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or receipt which hee sayd was for the sayd … or receipt which hee sayd was for the sayd money, and hee this<br />
deponent the rather beleeveth hee had paid the Vivonda such a summe for<br />
that hee knoweth the sayd Consull brought from aboard the sayd Captaine<br />
Millers shipp, aboard the ''Cesar'', two baggs of money which the sayd<br />
Consull told this deponent contayned two thousand dollars, and was as<br />
hee sayd to be paid towards payment for the sayd Currans, and for that hee<br />
knoweth the boatswaine and some other of this deponents company carried<br />
the sayd two thousand dollars from aboard the Cesar at Nathalago for the<br />
sayd Consull, And hee alsoe saith the said Consull in presence of the<br />
foresayd witnesses sayd that the Nathalagoe Currans would be brought to<br />
the side of the ''Cesar'' within two or three dayes, and that hee hoped the<br />
''Cesar'' should soone be dispatched there and returne to the Morea and<br />
take in the Currans there provided, And hee saith the sayd Consull<br />
then alsoe sayd hee felt him selfe not well, and desyred this deponent<br />
to helpe him to a cup of stronge water, which hee this deponent caused<br />
to be given him in the Cabin of the sayd shipp, And saith from that<br />
tyme forewards the sayd ffowke grew worse and worse and complayned<br />
of an exceedeing heate and burning in his entrayles, and dyed upon the<br />
Thursday morning next following such his coming aboard the ''Cesar'',<br />
and at his death hee saith hee gaped with his mouth, in soe much that<br />
it was generally beleeved that he the sayd Consull was before<br />
his comming aboard the ''Cesar'' poysoned and thereof dyed, this hee the<br />
better knoweth for that hee was often with the sayd Consull in his sicknes,<br />
and at his death in the Cabin of the ''Cesar'' where hee departed this life,<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose. /
To the 16th 17th 18th 19th and 20th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith<br />
that the said Consull being thus dead, hee this deponent held it unsafe<br />
for him to goe on shoare, and thereupon not knowing what to doe nor how<br />
to get the Nathalagoe Currans aboard his sayd shipp, and being then<br />
ignorant of any freindshipp or relation or imployment which was betweene<br />
the arlate John Gifford and the arlate hardwick harbie and<br />
Williams, did advise with the sayd Gifford what course was fitt for<br />
him this deponent to take to get the sayd Currans in regard the sayd<br />
Consull was dead, and saith that the sayd Gifford advised him this<br />
deponent to take to his assistance the arlate Clement harbie,<br />
who hee sayd was then at Zant, and soo desyrous was the sayd<br />
Gifford that this deponent should make use of the sayd harbie,<br />
that hee profferred to give out of his owne purse fifteene dollars<br />
for a ffellewca or boate to goe to Zant to fetch him thence to<br />
Nathalagoe, but noe boate daring to stirr thither by reason of the Turkes Galliottes then abroard the sayd Gifford<br />
advised this deponent to goe thither with his shipp the ''Cesar'' to fetch the<br />
sayd harbie, and this deponent by the sayd Giffords persuasion did<br />
goeyd Giffords persuasion did<br />
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