| First transcribed
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15 October 2012 +
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| First transcriber
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Janet Few +
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| Folio
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229 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 15/10/2012 +
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| Transcription
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To the second Interrogatorie he saith hee … To the second Interrogatorie he saith hee knew the shipp<br />
''Alexander'' and sawe her in Virginia in the yeare 1654 before she tooke<br />
in her ladeing there the voyage in question hee being in Virginia when<br />
shee came first thither that voyage and saith hee knew her alsoe at her<br />
returne from the sayd voyage and was aboard her neere Blackwall at her<br />
returne from the sayd voyage and tooke view of her in manner predeposed<br />
and saith that hee came from Virginia about five or sixe dayes next after<br />
the arrivall of the sayd shipp ''Alexander'' in Virginia the voyage in question<br />
And further cannot answer for the reasons aforesayd./
Repeated in Court before both judges
John Miller [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
Examined on the sayde allegation
'''Rp. 3.'''
'''George Swanley''' of Bromley neere Bowe in the<br />
County of Middlesex Mariner aged thirty nyne yeares or<br />
therebouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth
To the 9th article of the sayde allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
was in the Virginia at the same tyme when the shipp ''Alexander''<br />
arrived in Virginia the voyage in question hee this deponent being then<br />
Master of a shipp Called the ''Providence'' of London and then lying there<br />
with her to lade tobaccoe from thense and saith that hee this deponent did then<br />
observe that in Virginia fower Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe and<br />
noe more are usually and commonly accounted to bee a tonne of tobaccoe and this<br />
deponent did at his coming from here with his sayde shipp bringe divers<br />
tonnes of tobaccoe from thense in his sayde shipp the ''Providence'' and the<br />
same was all laden aboard his shipp by the laders at the rate of fower<br />
Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe to every tonne, and and amongst Merchants<br />
there 4 Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe is commonly accounted a tonne of<br />
tobaccoe, and for hee this deponent observed and knoweth that<br />
the freight for bringing fower Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe from Virginia and<br />
for bringing a tonne of Tobaccoe thense is one and the same and this deponent<br />
hath receaved and freight for all the tobaccoes by him brought thense in his<br />
sayd shipp the ''Providence'' (the whole ladeing being tobaccoe) after<br />
the same rate for the freight of fower Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe as<br />
for a tonne of tobaccoe, a tonne of 4 Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoes being commonly accounted one and the same thing<br />
in Virginia and further to this article hee cannot depose
To the 10th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee was [?onse]<br />
aboard the shipp ''Alexander'' while shee stayed at Virginia the voyage<br />
in question in the moneth of August 1654 did observe that she was then well neere fully laden with<br />
tobaccoes and knoweth that before the end of the sayd moneth of August 1654<br />
the ''Alexander'' departed from Virginia bound for England And further to this<br />
article hee cannot depose for that hee this deponent stayed with his sayd shipp<br />
the ''Providence'' in Virginia divers moneths after the departure of the ''Alexander''<br />
from thense./
To the 11th and 12th articles of the sayde allegation hee sayth hee well knoweth<br />
that at the tyme and alsoe after the ''Alexander'' soe departed from Virginia there was three or<br />
fower hundred hogsheads of Tobaccoe in Virginia ready to have bin shipped<br />
thense two hundred whereof or thereabouts this deponent brought<br />
home to England in his shipp the ''Providence'', and knoweth that other English shipps<br />
as the shipp named ''Anne Claere'' of London, and the ''Beare'' of Bristoll did loade tobaccoe Which was' of Bristoll did loade tobaccoe Which was +
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