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hoy to Ipswich and there made honest and d … hoy to Ipswich and there made honest and due deliverie therof<br />
to this deponent and his order, and saith the said William hath<br />
for severall yeares bin {im}ployed by many and severall persons in the<br />
transportation of goods in his hoy from Ipswich to London and from<br />
London to Ipswich, and this deponent never knew or heard that hee<br />
defrauded or wronged any men, but performed his dutie effectually,<br />
saving the report that goes concerning the voyage in question. And<br />
for an honest and iust dealing man hee hath bin from time to<br />
time commonly accounted and reputed.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was not in the voyage in question<br />
And otherwise cannot depose.
To the second hee cannot depose.
To the third hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee cannot depose.
To the 5th hee hath noe relation to any of the persons interrogated, and<br />
hath not bin tought or told what hee should say nor doth expect<br />
ought for his deposition, and is not bound to declare his worth in estate.
To the 6th hee cannot depose.
To the 7th hee hath not soe deposed.
To the 8th hee saith the ''Primrose'' was the passage hoy<br />
betwixt Ipswich and London for carriage of goods upon freight<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the freight for severall<br />
goods useth to be certaine.
26. To the 9. 10. and 11th they doe not concerne him.
P mr. Tho: Burrough/. [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The eighth day of August 1656/
The affidavit of Cornelius Rawlins touching the}<br />
shipp the ''Hope'' whereof Leonard Betts was Master}
'''Mr: Kendall dt.'''
'''Cornelius Rawlyns''' of Wapping in the County of<br />
Middlesex, Mariner aged forty three yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne the day above sayd before the Right Worshipfull<br />
Collonel Charles George Cock Esquire one of the Judges of<br />
the high Court of Admiralty, saith and deposeth
That whereas hee was formerly examined touching the sayd shipp ''hope'' whereof Leonard Betts was Master upon<br />
certayne Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of Mr Thomas Kendall and<br />
Company touching the sayd shipp which his examination beareth date the eleventh<br />
day of March 1651, hee saith and declareth that what hee hath in that his sayd<br />
former examination sett downe and deposed is truth, And doth further declare<br />
by virtue of his oath Christopher de Melo (mentioned in<br />
this deponents sayd former examination) and Company were Portugueses and<br />
subiects of the Kinge of Portugall and did after they had blowne up the sayd shipp<br />
thed blowne up the sayd shipp<br />
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