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hee knoweth not) that was in the said hous … hee knoweth not) that was in the said house and told her shee had brought her a payXXXX for<br />
her tortois shells, and willed her to show them, or to that effect,<br />
whereupon the said woman brought this deponent into a roome of<br />
that house where they were, and after this deponent had seene<br />
them the said woman and hee treated about her selling and buying<br />
thereof, and at length agreed for sixe shillings per pound, which<br />
this deponent agreed to pay for them and soe bought them. Mris Le[mman GUTTER]<br />
being all this while by And soe they being weighed, this deponent<br />
caused them to be carried away,<br />
after hee had paid the said woman some money in part<br />
of payment (being 20 or 40 ''s''). and for the rest (being about six pounds)<br />
this deponent have her a note of his hand, which note Mris Lem[man GUTTER]<br />
brought to him, and received the said money thereupon, and saith that as<br />
hee heard the said shells came from Jamaica. And saith that<br />
afterwards this deponents going to mr fford a marchants to looke<br />
upon a parcell of shells, the said mr fford asking a greate rate for them<br />
this deponent told him hee had bought shells much cheaper, and hee<br />
asking of whom, this deponent not knowing the womans name of<br />
whom hee bought them, said that hee bought them of Mris Lemman,<br />
which hee soe said because Mris Lemman wished him to them and<br />
was by when hee bought them, and fetched the money as aforesaid.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee sayth that mr [?Roso] the Sollicitor spake to<br />
him to come and be exámined in this busines, and saith hee<br />
knoweth the said Mr Lemman, but not Tuffnelle, and hath soe<br />
knowne mr Lemmon neare seaven yeares, and saith hee<br />
of is of a middle stature, sanguine complexioned and browne haired.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the second hee saith hee hath knowne the said Lemmons wife for the<br />
time hee hath knowne her husband as aforesaid, and saw her first at her<br />
house over the water over against Saint Catherines, and hath very often<br />
seene her at his shopp, whether shee hath come to buy commodities
To the third hee saith that at and before the time that hee {bought} the<br />
said shells, there were (as hee was informed) diverse other parcells of Tortois shells<br />
to be sold in this citie and places adiacent, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid<br />
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin::/.
John Waters [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]phin::/.
John Waters [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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