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Transcription

To the 21th Interrogatory hee saith hee cannot depose therto knowing nothing
what price was agreed betweene the sayd ffairefax and frye only
hee hath heard the same was fower pounds fifteene shillings a tonne
which in these troublesome tymes is but an ordinary freight and beleeveth
the sayd ffairfax would not have hiered any to fgoe that voyage at the
rate of tenn or fifteene shillings a tonne cheaper then the rate
above specified and further hee cannot depose./

To the 22th hee beleeveth the sayd ffairefax and all others merchants
and ffreighters who had shipps to goe for Mallega at the tyme predeposed of are damnified
by reason the shipps were imbargoed as is predeposed and soe were all the Masters
and Mariners of the sayd shipps and further hee cannot depose./

Thomas Stormes [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before the three Judges the day
aforesayd/

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The 17th of November 1653

Examined upon the sayd allegation/

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Abraham ffilter of Redderiff in the County of Surrey
Mariner Master of the Shipp Peter and John of London
aged 32 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followed videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee this
deponent being Master of the Shipp the Peter and John well knoweth that
longe before the 20th day day of July 1653 arlate hee this deponent
hath diverse men pressed from on board his shipp the Peter and John aforesayd
for the service of this Commonwealth and diverse after the sayd Twentith day of
July and knoweth afore that before and after the sayd day there was a generall
presse of able seamen for the service of this Commonwealth and hee this
deponent did see diverse men pressed for the sayd service in the River of Thames
from on board other Merchant Mens shipps then in the River which
hee believeth the officers who pressed the sayd men durst not to have done
unlesse they had bin lawfully authorized soo to doe And that there was
a publique repute amongst Mariners and Merchants then that there was
an authority and power granted soo to doe and further he cannot depose.

To the 10th 11th and 12th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that
hee this deponent lying upon the downes with his ship the Peter and
John' aforesayd on the 11th day of August last well knoweth that the sayd
Jope came with his shipp the Endeavour into the downes the sayd 11th day of
August And afore well knoweth that before the sayd 11th day of August there
was an Order come into the downes for the stopping of all the shipps bound
for Mallega whereof this deponents shipp was [out] from proceeding either
voyages And this deponent was served with the sayd Order on the sayd 11th day.