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Transcription

To the 20th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof.

To the 21th hee saith hee hath not deposed to the article interrate./

To the Interrogatories in the last place./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first negatively for his part:-

To the 2. hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, And knoweth
not of any Constant English factor at Cyprus saving the interrate Roger
ffowke, who is English Consull there./

To the third hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition:-

To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof/

To the 5th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition:-/

Repeated before Charles George Cock Esquire./.

Thomas death [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 15th day of March 1654./ English style/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Alderman John ffrederick henry Chewne and others}
against Thomas Jennings Gilbert Keate and George hughes}
and others Budd Smith}

Examined on an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Alder
man ffrederick henry Chewne and others./

12:us.

William Porter of the parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex
Mariner aged 25 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the 25th article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee knoweth nothing touching
the contents thereof not being at Zant arlate the tymes arlate./

To the 33th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was at
Porto Longone in the yeare 1652 and continued there till about the 20th day of January
1652 old style And knoweth thereby that the sayd Port was blocked up by the dutch who
laye in the month thereof with their men of warr till about the latter end of November
1652 about which tyme they removed from before the month of the sayd Port but
still hovered about the Island of Elba in which the sayd Port Longone is, [?conceiving]
as this deponent beleeveth that some Merchants shipps would adventure out of the
sayd Port, soe that the danger was (in this deponents Judgment) as much for any shipp
to adventure out of the sayd Port to sea after the dutch were removed from the
mouth of the sayd Port as it was before soe that noe merchants shipps stirred out of the sayd
Port till about the sayd 20th of January 1652 about which tyme the shipp
Thomas Bonadventure, and the William and Thomas of whose Company this deponent was one and the Mary Rose.
were commanded by a warrant from Mr Charles Longland the Agent for the State
of England at Legorne to land their goods on board them and to make them
selves fitt to serve this State as men of warr under the Command of Captaine
Richard Badiley Comander of the Paragon a Man of warr in imediate service
of this Commonwealth, in obedience unto which warrant the sayd shipps
The Thomas Bonadventure the William and Thomas and the Mary Rose, being [?convoied GUTTER]
by the sayd shipp the Paragon, did goe to Porto fferrara and there unlade their goods
and make them selves fitt for men of warr as by the sayd warrant they were
Commnded And further hee cannot depose./

To the rest of the articles hee is not examined by direction of the producents./

To