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On the ninth day of September 1654. [CENTR … On the ninth day of September 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
Jones and Company Mariners in the}<br />
shipp the ''Constant Ruth'' against}<br />
Holworthy, Williams and Company}<br />
ffrancklin Suckly Colquit}
Upon the allegation given in and<br />
admitted on the behalfe of the sayd<br />
Jones and Company/
'''Rp.'''
'''2'''
'''Christopher Hamlin''' of Islington in the County<br />
of Middlesex Mariner where he hath lived above three<br />
yeares past, aged about 27 yeares, a wittnes<br />
produced, sworne and examined he deposeth and<br />
saith as followeth.
To the third article of the sayd allegation given in and admitted<br />
on the behalfe of the sayd Jones and Company and to<br />
the schedule therin mentioned he deposeth and saith That he<br />
this deponent went aboard the shipp the ''Constant Ruth'' arlate<br />
in the moneth of March last was twelve=months, at the<br />
Barbathoses and sayled in her untill shee was taken, which was<br />
about five months after, and that by his being on board the sayd<br />
shipp he well knew the schedlate John Lingham, Edward<br />
White, John Jones, John Wood, Robert [?Weedings]<br />
and Luke holliday, and he sayth that when Captaine hay[?man]<br />
Master of the sayd shipp did enter him this deponent in his<br />
shipp=booke he shewed this deponent there was [?allowed]<br />
unto the sayd John Lingham, Edward White and John<br />
Jones Marriners of the sayd shipp the summe of 1 ''li'' 8 ''s'' per month<br />
to each of them, and he sayth that the sayd John Wood was<br />
Cooke of the sayd shipp, the sayd Robert Weedings was<br />
Bosen and the sayd Luke holliday was the Captaynes boy<br />
but what their wages were he knoweth not And further<br />
he cannot depose.
To the fourth article he deposeth and saith that the shipp the<br />
''Constant Ruth'' arlate sayled from the Coast of Guyney [?on]<br />
the sixteenth of December Last was 12=months (English<br />
stile, and arrived safe with the Negro's aboard her at the<br />
Barbathoes following: The premisses he knoweth because he this<br />
deponent was aboard a shipp called the ''Industry'' (whereof<br />
one James Cranidge was Master) which shipp the ''Industry'' [?XXX]<br />
in Company with the arlate shipp the ''Constant Ruth'' from<br />
the said Coast of Guyny and arrived safely at the Barbathoes<br />
together with the sayd shipp the ''Constant Ruth'', but he sayth he<br />
knoweth not the certaine number of Negro's aboard the said<br />
shipp the ''Constant Ruth'' And further he cannot depose.
To the rest he is not examined by direction of the producent./
To the Interrogatoryes. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Suckley dt.'''
To the first Interrogatory he answereth That he the Rendent and<br />
the interrate Thomas Jefferys were taken into the shipp interrate the<br />
''Constant Ruth'' at the Barbadoes, and that he this Rendent was not<br />
presente at the hyring of any of the sauyd shipps mariners but onely [?the]<br />
interrate Thomas Jefferyes, and henry Dager, Edward C[?XXX GUTTER]<br />
William Wilson and ffrancis Brookes who were all taken in at the<br />
Barbadoes, and that he this Rendent did not see the delivery<br />
of any goods out of the said shipp but he saith that he was [?present]
and on board at the taking in of goods which were the product of [?XXX]<br />
she brought and landed at the said Barbatho's and he answereth that the<br />
said shipp and all her lading was afterwards taken by the [?XXXX And]<br />
further he cannot answeare.
Repeated before Doctor<br />
Clarke and Doctor Godolphin.
The marke of the [?sayd GUTTER] [MARKE, RH SIDE]rke of the [?sayd GUTTER] [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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