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Transcription

The 16th day of December 1653/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation./

Rp.

4us.

John Holding of Wapping in the County of Middlesex
Merchant aged 50 yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation and the schedule
therein mentioned hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent was by the arlate
David Beck imployed in the moneth of September last to procure him a freight
which hee accordingly did videlicet the ffreight arlate, and thereby well knoweth
that in the sayd moneth of September 163 the arlate Edward Yonge ffrancis
yoinge and Thomas ffincham did by this deponents meanes and procurement
hyre to freight the shipp the ffortune of Hamborough arlate for a voyage
from the Port of London to Rochell or Sherrent in ffrance there to
lade wines for the Accompt of the sayd ffreighters and returne therewith
to the Downes arlate where hee the sayd David Beck was with his
sayd lading to stay and there receive orders from the saud ffreighters
at which Port whether at London or Dunquirke hee should unlade
and deliver the sayd wynes And saith that according to the sayd
agreement betweene the sayd Beck and the sayd ffreighters a Charterparty
was drawne up betweene them to the effect aforesayd by this deponents
contest Robert Minchard, and upon the second day of the sayd moneth
of September last the sayd Charterparty was interchangeably signed
sealed and delivered by the sayd Beck and the sayd ffreighters videlicet
the sayd Beck to one counterpart thereof and the ffreighters to the
other part thereof in the presence of this deponent and his precontests John
Leemkuell and Robert Minchard, and his sonne Henry Minchard who
all subscribed thereto as witnesses thereof And he saith that having
seriously perused the schedule arlate now shewed to him at the tyme
of this his examination hee well knoweth the sayd schedule to be the
same and the originall Charterpartie videlicet that parte thereof which was soe
signed sealed and delivered as aforesayd by the sayd David Beck And
further to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 2: 3: 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith hee cannot
depose not being imployed to goe in the sayd voyage nor knowing the
arlate Samuell Berryman./

To the 7th hee saith his foregoeing depositions are true

To the 8th article of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well
knoweth and remembreth that after the hyreing of the shipp the ffortune aforesayd
by the sayd ffreighters arlate they the sayd ffreighters ffincham and the two
Mr Yongs aforesayd did desyre to knowe the names of the Owners
of the sayd shipp who lived at Hamorowe, and declared that they the sayd
ffreighters intended to make use of some of the Owners of the sayd shipps names
and to cause bills of ladeing to be made for the owners they intended to
lade aboard the sayd shipp in the names of some of the Owners and to cause
the