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without giveing any notice to this deponen … without giveing any notice to this deponent and sailed to Salley and<br />
absented him self by the space of fifteene dayes or thereabouts, which he<br />
deposeth for that hee was then left on shore att Tituan and for that<br />
when the said Middleton had beene at Salley hee confessed so much saying<br />
that hee had left George Batt in Salley which was the [?XXXXX] brother And<br />
further hee cannot depose./
To the 6th hee saith and deposeth (and doth very well remember) that during<br />
such time as the said Thomas Middleton was absent from Tituan with the<br />
said shipp the weather was very faire and att no time so stormie<br />
or tempestuous but that the said shipp might very well with safety have<br />
continued in the streights, And that notwithstanding any weather that did<br />
happen inthat time hee saith that (as hee remembreth) heee might within two days have returned<br />
againe into the roade of Tituan in case hee had not gon to Salley<br />
as aforesaid, An otherwise hee cannot depose. saveing the reasons that [?induce]<br />
him this to depose hee saith are that to his best remembrance) there was<br />
noe foule or stormy weather dureing the time of the said Middletons absense at least the day or two after his departure
To the 7th and 8th articles of the said allegation hee saith that the said [?merchants]<br />
of Tituan seeing the said shipp so gone did neverthelesse continue their treaty<br />
for the said Cargazon in expectation of the returne of the said shipp and<br />
did propose Gould and silver [?hides] and wax for the payment for the same which might<br />
have taken effect if the said shipp had not beene absent as aforesaid, But in<br />
[?reXXXed] the said shipp was so long absent the said merchants of Tituan before the said shipp returned, sent away theire goods which they proferred in barter)<br />
to S[?e]nta in Barbary belonging to the kinge of Spaine, and gave out that<br />
the said shipp was run away and left the Merchant ashore to that effect<br />
by meanes whereof the markett for the present was utterly lost<br />
All which hee deposeth of his certaine knowledge And further knoweth not.
To the 9th hee saith that hides and waxe are very [XX]dible comodities in the parts<br />
of Spaine or the medera Ilands and the same might have bin sold there<br />
for a very greate and considerable profitt and advantage to the said Thomas<br />
Batt in case the said Cargazon of Tobaccoes had beene exchanged, And saith<br />
that the wax would have yeilded 30. 40. or 50 ''li'' per Cent[X] profitt, and the [XXXes]<br />
would have bin a very good comoditie in the m[?e]dera Ilands to which place<br />
hee was incouraged by the merchants there, to bring them, And further hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith that the said Thomas Middleton when hee was att<br />
Salley did leave on shore a brother of the said Thomas Batts, and that<br />
they did afterwards goe thither and fetch the said Batts brother off which hee<br />
knoweth for that this deponent went in the said shipp from Tituan to Salley and<br />
there found him, and brought him off [?with] them And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 11th hee saith that by reason of the losse of the markett att Tituan as<br />
aforesaid, they were enforced and necessitated to seeke out many strange<br />
places before they could sell of and barter theire Comodities, and ran through<br />
many dangers and hazards which was the casuse that the voyage was length[?ne]d<br />
five or six monthes longer (as hee conceiveth) than it might have beene, in case the treaty<br />
with the merchants att Tituan had beene perfected, All which he knoweth for that<br />
hee was ffactor as aforesaid for the said Batt and ffreighters And further hee<br />
cannot deepose./
To the 12th hee saith that hee referreth himself to his foresaid depositions<br />
and reasons of his knowledge aforesaid And further hee cannot depose,
To the last hee saith that his foregeoing depositions were and are true./
To the Interrogatoriesere and are true./
To the Interrogatories +
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