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To the 8th article he saith he cannot othe … To the 8th article he saith he cannot otherwise depose than<br />
as afore said to which hee referreth
To the 9th article of the said Allegation he saith and deposeth That<br />
in or about the Month of September last past, hee this deponent returning<br />
to Legorne from his said Masters Imployement abroad in other parts, and seeing<br />
that the said Master, John ffairefax arlate was failed in his Estate and [?did]<br />
ob?scure himselfe, did with other of the Agents of the said ffairefax (to<br />
avoyd imprisonment and other dangers (which by the law in that place might<br />
have ??come upon him) goe on board the shipp the ''Salvador'' arlate, lying<br />
then in the Roade neere Lygorne, All which time the arlate Robert Swanley<br />
and divers of the Company of the shipp the ''Harry Bonadventure'' and<br />
Nicholas Terricke and divers of the Company of the shipp the ''Hopewell''<br />
arlate, came abroad the said shipp the ''Salvador'' and there demanded<br />
of this deponent, Isaak Harwood, and Humphrey Coulson servants of the said [XXXX] and other [XX] what goods they<br />
had in the said Shipp which belonged to the said ffaire fax<br />
and saying that there were Indicoes in the said shipp and other goods<br />
and that they must and would have them for debts which the said ffaire fax owed<br />
to them, upon which they the said Harwood and Coulson replyed that there<br />
were Indicoes on bord the said shipp but said they could not (or would not)<br />
tell whose they were. And imediatly thereupon the said Swanley Terricke<br />
and Companyes, said it was in vaine to [XX]test, for they came for<br />
and would have the said Goods for what was oweing them by their Master<br />
Mr ffairefax, and so for [XXXXXX] (as this deponent was informed being then sick<br />
in his Cabine) did without any warrant or lawfull Authoritie take out<br />
of the said shipp ten Barrells of Indico, which (as hee verely beleeveth)<br />
was part of the Indico sent and consigned to his said Master ffairefax<br />
by the producent or his Agents, All which hee deposeth for that afterwards<br />
when the Indico was gone, the said Swantley and Terricke came<br />
into the Cabine where this deponent then was, and did ?so signe and<br />
sett their hands to a noate That they had taken out of the said shipp<br />
the ''Salvador'' ten barrells of Indico as aforesaid, In the presence of this<br />
deponent, and the said Harwood and Coulson, and others And further he<br />
saith hee cannot depose.
To the 10th article hee saith and deposeth that the said Swanley and Terricke att<br />
the time of there comeing aboard the said shipp the ''Salvador'' did say that the said ffairefax<br />
owed them and companyes three thousand Dollers or thereabouts upon which the said Harwood asked<br />
them how many barrells of the said Indico they would have, who replyed<br />
saying that they could have noe lesse than ten barrells, and then the said Harwood<br />
tould them that they would bee worth more than they demanded, or words to that<br />
effect But hee saith that att the time of the taking away of the said Indico<br />
the said Swanley and Terricke and their Companye did not pay any money<br />
or give other satisfaction for the same otherwise than by theire noate mentioned<br />
in this said deposition to which hee referreth himself and otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose/
To the 11thee cannot<br />
depose/
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