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To the rest of the Interrogatories hee sai … To the rest of the Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee cannot answer<br />
further thereto than as aforesaid, for hee was not in the voyage nor knoweth<br />
ought thereof or of the lading in question.
Michel Martyn Tun[?ij] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 5th of december 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
Edward Beale and company against the}<br />
''Expectation'' and against Birdsey and others.}<br />
Smith. Suckley.}
Examined upon an allegation given in on<br />
the behalfe of the said Birdsey<br />
and others 15 November 1654, and<br />
upon a schedule on the file 1654<br />
annexed to a primum decretum<br />
No. 311.
'''T: Browne dt.'''
'''.jus.'''
'''Samuel Birdsey''' of Wapping Wall citizen and<br />
ffishmonger of London aged 22 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation and to the schedule<br />
aforesaid remayning on the file beginning thus '''Delivered to Captaine John<br />
Ramsey to the use of the shipp ''Expectation'' August 1648,''' written in<br />
two leaves if paper and nowe showne unto him and by him perused<br />
hee saith and deposeth that in the Summer time 1648 the arlate<br />
John Ramsey the master of the said shipp ''Expectation'' came to the shopp<br />
of the said John Birdsey situat in Wapping Wall and in this deponents<br />
presence and hearing spake unto him the said Birdsey and told<br />
him that his shipp was going out for the Straights (speaking of the said<br />
shipp ''Expectation'') and wanted severall necessaries belonging to the<br />
said Birdseys trade (being a shipp Chaundler) and therefore desired<br />
the said Birdsey to deliver and furnish the said shipp therewith, and<br />
the said producent John Birdsey condescending thereto, did at the<br />
instance and request of the said Ramsey deliver<br />
and cause to be delivered out of and from his said shopp to Robert Cowell Gunner of the<br />
said shipp and one Gilpatrick pursers mate and other of the<br />
said shipps company (all which were sent and came in the name of<br />
the said Ramsey) all and singular the goods and materialls mentioned<br />
and expressed in the said schedule in two leaves nowe by him read<br />
over; which hee knoweth because hee this deponent being then<br />
apprentice unto the said Birdsey did by his masters directions<br />
deliver the most part of the said goods and materialls schedulated<br />
and entred them into the debt booke of the said shopp, and to the<br />
deliverie of the rest hee was privie and to the entrie likewise<br />
of the same, and saith they were then well worth the severall and<br />
respective summes of money in the said schedule expressed, being the<br />
summes and rates according to the then currant and selling price of<br />
the like commodities and goods which hee knoweth being of the trade<br />
and frequently then selling the like commodities, And<br />
hee the like commodities, And<br />
hee +
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