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To the 4th hee saith hee Carryed a quantit … To the 4th hee saith hee Carryed a quantity of Brandiwine<br />
and Linnen, which was worth about 260 Guilders from Amsterdam<br />
And was for this deponents owne proper account, And saith the Master<br />
carryed Brandewine, Wine, Stuffs, Linnens, and other goods<br />
And otherwise hee cannot Answer:/.
To the 5th Negatively, saving that the Master hath here lately furnished<br />
them with Money towards discharge of their dyet, and Lodging<br />
and necessarys to keepe them from Perishing, asmuch as<br />
amounted to tenn Monethes and a half of each ones<br />
pay, And when they first set saile from Amsterdam hee<br />
gave them a monthes pay, And otherwise negatively./.
To the 6th hee saith that All the Mariners and Company<br />
that went out in the said shipp are still living and Are nowe<br />
here./
To the 7th hee saith that at the time of the said seizure<br />
there were (besides the said shipps Company) two Mariners<br />
aboard her, dutchmen that the Master gave passage to from<br />
the Canaries, who hee saith were to have their victualls for<br />
their worke, and assoone as the shipp was brought into<br />
England, they went their wayes for holland, in a dutch man<br />
of warr, that was the Convoy from Gravesend, and saith<br />
the ''Morning Starr'', was taken by the ffriggot of this Common=<br />
wealth on the last of Aprill last New Stile, as hee remembreth<br />
the time./:
Repeated with his precontest before<br />
doctor Godolphin
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The fifteenth of October 1657.
Russell against Rignall}
'''9. 1us in A.7:'''
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Simon Middleton''' of Blackwall Mariner, aged<br />
20 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first second and third articles hee saith and deposeth<br />
in or about the moneth of January 1655 the shipp the ''Endimion''<br />
arlate (whereof Alexander Rignoll alisa Reynolds arlate was cheife<br />
mate) being in the Streight of Sunda bound for this port, did<br />
meete with the shipp ''Jonathan'' arlate going for Macassar, and<br />
saith that his precontest Mr Mathew Wallys (who was then a<br />
passenger in the ''Endimion'') went aboard the ''Jonathan'' (,where[XXX GUTTER]board the ''Jonathan'' (,where[XXX GUTTER] +
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