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the nyneteenth day of October anno domini … the nyneteenth day of October anno domini 1635 last past the arlate John<br />
Digbye did buy of him this deponent two cases of stronnge waters<br />
which (as the sayd Digbye then affirmed) he intended to send to Virginia<br />
in the arlate shipp the ''Constant'' (Wherof Clement Campion was<br />
captain for which two cases of stronnge waters the said Digbye hath since really payd unto<br />
him forty two shillings seaven pence, And heralsoe<br />
sayeth that tent wyne the time aforesaid (if it were good could not be lesse<br />
worth then foure shillings per gallon; and suche at that tyme (if it were<br />
found) could not be lesse worth then three shillings per gallon, which he know that<br />
to be true beinge a wyne Cooper who doth often buy and sell wynes<br />
Et alr nescit deponere./
Richarde Younge [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Primo February 1636 iuxta [?Xe]./
'''Robertus Burges''' de Culliton in County Devon mercator aetats<br />
42 annorum circiter testis in hac parte productus iuratus<br />
Et examinatus dicit quod Johem Digbye partem productus per<br />
12 annes aetapps aut circiter bene novit sed partem con quam<br />
productus non novit ut dicit
Ad primum secundum et reliquos arlos allegationis in hac parte dat et oblat<br />
Et schedulam in eadem menconat dicit et deponit That<br />
A little before Easter last past he<br />
this deponent beinge heere in London mett with the arlate John<br />
Digbye who acquainted this deponent that he had traded divers goods abord<br />
the arlate shipp the ''Constant'' (wherof the arlate Clement Campion<br />
was captain) to be delivered at Virginia, and that he had understood that<br />
the sayd shipp proved insufficient for the performance of her voyage<br />
and that she was putt into the west countrey neere at Alford combe<br />
neere Barnestaple, and the sayd Digbye delivered this deponent on<br />
divers notes of the particulers of the sayd goods with a letter of attorney under his hands to receive them and desired him to<br />
ride to Alfordcombe to demande the sayd goods, and that in or<br />
about the moneth of May last past this deponent at the request of the<br />
sayd digbye this rode to Barnestaple and there inquired for the<br />
sayd Campion the captain of the said ship, where he was tould that the<br />
sayd Campion was at a gentlemans house about five miles from that<br />
place, and that a great part of the goods laden in the said ship were<br />
sould, and then this deponent rode to that gent house to inquire for the<br />
sayd Campion, where coming he was tould by one of the company of the said ship that doth lay at that gentlemans house that the said Campion had<br />
bene there, but was gone from there the day before and that some of the sayd Digbyes<br />
goods videlicet contayne wynes and other goods lay in that gent house, but this<br />
deponent could not have them unlesse he would pay six pounds for them,<br />
and that all the goods were unladen out of the said shippe, and some of the<br />
sayd goods were in a sellor in Alfordcombe but were much dampuifyed<br />
little worth, and that a great part of the goods laden into the sayd<br />
shipp were sould to mainetayne the company (they having nothing else to<br />
live on) and to pay their debts in that countrey wheruppon this deponent<br />
replyed that he had authoritye to receive the sayd Digbyes goods, but not to<br />
pay any money for them, and then that man of the company agayne tould him that he<br />
could not have those wynes and other goods unlesse he would paye six pounds for them<br />
and theruppon this deponent returned home and did not goe to Alfordcombe to demand<br />
the rest of the said Digbyes goods because he was tould that they were spoiled, dampuifyed and little<br />
worth as aforesaid Et alr profit deponere.
Robert Burges [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]nere.
Robert Burges [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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