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of this Commonwealth and therby knoweth th … of this Commonwealth and therby knoweth that the sayd ffrigott haveing<br />
seized and taken the sayd shipp ''Royall James'' of Brest and her Company the Com=<br />
mander of the sayd ffrigott did order and Command this deponent to victuall<br />
and supplie with provision of victualls one hundred nynete fower men which were<br />
the Company of the sayd ''Royall James'' And thereupon hee this deponent<br />
by the Command of the sayd Commander of the ''Constant Warwick'' did accordingly<br />
supplie the sayd one hundred nynetie fower men with victualls for the<br />
space of fowerteene dayes videlicet for every<br />
of the sayd men according to the same proportion as was dayly<br />
allowed to each man of the Company of the sayd ffrigott the ''Constant<br />
Warwick.''
Repeated before doctor<br />
Godolphin./
Jon Winslow [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 11th of August 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
The Lord Protector against Samuell Swinnock}<br />
Budd Smith}
Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe of<br />
his highnes the Lord Protector./
'''d. Roe./'''
'''6us'''
'''George Greenwood''' of the parish of Saint Buttolph<br />
Bishopsgate Cittizen and Vintner of London aged thirty<br />
yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first seecond third and 4th articles hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
being only a porter constantly imployed by the Commissioners for<br />
prize goods arlate, to deliver such goods to the persons to whome they are<br />
by them sold, or such as by order from the Commissioners are authorized to take<br />
and receave them, and not knoweing ought of or being privie to the sale of the<br />
hundred baggs of ginger arlate to the arlate Swinnock, nor knowing the sayd<br />
Swinnock cannot depose to the contents of the sayd articles, saving hee saith that<br />
hee hath heard and beleeveth there was a hundred baggs of ginger sold to one Swinnock<br />
by the sayd Commissioners for that hee this deponent with others his Contests videlicet<br />
John Bolton Edward Sherwood and Edward ffrances did helpe to weigh and laye by a hundred<br />
baggs of ginger for the use of one Swinnock (which hee beleeveth to be the arlate<br />
Samuell Swinnock) out of a parcell of three hundred and odd baggs of ginger which<br />
the sayd Commssioners had lying at Ralphes Key And further saving his<br />
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that there were severall<br />
parcells of ginger out of the sayd 300 and odd baggs delivered to severall<br />
persons (whose names he knoweth not) who brought warrants from the sayd<br />
Commissioners for receiving the same, videlicet one man had forty baggs weighed and delivered and<br />
an other had one hundred baggs weighed and delivered, and a third had sixty<br />
odd baggs weighed for him according to Warrant from the same Commissioners,<br />
and layd by for his use, which sixty odd baggs are not (as this deponent beleeveth) yet taken<br />
away by the Owner thereof, And hee saith that after the sayd first<br />
parcellt after the sayd first<br />
parcell +
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