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to be delivered for the said accounts of t … to be delivered for the said accounts of the said respective persons<br />
who were and are accounted to be the true and lawfull owners thereof<br />
and such hee verily beleeveth them to bee. The premisses hee<br />
deposeth being master of the said shipp and seeing the premisses<br />
soe donne, and being made acquainted with the proprietie of the<br />
said respective persons, albeit the whole parcell of fourtie<br />
pipes was consigned to the said William Warren alone, which [?were]<br />
brought hee was the proprietor of them and<br />
to avoide making of many bills. And further hee deposeth<br />
not.
To the fourth and fifth articles of the said alleagtion and the schedule therein<br />
mentioned hee saith and deposeth that there were alsoe at the<br />
said port of Oratavo near about the said time 150 other pipes of<br />
canarie wines laded aboard the said shipp for the account of<br />
Thomas Warren brother of the said William, which with the<br />
40 pipes predeposed to be laden for William Warren and other<br />
persons aforesaid amounting to one hundred and ninetie pipes,<br />
this deponent master of the said shipp signed bills of lading<br />
(whether three or two hee remembreth not but well knoweth that<br />
they were of one and the same tenor) for the same videlicet for the<br />
whole parcell of one hundred and ninetie pipes, wherein are<br />
comprized the said fourtie pipes mentioned in his foregoeing deposition<br />
to the second and third articles, and having now seene the bill of<br />
lading annexed, hee saith the same is one of the said bills soe<br />
by him signed, which was soe signed in the said port of Oratavo<br />
forthwith upon the lading of the said wines, and the wines therein<br />
mentioned were really and truely laded and the said bills truely<br />
firmed, and that the pipes soe laded were severally and<br />
respectively marked as is articulated, the article mentioning the<br />
said bill and the markes being read unto him and the markes<br />
both in the bill and in the article showd unto him. And further<br />
hee deposeth not. saving his foregoeing deposition.
To the 6th article of the said allegation hee saith the said fourtie<br />
pipes of Canarie wines were really provided and laded<br />
by the said William Warren for the accounts aforesaid, and that<br />
noe person or persons but they (as hee verily beleeveth)<br />
hath any interest therein. And otherwise saving as aforesaid hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the seaventh article hee saith and deposeth that after the<br />
premisses, the said shipp with the said one hundred and ninetie<br />
pipes of wine and with other goods and merchandizes that<br />
were in her departed from Oratavo intended and steering<br />
her course for this port of London, and that in her course<br />
of proceeding for this port, on or about the thirteenth day<br />
of March last shee was set upon by two frigots<br />
Commissionated by the authoritie of the king of Spaine<br />
anditie of the king of Spaine<br />
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