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22nd Aprilis 1637.
Wilson et al con Coltman./
'''det Wannerton./'''
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'''Thomas Thrasher''' parochia oin [?Sanctorum] Barkinge London<br />
deap etats 36 annos ait circiter testis in hac parte<br />
productus iuratus et examinatus, dicit quad Rowland Wilson<br />
per 12 anos aut circiter Henricu Lee per [?5 ayt] 6 annos aut circiter<br />
Martinum Bradgate per 6. aut 7 annos aut circiter Richard Middleton<br />
per 7 aut 8 annos, Thomas Hutchins per 5 aut 6 annos, et Willum<br />
Garroway partes [?partes] producen per edem tempus,<br />
et Willum Coltman ptem con qua producits per 6 annos<br />
aut circiter bene respective novit./
Ad primum arlum libelli in hac parte dat et oblat dicit et deponit<br />
That within the monethes and yeare arlate the arlate William Coltman<br />
was generally reputed to be ower of the arlate lighter<br />
called the ''Anne'' and his the sayd Coltmans servants<br />
did carry and transporte with that lighter merchants goods from shipps ridinge<br />
in the river of Thames belowe London bridge unto the shoare<br />
and from the shoare to the shipp, and that he this deponent hath seene the<br />
sayd Coltman pay wages unto those whome he imployed<br />
and hired to serve in the sayd lighter, The premisses he knoweth to<br />
be true for that the tyme arlate he dwelte and still doth dwell by<br />
the Custome house gate, where the sayd Coltman was then wharfenger.<br />
Et alr nescit deponere./
Ad 2. 3 et reliques arlos dicty libelli et schedula<br />
in eisdem mencontat dicit et deponit. That within the tyme arlate<br />
there came one of the arlate William Coltmans lighters<br />
laden with sugers to the Custome house for which sugers as it<br />
was then reported were brought from abord the arlate Luke<br />
Whetstones shipp lyeinge in the river of Thames below LOndon<br />
bridge, and the sayd lighter laye with the sayd sugers a day or two<br />
at the sayd key before any of them were taken out of her, and when the<br />
sayd sugers were takinge out of the sayd lighter it did appeare<br />
that there was much water in that lighter, and that divers of<br />
the chests of sugers in it had taken wett and were damnifyed<br />
but in what condition the sayd sugers were at the tyme<br />
of their delivery out of the sayd shipp into the sayd lighter or to whome the sayd sugers did belonge he knoweth not or<br />
whither that lighter was the arlate lighter the ''Anne'' he cannot<br />
remember beinge soe longe since, but he is certayne that that<br />
lighter in which the sayd sugers then were was one of the<br />
sayd Coltmans lighters, Et alr nescit deponere, savinge he sayeth that<br />
about the tyme arlate the sayd Coltman did usually take and receive<br />
[?1 or 6 ''d''] for freight Idem sup Interr./ of every chest of suger brought<br />
from shipps to the custome house key in his lighters./
Ad [?primum] rendet That he was borne in the parish of Saint John in Budge row<br />
London and is a grocer by profession and therby maynteyneth himselfe Et<br />
alr sati [?XXXX] est supra./t<br />
alr sati [?XXXX] est supra./ +
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