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To the 5th and 6th hee saith that the said … To the 5th and 6th hee saith that the said Mr Caseby and Company<br />
having occasion to ffreight a ship to the Canaryes and to send<br />
goods in her to the Canaryes and to bring back wines<br />
and other goods to this Port, did hire and lade to ffreight<br />
by Charter Party bearing date the fifteenth day of March<br />
1657: the arlate ship the ''Saint Laurence'' of and from mr Richard<br />
fford Merchant of this City; the then and now, Owner of<br />
the said ship the ''Saint Laurence'', whereof this deponent was and is<br />
Master, and having now perused the Charterparty to the said Allegation<br />
annexed hee saith the same was and is the foresaid Charterparty<br />
made betweene the said Mr Caseby and Company and the said Mr<br />
fford, and was really and truely signed sealed and delivered by the said Mr fford<br />
and this Deponent on or about the say of the date thereof, and<br />
further cannot depose, saving hee sawe the said Mr fford<br />
subscribe his name, and set his seale to the said Charterparty.
To the 7th 8th and 9th hee saith that in the moneth of March last. and after<br />
the hyring of the said ship as aforesaid. the said John Caseby<br />
did lade or cause to be laden on board the said ship then lying in<br />
the River of Thames bound for the Canaryes 29 Bales<br />
?20 foure Trunckes two boxes, two fatts of severall goods, and<br />
about twenty thousand five Hundred of Pipe Staves<br />
or thereabouts, (but the vallue thereof this deponent Knoweth<br />
not) about halfe of which said goods were foor the account of Mr Caseby and consigned to be Delivered to the said Don<br />
Christobal Alverado, at the Canaryes, where all the said Goods<br />
were delivered to him he said Christoval da Alvarado.<br />
who receaved the same, and saith hee carried a packet of Letters<br />
from the said Mr Caseby, Directed to the said Alvarado, which this<br />
deponent delivered to the said Alvarado, but the Contents of the<br />
said Letters hee knoweth not, and having now perused the bill of<br />
Lading annexed to the said Allegation hee saith that the same was and is<br />
one of the bills of Lading for the foresaid goods, and was on or<br />
about the 26th day of March last really signed by him this deponent. And<br />
as hee hath Credibly heard and verily beleeveth the goods<br />
mentioned in the bill of Lading marked and numbred with the first marke and numbers in<br />
the said bill did belong to one Mr Lingham, and those of the fourth marke<br />
and numbers to one Mr Prescot, and those goods marked and numbred with the second<br />
and third markes and numbers in the said bill did belong to Mr caseby.<br />
And saith that the putting of all the foresayd goods in one bill of<br />
Lading was done to avoyd Troble in making many bills, and<br />
by the Consent of the said Caseby Lingham and Prescot, and saith<br />
that after the Lading of the foresaid goods on board the said ship the<br />
(''Saint''d the said ship the<br />
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