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The 11th of November 1654. [CENTRE HEADING … The 11th of November 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
A businesse of examination of witnesses}<br />
for the perpetuall remembrances of the matter}<br />
touching the losse of the shipp the ''Constant''}<br />
promoted by Captaine John Cramp and others}
Examined upon an allegation in the<br />
acts of Court made 26 of July<br />
last and certaine exhibits therein<br />
mentioned
'''Rp. 1'''
'''James Sadler''' of London merchant, living in little<br />
More fields in the parish of Saint Giles Cripplegate<br />
aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined
To the said allegation and the bill of sale therein mentioned, beginning<br />
'''To all men to whom this present writing shall come I Robert hogg et cetera'''<br />
and ending thus, '''Dated the twentith day of ffebruary 1639, and in the fifteenth'''<br />
'''yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord king Charles by the grace of God'''<br />
'''king of England, Scotland, ffrance and Ireland defender of the saith et cetera'''<br />
nowe showed unto him at the time of his examination, and by him<br />
perused hee saith and deposeth that on or neare about the day of the sate of the<br />
said bill of sale, namely on or eare about the twentieth<br />
day of ffebruary 1639 hee this deponent was present in this citie<br />
and did see Robert hogge therein mentioned signe seale and for<br />
his act and deede deliver the said bill of sale as nowe thereon appeareth<br />
which being soe by him donne this deponent and Captaine Robert<br />
Moulton (who was then and there alsoe present) as witnesses wrote<br />
theri names on the back of the said bill as nowe therion is to be<br />
seene, and saith the said bill is not in ought altered since the time<br />
aforesaid, which hee knoweth for that the same is wholy of this deponents<br />
hand writing; and saith hee wrote the same by order of the said Robert<br />
hogge and of John Cramp therein mentioned, with both which this deponent<br />
was well acquainted longe before the said time, and in order to<br />
the said sale the said Cramp was of this deponents knowledge put in<br />
possession of the said shipp, And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving<br />
to his remembrance such sealing and deliverie was soe donne in the<br />
house of mr william Courteene in ffanchurch streete London
James Sadler [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 13th day of November <u>1654</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation.
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Gerrard Roberts''' of the parish of Saint Thomas the Apostle in<br />
London wyne cooper aged thirty yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnes sworne and examined saith as followeth
To the sayd allegation and bill of sale therein mentioned now whewne<br />
him att the tyme of his examination thus beginning ['''To all'''<br />
'''Men to whom this present writing shall come I Robert Moulton'''] and<br />
thus ending ['''In the fourteenth yeare of the Reigne of our'''<br />
'''soveraigne'''gne of our'''<br />
'''soveraigne''' +
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