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in Conscience, that the said Invoyce was a … in Conscience, that the said Invoyce was and is wholly written with the<br />
proper handwriteing of the said Jacob Sheafe, and that the marke in<br />
the margent thereof expressed was and is the usuall and constant marke<br />
wherewith the said Sheafe doth marke such goods as hee sendeth and<br />
consigneth to his said Correspondent Henry Ashurst And further<br />
cannot depose, saving hee this deponent within the space of ten yeares, as<br />
is arlate, hath brought over severall goods and marchandise from New<br />
England to London, from the said Sheafe to the said Ashwell marked with<br />
the marke aforesaid.
To the 4th article and schedule annexed now seene and seriously perused<br />
by this examinate hee saith, That upon the receiving of the barrill<br />
and goods in Controversy aboard this deponents said shipp By the said Richard<br />
Browne this deponents Contest and then Masters mate hee this deponent<br />
signed three bills of ladeing all of one tenor for the same togeather with<br />
some other goods to the said Sheafe belonging, and saith, That the said<br />
schedule being the second schedule annexed was and if one of the said<br />
bills signed by this deponent att or neere Boston aforesaid according to the<br />
Date thereof, and saith that as in the said bill is sett downe (the Contents<br />
I know not) if it usuall and constant with this deponent to signe all bills<br />
of Lading that hee signeth for goods packed or barrilld up the particulars<br />
whereof hee doeth not see nor observed otherwise then by the Laders relation
To the 5th hee saith, That the said barrill of goods marked and numbred as<br />
aforesaid after such the lading thererof as predeposed arrived in this Port of<br />
London, where it was unladen and discharged out of the said shipp<br />
this deponent having since seene<br />
the same in the custody of Robert Hubbart allate being the party defendent in<br />
this cause. And further cannot depose, being this deponent was sicke and not<br />
present at the unLadeing thereof:-/
To the 10th hee saith, That there was noe other barrill of goods marked<br />
with the marke aforesaid Laden aboard the said shipp the Johns<br />
Adventure the voyage aforesaid, which was, as predeposed, Laden by the<br />
said Sheafé, and that this deponent is in conscience fully convinced and assured<br />
that the said Robert Hubbart did not Lade any such barrill of goods<br />
aboard the said shipp in the said voiage, And further cannot depose
To the 11th hee saith, That shorly after the said barrill of marchandise marked<br />
and numbred as aforesaid was by the said Robert Hubbart unduely taken<br />
and conveighed out of the said shipp to the said Hubbarts Lodgeing, this deponent<br />
with his precontest Thomas Glover, went to the said Hubbart and desired<br />
to see the said barrills, which the said Hubbart permitted them to doe, and then<br />
the said Thomas Glover told over the beaver skinns with the said Hubbart<br />
said hee had brought and received from new England in the said barrill, and<br />
found them to be 97. or ninety eight beaver skinns, and then the said<br />
Glover demanding of the said Hubbart whither hee had got likewise reveived<br />
some otter and minck skins in the said barrill, the said Hubbart acknowledged<br />
that he had received five otter skinns, but noe minck skinns at all, and<br />
saith that at the same time the said Thomas Glover compared the Invoyce<br />
and bill of Ladeing predeposed with the marke and number sett upon the<br />
said barrill which of this deponents sight and observation did exactly answer<br />
one to the other, and that from the said invoyce were and are mentioned<br />
ninety eight beaver skinns, seaven otter skinns and foure mink skinns<br />
And further, this deponent referring himselfe to the said Invoyce<br />
saith hee cannot Depose.
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saith hee cannot Depose.
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