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To the 8th hee saith hee doth not know B[? … To the 8th hee saith hee doth not know B[?audwin] van Bourne Interrogate<br />
And otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing DEposition
To the last hee cannot Answer:/
Symon [XXXXXson] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated with his precontest before doctor Godolphin.
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The 15th of May 1658.
Captain Thomas against halley}
Examined upon the foresaid libell.
'''Rp. 3us.'''
'''Bartholomew Cuff''' of the Parish of<br />
Allhallowes the greate London Porter of the<br />
Stillyard, aged 60 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the seaventh eighth and nineth articles of the said<br />
libell hee saith and deposeth that somewhat after<br />
Bartholomew tide last was a twelve moneth there came<br />
and were brought in lighters and landed at the Stillyarde<br />
key<br />
a parcell of whale oile amounting (by common<br />
estimation and as was said by the Coper (sic) that made it) to<br />
fiftie seaven tonnes, And that shortly after the landing<br />
thereof there, there were two pipes thereof put into two<br />
carts by order of the arlate Edmund halley and sent away<br />
to be carried the one to Mr howl[?e]t and the other to Mr<br />
Cox, and afterwards by time the said Mr halley sent away<br />
alsoe all the rest saving seaven tonnes which were left<br />
upon the wharfe, and afterwards put into a warehouse.<br />
All which hee knoweth for that this deponent being one of<br />
the Stillyard porters did help to land and afterwards<br />
to loade away the said oiles soe sent away by Mr halley<br />
who hee saith paid this deponent for his paines and labour<br />
therein, and said that the said seaven tonnes were left for<br />
a Captaine, whom hee then named, but this deponent hath<br />
forgotten the name. And saith this deponent saw noe<br />
division or partition made of the said oiles into any share<br />
before sending of the said greatest part away, nor knoweth<br />
ought of calling or warning of any persons about a division, nor<br />
of the agreement libellate, nor of the valew of the said oiles.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving there was afterwards foure pounds<br />
odd moneys paid for the warehouse [XXXX] of the said seaven tonnes #
[#] that were left and<br />
11 ''s'' to the porters for their<br />
worke by his precontest<br />
Mr Barfoote.
To the rest not examined by direction of the producent.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee knoweth not who are plaintiffs<br />
or defendants in this cause, nor is of any relation or kindred<br />
to any of them.
To the second and third hee saith that the said halley sent about<br />
sixteene or seaventeene tonnes of the said oiles away forthwith<br />
afteraid oiles away forthwith<br />
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