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To the 2 hee cannot positively of his know … To the 2 hee cannot positively of his knowledge affirme that hee was present<br />
at the signeing of all the bills of ladeing for all the 39 bales and 2 faugotts of<br />
silke aforesayd, but remembreth hee did see some of them signed, and verily<br />
beleeveth hee sawe them all signed, by the sayd Captaine heaman, and saith<br />
they were signed by the sayd heaman in the house of the English Vice consull at Scanderoone<br />
and after all the sayd silke was laden aboard the sayd shipp, And saith it is<br />
usuall to fill bills of ladeing at Aleppo and send them downe to Scanderoone<br />
to bee signed but whether the bills of ladeing for the sayd 39 bales and 2 faugotts<br />
of silke were ther filled up hee knoweth not, And further hee cannot<br />
answere/
To the 3 hee saith hee well knoweth that the bale of silke Interrogate<br />
was laden aboard the shipp harry Interrogate And further to this<br />
Interrogatorie hee cannot answere
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
Steph Smith [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Desormeaux con da Richards.}
The 3 day of May 1656/
Roberts and others against the shipp the ''Thomas'' of}<br />
Gosport and against Peter herman Cheeke Oughton}
Examined on an allegation admitted on the behalfe of<br />
the sayd Peter herman./
'''Rp A. jus'''
'''Silvanus Porter''' of Plymouth Marchant aged 38 yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittness sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article hee saith that hee well knoweth that the aclate Peter herman<br />
during all the tyme arlate from and after the latter end of September or beginning<br />
of October 1655 was lawfull Owner and Proprietor of the arlate shipp the<br />
''Thomas'' of Gosport and of her tackle apparrell and furniture and soe commonly<br />
accompted agreed upon for the price of her at havre de Grace or New [?havre] in ffrance And<br />
further to this article hee cannot depose.
To the 2 and third articles hee saith that in or about the moneth of September 1655 or beginning of<br />
October that yeare, and before such tyme the sayd herman bought the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Thomas'' of Gosport, this deponent heard the arlate Richard dorrington at<br />
Newhaven in ffrance tell the sayd herman that hee the sayd dorrington had<br />
formerly bin Owner of an eighth part of the sayd shipp the ''Thomas'' of Gosport and<br />
that shee was formerly called by the name of the ''Guifte of God'' and belonged by that name, [?6/16 pXXX] and other English men and had bin<br />
taken from them by ffrench men and had bin condemned in ffrance as<br />
prize and sayd hee the sayd dorrington was taken a prisoner by the ffrench<br />
in an other vessell about the moneth of August or beginning of<br />
September 1655 and was thereby rendered unable to buy the sayd shipp<br />
''Thomas'' buy the sayd shipp<br />
''Thomas'' +
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