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To the 13th article hee saith and deposeth … To the 13th article hee saith and deposeth that there were and remained<br />
aboard the said shipp the ''Lyon and Providence'' at the time of her said<br />
surprizall diverse of the said Alderman Thompson and Morrice<br />
Thompson their exported goods that were undisposed of a Quantitie<br />
to the valew of thirtie six pounds, which could have produced the<br />
summe of seventie pounds upon the ships retourne in case they had<br />
not bin taken away.
To the fourteenth hee saith that the said gold and goods of the said<br />
Lionell Skinner seized in the said shipp, having bin invested into<br />
East India commodities, could in all probabilitie upon the shipps<br />
retourne to this port have produced and yeelded two thousand pounds<br />
sterling.
To the 15th hee cannot depose, not knowing the quantitie thereof.
To the 16th hee saith that the said gold and goods belonging to private<br />
adventurers soe seized in the said shipp, would in all<br />
probabilitie (being invested into East India commoditie) have<br />
yeelded upon the shipps retourne five thousand and fower hundred<br />
pounds sterling and upwards.
To the 17th hee saith that the freight with the shipp would have<br />
earned the said voyage, payable to the said owners James Bridgeman<br />
Thomas Paston and company upon the said upon the said shipps retourne to<br />
this port would here amounted to the summe of two thousand<br />
sixehundred and fiftie pounds sterling.
To the last hee cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/.
Richard Maxwell junior [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 9th of March 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
Edwards and Whitfeild against Bushell.<br />
Clements. Smith.}
Exámined upon an allegation on the behalfe<br />
of the said Bushell and others.
'''Smith dt.'''
'''.1.'''
'''George Byrne''' of dublin in Ireland Chyrugeon<br />
aged nineteene yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
exámined.
To the first article hee saith and deposeth that the arlate Samuel<br />
Edwards and Roger Whitfeild the voyage in question were many times<br />
drunken and distempered and over taken with drinke and the said<br />
Edwards being in drinke did misbehave himselfe stubbornely and<br />
disobediently towards the Captaine of the said shipp, disobeying his<br />
orders, And otherwise cannot depose, saving hee knoweth the<br />
premisses because hee was Chyrugeons mate of the said shipp the said<br />
voyage.
To the second hee saith that while the shipp the ''Negro'' arlate was the said voyage<br />
at Saint Christofers, and was freighted for England, and had about 60<br />
tonnes of her lading aboard her, the said Edwards said and affirmyed<br />
in the presence and hearing of this deponent said that upon the deck<br />
that Captaine Lockier her commander was a knave and a<br />
rogue and a banquetting or bankrupt fellow, and<br />
hee and the said Whitfeild then said then the shipp was insufficient<br />
to goe to sea, and that they would not adventure their lives in her, andould not adventure their lives in her, and +
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