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The 27th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING … The 27th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Alderman}<br />
Riccard touching silke in the}<br />
''Alice and ffrancis''}
'''Rp.'''
'''ffoscarini Wycke''' servant unto Alderman<br />
Andrew Riccard of London Merchant aged<br />
20 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
Worshippful John Godolphin doctor of Lawes - one of<br />
the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath.
That in and amongest a parcell of rawe silke which the said<br />
Alderman Riccard had brought from Smyrna in bales in the shipp<br />
the ''Alice and ffrancis'' of London to this port, and have dischardged<br />
about six monethes since, there were two bales endammaged<br />
and came endammaged out of the said shipp, and that upon sale<br />
thereof to the silkeman the said Alderman Riccard was necessitated<br />
to allowe and did allowe fifteene pounds sterling by reason of<br />
the said dammage, which hee knoweth to be true because hee this<br />
deponent is serviceof his said master tooke the said goods up<br />
and tooke notice of the said dammage upon the comming of the said<br />
goods from the waterside, and severall times spake to the Purser<br />
of the said shipp to come and view the same before they were<br />
disposed of, and this deponent was particularly acquainted with<br />
the said allowance to the silkeman and abatement for the said<br />
damage, this deponent making up the accompt for the same.
ffoscarinj Wycke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 28th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
The claime of the foresaid [?Bau?Xse] and}<br />
companie for the ''Liesde''}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''1./'''
'''John Blake''' native of Galloway in Ireland Merchant<br />
aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined
To the first and third articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth the producent david kirwan and hath soe donne from<br />
the infancie of the said david, and saith hee was borne at Galloway in<br />
Ireland, and that his fathers name was Edmund kirwan and his mothers name<br />
Aust[?en], and that hee had five brothers and a sister, all whom this deponent well<br />
knew this deponent being alsoe borne and living at Galloway neare the<br />
house of the said davids father, and there this deponent knew the said david<br />
goe to schoole and his breeding up there, and for theise reasons hee<br />
well knoweth the said david to be a subiect of this Commonwealth, and for<br />
such commonly accompted, but for foure or five yeares last the said david hath<br />
livedlast the said david hath<br />
lived +
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