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[MARKE, LH MARGIN]
knowne to be true because they were of the said shipp the ''hope''<br />
her Companie and saw her said lading at [?Estipona] and the said<br />
seizure of her by the Brestman of warr and the said rescue<br />
by the shallop of dunquerke in which shallop theise deponents were<br />
(as they say) carried to dunquirke in the Companie of their<br />
said shipp the ''hope''. And further they say that the said<br />
Samuel Wilson was and is the Owner of the said shipp ''hope''<br />
and of her tackle and furniture, and for such commonly accompted<br />
and that shee ws sett and furnished out on the said Voiage from<br />
dartmouth at his costs and charges as sole Owner of her, and that<br />
the said Richard Rives is the person, to whom the said goods were<br />
consigned, and is an Englishman and Merchant resident at dowgate<br />
in London and a subject of this Commonwealth, and the said lading<br />
of fruite, as they beleeve, is inn proprietie belonging unto him./
The marke of [MARKE] henry Shepard. [MARKE, LH SIDE]<br />
The marke of [MARKE] henry B[?XXXX].
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The 19th of May 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
Andrewes and Clutterbuck against}<br />
haselgrave. Budd.}
Examined upon the foresaid Libell.
'''Budd dt.'''
'''4'''
'''John Stannian''' of the parish of Saint Catherin<br />
Creechurch London Gentleman aged 22 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, sworne and examined.
To the sixth article of the said libell upon which alone hee is by<br />
direction of the producent examined, hee saith and deposeth<br />
that in or about July in the yeare 1653 the producents Thomas<br />
Andrewes and Richard Clutterbuck having bought a parcell of<br />
pepper of the East India company, had the same delivered unto them<br />
from the Exchange Sellar London, which hee knoweth being<br />
then servant to Mr Swinglehurst secretary of the East India company.<br />
and saith hee findeth by the bookes of the said company, that the said<br />
parcell amounted to 10088 ''lb'' neat (of pepper) and was contained<br />
in thirtie baggs, And saith the said producents being to<br />
transport the same, and to have entry thereof made in the Customehouse<br />
London, this deponents said master on the behalfe of the said Company went to<br />
the Customehouse, to make<br />
entrie of the said parcell, but for the name of the shipp wherewith the<br />
said pepper was to be transported, or of the master of the said shipp<br />
hee saith hee remembreth not. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Clarke.
Jo: Stanyan [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Clarke.
Jo: Stanyan [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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