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unto the said shipp and five or six monthe … unto the said shipp and five or six monthes when this deponent soe<br />
became master of her and this deponent left the same aboard<br />
when hee soe left the said command, and the said same as hee<br />
beleeveth were aboard at the time of the said shipps comming for<br />
Bristol, whether hee saith shee was sent about Easter last by the<br />
said owners laden with Rice this deponent seeing her soe laden<br />
and dispatched away from Port Lewis, under conduct of the said<br />
da Ponte, and company of ffrench mariners, And saith that<br />
about tenn dayes since hee this deponent was aboard the said<br />
vessell, riding in this port over against Saint Catherine's, and<br />
by severall signes knew her to be the same vessell<br />
by him predeposed, and as hee hath bin informed shee is now<br />
called the ''Willing Minde'', by the English master and company<br />
that are aboard her. And otherwise hee cannot depose saving<br />
that the said owners were at charges in ffrance in fitting and<br />
repairing the said said vessell of his sight and knowledge.
To the 8 hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
SmaXXy [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
To the Interrogatories. CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee is sent over expressely by the said<br />
producents to testifie what hee knew concerning such their<br />
proprietie, and otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid
To the second hee saith hee was not present att the signing or sealing<br />
of ˹XXXXX˺ of the writings annexed to the allegation, and otherwise saving as aforesaid<br />
hee cannot answer.
To the third hee saith that the said proprietors understanding of the<br />
said shipps arrest here in England, sent over this deponent to looke<br />
after her, and seake for her restitution, this deponent knowing such<br />
their proprietie, and saith they are to pay him his charges and<br />
losse of his time in looking after this busines, And otherwise hee<br />
referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition.
S mattey. [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
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The 13th of 9ber 1657/
Page and Ely against Canham Paige and<br />
Thompson Cheeke Smith/
'''[XXXXX]'''
Examined upon a libell on the behalfe of the sayd John Page<br />
and Richard Ely./
'''jus'''
'''John Edwards''' of Milbrooke in the County of Cornwall<br />
Mariner aged thirty nyne yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first second third 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles of the sayd libell<br />
hee saith that hee this deponent being then a factor at Bantam arlate for the English<br />
Company there, did see the arlate shipp the ''Golden Cock'' there arrive in or<br />
about the moneth of August 1655 (one Richard Chappell comming Master<br />
of her thither,) and saith the sayd shipp brought thither a parcell of Canary wyne<br />
, which was there unladed this hee deposeth being then<br />
at Bantam and seeing her there unlade some of the sayd wynes And further to those articles hee can<br />
not depose knowing nothing touching the hyreing freighting or setting out of the<br />
sayd shipp from London nor touching the Charterparty arlate hee being then in the [XXX GUTTER]<br />
and not privie to any of them./t;br />
and not privie to any of them./ +
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