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his particul[?e]r of the same by this depo … his particul[?e]r of the same by this deponents score thereof as<br />
the same was stored when fetched as this deponent verily<br />
beleeveth And further hee cannot answere./
To the last hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof in his<br />
foregoing deposition sae fair as hee can./
The marke of the sayd<br />
James [MARKE] Bevan [MARKE, RH SIDE]
Reported in Court before both judges
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The 24th day of November 1656/
Examined upon the said Libell
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Thomas Powell''' of Redriff in County of Surrey<br />
Anchor Smith aged thirty yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the first and second articles of the sayd libell and the Schedule in<br />
the sayd second article mentioned he saith that the shipp the ''Redd Lyon'' or<br />
''Lyon'' was in the moneths of March Aprill and May in the yeare 1656 in<br />
buildeing in the yeard of the arlate Mr Christmas (in the parish of Rederiff)<br />
commonly called the pitche howse and saith in the sayd tyme the sayd shipp<br />
standing in neede of many iron worke the sayd Christmas did repayre<br />
unto the arlate Walter Gough an Anchor Smith to bee furnished with<br />
such Iron worke as the sayd shipp wanted And this deponent then working<br />
with the sayd Gough as a Journey man to him well knoweth that the sayd<br />
Christmas did by him selfe and his servants receave of the sayd<br />
Gough and his servants to bee imployed and used about the sayd shipp the<br />
''Redd Lyon'' or ''Lyon'' th[?e]se severall parcells of iron worke following [?being GUTTER]<br />
part of the Iron worke mentioned in the Schedule arlate videlicet bolts [?spikes GUTTER]<br />
and other Iron worke weighing eleven hundred and three pounds and a halfe,<br />
two hundred and a quarter of tenn gr[?o]ate nayles, fower hundred and a halfe<br />
of tenn penny nayles, halfe a hundred of sixe penny nayles, three hun[?dred GUTTER]<br />
of fower penny nayles, Ring bolts and other Iron worke weighing forty eight<br />
pounds and a halfe, two Clench hammers and fower hundred of sixteene [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
Clench nayles all which Iron worke and nayles at the tyme of their<br />
delivery to the sayd Christmas and his servants were well worth in this<br />
deponents judgment (and [?other] like Iron worke and nayles were as hee verily [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
then at sales) the [?resyestins] rates in the schedule arlate mentioned the [?thmiss GUTTER]<br />
hee deposeth for that hee then wrought as a Journey man with the sayd Gough<br />
and helped to make all the sayd iron worke and nayles, [?deposed] of, and sawe the same<br />
delivered to the sayd Chistmas and saith as hee imployed to fetch them, and<br />
verily beleeveth and is persuaded in his conscience that the sayd [?mr GUTTER]<br />
Christmas did fetch and receive of the sayd Gough and his servants all the<br />
Iron worke and nayles as predeposed of by the order and direction of the owners of<br />
the sayd shipp ''Redd Lyon'' or ''Lyon'' for whome hee builded the sayd shipp<br />
and verily beleeveth the sayd Iron worke and nayles predeposed of were all used<br />
and imployed about the sayd shipp and further to these articles and the<br />
sayd Schedule hee cannot depose./br />
sayd Schedule hee cannot depose./ +
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