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Allen marchants of London to hoope and mak … Allen marchants of London to hoope and make fitt twelve hogsheads of Copperis<br />
to be laden on board the shipp the ''Julian'' which hogsheads (as the sayd Alderman<br />
Johnsons man told this deponent) the arlate Anthony Tether had bought of the<br />
sayd Johnson and Allen, and this deponent accordingly did hoope them and make<br />
them fitt and Merchantable to be sent aboard the sayd shipp, and sawe them by porters<br />
put on board a lighter in Saviours dock neare horseydowne to be carried<br />
and put on board the sayd shipp and saith hee knoweth they were accordingly<br />
laden on board the sayd shipp for that the sayd shipp shortly after they were<br />
soe laden on board her did sinke with the sayd twelve hogsheads<br />
of Copperis in her and the sayd hogsheads of Copperis being thereby<br />
much wasted and damnified this deponent did by an order under the hand<br />
of the sayd Anthony Tether demande and receave from the arlate<br />
Richard Bryan the sayd twelve hogsheads, (the Copperis conteyned in them<br />
being by reason of the sayd shipps sinkeing and the wett they had receaved<br />
the most part of it melted and consumed soe that there was (of this<br />
deponents sight and certaine knowledge) about the quantitie only of one<br />
hogshead and a halfe of the sayd twelve hogsheads of Copperis remayning<br />
and saith hee this deponent did by order of the sayd Tether take from<br />
on board the sayd shipp the sayd 12 hogsheads and soe much Copperis as<br />
remayned in them and caused them to be brought on shoare at Saviours<br />
Dock aforesayd, where after they were landed this deponents father<br />
Symon dryver a Cooper did by order of the sayd Tether dispose of<br />
the Copperis which soe remayned in the sayd caske which was about a<br />
hogshead and a halfe and sold the same for the use and Accompt of the<br />
sayd Tether unto one Johnathan Welch and the empty<br />
casks the sayd Tether sold and disposed of to this deponents sayd father the<br />
sayd Symon Driver (sic), And further to those articles hee cannot depose<br />
not knowing in what condition the sayd shipp was at such tyme as the<br />
sayd Copperis was shipped on board her nor what words passed betwixt<br />
the sayd Tether and the sayd shipps company at the tyme of the ladeing the<br />
same a board the sayd shipp, nor seeing the same put on board her, but only<br />
seeing it put into the liter (sic) as aforesayd to be shipped, and afterwards receiving<br />
the same from on board the sayd shipp in manner aforesayd./
To the 7th hee cannot depose not knowing the custome or order in such<br />
case as is arlate/
To the 8th saving his foregoeing deposition to which, hee referreth hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
'''Rp.'''
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee was none of the Company of the ''Julian''<br />
nor present at ladeing the Copperis Interrate into her And further saving<br />
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./
To the 2 hee answereth negatively videlicet that hee was not present at any tyme when<br />
the sayd Tether and Bryan spake togeather touching the ladeing the copperis aforesayd<br />
And further he cannot answere./t;br />
And further he cannot answere./ +
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