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uppon his oath to be true. And he further … uppon his oath to be true. And he further sayeth, that<br />
the sayd Mr Geddys of his knowledge before the sayd fourth day of November aforesayd had bought and provided<br />
hay, oates water and other necessaryes for the sayd horses and this deponent payd for parte of the sayd haye and straw and<br />
the sayd Mr Geddis gave order to the foresayd William Geddis and Ernest Buckerd, to carrye<br />
them to the sayd Beininge abord the sayd shipp or Boyer, and the sayd<br />
Beininge (as the sayd William Geddis and Ernest Buckerd did affirme) did<br />
refuse to take in the sayd horses with their provision aforesayd, and he alsoe<br />
sayeth that after the sayd fourth day of November aforesayd, the sayd<br />
Mr Geddys was informed to hire another Hamburgher Boyer for the<br />
transportation of himselfe and his servants and the sayd<br />
five horses and their provision and did in this deponents presence<br />
contracte and agree with the master of that other Boyer to paye him<br />
fourteene dollers for the freighte and transportation of every one of the<br />
sayd horses from the porte of London to Hamborough and was forced and<br />
constrayned to staye in England with the sayd horses, by the space of<br />
six weekes and some ofdd dayes after the sayd fourth daye of November<br />
aforesayd, for that the sayd Geddys had hires another Boyer fr the<br />
transportation of the sayd horses, and after the sayd horses with their provisions<br />
were carryed abord the sayd other Boyer, the river of Thames was<br />
soe frozen that now shipp could passe through it or fall downe to<br />
Gravesend, and by reason of the sayd frost the sayd Mr Geddis was forced<br />
to take the sayd horses on shoare agayne and putt them into stables, and<br />
there kept them by the space of three weeks or thereabouts, And that by reason<br />
of the sayd Mr Geddys his longe staye in England with the sayd five<br />
horses after the sayd fourth day of November aforesayd the winter season<br />
grewe on and the frost soe increased that the river of Elve<br />
through which the sayd Boyer was to passe to sayle to hamborough<br />
was frozen up soe that the sayd Mr Geddys with the sayd horses could not<br />
be transported in the sayd Boyer to the porte of hamnboroughe<br />
but as inforced to Land himselfe and his servants and teh sayd<br />
horses at a place called ffredenborough which is fistant<br />
seaven or eighte dutch myles shorte from hamborough each Dutch myle makinge<br />
three English miles soe that the sayd horses could not come to hamborough<br />
untill about three dayes after Christmas last but the sayd Geddys went
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