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neither of them got any to goe thither, wh … neither of them got any to goe thither, whereupon the sayd Keene was forced<br />
to take freight for London, and the mariners which came hime in her for<br />
London were promised by this deponent and the sayd Keene, but of this deponents<br />
knowledge, they refused to goe to the Canaries from Saint Lucar, and would not<br />
goe aboard unlesse they might come directly for England, they being the most of them men<br />
who had lost their shipp on the Point of Chipiona and would not proceede<br />
further./
To the last Interrogatory and the schedule therein mentioned hee saith hee him selfe is a<br />
Merchant and the same Edward Watts in the Interrogatory mentioned, and<br />
that hee knoweth all the rest of the persons Interrogate and saith they are all Merchants<br />
of good Account in Saint Lucar saving ffrancis Bedingfeild who is noe Merchant<br />
but was Consull for the English there, and saith the schedule Interrogate was and is<br />
subscribed with the proper hand writing of this deponent and the sayd Consull<br />
and the Interrogate George Bland William Bland and Peter Probye, And hee<br />
beleeveth the contents of the sayd schedule to be true and knoweth these words Edward<br />
Watts at the foote thereof to be this deponents owne hand writing and sawe the<br />
rest of the persons Interrogate subscribe their names to the sayd schedule,<br />
and beleeveth that the shipp and Keene in this cause named and the shipp<br />
or Ketch the ''John and Elizabeth'', in the sayd schedule expressed are one and the<br />
same shipp and person and not divers./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
Edward Watts [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 27th of Aprill 1657 [CENTRE HEADING]
Bludworth Spencer and Company}<br />
against John Greene and others.}<br />
Suckley. ffrancklin.}
Exámined upon an allegation on the<br />
behalfe of the said Bludworth<br />
and others given 13th instand.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''William Hammon''' of Redriff wall in the County<br />
of Surry Mariner, aged 70 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and exámined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that in the moneth of April 1656 or thereabouts the arlate John<br />
Goulding was put master of the shipp the ''Prosperous'' arlate<br />
by Captaine John Greene and Arthur Odway, and tooke upon<br />
him the master shipp of her, having the disposall of her<br />
committed to him (as master) by the said Greene and Odway<br />
and the said Goulding accepted and tooke upon him the said office<br />
and imployment of master of the said shipp, which hee knoweth<br />
because hee this deponent was the next precedent master of<br />
the said vessell; and was compounded with by the said Greene<br />
and Odway to relinquish the command of the said shipp and<br />
yeld up the same to the said Goulding, who was put in by them<br />
But whether the said Goulding were any part owner of<br />
her or not hee saith hee knoweth not, And otherwise cannot<br />
depose. saving the said Goulding from the said time was commonly<br />
accounted master of her.monly<br />
accounted master of her. +
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