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Transcription

A Busines of Examination of wittnesses on the}
behalfe of Thomas Allen Anthony Peniston and}
Company Owners of the shipp the King of Poland}
whereof ffrederick Johnson is Master) against}
John Wright Jasper White Perient Trott}
Thomas Tomlinson John Butts Richard Chandler}
and George Watermann: ffrancklin Suckley}

Examined upon an allegation given in
and admitted the Eleaventh day of June
1656 on behalfe of the sayd Thomas Allen
Anthony Peniston and Company./

William Welch of Shadwell in the
parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner
Shipwright aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts a
wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth

To the 1: article of the sayd allegation hee saith
hee well knoweth that in or about the moneth of June 1655 there
was laden aboard the arlate shipp the King of Poland (then lying at
the Bermudas and bound for Virginia and from thence to London)
severall chests butts hogsheads and barrells of Tobaccoe to a
good quantitie and the same being for laden aboard her at Bermudas
shee departed therewith and sett sayle thense to Virginia and there arrived
with the tobaccoes soe laden in safety And saith that after the sayd
shipps arrivall, at Virginia there were there at the River of [?Nausemum] in
Virginia severall other quantities of tobaccoe to a good quantitie laden
aboard the sayd shipp
all of them as well
those laden at Bermudas as Virginia to bee transported to this
Port of London England designed for unladeing and delivery of
the sayd tobaccoe, the premisses hee deposeth of his owne certyne
knowledge being Carpenter aboard the sayd shipp the voyage in
question and seeing the sayd Tobaccoes laden And further saving his
following deposition hee cannot depose/

To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee knoweth not to whome
the tobaccoes seas soe laden aboard the sayd shipp at Bermudas and
Virginia the tymes predeposed beleeveth
consigned at London hee hath heard
beleveeth they were consigned and belonged unto who and consigned and belonged to the arlate John Wright Perient Trott Jasper White
Thomas Toulson John
Bu[?ll]s Richard Chaundler and George Waterman
And further to this article hee
cannot depose./

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