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the non-payment of the said moneyes due un … the non-payment of the said moneyes due unto him as aforesaid, hath in this<br />
deponents Judgement suffered dammage to the valew of fourtie or fiftie shillings<br />
hee being a Tradesman in whose occupation soe much ready money to bee<br />
employed to the best advantae might very well produce in such a time a [?more GUTTER]<br />
considerable benefitt. And further cannot depose:-/
To the 8th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the proceedings of this Court:-/
To the 9th hee saith, That the arlate John Edge and Companie were and<br />
are commonly accompted Englishmen Subjects of this Commonwealth and to the<br />
Jurisdiction of this Court. And further hee cannot depose.
To the 10th hee referreth to the Acts and proceedings of this Court/
To the 11th hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true:-/
John Whittingham [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Libell:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 2us/'''
'''John Jeffes''' of Rederith in the Countie of Surrey<br />
Block=maker aged 21. yeares or thereabouts a<br />
Wittnesse sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first article hee saith, hee this deponent very well knoweth the shipp the<br />
''Reliefe'' arlate, whereof the arlate John Edge was Commander in the<br />
monethes of January ffebruary and March <u>1654.</u> and in March <u>1655.</u><br />
the said John Edge for all that time haveing the Care Command and the<br />
govvernment of her, as was publique and notorious at Rederith and other parts<br />
adjacent. And further, saving his subsequent deposition cannot depose:-
To the second and schedule annexed and now read unto him at the time of his<br />
examination hee saith and deposeth, That hee well knoweth, That the allate<br />
Thomas Lash the producent in this Cause was within the time by him<br />
predeposed the true and Lawfull Owner of all and singular the goods and<br />
Materialls specified in the said schedule, and did by himselfe or his servants<br />
alsoe performe the worke therein mentioned, And soe it was commonly<br />
accompted and reputed, This deponent for all that time and since being a<br />
servant to the said producent, and thereby well knowing the premisses:-
To the third hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Releif'' within the time<br />
aforesaid being bound forth upon a Voiage, and wanting such goods<br />
materialls, necessaaries and reparations as in the said schedule is expressed<br />
the said producent did furnish and deliver the same to the said John Edge<br />
or his order from time to time to and for the said shipps service and use<br />
at the said John Edge his desire, The premisses this deponent well knoweth<br />
for the reasons predeposed. And further cannot depose:-
To the 4th hee saith, That within the time predeposed, the good and materialls<br />
in the said schedule mentioned and valewed at the sewerall rates therein<br />
specified were worth the severall prizes whereat they are rated, and that<br />
within that time goods of the like nature and sufficiency (they being<br />
good strong and sufficient Materialls) were commonly soe estimated and<br />
sold by and amongst Blockmakers of those parts, The premisses hee<br />
knoweth being himselfe a Blockmaker by trade and having therein<br />
(servedade and having therein<br />
(served +
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