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arlate Langford and hardwick aboard the '' … arlate Langford and hardwick aboard the ''Elizabeth and Anne'' hee knoweth [?such]<br />
for that hee was not with them And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 14th and 15th hee saith that upon or about the first or second<br />
day of September 1655 hee well knoweth that the arlate William ffowke came at<br />
Nathalagoe Roade aboard the ''Cesar'', and saith that soone after his comming the sayd<br />
ffowke spake in the presence of this deponent and others upon the deck of the sayd<br />
shipp to the arlate Captaine ffudge, and told him that the Nathalagoe currants<br />
were ready and would bee brought to the side of the ''Cesar'' within two or three<br />
dayes, and that hee hoped the sayd ffudge should soone dispatch there at Nathalagoe<br />
and returne to the Morea to take in the Currance there provided to lade aboard<br />
the ''Cesar'', or words to that effect And this done the sayd ffowke sayd hee<br />
felt himselfe not well, and asked the sayd ffudge for a cupp of stronge water,<br />
whereupon the sayd Captaine ffudge and hee went in to the Cabbin of the ''Cesar''<br />
togeather, And hee saith that from that tyme the sayd Consull grew worse and<br />
worse and dyed in the Cabbin of the sayd shipp within [?four] dayes after, And saith<br />
it was generally reported and beleeved amongst the seamen belonging to the<br />
''Cesar'' that the sayd Consull ffowke was poisoned on shoare before hee came<br />
aboard the sayd shipp, And further hee cannot depose./
To the 15th 16th 17th 18th and 19th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith That<br />
after the death of the sayd Consull William ffowke the sayd ffudge (seeing<br />
noe hope by reason of the death of the sayd Consull and for that (as the<br />
sayd ffudge told this deponent) there was a letter come from Petras that the arlate<br />
Thomas Oliver the viceconsull then laye sick there, that hee the sayd ffudge<br />
should get the Nathalagoe Currance aboard his shipp as the Consull had<br />
formerly told him hee should) hee the sayd ffudge did advise with the arlate<br />
John Gifford what course hee were left to take, And saith the sayd John<br />
Gifford did in the presence of this deponent and divers others of the Company<br />
of the ''Cesar'', advise the sayd ffudge to send a [?ffellawra] or boate to Zant<br />
to fetch thence to Nathalagoe the arlate Clement harbie, and offered<br />
him selfe to give fifteene dollars to a boate now to goe thither to fetch the sayd harbie,<br />
but the boats crew not dareing to goe for feare of being taken by the<br />
Turkes Galliolls, the sayd Gifford advised the sayd ffudge to goe with his<br />
shipp to Zant and fetch the sayd harbie and returne to Nathalagoe againe and these premisses were soe spoke<br />
and done aboard the ''Cesar'' on the decke thereof in presence of this deponent and the greatest<br />
part of the sayd shipps company, and the sayd ffudge by the sayd Giffords perswasion<br />
did accordingly goe to Zant and fetch the sayd harbie and returne with him in the<br />
''Cesar'' to Nathalagoe And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 20th hee saith that by that tyme the sayd shipp the ''Cesar'' was<br />
returned from Zant to Nathalagoe, some of the Curranse of the<br />
Nathalagoe were laden and in ladeing aboard the ''Elizabeth and Anne'', and [?this GUTTER<br />
deponent sawe some boates unlade currants in the sayd shipp, and saith [?by GUTTER]<br />
[?meanes GUTTER] [?by GUTTER]<br />
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