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expressed in their Charterparties) and hee … expressed in their Charterparties) and hee never knew or heard of any<br />
that went that voyage upon other termes And further hee cannot answere
To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith it concerneth him not to answere thereto having<br />
not deposed to the article therein mentioned, neither can hee answare to<br />
this Interrogatorie./
To the 6th Interrogatorie hee saith that his this deponents Charterparty for that<br />
voyage hee went to Brazeele was as aforesayd made in the presence<br />
and with the consent of two of his owners and in the presence of this deponent<br />
and the purser for that it was not in this deponents liberty<br />
to make the averidge as much as the freight nor greater then what<br />
his owners know of And hee beleeveth that the owners or<br />
or some to whome they have given power are usually presented at the makeing<br />
of Charterparties for the Braseele voyage soe that the masters cannot<br />
preiudice their freight to make the Averidge the greater And knoweth<br />
that it is more for the Masters Advantage to put the freight as high as<br />
hee can, for that the greater the freight is, the greater Averidge is<br />
allowed And that hee saith hee beleeveth and alsoe well knoweth that<br />
the masters and companyes of shipps in all voyages ought to have<br />
the Averidge whatsoever it amounts to, And that the Owners ought<br />
to have noe part thereof, nor did hee ever know any Averidge<br />
either due and els by or paid to any Owners And further to this<br />
Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the last Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answere thereto not being<br />
at Lisbone the tyme Interrogate nor having seene or read the<br />
contracts made by the Interrogate Tatam or any the rest of the<br />
Captaines Interrogate
Repeated the last of November 1657 before<br />
Doctor Godolphin/
Thomas Gránt [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 7th day of December 1657
On the behalfe of John Benning}<br />
Richard Jennings, Robert Dunn}<br />
William Dickers touching the losse}<br />
of the ship ''Thomas'' of Ipswich}
'''John Wiley''' of South Sheilds in the Bishoprick<br />
of Durham Mariner, aged 46 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne before the right worshipfull John Godolphin Doctor<br />
of Lawes, one of the Judges of the high Court of the<br />
Admiralty and Examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred on<br />
the behalfe of the said John Benning Richard Jennings and<br />
others, saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath./
To the first hee saith hee well knew the shipp, Commonly called<br />
the ''Thomas'' of Ipswich (whereof the Interrate Thomas Dunn was<br />
Master) at such time as shee was last at Quins borowe in the moneth<br />
of May last past, And saith the said Thomas dunn did then<br />
and there Reprize the Interrate shipp the ''Thomas'' for her then<br />
Intended voyage. And Imployed three men in the said<br />
Reprize, and did likewise himselfe assist, and worke, in and about<br />
the same, And further saith that soone after the arrivall of the<br />
said shipp the ''Thomas'' at Quinborowe aforesaid with the said<br />
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