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'''A.1.''' The eleaventh of ffebruary 1655. Williams and Company against Rowse} and others} Examined upon the foresaid allegation '''Smith dt.''' '''2.''' '''Aron Estes''' of Deale in kent Mariner aged 24 yeares or thereabouts sworne and exámined To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the producents mr william williams and others the producents, and alsoe well knoweth the shipp the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' and of which shipp hee saith the said Mr williams and Company and were owners or at least freighters the time arlate, at which time the arlate humphrey hardwick was sopra Cargo or factor of and for the said producents mr williams and company, and for such as aforesaid they were respectively commonly accounted and reputed, which hee knoweth going Masters Mate of and in the said shipp the voyage in question, on which shee was sett out by the said Mr Williams and company as owners or freighters aforesaid. And To the second article hee saith and deposeth that in or about the moneth of September last the said shipp the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' and alsoe the arlate shipp the ''Caesar'' whereof one Clement harby was Sopra Cargo or factor were and remained in the Roade of Nathalago, whense hee saith they were both bound to Petras to Petras to buy and lade curranse, and the said humphrey hardwick hee saith was aboard the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' in the said Roade as factor aforesaid, which hee deposeth being present in her and seeing the premisses. To the third 4. and 5th and 6 hee saith that the said humphrey hardwick and Clement harby having in the said Roade of Nathalago agreed to the effect arlate namely that the ''Ceser'' alone should goe to Petras, and that the Curranse there to be laden should be shared betwixt and before the account of both their principalls, this deponent was by agreement betweene the said two factors put aboard the ''Caser'' to goe in her to Petras to the end (as both the said hardwick and harby declared upon this deponents going out of the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' into the ''Cesar'', that hee this deponent should take an account at Petras of what Currance should be there laden aboard the ''Caser'', and marke the one halfe of them for the accompt of the said mr williams and Company, to be thense brought in the ''Caeser'' to Argastall where the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' was to meete and receive the halfe of the on board her; and saith that in persuance and for the better effecting the said matter of taking the said currance aboard the ''Caser'' that were to be laden aboard her at Petras for the account of the said william williams and company, the said humphrey Hardwick out of the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' put aboard the ''Caser'' the summe of three thousand dollers into the custodie of the said Clement harby
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