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To the 3 Interrogatorie saving his foregoe … To the 3 Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answer
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee hath not seene any Accompts made<br />
between the Interrogate Robert Backer and Travers And therefore cannot<br />
answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 5th hee cannot answere./
Repeated before Doctor Goldolphin
Thomas Bonfoy [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 7th day of June 1656/
A busines of Ensurance concerning losse}<br />
a board the shipp ''Mary Constant'' of}<br />
Bristoll}
Examined upon certaine Interrogatories on the part of<br />
humfrey hooke the yonger and henry Cresewick of<br />
Bristoll Merchants./
'''Rp. X4.op:'''
'''James Hayman''' of Bristoll Merchant aged 22 yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittnes sworne before the Worshipfull John<br />
Godolphin doctor of Lawes one of the Judges of the high<br />
Court of Admiralty saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the 1: 2: and 3 Interrogatories hee saith that hee this deponent was a factor<br />
for the Interrogate humphrey hooke and henry Creswick<br />
at London derry in Ireland and saith that hee as factor for the sayd hooke and Creswick receaved an Invoice<br />
from Richard Keyman the Master of the shipp ''Mary Constant'' by which it did appear<br />
to this deponent that upon or a bout the twentith of December 1655 there were laden<br />
aboard the sayd Shipp at Burdeaux for Account of the Interrogate henry Creswick<br />
and humphrey hooke one hundred fiftie six bayles and nynteene punchions of<br />
tobaccoes #
# conteyning about forty thousand
weight of tobaccoe<br />
James Hayman [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
fifteene punchions of pruans and one hundred Cakes of pitch and Resin conteyning about tenn or eleven thousand weight of pitch resin to be<br />
transported thence to London Derry in Ireland, and saith the same were there to<br />
be delivered to this deponent as ffactor to the sayd hooke and Creswick And saith the<br />
sayd Master when hee delivered the Invoice of the sayd goods to this deponent told<br />
him that the sayd shipp in her voyage from Burdeaux towards London derry was in<br />
the moneth of January 1655 cast away neere about the Coplin Islands in Ireland<br />
with the goods before mentioned on board her by meanes whereof hee saith<br />
all the sayd goods (except eighty seaven hundred one quarter and thirteen pounds of<br />
pitch and resin, and nynteene thousand eight hundred thirty fower pounds of tobacco somewhat<br />
damnified by water and an other parcell of tobaccoe which was very much damnified by<br />
water (the quantitie whereof hee knoweth not) it being soe much damnified that it was little<br />
or nothing worth, and eight punchions of pruans very much damnified by<br />
water) became utterly lost to the sayd hooke and Creswick, which 87 ''li'' one quarter<br />
and thirteene pounds of pitch and resin and 19 thousand 8 hundred 34 ''li'' of tobaccoe<br />
some what damnified by water and the other parcell and bagg soe exceedingly damnified<br />
by water and the sayd eight casks of pruans came to the hands of this deponent<br />
there by him sold at the<br />
severall rates in on Accompte (which here this deponent leaveth for the better<br />
satisfaction of this Court) specified, and saith that the salvage of the sayd<br />
goods which soe came to this deponents hands and were by him disposed of did<br />
amount to the severall summes in the sayd Account alsoe specified, And<br />
further to these Interrogatories he cannot depose not being in the voyage in question
Repeated bedore doctor Godolphin/
James Hayman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]olphin/
James Hayman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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