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officers and Souldiors pretended that the … officers and Souldiors pretended that the sayd goods being there landed<br />
againe the Grand signior ought to have more Customs for them and<br />
still hindered this deponent and company from reladeing the rest of<br />
them, And this deponent being a stranger there and not knowing what<br />
was requisite to be done in such a case, did apply him selfe to the<br />
Interrogate Roger ffowke who is (as this deponent beleeveth) and by common repute<br />
is accompted to bee) the English Consull there, and the sayd ffowke<br />
had conference with the officers and souldiers of the Grand signior and<br />
by promises of reward or other meanes soe pacified them at the<br />
present that they suffered this deponent and Company to relade all the sayd<br />
goods on board the said shipp, and the same being reladen the sayd<br />
ffowke demanded of this deponent eighteene hundred pieces of<br />
eight for the cleereing the sayd goods pretending that hee had paid<br />
to the Grand signiors officers and his owne dues for Consullage<br />
for them, did amount to soe much, but this deponent knowing that<br />
the Customs and Consullage for them had bin once paid before that,<br />
did refuse to pay to the sayd ffowke the sayd summe and told him<br />
hee this deponent was a stranger and had noe money, where upon the<br />
sayd Consull caused this deponent and two or three men of their<br />
deponents Company to bee apprehended and kept prisoner in his the<br />
sayd Consulls house under Custody of certayne Janisaries for<br />
not paying the sayd summes, and whilst this deponent soe remayned<br />
prisoner, the sayd ffowke (as Robert Pembridge his this deponents boatswaine<br />
Thomas Medford and Symon Rowe this deponents contests, and others of<br />
this deponents shipps Company who were at liberty and on board the sayd<br />
shipp told this deponent) sent or caused officers to be sent on board<br />
the sayd shipp (lying under Command of the Castle there) who by force<br />
tooke away from on board the sayd shipp and carried into the sayd<br />
ffowkes warehouses three bales of silks part of the sayd<br />
shipps ladeing, to pay the sayd eighteene hundred dollers, And saith<br />
that he well knoweth that neither hee this deponent and such others<br />
of his Company as were apprehended and imprisoned could have bin<br />
released, nor the rest of the sayd shipps ladeing discharged without<br />
payment of the or other satisfaction made for the sayd eighteene<br />
hundred dollers soe demanded as aforesayd, and saith the sayd<br />
three bayles were taken away merely for the discharge and<br />
preservation of the rest of the sayd shipps ladeing And further<br />
to these Interrogatories hee cannot depose/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
John <u>Harris</u> [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
Examined upon the sayd Interrogatories/
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Robert Pembridge''' of Rederiff in the County<br />
of' of Rederiff in the County<br />
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