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Transcription

and saw them carried aboard the said shipp, all by the order of the said
William ffowke the factor aforesaid. ffurthermore that
upon the comming of the
said shipp (wherein the said William ffowke and this deponent went) from Zant to Petras, this deponent sawe that the said Currants
or the greatest part thereof videlicet to the number or quantitie of 40000
weight or thereabouts were in or about the moneth of January last in the custodie
and possession of the allegat henry Page, a merchant upon the place
who was then and there commonly accompted the owner of the same, and
saith that shortly after the said shipps arivall the said Page and the said
William ffowke having speach together, the said Page delivered over the
said currants to the said William ffowke with the possession thereof in
the same warehouse wherein they were at their said comming thither
and gave him the keyes thereof, having before the said deliverie sold
them unto him, for hee saith that hee this deponent after and upon
such deliverie sawe an accompt in the hands of the said ffowke
given him by the said Page (and being of the said Pages owne hande
writing, which this deponent well knoweth) for and upon the said
currants and some other things, wherein the said Page acknowledged
the receipt of about 1000 [?chickeins] of and from the said William ffowke for
and in payment of the said currants, and some other things, and saith
the said ffowke gave the said Page bills of exchange to Zant for the ballance
of the said accompt of this deponents knowledge, And saith that the
rest of the said currants soe laden by the said ffowke for the foresaid
accompts, over and above the parcell soe by him bought and
received of and from the said Page, amounting to about 10000 weight
of currants, were bought by the said William ffowke
and his agents of and from severall men that sold them to them, and paid for
by the said William after sich somming of the Castle frigot to Petras,
and saith that severall other men alsoe bought currants at Petras
after the said arivall of the said vessell thither, and further that
when shee came thence there were severall parcells of currants
left remayning besides in the Morea, all Which hee knoweth for the
reasons aforesaid, being present on the place and privie to what
hee hath predeposed.

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the said Interrogatorie hee answereth that hee hath not any
interest in the currance in controversie, nor is any wayes concerned
therein; and saith that as to those currants bought as aforesaid by the
said ffowke of the said Page, they being beforehand and in the warehouse
in caskes, this deponent did not observe or see of what sort they were,
but for those that hee bought of other persons as aforesaid after the
said shipps arivall at Petras, hee saith that some of them were
currants of Lepanto and therest of Petras,
howbeit hee desireth this may not seeme to this Court
any contradicting of himselfe in respect of what hee hath
predeposed, by calling the said currants laden as aforesaid, Morea
currants, when as some of them that weere bought of other men after the
shipps comming as aforesaid, are by him said to be currants of Lepanto (which
lieth on the other side the gulph) for hee saith it is usuall to call
them all currants, that are laden a Petras which is the
Morea Morea currants, albeit some of them come from L:epanto or other places thereabouts

Repeated before Collonel Cock.

John Erlysman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]