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To the 12th Interrogatory This Rendent sai … To the 12th Interrogatory This Rendent saith he did heare that some difference arising betw[?eene]<br />
the sayd William ffooke and sayd Tappenho touching some moneyes which the sayd Tappenho<br />
had pretended to from the sayd ffooke; he the sayd William ffooke had procured a<br />
Chouse or Turkish Serjeant to arrest the sayd Tappenho. And the sayd William<br />
ffooke did demand the sayd Tappenho from this Rendent, But being not required<br />
to deliver him by the Chouse, and the sayd Tapponho] being his servant this Rendent<br />
did refuse to deliver him to the sayd ffooke. And otherwise negatively for<br />
his part. And further he cannot answer
To the .13th, Interrogatory This Rendent saith that the sayd Currants were brought on board the<br />
''Elizabeth and Anne'' in sackes part of which this Rendent sent a shoare for that<br />
purpose, and hired the rest from the Greekes on shoare. And otherwise nega=<br />
tively for his part. And further cannot answer
Hmn: Hardwicke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same say Examined upon the sayd allegation. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2.'''
'''Captaine Richard Langford''' of Poplar in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged<br />
fifty five yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith as followeth.<br />
videlicet.
To the sayd allegation in Act[?is] This deponent saith, That the arlate William Williams and<br />
Company were and are the lawfull Owners Proprietors and Posssessors of the Currants<br />
in question, which he knoweth for that the same were bought and payd for by and<br />
with the proper moneyes of the sayd Williams and Company and were laden for<br />
their accompt upon the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' whereof this deponent was Captaine or<br />
master this last voyage:- And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the Crosse Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the 1. 2. and 3d. Interrogatories he saith he was master of the sayd shipp the sayd last voyage and so hath<br />
bene for theis ten yeares last. And that hee this Rendent and his precontest Mr Hardwick<br />
are the very persons interrate for whom upon account bayle is given to answer thtis Action.<br />
And as for this Rendent he saith he hath a .16th. part in this last voyage, profit or<br />
losse. And he saith that the sayd Currants were bought by one William Codgehill<br />
order of the sayd Mr Hardwick who as the Currants came on board did in this<br />
Rendents sight deliver money from tyme to tyme to certaine Greekes who were sent to fetch the same to the sayd Codgehill to pay for<br />
the sayd Currants And the same was done on board the sayd shipp in the Road of Nathalago.<br />
And otherwise he cannot answer.
To the 4th and 5th. Interrogatorie he saith he saw and spake with the say interrate William ffooke<br />
on board the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' in the Road aforesayd. And the sayd ffooke<br />
affirmed himselfe to be English Consull of Morea. and the sayd Oliver at Petras sayd he was<br />
the sayd ffookes deputy or Vice Consull, which this Rendent beleiveth was so, and the premisses<br />
happened within the tyme interrte. And the sayd ffooke did pretend that he had bought<br />
all the Currants in Morea, but the Contrary soone after appeared, so as this Rendent<br />
doth not know or beleive that the sayd ffooke had bought the same. howbeit he saith that at<br />
Zant hearing the sayd ffooke say that hee had bought upp all the Currants, this deponent<br />
sayd iestingly or in a merry way. that he came for Currants, and Currants would have<br />
or else he would scratch for them. or to that purpose. And otherwise he cannot<br />
depose.
To the 6. and 7th. he saith he did heare that the sayd ffooke ćarryed some moneyes a shoare out of the<br />
''Caesar''. And further for his part he cannot answer.
To the .8. 9. and 10th he saith that the Currants in question were the more part of them laden<br />
before the sayd William ffookes death which happened not long after his returne from<br />
the shoare on board the ''Casar'', but the day and moneth he remembreth not, nor heard<br />
of any report that he dyed by poison. nor of any [?ioye] made upon his death by any person.<br />
And further otherwise than negatively he cannot depose.
To the 11. 12. and 13th. Interrogatories he saith that the better part of the Currants were laden before Mr<br />
ffookes death as aforesayd, and that the sayd Mr Hardwick did employ the interrate Tappenho and<br />
Codgehill in bringing on board and lading the Currants aswell before Mr ffookes death as<br />
after, and that he this Rendent receaved the same on board him, and that the sayd Mr ffooke did demand<br />
the sayd Tappenho [XXX]ing he had a warrant for him, and that the sayd Currants were brought<br />
on board in sacks the greatest part whereof were sent from aboard the ''Elizabeth and''<br />
''Anne'' as belonging to the sayd shipp and her Owners, And some few sackes, as he taketh were<br />
procured from shoare by the sayd Codgehill. And further otherwise than negatively<br />
he cannot answere.
Repeated with his precontest before the 2 Judges in Court
P Richard Langforde [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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