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1. áway upon that occasion; and saith that all this charge was to make
2. her navigable, and fit to goe sea, and that shee was not thereby made soe
3. sond as shee was before immediately before such her bilging.
4. To the sighth hee saith that ˹upon the said disaster XXXX most˺ of the said shipps company quitted
5. the said shipp, and said they would bot proceede further with her, whereupon
6. this deponent was constrained to come to a new composition with them
7. ˹and the rest˺ and to give them a monethes wages extraordinary and more than first
8. they were agreed with for.
9. To the last hee saith that the premisses soe happening, this deponent
10. went to a Notary in Moirmonstier to cause an attestation to be made
11. thereof, and, the said Notary drew up the said attestation, purporting
12. the story story or relation of the said premisses, and read it over
13. to this deponent and severall of his men, and promised to deliver
14. it in an authenticall forme to this deponent, but having bin in the
15. intereim threatened ˹and terrified˺ by the said monsieur du daisné and his confederates,
16. the said Notary at length refused to deliver it to this deponent, and
17. said hee durst not doe it for his life through feare of them, who
18. hee said weare had the command of the Iland under the duke, and
19. did there what they liXXed, and that hee had his imployment from them
20. and that mr daisné had commanded him not to deliver it, for
21. that it would be a discouragement to the place and discourage
22. other shipps from coming thither.
23. Eleaz Le Marchant SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
24. Junior
25. Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
26.
27. The 10th of March 1656
28. <margin value="Left">On the behalfe of henry Clarke}
29. Merchant against SoXXden and others in a}
30. busines of Assurance touching a losse}
31. to the ffortune of Leith.}</margin>
32. <margin value="Left">Rp. X X cop. 1</margin>
33. Thomas Hicks of London ffishmonger aged 39
34. yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right
35. Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of
36. the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie
37. and examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred
38. on the behalfe of the said henry Clarke saith and
39. deposeth as followeth, videlicet.
40. To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee well
41. knew the shipp the ffortune interrogated at her last being at the port of
42. Leith in Scotland, where hee saith mr henry Clarke interrogated (whom hee
43. well knoweth) was in or about the moneth of August last of this deponents
44. sight and knowledge, and there laded and, caused to be laden aboard her five
45. hundred deale boards upwards ˹and above fourtie˺ and thirtie tonnes of caske, and alsoe severall brasse
46. kettles and other goods and merchandizes, namely Carpenters Coopers tooles, XXXXs,
47. platters, and other commodities, all which hee knoweth because hee sawe the
48. same soe laden.
49. To the third Interrogatorie hee saith the said deale boards, caskes, kettles and other
50. goods were and were ˹are˺ laen for the account of the said henry Clarke, who
51. was the true and sole owner and proprietor thereof, and to him alone they
52. belonged, and were to be transported in the said shipp to the Barbada's, and there
53. to be delivered to his brother Robert Clarke to whom they were consigned,
54. and in case of his death before the shipps arivall, to be delivered to mr William
55. Bates, for account of the said George ˹Henry˺ Clarke, and there they were to be
56. disposed of for the use and proffit of the said Henry X Clarke, all which hee
57. knoweth being present with him in Scotland and helping him to buy some of
58. the said goods, and acquainted with the buying and paying for them all, and this
59. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">deponent</margin>

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