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The 5th day of May 1656/
Lewis de [?Sorme … The 5th day of May 1656/
Lewis de [?Sormeaux] aganist John de Richard Sieur}<br />
de Kargonell: Budd}
Examined on an allegation given in and admitted<br />
on behalfe of the sayd John de Richard Sieur de Kargonell/
'''Rp. jus'''
'''Robert Bowden''' of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey<br />
in the County of Surrey Mariner aged thirty five yeares or<br />
thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth videlicet./
To the first second third 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br />
the three bayles of linnen now in controversie were brought downe in a boate
no. 38<br />
[ A FIGURE OF 39]<br />
[A CROSS 40]
and put aboard this deponents shipp the ''Morlaix Merchant'' marked and<br />
numbered as in the margent and a noate brought with them directed to
[LH MARGIN]<br />
'''No. 38'''<br />
'''+''' '''39'''<br />
'''40'''
this deponent desyring him this deponent to receive them on board the sayd<br />
shipp. but there was noe name subscribed to the sayd noate whereby to<br />
expresse from whome it came, and this deponent did receive them on board<br />
this sayd shipp and conceiving and beleeveing them to bee sent by the arlate<br />
ffrancis Trenchpaine the yonger for that were marked with the same<br />
marke which hee well know the sayd trenchpaine in former voyages did use to<br />
marke his goods ,with which hee laded aboard this deponents sayd shipp, And<br />
saith that after the sayd three bayles of linnen were soe laden aboard this deponents<br />
sayd shipp, the sayd Trenchpaine came to this deponent and desyred this deponent<br />
to goe with him to his the sayd Trenchpaines lodgeing in Morlaize aforesayd<br />
to signe bills of ladeing for the sayd three bayles of linnen, and this deponent<br />
thereupon went thither with him and signed three bills of ladeing of one and<br />
the same tenor for the sayd three bayles, and saith that the sayd bayles were laden<br />
aboard the sayd shipp and bills signed for them before the eleventh day of March<br />
last past and delivered to the sayd Trenchpaine all<br />
three of them in the sayd Trenchpaines lodgeing, and alsoe saith that every<br />
of the sayd bills were left blanke, and it was not expressed in them (when<br />
they were soe signed) that they were for the Risque or Account of the arlate<br />
Lewis desormeaux or any other person whatsoever, nor that they were to<br />
bee delivered heere in london to the arlate John Tufton or to any other<br />
person whatsoever, but the same were left blanke as to both those particulars soe that it was in the<br />
power of the sayd Trenchpaine after they were soe signed by this deponent<br />
to put in any persons name as the person for whose Accompt they were laden,<br />
as also any persons name to whome they were to be delivered, but saith hee beleeveth<br />
the sayd three bales of linnen did properly belonge to the arlate John de<br />
Richards Sieur de Kargonell and Madame Annee Guillame his wife as lawfull<br />
Owners and Proprietors of them for that the sayd John de Richards sieur de<br />
Kargonell did on the sayd eleventh day of March last past togeather with the sayd Trenchpaines factor came on board this<br />
deponents sayd shipp in the River of Morlaix and did demande of this<br />
deponent the sayd three bayles of linnen and the sayd de Richards<br />
told this deponent that the sayd bayles were his and that the sayd Trenchpaine<br />
had agreed with him to and his sayd wife to pay them for the same<br />
within three weekes or a moneth after they soe delivered them<br />
to him the sayd Trenchpaine, and that hee the sayd Trenchpaine had not paid him<br />
the sayd de Richards and his wife according to agreement, and that therefore hee<br />
the sayd de Richards was to have the sayd three bayles delivered back to<br />
him to bee disposed of as hee the sayd de Richards should thinke fitt and showed<br />
and left with this deponent the noate in the sayd sixth article mentioned for<br />
deliveryarticle mentioned for<br />
delivery +
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