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The 30th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
… The 30th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of the fore said John hill and}<br />
company touching a bale of silke in the ''Roebuck''}
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''John Prynn''' of Lambethe in the<br />
County of Surry mariner sworne as<br />
afore said.
To the said Interrogatories hee deposeth that hee well knew and was<br />
Coxen of the shipp the ''Roebuck'' interrogated, (William hargrive master)<br />
and servant to the said william hargrave in her last voyage from London to Lisbon, and well knew and knoweth<br />
George Broughton who was Sopra-cargo of the said shipp, and<br />
had power to signe bills of lading for goods received aboard,<br />
and this deponent being 22 monethes in the said shipp<br />
with him and having often seene him write this deponent is very well<br />
acquainted with his hand writing, and having nowe seene a bill of<br />
lading for two bales of silke dated at London the 7th of ffebruary [?1647]<br />
subscribed Geo: Broughton. hee this deponent verily beleeveth the said<br />
subscription to be the proper hand writing of the said George Broughton,<br />
and verily beleeveth the contents of the said bill to be true.
John: Prynn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 30th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Thomas}<br />
Jones late masters mate of the}<br />
shipp ''James'' Edmund Button master}
'''dt. Mris. Jones.'''
'''William Essex''' of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner, late Gunners mate of the<br />
said shipp the ''James'', aged 31 yeeres or thereabouts sworne<br />
before the right worshippfull the Commissioners in the<br />
Portugall businesse.
Whereas this deponent in a deposition of his made in the Admiraltie Court<br />
the 12th of May 1653 touching the said shipp ''James'' (Edmund Button<br />
commander) and the losses of the owners and mariners therein, hath<br />
deposed Thomas Jones his losse for goods, clothes and otherwise to be eightie<br />
pounds, as in and by the said deposition made on the behalfe of Major Sal[?XXXXX]<br />
and others is to be seene, Nowe hee for the further information of the<br />
Commissioners touching the particulars of the said losses, saith and deposeth<br />
that the said Thomas Jones masters mate and pilot of the said shipp had<br />
in her and lost by the seizure at Lisbonn the effects of a parcell of pictures, a parcell<br />
of stuffs and stockings, a quantitie of Gummalack, a quantitie of<br />
oile, five Rolls of Brazila tobacco, which goods with his clothes, bookes,<br />
globes and other Instruments and necessaries lost by him by<br />
the said seizure could not in his estimation be lesse worth than 80 ''li'' sterling at<br />
the least.
William Essex [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''John Wood''' Chirurgeon of the said shipp, formerly<br />
sworne, and nowe againe sworne saith as followeth
That hee well knoweth Thomas Jones masters mate and pilot of<br />
the masters mate and pilot of<br />
the +
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