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their Officers by or on the behalf of the … their Officers by or on the behalf of the said Captaine Phillips for<br />
the removing and takeing off of the said locks, to prevent the perishing<br />
of the said goods, but by whom or to whom in particular the said adresses<br />
were made this rendent saith hee knoweth not:/
To the 7th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof./
Repeated in Court:/
Rich: Beard [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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On the twentith day of June 1655.
[?Olany] and Chappell against}<br />
Stancliffe. Budd Smith.}
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'''Henry Harling''' of the parish of Saint<br />
Dunstan in the East London Wharfinger<br />
where he hath lived about sixe yeares<br />
last past, aged about 27 yeares, a wittnes<br />
produced and sworne and being examined he<br />
deposeth as followeth.
To the first second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seaventh and<br />
eight articles of the said Libell he cannot depose, being altogether<br />
a stranger to the voyage of the shipp the ''George'' of London<br />
Libellate to Mallega and soe homeward to this Port of London<br />
as is Libellate;
To the ninth article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and saith that<br />
he this deponent belongeth unto a wharfe called Ralphs<br />
key nigh Billingsgate and that he hath knowne for two yeares past a Lighter<br />
(which is a french bottom) and is commonly calld and<br />
knowne by the name of the ''french Lighter'', And he saith<br />
that about a quarter of a yeare since the sayd Lighter brought<br />
certaine bayles of goods unto the sayd Ralphs key to putt<br />
them there on shoare, and that some of the said goods did receive dammage<br />
and were there on shoare, and that some of the said goods did receive dammage<br />
and were damnified by receiving of wett, but whither it was<br />
by the insufficiency of the sayd Lighter or by the negligence of<br />
the Porters that were imployed in the unlading or putting on<br />
shoare the said goods he knoweth not And further he cannot<br />
depose.
To the 10th 11th 12th and 13th articles he cannot depose
To the fourteenth he saith that he knoweth not the arlate Stanliffe.
To the last he saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
To the crosse Interrogatoryes [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he now comes to testify being<br />
cited by vertue of a Compulsory, And to the rest he answereth negatively.
To the second he answereth that he knoweth not any Lighter called<br />
the ''Margaret'' as is interrate, But he answereth that the Lighter commonly<br />
calld the ''french Lighter'' (by him deposed of) hath in this deponents iudgement<br />
a rank keele, and that (as he hath heard) other goods besides the<br />
goods of the producents and the goods by him predeposed of at Ralphs<br />
key, have received damage in the sayd Lighter calld the ''ffrench Lighter''<br />
And further he caannot answere.
To the rest of the Interrogatoryes he cannot answeare, knowing nothing of<br />
the voyage or the shipp or barrells of raisens interrogated./.
Repeated in Court.
Hen: Harling [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Court.
Hen: Harling [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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