXXX Suckley}
Examined on the said Allegation/.
'''Rp. (2dus.'''
'''John Hunter''' native of Edenborough in Scotland<br />
but residing at Present at the signe of the Ball in<br />
Saint Lawrence Pountneyes Lane London Merchant aged<br />
48 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and Examined.
To the first article hee referreth himselfe to the Charterparty<br />
arlate./.
To the second 3d and 4th articles of the said Allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that the arlate Thomas Dearsly the voyage in question<br />
made with the arlate shipp the ''Golden ffalcon'' (in [?Keck] Roade<br />
above an English mile from the Peerehead all the time<br />
the said ship staid in the said Roade, And saith that<br />
hee this Deponent (who went thither in the ship the ''ffortune''<br />
and was imployed by the arlate Alderman Barker to<br />
[?Xode] both the ''Golden ffalcon'' and the ''ffortune'')<br />
oftentimes within [?XXXXXXX] ten dayes after the ships first arrivall in the [?Roade] and after earnestly desired the said<br />
Deazsly to bring the said ship ''ffalcon'' neerer the<br />
Peerehead to the end shee might be the sooner Laden and with lesse hazard<br />
and told him if hee would come up with his said ship beere<br />
to the Peere head, hee would fully lade his ship, before hee<br />
would put any Lading onboard the ''ffortune'', but<br />
notwithstanding hee refused to come up any neerer, although<br />
of this Deponents Knowledge hee might have come up halfe<br />
a mile neere to the Peere head then hee did, and there hee<br />
might have rode in as good ground and as Deepe water, and<br />
in as much safety as hee did in the place<br />
where hee rode as this Deponent verily beleeveth, And this<br />
Deponent and alsoe the said Deazsly were Informed by severall<br />
of the Inhabitants of Keck that ships of 100: 120 and 130 Lasts<br />
burthen did use to ride within halfe a mile of the Peere<br />
head, and never any ships lay out soe farr to receive in their Lading as the ''ffalcon''<br />
did, or to that effect, And saith that the said Peere head is the<br />
ordinary ad usuall place from whence goods are sent onboard<br />
ships lying in the said Rode, and this Deponent never knew<br />
any goods put in boates to be sent onboard ships at any other<br />
place in the said Rode although hee hath made Many<br />
voyages thither And further deposeth that if the said<br />
Dearsly had come up with the said ship soe farr as hee might have don as<br />
aforesaid, this deponent could have fully laded her within twenty<br />
dayes after her arrivall in the said rode, And saith that there<br />
was above a Thousand Quarters of<br />
Barley left at Keck aforesaid which was provided to be laden onboard<br />
the ''ffalcon'', and another ship if this Deponent could either buy or ship if this Deponent could either buy or +
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