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board the said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadven … board the said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' in the Voyage in question<br />
were taken into the said shipp by the number of baggs or sacks and not<br />
by weight, Which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent toke an accompt<br />
of all the said shipps lading both at the taking in and at the discharge<br />
of the same, And further cannot depose, saving hee this deponent never heard<br />
neither doeth hee beleeve that the said Merchandizes were ever weighed<br />
[?XXX] or in the presence of the said Captaine George hughes.
To the 18th hee saith, That in or about the moneth of September <u>1652:-</u><br />
last past the said George hughes (by order and direction of the said<br />
Richard Chowne' as this deponent beeeveth) did at Porta fferrara aforesaid<br />
unlade and deliver into the Storehouse called the Lazaretta predeposed<br />
four hundred eightie and nyne sacks of Galls or thereabouts, and three<br />
hundred and nine sacks of Cotton wooll or thereabouts being all the goods<br />
putt on board the said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' in the Voyage in<br />
question by the factors and Agents and for the accompt of the arlate<br />
Alderman frederick Chewne and Companie. The premisses hee knoweth for<br />
that hee this deponent entred the said goods into a booke when the same were<br />
laden, and toke especiall notice of the same both at the Lading and unlading<br />
thereof. And further cannot depose./
To the 19th hee saith, That in case the said goods so delivered at Porta fferara<br />
as aforesaid, did remaine for some moneths indisposed off (as this deponent<br />
hath bin informed they did) the same was as this examinate beleeveth for<br />
want of payment of freight for the same, for that this deponent saw and<br />
observed That other goods delivered out of the said shipp at Porta fferara<br />
were forthwith received by Merchants, which as hee beleeveth payd the<br />
freight due for the same. And further cannot depose:-/
To the 20th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof./:-
To the 21. hee saith hee knoweth nothing of the Alliance arlate nor of the<br />
Consortshipp betwixt the said fowkes and Chewne interrate, And further<br />
cannot depose, saving that the said Richard Chewne hath been and is accompted the<br />
chief mannager of the negotiation of the said Alderman frederick and<br />
Companie at Aleppo and Ciprus./
To the 22th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Crosse Interrogatories in december 14 .<u>1654:</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee this rendent was Boateswaine of the said<br />
shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' interrate during the Voyage in<br />
question, and so continued till and after the delivery of the goods interrate at<br />
Porta fferrara, and hath received all his wages for that Voyage, and beleeveth<br />
all the rest of the said shipps Companie are also paid their wages, which<br />
they received here at London from and by the said George hughes their Captaine<br />
save onely some part thereof which they had formerly received at Porta<br />
(fferraraly received at Porta<br />
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