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upon the said Voyage payed unto the said M … upon the said Voyage payed unto the said Mr Rouse his servant the summe<br />
of fifty pounds sterling for and upon that accompt, in part of payment and<br />
satisfaction for the said twelfth part; And as to the schedule annexed and<br />
now perused by him hee saith, That forasmuch as this deponent hath had<br />
the said schedule or indenture of sale in his Custody for about three yeares<br />
last past, and hath during that time often compared the subscriptions<br />
thereunto made with the letters of advice of and from the said Alderman John<br />
ffrederick and Thomas Rowse sent to the said George hughes and seene<br />
and diligently observed by this deponent hee is fully assured in Conscience<br />
that the said schedule was really and truely signed sealed and delivered<br />
(to the use and effect therein and thereby expressed) by the said Alderman<br />
ffrederick and Thomas Rowse, and that the Contents thereof were<br />
ad are reall and true and so had and done as therein is conteyned. And<br />
otherwise (referrring himselfe to the said schedule) hee saith hee cannot<br />
further depose./:
To the 11th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof:/
To the 12th article and schedule annexed hee saith, That upon or about the 24th day of July in<br />
the yeare <u>1652.</u> arlate, the said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' being<br />
arrived at Zant, immediately upon such her arrivall, one George<br />
ffarington a Merchant there then residing came aboard the said shipp<br />
''Thomas Bonadventure'', and delivered the said schedule or letter of advise<br />
annexed unto the said George hughes aboard his said shipp, which the said<br />
George hughes having perused delivered the same unto this deponent who<br />
also then reas and perused it, and hath since had and kept the said letter<br />
in his Custody till the same was by him brought to be exhibited in this Court<br />
And saith That the said letter of advise was and is writtena nd subscribed by George<br />
Norleigh for and in the name of himselfe and Robert Constable his<br />
Consort ffactors and agents to and for the said Alderman ffredericke, [?ThXXXX]<br />
Rouse and Companie, Which this deponent knoweth for that this deponent<br />
in the name and by the order of the said George hughes not long after the<br />
receipt of the said letter of advise returned an answer therunto to the said<br />
Norleigh and Constable, who againe returned a letter to the said George<br />
hughes in confirmation of the former, and thereby and<br />
by the observation of frequent letters from the said Norleigh and Constable and<br />
their usuall manner of writeing firme and subscription, this deponent is fully<br />
assured of the trueth of the premisses, And further saving his subsequent<br />
depositions hee cannot depose./
To the 13th hee saith and deposeth, That at and about the time arlate<br />
videlicet about the latter end of May and beginning of June <u>1652.</u> there<br />
were in the said Port of Ciprus, the ''Mary<br />
Rose'' of London, Captaine Poole Commander and the ''Richard and William''<br />
Captaine Wese commander being Marchant shipps and laden and<br />
ready to depart, which stayed expressely there to attend the Convoy<br />
aforesaid for their security of this deponents sight and knowledge, as the<br />
said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' also did; and that in their<br />
(passageid; and that in their<br />
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