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20th September 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]
Sup … 20th September 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]
Super allon arlate ex parte [?dei] Bonython<br />
[XXXXX] [[XXX] [?date], examinatus.
Simon Bonython con [?navem] voratam}<br />
[GUTTER ?the] ''Elizabeth'' of Glocester [XX] pmn[X]s alias et cetera}
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Johnnnes Williams''' civitatis Bristol Nauta, aetatis<br />
36 anno[XX] aut de [?circiter] testis in [XXX] [XX] productus et<br />
juratus.
To the first article hee deposeth and saith that hee well knoweth the<br />
producents John Woodward, George Bret, John Cooke and Christofer<br />
Woodward, whoe with their company were the time arlate and are commonly esteemed and<br />
reputed owners or freighters of the shipp the ''Elizabeth'' arlate<br />
and soe hee verily beleeveth them to be because as hee saith they (of this deponents<br />
knowledge) constituted and put the producent Simon Bonython master,<br />
of the said shipp, whereof this deponent was the said time<br />
masters mate. And further deposeth not.
The second third, 4 and 5th articles and schedule therein mentioned now showed unto him and by<br />
him perused, hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent was present in<br />
or about the moneth of September 1659 in the citie of Bristol at the Starr<br />
taverne on the key, when and where hee saith the said Mr Bret, Mr<br />
John Woodward, Mr Christofer Woodward and Mr Cooke were<br />
as hee saith alsoe present and treated with the said Bonython (then and there alsoe<br />
present) about goeing master of the said shippp to the Barbadas and other<br />
places, on a voyage on which they had designed the said vessell, and after some<br />
discourse thereabouts they or some of them agreed with and hired the said Bonython to goe the<br />
said voyage master of the said shipp, and agreed to pay him five pounds by the<br />
moneth fir soe Long time as hee should be in their service in the said vessell<br />
the said voyage wherein shee was to retourne to the port of Bristol, and<br />
that in and by the said agreement they gave him the said Bonython power<br />
and order to hire and shipp his company for the said voyage, which hee<br />
knoweth for that this deponent was present at the said treatie and hiring<br />
of the said master, and at the giving of such order to him, and tooke notice<br />
of the passages thereof. And saith that in persuance of the said agreement<br />
the said Bonython hired this deponent to goe masters mate of the said shipp<br />
the said voyage, the said Christofer Wood being present when this deponent was<br />
soe hired which was at the said Christofers house in Bristol, and<br />
alsoe the said master shipped the arlate Thomas Woodward to goe Chyrugeon<br />
and Merlin hescock to goe Carpenter of the said shipp the said voyage<br />
and alsoe the rest of the mariners and sailers particularly mentioned and<br />
named in the said schedule now read unto him, in there respective qualities<br />
and for the rates and times therein mentioned namely each person for<br />
six monethes and three and twenty dayes, and for the respective<br />
monethly wages schedulated (the said schedule being againe read over to him) And<br />
this deponent the rather came to take notice of the monethly wages due to the<br />
said mariners, because as hee saith the master paid them part of their<br />
wages in Ireland after those rates, and afterwards retourning to Bristol<br />
hee was by the martiners arrested for the residue, and there hee<br />
was compelled to pay them the said residue according to the said monethly<br />
rates, as being the rates contracted for and at which the men were shipped.<br />
And lastly that on or about the nineth of december 1659 the said shipp<br />
set saile and departed on the said voyage from Bristol with the said master and marriners<br />
aboard in her service, and thence sailed to the Barbadas, thence to<br />
London derry in Ireland, and that in each of the said ports of<br />
Barbadas and London derry shee dischardged goods and merchandizes and<br />
tooke in others for the use and accompt of the said owners or freighters<br />
setters forth of the said vessell, and brought divers goods, wares and<br />
merchandizes to the port of Bristoll for their account where the same were<br />
dischardged in safetie, during all which voyage the said Bonython as master<br />
and the said mariners well and truely performed their parts and<br />
duties, which hee knoweth being one of them and foing the said voyage<br />
in the said shipp. And further deposeth not, saving this deponent received [?eighteene]<br />
pounds twelve shillings and two pence for his wages after 55 ''s'' per moneth, and<br />
alsoe the rest of the mariners received the summes schedulate #
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[GUTTER XXXX] that the mariners<br />
[GUTTER XXXXX] the 9th<br />
[GUTTER XXXXX] and every of<br />
[GUTTER XXXXX] in the vessell the<br />
[GUTTER XXXXX] schedulated, and<br />
John Williams [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
To;
John Williams [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
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