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The same day
Examined upon the sayd alleg … The same day
Examined upon the sayd allegation/
'''Rp.'''
'''2us'''
'''Edward Ward''' of London Marchant aged 39 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first second third 4th and 5th articles hee cannot depose./
To the 6th article hee saith that hee this deponent hath used the trade of Merchandizeing<br />
for these twenty yeares last past, and for fifteene yeares of the sayd tyme lived<br />
in Mall[?e]ga, and thereby well observed that it is the usuall custome there betwixt<br />
Marchants or their factors and Masters of shipps that when a parcell<br />
of wines is ready and brought to the Ploy by order of the ffactors, the Master<br />
or Purser of the shipp who is to carrie the sayd wines doth there see the sayd wines<br />
markes, and doth take charge of them<br />
and cause his Company to rafte them and then<br />
make them fast to his shipps boate, and the same being once soe rafted, and on<br />
ffloate, this deponent saith that by the sayd Custome the Master of the shipp<br />
who is to lade them and his company and Owners of the Shipp stand chargeable with them untill they<br />
come to the Port of their discharge and if any miscarrie and are lost in the<br />
Sea betwixt the Ploy and the shipp and come not safe on board, the Master<br />
Mariners and Owners of the sayd shipp are lyable to make good whatever<br />
dammage happens by reason of rafteing the sayd wines, And this hee<br />
this deponent hath observed to bee the Custome at Mall[?e]ga betwixt Masters<br />
Marchants and Masters of shipps toucheing rafting of wynes during all the<br />
tyme aforesayd which hee this deponent lives in Mallaga. And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose/
To the 7th 8th and 9th articles hee cannot depose/
To the 10th hee saith as before that wines are rafted and on floate from<br />
the Ploy at Mall[?e]ga, the Master and Company and Owners of the shipp that is<br />
to lade them runne the Riske and hazard of them untill such tyme as they are<br />
safely laden aboard the sayd shipp And this hee this deponent hath observed<br />
to bee the custome there at Mallaga during the fifteene yeares hee soe lived<br />
there, And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 11th and 12th articles hee cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./
Edward Ward [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day/
Examined on the said allegation/
'''Rp EA'''
'''3'''
'''Thomas Smith''' of London Merchant aged twenty<br />
two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br />
hee allegation hee saith that<br />
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