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said Sir Williams death, during all which … said Sir Williams death, during all which time of this deponents knowledge of<br />
him, hee the said Sir William harbert Lord Powis lived and lodged at the house<br />
of one Dyke neere Suffolk house in the Strand, where this deponent did<br />
very frequently visit him, being his physician, and thereby hee well<br />
knoweth that the said Sir William Powis harbert lord Powis was living in his<br />
natural life on the fourteenth day of May which was in the yeere of our<br />
Lord God 1655, and ever untill about nine weekes since, at which time hee<br />
departed this life in the said house, where this deponent sawe him alive<br />
on the thursday (being to his remembrance yesterday was nine weekes), and<br />
the the next morning hee the said Sir William dying, this deponent on<br />
the said next day or very shortly after sawe his dead corps, and was present at his embalming<br />
and sawe the embalming performed, this deponent directing and ordering<br />
the doeing thereof. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the said<br />
death of the said Sir William harbert Lord Powis happened (to this<br />
deponents best remembrance of the time) on the fourteenth of March last<br />
being on or about this day nine weekes./
Tho: Champion [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before Colonel Cock.
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The 17th of May 1656
On the behalfe of henry Gough and}<br />
partners John Pope of Bristoll Merchants}<br />
concerning their losses in the ''Lilly'' of Bristoll}
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Robert Yeomans''' of Bristoll Marchant<br />
aged 39 yeares or thereabouts sworne<br />
before the right Worshippfull Charles George<br />
Cocke Esquire<br />
one of the Judges of the high Court<br />
of the Admiraltie and exámined upon<br />
certaine Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe<br />
of the said Gough and others saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first and second árticles Interrogatories hee saith and<br />
deposeth that hee well knew the good shipp the ''Lilly'' of Bristoll<br />
(whereof Thomas [?Person] was master) at the time of her last being<br />
at Bristoll, from whense shee was bound shee was bound on a voyage as farr as Marseilla<br />
in the kingdome of ffranse, and saith the said producents henry<br />
Gough and John Pope were each of them owner of a third part<br />
of the said shipp and of her tackle, apparrell and furniture at the<br />
time of her setting out on her said voyage, and afterwards when<br />
shee was lost, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent was then owner<br />
of the other third part of the said shipp, and of her tackle, and furniture.
To the third Interrogatory hee saith and deposeth that during the<br />
time of the said shipps being last at Bristoll and before her departure<br />
thense on the said voyage namely in or about the moneth of January december<br />
last past there were there laded and put aboard her for the accounts<br />
of the said henry Gough and John Pope a certaine quantitie of Pilchards and Stockings<br />
and moneys and some other things to be transported to towards Marseilles<br />
for and to towards Marseilles<br />
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