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The 5th day of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADI … The 5th day of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
Edward Beale and Company against the}<br />
shipp ''Expectation''/}<br />
Examined upon the sayd allegation.
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'''Abragam Hoopgood''' of Saint Ellens the lesse in London<br />
merchant aged one and twenty yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and saith as<br />
followeth. videlicet.
To the first second third and fourth aand fifth articles of the sayd allegation<br />
This deponent saith that Residing att Messina in Scicily in the monethes<br />
of december and January 1650, he then and there saw the arlate<br />
shipp the ''Expectation'' being and abiding in the Port of Messina, and saith<br />
that the arlate Thomas Newman was then Master of her, and the<br />
arlate Thomas Ayres Purser of her and for and as such sthe sayd<br />
Newman and Ayres were then and there commonly accounted reputed and<br />
taken, And saith that of the saight and knowledge of this deponent the<br />
sayd ship ''Expectation'' wsa in very great want of repaires in her<br />
hull tackle and furniture, and so much in want thereof as that she<br />
could not possobly without inevitable danger of foundring have made<br />
any voyage to sea especially to this Port of London or other Port att a<br />
great distance from Messina. And moreover saith there was att the<br />
same tyme a Common fame and voyce amongst the English merchants<br />
and others there resideing that the sayd Newman and Ayres wanted<br />
moneyes to repair their sayd shipp, and that they had applyed themselves<br />
to the arlate Edward Beale a merchant of Messina and Company for<br />
releife therein, and that the sayd Edward Beale did undertake to<br />
furnish them and did really furnish them according to their desires. And<br />
this deponent saith that of his certaine knowledge and sight the sayd<br />
shipp was repaired there about the same tyme by the said Newman and Ayres assisted by severall brokers<br />
and others of Messina who bought the necessaries whereby the same was amended victualled and furnished<br />
and was fitted and made tight and able to goe to sea. And by the<br />
sommon voyce and report amongst the English merchants and others att<br />
Messina aforesayd she was so repaired amended fitted and furnished<br />
by the sayd Edward Beake or with his moneyes and by his meanes, And<br />
so much this deponent verily beleiveth,<br />
And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the sixth sevenenth and eighth articles of the sayd allegation he saith that<br />
after the sayd shipp was so repaired as aforesayd she sett sayle from<br />
Messina being bound for this Port of London, and otherwise referring<br />
himselfe to his foregoeing depositions and to the Acts of this Court<br />
he cannot depose.
To the seventh article of the sayd allegation he saith he knoweth none of the parties<br />
arlate.
To the last he saith his depositions are true.
Toast he saith his depositions are true.
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