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request of Mr Everson a Merchant of London who as hee hath
heard is a Correspondent of Symon and Lewis Rodrigues da
Souza, and saith hee knoweth none of the parties in this suite and
is not factor nor Correspondent to the sayd da Souzas nor ever
same them that hee knoweth of And further cannot answere/

To the 2 hee saith he is a Portugese by byrth and is noe assurer of any
part of the goods in question nor any way concerned in them
And otherwise negatively./

To the 3 hee saith hee never lived in holland or fflanders save
only as a soionener for a moneth or some such smale tyme
at severall places as Amsterdam Rotterdam and other places
in Zealand and at Antwerpe and Bruxells and other places in
fflanders, and saith hee never sawe the articles of the last
treaty not knoweth the contents of them And further cannot answere
not having heard anything to the effect Interrogate./

To the 4th hee answereth negatively for his part having never bin
in any Holland shipp taken at Sea by any Spanish man of warr
since the yeare Interrogate And further saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot answere/

To the last saving his foregeoeing deposition hee cannot answere
having not heard anything to the effect Interrogate/

Augusti Coronel [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 5th day of ffebruary 1656/
Ewer against Watts}
Clements Budd}

Examined upon an allegation on behalfe of the sayd
Watts./

Rp. 4

Lawrence Thompson of Ratcliff in the parish of stepney
and County of Middlesex Mariner aged thirty seaven
yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee this saith that hee
this deponent was a passenger in the shipp William of London whereof
Phillipp Ewer arlate was Master the voyage in question and went in her
from London Gravesend to Virginia and thense back to London and alsoe hyred
freight in the sayd shipp for certayne hogsheads to tobaccoe to be brought
in her for this deponents Accompte from Virginia to London and this
deponent contracted with the sayd Phillipp Ewer for the sayd freight
about the three or fower and twentith of September one thousand six hundred
fifty fower and saith the sayd Phillipp Ewer did then tell this deponent that
two would sett sayle with his sayd shipp upon the sayd voyage for
Virginia before the end of October that yeare, And this deponent sawe
bills which were sett up upon the publique Exchange London expressing
and giving notice to such whome they might concerne that hee the sayd
Ewers would proceede upon his sayd voyage to Virginia before the one
of the sayd moneth of October, which bills were (as hee verily beleeveth)
made and sett up by the order and direction of the sayd Ewers And further
to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 2 article hee saith hee knoweth not what tyme the sayd Ewers cleered
the