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And hee saith that after they who bought t … And hee saith that after they who bought the rest of the ginger in the warehouse where the sayd<br />
Swinnocks ginger laye or their assignes had taken away out of the sayd warehouse all the<br />
ginger by them bought some sixty baggs. care was taken to lay by one<br />
hundred baggs of ginger for the sayd Samuell Swinnock, and this deponent and<br />
his sayd Contests and other porters imployed as aforesayd did helpe to weigh the<br />
same and laye the same out of the warehouse it then was in into a warehouse next<br />
thereto adioyning to be there safely kept for the sayd Swinnock till such tyme as<br />
hee would callfor the same And further hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that hee was required in the behalfe if the Commissioners<br />
for prize goods to come and testifie the truth in this cause but by whome particular<br />
hee remembreth not and saith hee hath nos share or interest in the ginger in<br />
controversie nor is none of the warehouse keepers interrogate, but saith hee sawe<br />
the ginger in question severall tymes in the warehouse at Ralphes Key where it<br />
lay having often occasion to goe thereinto by reason hee was and is as is predeposed a porter imployed<br />
by the sayd Commissioners about delivery of such goods as they sell, but how<br />
many tymes hee was therein hee cannot certainely answere./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith there was (as hee beleeveth) three hundred and some odd<br />
baggs of ginger in the whole parcell Interrogate and saith hee knoweth not of any lott that<br />
was made for any of the sayd parcells nor whose lott was first if the same<br />
were allotted, nor who by name bought the rest of the ginger interrogate, but<br />
saith they who bought or at least brought warrants for the receiving thereof<br />
did (without any lotts cast that this deponent knoweth of) received the ginger by them receaved,<br />
out of the whole, according as this deponent and his contests and the sayd other<br />
porters delivered the same unto them, and lost the sayd Swinnocks hundred<br />
baggs and about 60 baggs more belonging to an other man, and saith hee this<br />
deponent was present at the delivery of all the ginger which was taken away out of<br />
the parcell Interrogate. And further hee cannot answere/
To the third hee saith it concerneth him not to answere thereto for that hee hath<br />
not deposed to the third article of the allegation Interrogated neither can he depose to<br />
the contents of this Interrogatorie/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee referreth him selfe to his deposition to the 5th<br />
article of the allegation and further hee cannot answere saving hee saith there was<br />
noe ginger delivered as aforesayd save what this deponent and the sayd other<br />
porters delivered with their owne hands and weighed without suffereing the receivers to meddle<br />
with takeing the same from among the other baggs of ginger left, which were<br />
one hundred and sixty, out of which hundred and sixty baggs this deponent<br />
and the rest of the sayd porters then weighed and layed by the sayd 100 baggs for the<br />
sayd Swinnocks use./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./
Edward Sherwin [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation
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'''Edward ffrancis''' of the parish of Saint Olave in Southwarke<br />
Cittizen and Merchantaylor of London a wittnes sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./aith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ +
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