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Transcription

On the nineteenth day of June 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

Nicholas Carter against the Releife}
of London and John Edge and Company}

Upon the Libell.

1)

William Maior of Saint Olaves in Southwarke in the
County of Surry Blacksmith, where he hath
lived about two yeares, aged 24 yeares, a
wittnes produced and sworne and being examined
he deposeth and saith as followeth.

To the first article of the sayd Libell given in and administred
on the sayd Carters behalfe he deposeth and saith That he the
deponent did in the months arlate very well know and was
often aboard the shipp the Relief arlate, and that in these
months the arlate John Edge was the Master or Comander of the
said shipp, The premisses he well knoweth aswell by that he this
deponent was in the months arlate often aboard her and therby
saw that the sayd Edge had the command of her, as alsoe for
that the sayd Edge did in this deponents sight and hearing
give order to the producent and this deponent (in case of
the said producents absence) to send unto the said shipp whatsoever
either his Gunner, Boatswaine or Carpenter showld [?comand GUTTER]
for, for the use of the said shipp And further to the
sayd article he cannot depose.

To the second and third articles of the sayd Libell and to the
schedule therein mentioned and now at his examination read over
unto him he this deponent saith that he being fforeman in the
shopp of the producent in the moneths arlate doth very well know that all the
goods, wares, materialls and provisions mentioned and particularized
in the sayd schedule were the proper goods of the sayd producent
and that all the sayd goods, wares, materialls and provisions
were all delivered aboard the sayd shipp for her the sayd
shipps use and repayre The premisses he knoweth for that by
the direction of the said Edge there were Tallyes kept betwixt
both partyes concerning the delivery of the said iron=goods, and
that the Tally for the producent was kept by him this deponent
and that therfore he was ever present when any of the
said goods schedulate were delivered aboard for the said shipps
use, And further to the said articles and schedule he cannot
depose.

To the fourth article of the said Libell and to the schedule therein
mentioned he deposeth and saith That the said goods, wares,
materiallls and provisions mentioned in the said schedule were
honsestly worth the severall and respective summs at which they
ther are rated in the said schedule, And he saith that he
was present when the arlate John Edge and the producent
did bargaine for the goods schedulate at the prices or [?XXX GUTTER]
schedulate, And that in his this deponents iudgement, who had
bin at the trade of a Blacksmith these nine yeares last past
the said goods (being very good and substantiall) were
really worth the said rates, which in all doth amount unto
50 li 9 s 3 d lawfull English money And further he cannot depose.

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