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To the second and third hee saith he was n … To the second and third hee saith he was not present at the making of the contract<br />
and Charterpartie arlate, And otherwise cannot depose.
To the 4th and 5th articles hee saith that the said shipp the ''George Bonadventure''<br />
(John Crampe commander) being outward bound on the voyage in question<br />
did in the monethes of December and January 1654 receive aboard<br />
corne, herrings, lead butter and cheese and other goods in this port [?to ?be GUTTER]<br />
transported for Zant, and saith the said goods and lading were commonly<br />
said and reputed to be belonging to and be be laden for the account of<br />
the arlate George ffarrington and that after the lading of<br />
the said butter and cheese, there was part thereof taken out again<br />
and seized by the officers of the customs of this port and further hee<br />
with the rest of her butter and cheese and other lading shee went and<br />
sailed to Zant and there delivered the same to John Dobson and<br />
Richard ffarrington arlate, factors of the said George and their [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
who afterwards sent the said shipp twice to the Morea, from wh[?ence GUTTER]<br />
shee each time brought a parcell of Greeke cheese to Zant and<br />
delivered the same to the said factors which he knoweth<br />
because hee this deponent went out Cooke of the said shipp, and<br />
went from place to place and saw the premises soe donne.
To the 6th he saith that after the said deliverie of the said [?last GUTTER]<br />
parcell of cheese brought from the Morea, the said factors<br />
detained and suffered the said shipp to lie five moneths ([?at ?the XXX GUTTER]<br />
at Zant without imployment, and afterwards sent her to Cephalonia<br />
to the port of Arg[?a]st[?o]ll and sent Thomas Dobson (brother of the<br />
said John) Cape merchant of her, and otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the 7th 8th and 9th that the said shipp went accordingly to<br />
Argostel, and there it was said that the said Thomas dobson was<br />
in treatie about a freight and then hee and the merchant could not<br />
agree upon the rate, and then thereupon hee ordered the said Captaine<br />
to saile for Ligorno with the said shipp, there to receive further [XXX GUTTER]<br />
and saith hee the said Captaine Cramp, and company did sail [XXX GUTTER]<br />
said shipp accordingly to Ligorne, where meeting with noe<br />
imployment, shee was sent homewards, and setting sail from<br />
Ligorne shee afterwards, namely in or about April 1656 arived<br />
at Plimouth, and thense came to this port, and in or about the<br />
middle of May next following (to his best remembrance) shee<br />
delivered her last lading here being a parcell of fustick<br />
brought from Zant, All which hee knoweth being Cooke of her<br />
and going from place to place in her as aforesaid. And otherwise he<br />
cannot depose.
To the tenth he cannot depose.
To the 11th hee saith that the said ship the said voyage was and<br />
remained in the service and imployment of the said George farrington<br />
from about the beginning of December 1654 (at which time hee this<br />
deponent was shipped for the said voyage) untill her said discharge of<br />
her said last lading in this port, and all that while the said Crampe<br />
was in the said service and soe was [?AmstX] P[?atti?a] (one of the said<br />
Crampes servants) till the shipps comming to Plimouth (where he<br />
was prest) and the arlate Samuel Swann (another of the said Captaines<br />
servants) served in her and left her at Zant. And saith the said<br />
Captaine well deserved 6 li per moneth for his said service, and otherwise he<br />
cannot depose.
Totherwise he<br />
cannot depose.
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