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Ad jum 2. et 3 positiones dicit that for … Ad jum 2. et 3 positiones dicit that for and during all the moneths<br />
of September, October and November 1658 and before<br />
the Lillate John Martin was master of the lillate ship the<br />
and had the care and charge of her as Master and was then<br />
commonly accounted to be a part owner of the said ship, and<br />
verily beleeveth that hee became master of her by and with the<br />
consent of her Owners and saith that the deponent made severall<br />
voyages in the said ship, from hence to Newcastle and was<br />
hired to serve in her by the said Martin, who alsoe hired the rest<br />
of the Mariners that served in her and the said Martin.<br />
used to trade from hence to Newcastle for coales. And<br />
hee had the mannageing and ordering of the said ship those<br />
voyages, and used to buy in her provisions, and alsoe the Coles<br />
to lade her, and and hee alsoe sold the same, and did keepe the Accounts<br />
of Receipts and disbursements in, upon, and concerning the said<br />
ship by Consent of her Owners et alr nescit, saving the said ship<br />
is of the burthen of two hundred and seaventy Tons or thereabouts/ [?amount or]
Au 4: 5 et 6. dicit that in or about the month of September<br />
1658 the said ship the ''Tymothy'' arrived in the River<br />
of Newcastle, this deponent being then Carpenter of her, and<br />
the same Martin the Master of the said ship did then want and<br />
stand in need of money to buy Coales to Lade the said ship<br />
and alsoe to buy provisions for her Company, And the<br />
said Martin being in such want did repaire unto the lilate<br />
John Taylor of Gateside aforesaid, and acquainted him there which<br />
and intreated and importuned the said Taylor, (in this deponents<br />
presence and hearing) to be ayding and assisting to him the<br />
said Martin in the borrowing of forty or fifty pounds to helpe<br />
to buy provisions and Coales lade the ship, and thereupon<br />
the said John Taylor did use his endeavours to furnish him<br />
and did at his request become bound unto one Thomas<br />
Harrison togeather with him the said John Martin in the summe<br />
of ffourescore pounds for payment of fifty pounds which said<br />
summe of fifty pounds was lent by the said Harrison to<br />
the said Martin to lade his ship with Coales and buy<br />
provisions to the end shee might proceed upon her voyage<br />
and having now seene the first schedule lilate hee saith<br />
the same is the said originall bond, and was signed and sealed<br />
by the said Martin and Taylor in the presence of this deponent<br />
one Mr John Preston and one Thomas Pattison, and to<br />
the rest hee referreth himselfe to the said bond which is true and reall And<br />
further cannot depose saving that the said Martin told<br />
this deponent at his being at Newcastle the said time before<br />
he borrowed the said summe that hee had not above five pounds
Ad 7um et schedulum in eadem mentionat dicit et deponit that<br />
in consideration of the said John Taylor being bound with the said<br />
Martin to the said Harrison as aforesaid the said Martin<br />
did become bound unto the said Taylor and alsoe bound the said<br />
(shipand alsoe bound the said<br />
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