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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 5.us … The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 5.us/'''
'''John Booth''' of the parish of Saint Buttolph Billings<br />
=gate London Servant to Thomas hopkins of the<br />
same parish Merchant aged 23 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a Wittnesse produced and sworne before the said<br />
Charle George Cock Esquire one of the Judges<br />
aforesaid and examined upon the said Interrogatories<br />
saith as followeth, to witt
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee very well knoweth<br />
That the shipp the ''hope'' of London interrate (whereof Robert<br />
Whitting interrate was Master) did in or about the moneth of<br />
May last past belong unto this Port of London, for that he this deponent<br />
about that time by the order and appointment of his said Master<br />
Thomas hopkins and in the name of him and Companie did<br />
cause certaine goods and Merchandises to be Laden and putt on<br />
board the said shipp then under the Command of the said Whitting<br />
who declared and affirmed to this deponent that one Mr William<br />
Ustick an English Merchant was the Owner of the said shipp<br />
which William Ustick was and is generally reputed a Native of<br />
this Nation and a Subject of this Commonwealth. And further to<br />
this Interrogatorie hee saith not./
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith, That in or about the moneth of<br />
May last past the said shipp the ''hope'' was fraighted by the said<br />
Thomas hopkins and Companie to witt Richard hopkins John<br />
Izard, Richard Barber and Thomas Smith all English Merchants<br />
usually residing in this Citie, and Subjects of this Commonwealth,<br />
and for and as such well knowne to this deponent and that the said<br />
shipp was by the said ffraighters designed and bound for<br />
the Biscay, having on board her for her outwards Cargaison a<br />
quantity of bees wax, and stockins and fustians and some Chests<br />
or deale boards wherewith to make Chests to putt in fruite and that all<br />
the outwards lading did belong to the said Thomas hopkins and<br />
Companie before mentioned, but the particular quantities of the same<br />
hee doeth not at present remember, And this examinate rendring a [?reason]<br />
of his knowledge of the premisses saieth, That he did at the time<br />
aforesaid, as at present hee doeth, serve the said Thomas hopkins in<br />
his house and merchandizing affaires, and was by him the said Thomas<br />
hopkins in the name of himselfe and Companie aforesaid entrusted<br />
to dispatch and cause the said Outwards Lading to be Laden and put[?t]<br />
on board the said shipp in the River of London to be thence in the<br />
same transported to Biscay aforesaid for the accompt of the said<br />
Thomas hopkins and Companie. And further saieth not to this Interrogatorie
(To the third not to this Interrogatorie
(To the third +
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