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The 11th day of december <u>1654:-&l … The 11th day of december <u>1654:-</u>
Beale and Company against the shipp ''Expectation'' and}<br />
Birdsey and others. Smith. Suckley.}
Examined upon the said Allegation and upon the<br />
schedule remaining on the file <u>1651</u> annexed to a<br />
premium decretum No: 311:-/
'''2us/'''
'''Josias Harrison''' of the parrish of Saint Michael<br />
Crooked Lane London ffishmonger, aged 25. yeares<br />
or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and examined./
To the first second and third articles of the said Allegation and to the schedule<br />
aforesaid remaining upon the file and beginning thus '''Delivered the 6th'''<br />
'''day of July 1648, for the use of the said shipp the ''Expectation'' by John'''<br />
'''Cooke fishmonger as followeth,''' written in one sheete of paper and read<br />
and perused by this Examinate at the time of his examination, hee saith<br />
and deposeth, That in or about the moneths of June July August and September in the<br />
yeare 1648. last past, the allate John Ramsey the Master and<br />
Commander of the shipp the ''Expectation'' of London allate, came to the<br />
shopp of the said John Cooke a fishmonger at the signe of the three<br />
Pidgeons in Thames street, where this deponent then was and served as<br />
an Apprentice, and then and there in this deponents presence and hearing<br />
the said John Ramsey declared unto the said John Cooke, That hee then<br />
stood in need of some provisions for his said shipp the ''Expectation'' then being bound upon a voyage to sea and<br />
thereupon hee the said Ramsey agreed with this deponents said Master for and and<br />
singular the Provisions of fish mentioned and expressed in the said<br />
schedule for and at the severall rates and prices therein expressed, the said<br />
fish and incident Charges for the Carrying thereof and otherwise amounting<br />
to the summe of 30 ''li'' and 10 ''d'' sterling money. [#]
[#] Videlicet a half hundred of North Sea Codd the best at 5 ''li'' per ''C'' amounting to 2 ''li'' 10 ''s''/ Three<br />
hundred of new North Sea Codd dry at 5 ''li'' per ''C'' amounting to 15 ''li'' ffive hundred and a halfe<br />
of stockfish at 44 ''s'' per Cent: amounting to 12 ''li'' 2 ''s'' for matts and porters and other<br />
Charges about the conveying of the said provisions aboard the said shipp ''Expectation''<br />
amounting to 8 ''s'' 10 ''d'' making in all to the said summe of 30 ''li'' 10 ''d''/
And saith That after such<br />
agreement made, the said provisions of fish were by this deponent by his said<br />
Master his order, delivered unto a Waterman, to be brought aboard the<br />
said shipp ''Expectation'' then being in the River of Thames according to<br />
the direction of the said John Ramsey the Master thereof, as they<br />
accordingly were, And after the deliverey and sending aboard the said<br />
provisions, the said Mr John Ramsey came to the shopp of the said John<br />
Cooke, and there in the presence of this deponent acknowledged the said deby<br />
of 30 ''li'' and 10 ''d'' due upon the accompt aforesaid Unto the said John Cooke,<br />
and obliged himselfe and his said shipp for the due payment thereof,<br />
The premisses this deponent knoweth being present at and assistant in the<br />
premisses, and for that this deponent saw the said particular<br />
provisions togeather with their severall pieces entred into the debt booke of his said<br />
Master John Cooke, whereby this deponent hath very perfect and pertinent<br />
(knowledgerfect and pertinent<br />
(knowledge +
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