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The same day. [CENTRE HEADIMNG]<br /> … The same day. [CENTRE HEADIMNG]<br />
Examined upon the said allegation and schedule.
'''2.'''
'''Michael Robinson''' of the citie of Westminster gentleman<br />
aged 44 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said alleagtion and schedule now read to him hee saith and<br />
deposeth that on the fourth of January 1653 hee this deponent and his<br />
precontest Edmund k[?elsall] togeather with James Bates were in company<br />
of and with John Pibus mentioned in the said schedule and allegation<br />
at a taverne at or neere Pauls-chaine London knowne (as hee taketh<br />
it) by the signe of the Castle, where having discourse and speech<br />
of and touching a certaine holland shipp, said to have bin seized by<br />
him the said Pibus in the ''Martha'' in his comming from Greenland<br />
and by him afterwards let goe againe, the said Pibus acknowledged and<br />
confessed in all things touching the same, as in the said schedule is sett<br />
downe, and being desired to give the same in writing, hee dictated it<br />
to the said Bates, who wrote it from his the said Pibus his<br />
owne mouth in all things as in the said schedule, and that the same<br />
was both read ver unto him by the said Bates, and hee the said<br />
Pibus alsoe read it over himselfe and acknowledge it to be to his<br />
minde, and to be the truth saying this wll I never denie, and then hee subscribed his name thereto<br />
in the presence and sight of this deponent in all things as nowe<br />
appeareth, and in the presenence of the said kalsall and Bates, and<br />
having soe subscribed the same, hee delivered it to this deponent, And<br />
this deponent delivered it to Mr Budd proctor for the Commonwealth.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith thatthe said Pibus at the time of the said<br />
acknowledgement, and of the said writing and subscribing the said note<br />
was in the custodie of this deponent by vertue of a warrant ut of this<br />
Court. And saith the said Pibus made the said confession and subscribed<br />
the same voluntarily without any urging or threats whatsoever, And otherwise<br />
saving as aforesaid hee cannot answer.
To the second hee saith they have made noe such agreement as is interrate<br />
but this deponent meerly prosecuted the said bussinesse in behalfe of the<br />
Commonwealth, without expectation of reward, and this deponent<br />
endeavoureth to bringe him to a lawfull triall, and desireth Justice<br />
may take place. And otherwise negatively saving as aforesaid.
'''R''' The marke of Michaell<br />
Robibsob [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said allegation and schedule.
'''3.'''
'''George Okes''' of ffurnivalls Inne and nowe living in Greenwich<br />
gentleman, aged 56 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said allegation and schedule hee saith and deposeth that<br />
about a moneth after the fourth of<br />
Januaryth after the fourth of<br />
January +
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