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To the sixth article of the sayd libell he … To the sixth article of the sayd libell hee saith that hee<br />
well knoweth being one of the Company of the sayd shipp, the<br />
''Jonas'' that voyage, that the sayd shipp did in or about the moneth of<br />
december 1654 at Bristoll take in a ladeing of Corne, Skinnes and<br />
other Merchandize for Accompt of the arlate Robert Yeomans and<br />
William Willett, who caused the same to be laded aboard her and ordered<br />
her to depart therewith and transporte the same thense to Saint Sebastians in<br />
the dominion of the Kinge of Spaine, and saith the sayd shipp (the<br />
sayd Richard Leetch being Master) departed from Bristoll and there deliver<br />
them to the ffactors of the sayd yeomans and Willett in or about the moneth<br />
of January 1655 (new style) the premisses hee deposeth being as<br />
aforesayd one of the Company of and aboard the sayd shipp the sayd voyage, And<br />
further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 7th and 8th article of the sayd libell hee saith that shortly after<br />
the sayd Corne, Skinns and other Marchandizes were unladen at Saint Sebastians<br />
the sayd Mr Richard Leech did (as hee told this deponent and others of the<br />
sayd shipps company) importune the ffactors of the sayd yeomans and<br />
Willett to dispatch away the sayd shipp ''Jonas'' from Saint Sebastians with<br />
to Bristoll, but (as hee sayd) the sayd ffactors told him they were<br />
amonge other things ordered to send home to Bristoll a quantitie of pitch<br />
and that they could not at present gett it and therefore hee the sayd Leech and Company<br />
must stay, for pitch they must send though the shipp were forsed to<br />
stay sixe months ere it could bee gotten,<br />
and this deponent well knoweth that the sayd Shipp was delayed at<br />
Saint Sebastians for about tenn or twelve weekes tyme, and after soe longe<br />
stay the factors of the sayd yeomans and Willett did then (and not before<br />
lade aboard the sayd Shipp at Saint Sebastians pitch and other goods for the<br />
Accompt of the sayd yeomans and Willett and sent the sayd shipp away<br />
hee deposeth being one of the sayd Shipps company and on board And<br />
seeing and hearing the same And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 9th and 10th articles of the sayd Libell hee saith that being one of the<br />
sayd shipps company and on board as a foresayd hee knoweth that the sayd<br />
Shipp was deteyned at Saint Sebastians aforesayd permitted to goe<br />
thense till the moneth of Aprill 1655, and knoweth that the sayd shipp<br />
in her passage home from Saint Sebastians towards Bristoll was taken<br />
and this deponent in her by certaine Brest men of warr and is not yet<br />
delivered to the arlate George Witherley and further to the articles hee<br />
cannot depose of his certaine Knowledge not being privie to the Charterparty<br />
aforesayd to the Charterparty<br />
aforesayd +
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