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last past hee this deponent hath bin a dea … last past hee this deponent hath bin a dealer in that commoditie<br />
and hath received many scores of Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe<br />
brought from Virginia to this port, for his owne account, And<br />
thereby well knoweth alsoe that then when they were soe much<br />
smaller, there were but foure of them reckoned unto or for a<br />
tonne in tonnage or stowage, and paid for after that rate<br />
and further that the said Virginia hogsheads of tobacco<br />
one with another now a dayes doe take up much more room<br />
in stowage than hogsheads of ffrench wine, whereof there goe<br />
fowere to a tonne. And further hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee doth not know the shipp [?MXXX GUTTER]<br />
nor ought of the voyage interrogated.
To the second and third hee saith that Virginia hogsheads are made<br />
all of a size, but some are now a dayes bigger and some lesse<br />
and that hee hath not seene the tenth part of hogsheads of tobacco<br />
that the time interrogated have bin brought from Virginia to this<br />
port, Nor as hee beleeveth hath any one man in England seene<br />
the tenth part of them, And further hee cannot depose or answer<br />
saving as aforesaid
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Mathew Travis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 11th of december 1658/
Swyre and others against Church and others}<br />
Budd Smith}
Examined on an allegation on behalfe of the<br />
sayd Church./
'''jus'''
'''James Jackson''' of Ipswich in the County<br />
of Suffolke Mariner aged fifty three yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article hee saith that hee well knoweth that at such tyme<br />
as the shipp the ''Phenix'' first came into the river of Thames and<br />
at the place where the dammage in question was done to the arlate<br />
shipp the ''Consent'', the sayd shipp ''Phenix'' did there ride by two Anchors<br />
the one of them cast out to the Northwards ofthe said River and the other<br />
to the Southwards and was in this deponents Judgment very well<br />
moored, and was alsoe of this deponents knowledge made fast<br />
to an other shipp which ridd by her the sayd ''Phenix'' This hee the better<br />
knoweth for that hee this deponent being Master of the ''happy deliverance''<br />
did with his sayd shipp ride neere the same place at the tyme when the<br />
''Phenix'' soe came to an Anchor and at the tyme when the dammage in<br />
question happened And further hee cannot de[pose/
Toppened And further hee cannot de[pose/
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