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Transcription

The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd allegation/

4us

George Greene of the parish of Saint Bartholomew
nere the Royall Exchange London Grocer aged twenty
five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation and the schedule
therein mentioned hee saith that hee this deponent was a servant to the
arlate ffrancis Bellers during the whole tyme arlate and before and soe
still is and knoweth that the said ffrancis Bellers Richard Glover Thomas
ffowke and Company during the tyme arlate and before and since were and are
and ought to bee the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the arlate
shipp the Constant Mary and her tackle apparrell and furniture and alsoe
of the severall quantities of provisions and of the severall goods wares and
Merchandizes mentioned in the schedule arlate And this hee the better
knoweth for that hee this deponent as servant to the said Bellers
did himselfe pay a good part of the money paid for the sayd shipp and
for the severall goods wares Merchandizes and provisions and other charges
mentione n the sayd schedule And doth by his sayd Masters booke of
Accompts finde that his sayd Master did as one of the Owners of the
sayd shipp and her sayd ladeing and provisions pay his rateable part of them
according to the severall prizes specified in the sayd schedule And saith
that the arlate Daniell Leister was in the moneths and tyme aforesayd
Master of the sayd shipp by order of the sayd Owners And further hee
cannot depose./

To the 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that by a letter of
Advice sent to this deponents sayd Master ffranceis Bellers and directed to him
and others the Owners of the Constant Mary which letter hee hath read
and perused hee doth finde that the shipp Constant Mary and her provisions
and Cargo aforesayd were on the eighth day of may 1654 taken and
surprized by a dutch man of warr named the Santa Sicillia
whereof Hans Albrechts was commander and by him carried
to the Grand Canaries And further to these articles hee cannot depose

To the 5th article hee saith savinghis foregoeing deposition to the first
and second articles hee cannot depose./

To the 6th and 7th articles hee saith that the Constant Mary and her
goods and provisions aforesayd if they had safely arrivedat Guinney and
the proceede there made of them bin transported in her to the Barbados and
the proceede thereof invested in goods of that place and shee returned therewith
for London the same would have produced a very great and
considerable profitt to her Owners over ad above their principall but what
to value the same at hee knoweth not And further hee cannot depose/

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