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<u>'''A5./.'''</u>
16th ffebr … <u>'''A5./.'''</u>
16th ffebruary 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
Williams and Company against. 37 butts five}<br />
carrattells and 3 quarter Rolls of Morea Currants}<br />
marked as in the margant laden aboad the shipp}<br />
the ''Cesar'' whereof William ffudge is Master and}<br />
brought in her to this Port of London and against}<br />
Thomas Rowse ffrancis ffowke and Company}<br />
coming in for their Interest Budd Smith}
Examined upon an allegation given in on the behalfe<br />
of Thomas Rowse and ffrancis ffowke and company./
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'''Thomas Child''' of the parish of Saint Mary at Hill<br />
London Cittizen and Vintner aged forty three yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allogation hee saith that by reason hee this<br />
deponent was Purser of the shipp the ''Cesar'' of London (wereof William ffudge was<br />
Commander) in and during the voyage in question hee thereby knoweth that the arlate<br />
Edward Wright and William Langhorne did in the moneth of June last videlicet June<br />
1655 reside at Genoa arlate and did their negotiate as factors and correspon=<br />
dents of the arlate Thomas Rowse and ffrancis ffowke, and did at Genoa<br />
loade aboard the said shipp ''Cesar'' certaine moneys for the use of the sayd<br />
Thomas Rowse and ffrancis ffowke, and consigned the same to be delivered to<br />
the arlate Wiliam ffowkes then counsull at [?and of] the Morea for the English nation,<br />
to be [?best] by him imployed for the use of the sayd Thomas Rowse and ffrancis<br />
ffowkes, to whome the sayd william ffowke was their, factor and correspondent,<br />
And hee alsoe saith that hee well knoweth that the arlate Thomas Oliver was<br />
viceconsull to the sayd William ffowke at the Morea<br />
and did acte there as his Viceconsull and did negotiate all the sayd<br />
william ffowkes busines in his absence as his Viceconsull and alsoe in his<br />
matters of merchandise there, and did alsoe there negotiate as factor and<br />
correspondent of the sayd Thomas Rowse, and ffrancis ffowke in the absence of the<br />
sayd william ffowke, This hee knoweth being purser as aforesayd and<br />
resideing often on shoare at Petras in the sayd Counsulls house during the voyage in question<br />
And further to this article hee Cannot depose./
To the 2 article hee saith hee knoweth that there was fower thousand dollars<br />
being the same money mentioned in his deposition to the first article laden by the foresayd Edward Wright and William Langhorne at Genoa aboard the<br />
''Cesar'' aforesayd for the use and Accompt of the sayd Thomas Rowse and<br />
ffrancis ffowke in the moneth of June 1655 (old style) and consigined (sic) as aforesayd<br />
to the sayd William ffowke in the Morea to bee by him employed in payeing<br />
for Currants for their use toward the ladeing of the ''Cesar'' aforesayd, And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose. saving hee saith that hee knoweth. that some part of<br />
the sayd money was paid to the sayd Thomas Oliver, and other part of it to him<br />
the sayd William ffowke in presense of this deponent./
To the 3 hee saith that by reason hee was present at the drawing signeing and sealing<br />
of the Charterparty touching the same hee knoweth that the arlate Edward Wright<br />
and William Langhorne did as corresponents of the arlate Thomas Rowse and ffrancis<br />
ffowke and on their behalfe enter into the Charterparty with William ffudge Commander<br />
of the ''Cesar'' aforesayd at Genoa in the moneth of June last that hee the sayd<br />
ffudge should thense depart with his shipp the ''Cesar'' to Castle da Marr, there to take<br />
in such goods or should bee laden aboard her there by the arlate John Byam<br />
andre by the arlate John Byam<br />
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