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Merchant of very great trade and negotiati … Merchant of very great trade and negotiation might in this deponents judgement<br />
if the said goods had not miscarried, have benefitted 100 ''li'' sterling by the imployment<br />
of the valew of the said goods since the time of such their intended transportation<br />
And further cannot depose./
To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Crosse Interrogatories:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith, hee hath no manner of part share or interest in the<br />
goods in Controversie, and neither expecteth benefit by their clearing, nor prejudice<br />
by their condemnation, and saith that hee with his servants packed up the said<br />
goods and tooke exact and particular notice of their number./
To the second hee this rendent was present when his precontest Abraham<br />
Gualtier by order of the said producent paid to the said Widdow [?Conme] for the<br />
said perpetuanaes agreed upon as aforesaid, and saith that all the said goods were<br />
of this deponents sight and knowledge bought for the proper accompt of the said<br />
producent as aforesaid. And further cannot depose:-
To the 3d negatively, saying hee saw not the Customes interrate payd for the sayd goods:-
To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof:/
To the 5th negatively for his part, And further cannot depose:-/
Repeated in Court:-/
John Warner [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 20th of Aprill 1655./. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Richard Westcombe,}<br />
Nicholas Warren and Thomas Pitt}<br />
Merchants touching a losse in the ''Mary''}<br />
of Topsham in a matter of Assurance}
'''Rp. E.A. & [?X] c/'''
'''John Browne''' of Apsham in the County<br />
of devon mariner late master of the shipp<br />
the ''Mary'' of Topsham aged 70 yeares<br />
or thereabouts, sworne before the right<br />
Worshipfull William Clarke doctor of lawes<br />
one of the Judges of the high Court of the<br />
Admiraltie and examined upon certaine<br />
Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the said Richard<br />
Westcombe and others saith and deposeth as followeth<br />
videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knew and was master of the said shipp the ''Mary'' of Topsham at<br />
such time as shee was last at Wexford in Ireland, whence shee<br />
was (as hee saith) bound on a voyage to Rochell or Nants in the<br />
dominion of the ffranch kinge, and saith shee departed from<br />
Wexford on that voyage about tenn weekes since, which kee knoweth<br />
being master and going in her.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that Richard Westcombe<br />
Nicholas Warren, and Thomas Pitt were at the time of her<br />
setting forth and proceeding on the said voyage, an at<br />
the time of her seizure [?or] surprizall hereafter mentioned the true<br />
and sole owners and proprietors of the said vessell and of her tackle<br />
apparrellll and of her tackle<br />
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