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HCA 13/71 f.229r Annotate
First transcribed 15 October 2012  +
First transcriber Janet Few  +
Folio 229  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 15/10/2012  +
Transcription To the second Interrogatorie he saith hee To the second Interrogatorie he saith hee knew the shipp<br /> ''Alexander'' and sawe her in Virginia in the yeare 1654 before she tooke<br /> in her ladeing there the voyage in question hee being in Virginia when<br /> shee came first thither that voyage and saith hee knew her alsoe at her<br /> returne from the sayd voyage and was aboard her neere Blackwall at her<br /> returne from the sayd voyage and tooke view of her in manner predeposed<br /> and saith that hee came from Virginia about five or sixe dayes next after<br /> the arrivall of the sayd shipp ''Alexander'' in Virginia the voyage in question<br /> And further cannot answer for the reasons aforesayd./ Repeated in Court before both judges John Miller [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ************************ The same day Examined on the sayde allegation '''Rp. 3.''' '''George Swanley''' of Bromley neere Bowe in the<br /> County of Middlesex Mariner aged thirty nyne yeares or<br /> therebouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth To the 9th article of the sayde allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br /> was in the Virginia at the same tyme when the shipp ''Alexander''<br /> arrived in Virginia the voyage in question hee this deponent being then<br /> Master of a shipp Called the ''Providence'' of London and then lying there<br /> with her to lade tobaccoe from thense and saith that hee this deponent did then<br /> observe that in Virginia fower Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe and<br /> noe more are usually and commonly accounted to bee a tonne of tobaccoe and this<br /> deponent did at his coming from here with his sayde shipp bringe divers<br /> tonnes of tobaccoe from thense in his sayde shipp the ''Providence'' and the<br /> same was all laden aboard his shipp by the laders at the rate of fower<br /> Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe to every tonne, and and amongst Merchants<br /> there 4 Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe is commonly accounted a tonne of<br /> tobaccoe, and for hee this deponent observed and knoweth that<br /> the freight for bringing fower Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe from Virginia and<br /> for bringing a tonne of Tobaccoe thense is one and the same and this deponent<br /> hath receaved and freight for all the tobaccoes by him brought thense in his<br /> sayd shipp the ''Providence'' (the whole ladeing being tobaccoe) after<br /> the same rate for the freight of fower Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe as<br /> for a tonne of tobaccoe, a tonne of 4 Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoes being commonly accounted one and the same thing<br /> in Virginia and further to this article hee cannot depose To the 10th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee was [?onse]<br /> aboard the shipp ''Alexander'' while shee stayed at Virginia the voyage<br /> in question in the moneth of August 1654 did observe that she was then well neere fully laden with<br /> tobaccoes and knoweth that before the end of the sayd moneth of August 1654<br /> the ''Alexander'' departed from Virginia bound for England And further to this<br /> article hee cannot depose for that hee this deponent stayed with his sayd shipp<br /> the ''Providence'' in Virginia divers moneths after the departure of the ''Alexander''<br /> from thense./ To the 11th and 12th articles of the sayde allegation hee sayth hee well knoweth<br /> that at the tyme and alsoe after the ''Alexander'' soe departed from Virginia there was three or<br /> fower hundred hogsheads of Tobaccoe in Virginia ready to have bin shipped<br /> thense two hundred whereof or thereabouts this deponent brought<br /> home to England in his shipp the ''Providence'', and knoweth that other English shipps<br /> as the shipp named ''Anne Claere'' of London, and the ''Beare'' of Bristoll did loade tobaccoe Which was' of Bristoll did loade tobaccoe Which was  +
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