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want of the sayd shipp ''Expectation'' was … want of the sayd shipp ''Expectation'' was in as aforesayd did att the<br />
request of the sayed Newman and Ayres really and truely lend unto them the<br />
sayed Newman and Ayres for ther use and service of the sayd shipp the<br />
''Expectation'', and for carrying her home to this port of London, and<br />
for providing of victualls for her and payeing of the sayd Mariners<br />
their wages and other debts oweing by the sayd shipp the summe of eight hundred and odd dollars or peices of 8/8<br />
upon Bottomrie, And adventure thereof upon the keele of the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Expectation'' from the tyme of her departure from Messina untill<br />
the tyme of her Arrivall into the River of Thames, upon which contract<br />
the sayd Thomas Newman and Thomas Ayres did oblige and bind the sayd<br />
shipp tackle and furniture and fraight arising upon the same, but<br />
saith he doth not know the certayne summe the sayd Edward Beale and<br />
Companie were to receyve upon the sayd contract upon the arrivall of the<br />
sayd shipp ''Expectation'' in the River of Thames. And saith that the<br />
reason of this deponents knowledge in the premisses was and is that the<br />
sayd Newman and Ayres did themselves declare to this deponent att<br />
Messina within the tyme arlate the effect and substance of what he hath now<br />
deposed touching the loane of the sayd 800 and odd dollars upon bottomry<br />
by the sayd Edward Beale and Companie, and Paschall Russa a publick Notary in Messina<br />
who as he sayd drew the Act of Bottomrie declared and made knowne the [?same]<br />
likewise to this deponent within the sayd tyme, And this deponent likewise saw<br />
about the same tyme an entry of the sayd moneyes and contract in the bookes<br />
of the sayd Edward Beale att Messina. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the fifth he saith that within the monethes and yeare aforesayd, the sayd<br />
Newman and Ayres did of the certaine knowledge and sight of this deponent amend<br />
and repaire the sayd shipp ''Expectation'' and her tackle and apparrell and<br />
provided victualls for her Company, all which this deponent verily beleiveth<br />
they did with the moneyes so taken upp as aforesayd uppon Bottomry of<br />
the sayd Edward Beale and Company, and verily beleiveth that in case<br />
they had not beene so furnished by the sayd Edward Beale and Companye<br />
the sayd shipp could not have gone and proceeded from Messina, and<br />
beleiveth that the money of the sayd Beale and Company was a maine<br />
cause and occasion and meanes which brought the sayd shipp from Messina<br />
And so much or to the like effect the sayd Newman and Ayres have confessed<br />
and declared to this deponent- And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the sixth he saith that after borrowing the sayd moneyes, and repairing the<br />
sayd shipp in manner as aforesayd videlicet in the month of March 1650 or<br />
about that tyme the sayd shipp sett sayle from Messina under the Conduct<br />
of the sayd Thomas Newman and in or about July or August next ensueing<br />
1651. arrived safely att this port of London. the premisses he knoweth to<br />
be true for that he this deponent did Lade aboard the sayd shipp att<br />
Messina about the sayd moneth of March about 40 tonns of goods, and saw<br />
the sayd shipp sett sayle therewith within the sayd moneth or about that<br />
tyme from Messina, and afterwards videlicet about the latter end of August<br />
or beginning of September 1651 receyved letters of Advise by post<br />
att Messina from this port of London wherein was signifyed, that the sayd<br />
shippsignifyed, that the sayd<br />
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