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Transcription

To the 11th hee saith hee saith hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing
deposition and to the lawe and further cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Tho: Tapper [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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On the 25th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

Beale against Goodwin and Langdon}
Clements Smith}

Upon the arlate allegation given in and admitted
on the 21th of November 1655 on the behalfe of
the sayd Beale.

Rp. EA

Thomas Bateman of Wapping in the County of
Middlesex Mariner, where he hath lived these eleaven
yeares last past, aged about 36 yeares, a wittnes
produced, sworne and examined he deposeth and saith as
followeth.

To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and saith
That he the deponent was the producent Simon Beale his Mate
in the voyage articulate to Norway and home againe to this Port of
London, and that because he was Masters Mate in the sayd voyage
and was present when the deales arlate were laden aboard the
arlate shipp the Providence he very well knoweth that the
Nicholas Christianson did as Agent or factor for the arlate
Goodwin and Langdon at Norway lade aboard the said shipp the Providence
the Seales brought home to this port of London for their accompt, and he deposeth that
he was present and heard that when the producent tooke exception
against the receiving aboard the peices of deales the sayd
Christianson made answeare that he the said Beale must take them in, and
thatt he must bee payd for them, and that he the sayd
Christianson had cutt the peices off the whole deales for the
more convenient stowing them aboard the sayd shipp, And
further to the sayd article he cannot depose.

To the last article he saith his former deposition is true./

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he was present and
saw all the deales laden aboard the shipp interrate , and that there
were noe more whole deales brought to the shipps side then what
were taken in by the producent but he saith that some halfe deales and peices were refused And to the rest he answereth
negatively.

To the second Interrogatory he answereth that he saw the greatest part
of the Deales interrate cutt but he kept noe reckoning or account
of the certaine Number of those deales he saw cutt, and he
sayth that they were cutt by the order and directing of Nicholas
Christianson the Agent or factor there of the said Goodwyn
and Langdon, and that the persons that cutt them were danes
and imployed therein by him the said Christianson, And
otherwise he answereth negatively, saving that the sayd Deales were
laden after the rate of sixe score and nor more to the hundred.

To the third Interrogatory he answereth that he the Rendent did
see the greatest part of the deales interrate delivered after her
arrivall here, but that he left the shipp before she was quite
unladen, but he saith that he very well knoweth being Masters
Mate (as he hath predeposed) and present at the lading of the
said deales at Norway, that a long peice and a short peice
were laden by the said Christianson for a whole deale, and
two halfes were laden for a whole deale, And further he
cannot answeare.

Tho: Bateman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]