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any Currants aboard the ''Cesar'' at Natha … any Currants aboard the ''Cesar'' at Nathalagoe went back from thence<br />
with the sayd shipp to Petras to take aboard the sayd shipp such Currants<br />
of the Moreas was there provided to be laden aboard them, and there<br />
found the sayd Thomas Oliver somwhat recovered in his health, and that<br />
hee had gotten the Currants of the Petras into the house and warehouses of<br />
the sayd Consul William ffowke and him the sayd Thomas Oliver, and had<br />
sent two servants of the late Consull William ffowke vicelicet one Mamot bashaw[?e] Turke and Constantine a Greeke<br />
the Gulphe arlate to fetch Currants thence, And hee saith<br />
that the sayd two servants brought the Currants from the Gulfe aforesayd to the<br />
side of the shipp ''Cesar'' at Petras in boates (wherein alsoe came some Turkes of whom<br />
the sayd Currants were bought) which Turkes refused to deliver the<br />
Currants out of the sayd boates<br />
till they sawe what satisfaction they should have for them,<br />
whereupon while the sayd Currants were in delivery on board the<br />
''Cesar'' the sayd Harbie gave the sayd Turkes satisfaction for the<br />
sayd Currants by paying them five Chests of Coffie nyne baggs of<br />
pepper which were laden on board the ''Cesar'' at Zant in manner predeposed and certain dollars which hee had on board the sayd shipp which<br />
they receaved and departed satisfied therewith, this hee deponeth being<br />
purser and seeing the premisses done in manner predeposed And further to<br />
these articles hee cannot depose /
To the 23th hee saith that the Currants aforesayd brought from the Gulfe<br />
aforesayd were hoysed on board the ''Cesar'' in baggs and then steeved by the<br />
sayd shipps Company and Cooper and other steevers and Coopers appointed by the<br />
sayd Thomas Oliver into Casks brought in the sayd shipp ''Cesar'' from<br />
Castle de Marr arlate, and all the rest of the Currants brought home<br />
in the sayd shipp were brought in casks ready steeved out of the<br />
warehouses of the arlate William ffowke then deceased and of the sayd Thomas Oliver at<br />
Petras, this hee deposeth of his sight and knowledge being purser as aforesayd<br />
and further to this article hee cannot depose: /
To the 24th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that none of the<br />
Currants brought to London in the ''Cesar'' were at any tyme before<br />
the ladeing of them in the possession of the arlate Clement Harbie or<br />
of the man sent by the arlate Humfrey Hardwick<br />
as hee beleeveth, and the reason of such his beleefe is, for that hee<br />
sawe the Currants which came from the Gulphe, laden by the Turkes in<br />
manner predeposed aboard the ''Cesar'', and sawe those at Petras taken out<br />
of the warehouses of the sayd deceased William ffowke, and of Thomas<br />
Oliver aforesayd in manner aforesayd, And further to this article hee<br />
cannot depose. /s article hee<br />
cannot depose. / +
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