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To the fourth hee saith hee knoweth Mr how … To the fourth hee saith hee knoweth Mr howlet, mr Cox, mr<br />
Tucker and mr Scot interrogated, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer saving as aforesaid it being two yeares since or thereabouts<br />
and therefore the Dayes of the moneth of the severall dliverings out hee remembreth<br />
bot.
To the fifth hee saith the said seaven tonnes soe left were not all<br />
of one but of severall qualities, namely three pipes and a<br />
hogshead of the best sort, five hogsheads of the blackest and<br />
worst sort, and eight pipes of the middle sort, which hee<br />
knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, And saith that Captaine<br />
Thomas was [?once] at the Stillyard {key} whilest the said oiles<br />
lay upon the key of this deponents sight, and the said Edmund<br />
halley was then alsoe there, and there they spake together,<br />
And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the 6th hee saith hee this rendent went Cooper in the said<br />
voyage, and agreed with the owners to take care of the oiles<br />
after they came home, for the owners service, and after their<br />
said landing this deponent as Cooper had the looking to them<br />
and keeping of them in service of and subordination to the said<br />
halley and the rest of the owners or imployers, and that the<br />
said halley having the principall share, disposed of them as<br />
aforesaid, and hee referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition, and<br />
further cannot depose.
Repeated before Collonell Cock.
Alexander Baareffoott [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The fourth of May 1658.
A busines of examination of witnesses to perpetuall remembrance on the behalfe of John<br />
[?Ray], William Cockroft, Joseph hammonds, and James drawater owners of the shipp<br />
the ''Packet frigot'' (Edward harrison master) and her tackle, furniture and lading,<br />
against or concerning the ''Golden dove'' (or ''Revenge'') of fflushing Albert Cock<br />
Commander./
Examined upon an allegation given in on the<br />
behalfe of the said [?Ray] and others.
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Edward Harrison''' of Redriff on the County of Surrie<br />
Mariner, aged 40 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth the producents John R[?o}y, William Cockroft, Joseph<br />
hammond and James drawater, and saith they were in and for<br />
all the monethes articulated in the yeere 1654 and before and after<br />
the true and lawfull owners proprietors and freighters<br />
of the shipp the ''Packet frigot'' (whereof this deponent<br />
was master) and of her tackle and furniture, and also owners<br />
of fourtie tonnes of the best Genua or sweet [?Lamspart] oile, one hundred<br />
seaventie eight barrells of the best Genua Anchova's, one<br />
bale of paper, three chests of Indico, one barrell of Rice,<br />
a box or chest of sweet meates, some silkes and some other<br />
small parcells of goods, and for such commonly accounted and<br />
reputed, All which goods and merchandizes hee saith were<br />
laded aboard the said shipp at Genua and ffinall neere<br />
Cape [?Made] for the account proper of the said owners, to be<br />
transportedsaid owners, to be<br />
transported +
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