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making up of this contract or bargaine bet … making up of this contract or bargaine between the said<br />
humphrey holland John hill as Owners and Proprietors of<br />
the said shipp, and this deponent and others who tooke the<br />
said shipp to freight for the voyage allegate, the said John<br />
Bewly did undertake for his particular [?part] the quantity of<br />
forty five Tonns in the said shipp at the rate of 4 ''li'' 18 ''s'' per Tonne The premisses he<br />
well knoweth because he was present, and saw the said<br />
Bewley (which was alsoe done by the rest of the ffreighters)<br />
subscribe unto a wryting drawne up in reference to a<br />
Charterpartie, The contents and particulars wherof he doth<br />
well remember soe farr as hee hath here deposed And<br />
further he cannot depose.
To the fourth, fifth and sixth articles he cannot depose<br />
saving that he this deponent hath payd the money due from<br />
him for his part of the Tonnage of the said shipp according<br />
to the contract or bargaine made./
To the seaventh he referreth himselfe to the Registry of this<br />
Court And further he cannot answeare.
To the eighth article he cannot depose.
To the last he sayth his former deposition is true.
To the Interrogatoryes. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he commeth to testify<br />
at the request of Mr Rowland hill, and that he is noe<br />
wayes interessed in the cause of shipp And to the rest he<br />
answereth negatively.
To the second Interrogatory he answereth that one John hill<br />
a brother of Mr Umphry hill deceased did treat with this<br />
Rendent and the rest of the freighters of the interrate shipp<br />
the ''Swan'', ant that he this Rendent and some others of the<br />
said freighters did alsoe goe unto the said Umphry hill and<br />
with him did conclude and agree upon the taking of the<br />
said shipp to freight at the rate of 4 ''li'' 18 ''s'' per Tonne<br />
and that every freighter should particularize for how many Tonns he<br />
would take of the sayd shipp and that accordingly a writing<br />
was drawne up at the three Cranes in the Poultrey where<br />
the said Bewley and this Rendent were, and where the<br />
said Bewley did in this Rendents sight subscribe and undertake<br />
for forty five Tonns in the said shipp at the rate of 4 ''li'' 18 ''s''<br />
per Tonne, And further he cannot answere.
To the third, fourth and fifth Interrogatoryes he cannot answere.
Repeated before Doctor Clerke.
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The 10th day of July 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Cooke and Company and Bludworth and Company}<br />
against Richard Thompson and Company. Suckley}
Examined upon an allegation given in the 6th<br />
of July 1655 in the behalfe of the sayd Thompson<br />
and Company./
'''Rp. jus.'''
'''Thomas Bomer''' of the parish of Saint Katherine neere the<br />
Tower London Mariner aged 25 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth videlicet
To the first 2: 3 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was<br />
one of the Company and a foremast man and on board of the shipp or vessell arlatend on board of the shipp or vessell arlate +
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