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To the nynth he saith there was the Emden … To the nynth he saith there was the Emden Colours aboard the sayd<br />
shipp and not any other Colours and the sayd shipp was taken uppon<br />
the open seas by one of Captaine Phillips his Capers; but whether<br />
he had any Commission aboard [?hee] knoweth not. And otherwise<br />
cannot depose
To the tenth he saith he was not fraighted by Charter party this voyage, but<br />
had a Certificat touching his voyage and the same was made in the Stadthowse of Emde for the<br />
sayd Jan Gouson Hans Lucas, Elias Duisse and Comfort Webben<br />
and Abraham Slasse. and otherwise referring himselfe to his<br />
said Certificat which is as he beleiveth in the Registry<br />
of this Court he saith he cannot depose.
To the eleventh Interrogatory he referreth himselfe to his foregoeing<br />
depositions and otherwise cannot depose saving that none of<br />
the foresayd owners within theis 12 moneths last past have<br />
lived in any of the dominions of the ffrench King.
To the 12th Interrogatory he saith the sayd shipp made her outward<br />
voyage aforesaid from Emden to Borousse in her ballast onely<br />
And otherwise cannot depose
Repeated in Court}<br />
before the Judges}
[?XXXXX] [?Gidden] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 23th of November <u>1653</u>
The Keepers et cetera against the ''ffortune''}<br />
of Statin}
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''3)'''
'''Richard Batson''' of the parish of Saint Botolphs<br />
Billingsgate London merchant aged 53<br />
yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne<br />
and examined deposeth and saith as followeth<br />
videlicet.
That in or about the monethes of July August and September<br />
last past good sweet sound and merchantable English<br />
wheat was in this Commonwealth of England usually sold<br />
att the rate of about nineteene and twenty shillings by the<br />
quarter, which this deponent knoweth having about that tyme<br />
dealt and traded in that Commodity, and more particularly saith<br />
that within the tyme aforesayd one Mr Boreman a merchant<br />
a partner with this deponent in the sayd trade did buy severall<br />
great quantities of English wheat good sweet sound and merchantable<br />
samples whereof this deponent had and saw, and is to<br />
have a third part thereof to and for his owne accompt the sayd<br />
whole part being 800 quarters or thereabouts, all to be safely<br />
delivered a shipboard att the charge of the sellars, and att their<br />
charge to be carryed from the place where the same<br />
was bought to the Port of Kings Lyn in Norfolke where the shippe [?XXX]<br />
lay whereon it was to be laden, att the rate of betweene nyneteene<br />
and twenty shillings per quarter, and as this deponent remembreth<br />
upon casting the whole up It did amount to nyneteene [?XXX]<br />
andamount to nyneteene [?XXX]<br />
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