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[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5611867 PROB 4/12725 Dawes, William, of Lambeth Marsh in Lambeth, Surrey, chandler 1671 12 Aug.]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5602162 PROB 4/3018 Bayly, William, of Petersfield, Hants., chandler 1681 25 Nov.]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5612240 PROB 4/13098 Brookes, William, of St. Clement Danes, chandler 1677 2 June]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5617690 PROB 4/18550 Wilkins, Robert, of Portsmouth, Hants, chandler 12 February 1679]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5613241 PROB 4/14099 Johnson, John, of Edmonton, Mdx. chandler 1672 10 Dec.]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C5612783 PROB 4/13641 Bishop, John, of Stepney, Mdx., chandler 1665 25 Nov.]
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D3371732 PROB 11/229/125 Will of Richard Pittfeild, Ship Chandler of Saint Botolph without Aldgate, Middlesex 08 September 1653]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D739413 PROB 11/425/40 Will of Jonah Clerke or Clarke, Ship Chandler of Wapping Whitechapel, Middlesex 20 April 1695]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D746932 PROB 11/453/234 Will of Samuel Hill, Ship Chandler of Saint Paul Shadwell, Middlesex 23 December 1699]<br />
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D729835 PROB 11/391/354 Will of John Hinshaw otherwise Henshaw, Ship Chandler of Saint Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 12 June 1688]Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 12 June 1688] +
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The 30th day of September 1656/
Robert Ru … The 30th day of September 1656/
Robert Russell against the Shipp called the}<br />
''John'' and her tackle furniture and apparrell and}<br />
against humfrey hooke Richard Bridgeman}<br />
and Company coming in for their interest}<br />
in the sayd shipp and against whomsoever et cetera}<br />
Smith Cheeke}
Examined upon a libell given in and admitted<br />
on the behalfe of the sayd Robert Russell./
'''Rp EA. 1'''
'''John Bly''' of the parish of Saint dunstans in the<br />
East London shipp chandler aged twenty five<br />
yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first article of the sayd libell hee saith that in the yeares 1654 and<br />
1655 and moneths therein respectively concurring or some of them and especially in<br />
the moneth of March 1654 English style and in the moneth of March 1655<br />
the arlate John Wilkinson was commonly accompted and reputed to bee the Master and Commander<br />
of the arlate shipp the ''John'', and this deponent knoweth that hee then had the<br />
Care and charge of her as Master and Commander of her and did as<br />
Master of her come togeather with one Mr John Southwood who was<br />
husband of the sayd shipp and bespoke<br />
of this deponents then Master divers necessaries for the sayd shipps use<br />
such as powder, shott, and pease, and butter, and other materialls and provisions for the voyage<br />
in question, this hee deposeth being servant to the producent Robert Russell<br />
at such tyme as the sayd necessaries and materialls and provisions were soe<br />
bespoken, and when they were by order of the sayd Southwood as husband<br />
delivered<br />
some of them to the sayd Wilkinson, (whome the sayd Southwood then acknowledged<br />
to bee the Master of the sayd shipp) and the rest of them by order of the sayd<br />
Wilkinson as Master delivered to his Gunner, And further saving his former<br />
deposition hee cannot depose/
To the 2 third and 4th articles of the sayd libell and schedule in them mentioned hee saith that by reason hee<br />
was then servant and apprentice to the sayd Russell hee well knoweth that in<br />
the moneths of March 1654 English Style, and March 1655 the arlate Robert<br />
Russell was the lawfull Owner and Proprietor of all the materialls and<br />
provisions mentioned in the schedule arlate, And well knoweth [?in GUTTER]<br />
the sayd moneths videlicet on the twelveth and fifteenth of March 1654 English style, and the<br />
nyneth of March 1655, all and singular the materialls and provisions<br />
mentioned in the said schedule were delivered, some to the sayd<br />
Wilkinson him selfe, and the rest by his order unto his Gunner for the use<br />
of the sayd shipp the ''John'', and were (as hee since heard the sayd<br />
Wilkinson and his Gunner acknowledge) all receaved on board the sayd shipp for her use<br />
and imployment, And saith the said Wilkinson and alsoe the sayd<br />
Southwood did on behalfe of the sayd humfrey hooke and other the<br />
Owners of the sayd shipp promise to pay and satisfie the sayd Russell<br />
for the materialls and provisions schedulate and soe reward the [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
rates and summes of money expressed in the sayd schedule, which are<br />
the usuall rates such materialls and provisions as are therein specified [?XX GUTTER]<br />
theren specified [?XX GUTTER]<br />
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