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To the fourth hee saith the said Gold made … To the fourth hee saith the said Gold made noe declaration of his<br />
meaning the time and place aforesaid, but spake the said words as hee<br />
hath predeposed, nor doth this deponent know what his thought<br />
or meaning was, other than what the words them selves doe import.<br />
And otherwise hee referreth him selfe to his foregopeing deposition, and<br />
saving the same cannot further answer.
To the 5th hee saith hee did not at any time heare the said dobbins<br />
say how much or what wages hee received for the voyage in question<br />
or for average, And otherwise hee cannot answer
John Whalley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 26th of Aprill 1658/
[GUTTER XXXX] and others against dobbins)<br />
Smith Suckley)
Examined on an allegation given in on the behalfe of the sayd dobins<br />
the twenty nynth of Aprill 1656./
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'''Roger Paxton''' of Rederiff Mariner aged thirty yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
hath gone often tymes Master and sometimes Masters Mate of shipps for these seaven yeares<br />
last past and upwards, and hath used the sea as a Common Mariner for<br />
many yeares before that, in all for about eighteene or nynteene yeares<br />
and in that tyme hath gone severall voyages from England to<br />
Burdis and other parts of ffrance, and to the Canaries and other<br />
places within and without the streights mouth and thereby<br />
knoweth that there is constantly an allowance from the laders or freighters<br />
to Masters of shipps and their companes by the names of primage and<br />
average for some goods and places more, and for some lesse, And hee<br />
this deponent hath receaved as Master for primage and average of goods<br />
brought from the Canaries to England three royalls plate at the Canaries<br />
upon every tonne of goods and at their delivery at London sixe pence more<br />
upon every tonne, And for goods taken in at Burdis two shillings sixe pence<br />
a tonne there, and sixe pence a tonne at their delivery at London, And generally<br />
in all voyages hee knoweth there is primage and Average allowed and paid<br />
by the freighters to Masters of shipps and their Companyes which primage and<br />
average hath allwaies belonged to the Master and Company of the shipp<br />
for their care in well stoweing and preserving the sayd goods, And hee this<br />
deponent goeing Master of a shipp to Newcastle to lade Coles knoweth that<br />
in that meane imployment the laders did pay to him sixe pence per chalder<br />
in liew of primage and average, And further to this article saving his subsequent<br />
deposition hee cannot depose/
To the 2 and 3 articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
went Boatswaine of the shipp The ''Peter'' (whereof the producent dobins went<br />
Mastere producent dobins went<br />
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