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and Cyprus, And for and as Partners and in … and Cyprus, And for and as Partners and in Consortshipp togeather they<br />
were and are commonly reputed and esteemed, And what is done in that<br />
Consortshipp by any of them was and is held and accompted as<br />
done by and approved by them all, The premisses hee knoweth being Purser<br />
in the Voyage in question, and by publique and common report amongst<br />
Merchants and others. And further hee cannot depose./
To the 22th hee saith hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Crosse Interrogatories exhinbited the 14th of december 1654:- [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was Purser of the shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure''<br />
during the voyage in question, and so continued till the goods interrate were unladen<br />
at Porta fferara, and saith hee hath received his full wages for his said service from<br />
the said George hughes at Porta fferrara, And saith hee well knoweth that the<br />
Companies of the shipps ''Mary Rose'' and ''William and Thomas'' and ''Thomas''<br />
''Bonadventure'' were there also payd their full wages out of such impresst moneys, as<br />
were paid unto the Masters and Commanders of the said respective shipps, by<br />
Captaine Bodiloe upon occasion of the service of this Commonwealth, into which they<br />
were taken. And so much this deponent by familiar Conversation at Porta fferara<br />
with the said Masters and Mariners understood from them, and particularly this deponent<br />
payd the Companie of the said shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'', and forasmuch as<br />
they were designed to goe upon a Warlike imployment againt the dutch, this rendent<br />
by their consent and order, detained part of some of their wages, and remitted<br />
the same by bills of exchange since paid to them or their respective Orders at<br />
London. And further cannot depose./
To the second hee saith, That hee this examinate well knoweth, that the interrate<br />
George hughes after the discharge of the said goods at Porta fferara cpmmenced<br />
a suite in law at Legorne against the interrate Norleigh and Constable his partner<br />
for and concerning the freight due for the said goods, and that the said Norleigh<br />
and Constable did likewise there proceed in law against the said George hughes, to<br />
divert and hinder his putting of the goods in question into the hands of [?deputes].<br />
which hee saith upon the refusall of payment of freight is the usuall way observed<br />
in that country, And beleeveth that the said Norleigh did expend some moneys<br />
in that buisines but how much hee knoweth not. And further cannot depose./
To the third hee saith, That hee this rendent did not at all serve aboard the said<br />
shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' in the service interrate, and saith that hee had 30. ''s'' per<br />
moneth for his service in the Voyage in Controversy, And saith That according to<br />
promise made by Mr Longland Agent for this Commonwealth at Legorne, and<br />
by the said Captaine Badiley the said shipp ''Thomas Bonadventure'' was to be<br />
paid proportionably to her rate and number of men, as other shipps taken<br />
up in England for that service were to be payd for the same And further hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 4th hee saith hee this rendent was at Porto Lomgone interrate, when it<br />
was blocked up by the dutch in the yeare <u>1652.</u> but for the time that the<br />
dutch withdrew from that place this deponent doeth not exactly remember,<br />
(Buteth not exactly remember,<br />
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