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To the 7th hee saith hee was present at th … To the 7th hee saith hee was present at the Barbados and heard the sayd<br />
Nayler and horne and Company agree with the foresayd Kerwall and others<br />
owners of the shipp ''Justine'' to give them fifty pounds a moneth for seaven<br />
monthes certayne and eight moneths uncertayne, under which pay the sayd shipp<br />
was at the tyme of her seizure and saith the sayd shipp was by contract<br />
to be delivered to her Owners at Barbados after her returne from<br />
Guinney and further hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true/
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin/
Williame Buckland [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 6th of November 1656
Corsellis and Debenham against the ''Sara'' of Leith}<br />
and against Bilton and Trent coming in for their}<br />
interest Suckley ffrancklin}
'''3.'''
Examined on an allegation on behalfe of the sayd<br />
Corsellis and Debenham./
'''John Hall''' of Eastsmithfeild in the parish of Saint Bultolph<br />
Algate Cooper aged fifty five yeares or thereabouts a<br />
wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br />
in the yeare 1650 and moneth of September that yeare<br />
there were certaine quantities<br />
of beere to the quantitie of about sixty tonnes, and a last and a half of<br />
barrells and about fourty five tonne of Casks (of which beere and barrells the<br />
arlate Abraham Corsellis was commonly reputed the lawfull Owner<br />
and Proprietor, and of which fourty five tonnes of caske the arlate Andrew<br />
Debenham was commonly reputed the lawfull Owner and Proprietor) laden<br />
on board the arlate shipp the ''Salem'' then rideing in the River of Thames<br />
and within the Jurisdiction of this court for the use and accompt of the<br />
arlate Samuell Atkins this hee the better knoweth for that hee this<br />
deponent being a Cooper by trade was imployed by the sayd Andrew Debenham<br />
to trimme and fitt the casks wherein the sayd beere was put, before the<br />
and well remembreth that the sayd Debenham then told this<br />
deponent after the sayd beere, barrells and Casks were soe laden aboard<br />
the sayd shipp for the use and Accompt of the sayd Atkins, that the sayd<br />
Atkins found fault with some of the casks into which the sayd beere<br />
was put and thereupon refused to pay the sayd Debenham for any of<br />
the sayd Caske unlesse the sayd Debenham would send somebody with<br />
in the sayd shipp to Leith in Scotland whether shee was to<br />
carrie the sayd beere, barrells and Casks to see and take notise<br />
what leakage might happen thereto by defect of the sayd Casks,<br />
And this deponent was thereupon employed by the sayd Debenham<br />
to goe and did goe a longe in the sayd shipp with the sayd beere and Casks<br />
to Leith in Scotland in which [?part] of her voyage thither noe dammage or leakeage happened through any defect of the sayd Casks #
[#] [?XXXX] apparently to<br />
[?XXX] and the shipps company<br />
[?XXX or XXXXX] have<br />
[?XXX] the same by the<br />
[?XXX] if any<br />
[?XXXX X]akeage bad [LH MARGIN]
And further to these articles hee cannot depose.<br />
not being privie to what rates the sayd Atkins agreed to pay the sayd<br />
Corsellis for the sayd beere and last of barrells or to the sayd Debenham<br />
for the sayd forty five tonnes of Casks, but hath heard the sayd Debenham<br />
sayd that the sayd Atkins was by agreement to pay him eighteene shillings<br />
a tonne for the sayd forty five tonne of Casks./e for the sayd forty five tonne of Casks./ +
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