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HCA 13/70 f.189r Annotate
First transcribed 31 December 2014  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 189  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 31/12/2014  +
Transcription The 23. day of december <u>1654:-<The 23. day of december <u>1654:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING] Stephen Slany Nathan Wright and others}<br /> for goods in the shipp ''John Adventure''. Smith} '''dt. Peake''' Examined upon Interrogatories on the behalf of the said<br /> Slany and others remaining upon the file of<br /> the yeare 1648; and upon the schedule thereunto annexed '''Captaine Eustace Smith''' of Ipswich in the<br /> Countie of Suffolke formerly Commander of the said<br /> shipp ''John Adventure'' a Wittnes sworne and examined To the 4th of the said Interrogatories and schedule annexed hee saith and deposeth That the said<br /> schedule was made and extracted out of this deponents booke of the<br /> markes and number of the goods, the shipping and consignement thereof as in the<br /> said schedule is expressed, And saith That this deponent being upon his Voyage from<br /> this Port of London towards Saint Lucar or Cadiz in Spaine with the said shipp ''John''<br /> ''Adventure'' and her ladeing, (being the Voyage in question) one John Wilmott<br /> a Merchant of this Citie goeing passenger and haveing a very considerable quantitie<br /> of goods and Merchandizes to him belonging in and aboard the said shipp<br /> hee the sad Wilmott some daies before the seizure of the said shipp by<br /> the revolted fleet under Prince Rupert, came to this deponent and told him hee would<br /> give him one of the neatest boxe combes that ever hee had seene, and thereupon<br /> at the desire of the said John Wilmott the deponent went with him between the<br /> decks of the said shipp, where being come the said Wilmot opened a great<br /> Chest or trunke which hee had there, expressely to take out and give this deponent<br /> the said combe which hee had so promised, and at the same time showed unto<br /> this deponent who then and there observed a parcell of bonelace and silver lace, a<br /> parcell of stockings amd two with scarlett cloakes new with a rich gould and<br /> silver lace, which hee the said Wilmott then and there affirmed to this deponent<br /> were his proper goods, whereupon this deponent replyed, Mr Wilmott I much<br /> admire that you should lett a trunke of goods of so great valew stand here<br /> and not to be putt into the hold, for if they should come to be imbeazeled broke<br /> up and stole away, there being no bills of ladeing signed for the same, there<br /> is none that can or ought to be responsible to you for them, or words to that<br /> or the like effect, hee further saith, That this deponent never entred the<br /> said goods nor any of them into his said booke, neither are they mentioned<br /> in the schedule interrate (being as aforesaid an Extract out of the said booke)<br /> for that this deponent tooke no charge of, nor signed any bill of ladeing<br /> for the same, And saith This deponent verily beleeveth and is convinced in<br /> Conscience by the observation hee then made of the said goods being very<br /> rich and costly, that they were of the valew of three hundred and<br /> thirty pounds sterling or thereabouts. And as to the<br /> particular quantities or valewes of the said goods this deponent saith hee<br /> cannot depose, neither doeth hee remember or did take notice of the<br /> marke or markes of the same. This deponent further saith, That besides the<br /> goods by him in this his deposition predeposed, one John hassell likewise<br /> (a, one John hassell likewise<br /> (a  +
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