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Virginia hogsheads to be brought from ther … Virginia hogsheads to be brought from there is commonly accounted to<br />
bee one and the same And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 11th and 14th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee was not<br />
at Virginia at the sayd ''Alexander'' arlate was there upon the voyage in question<br />
And therefore cannot positively of this knowledge depose anything to the conteath<br />
of these articles but saith that by letters from his commanders in Virginia<br />
he hath bin advised that at the tyme the ''Alexander'' laye in Yorke River<br />
in Virginia the voyage in question there were divers hogsheads of<br />
Tobaccoe tendered by this deponents correspondents there to have bin<br />
laden on board the ''Alexander'' but were refused to bee taken on board<br />
the sayd shipp unlesse this deponents correspondents would have<br />
given forty shillings or upwards in a tonne more than hee this deponent<br />
hath agreed with the arlate Mr Armiger Warner to bring them for,<br />
whereupon the sayd Tobaccoes were shipped afterwards upon the ''Providence''<br />
of London Captaine Swanley, Commander<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith hee<br />
hath heard and beleeveth that the ''Alexander'' might have had more tobaccoe[?s GUTTER]<br />
laden aboard her in Virginia then shee brought from thence the<br />
voyage in question./
To the rest of the articles hee is not examined by direction of the<br />
producent./
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was required by Mr Browne the deputy Marshall<br />
of this Court on behalfe of the producent Warner to appeare and<br />
testifie the truth of his knowelde in this case and saith there is some<br />
diferences in matters of Account in Merchandizing<br />
affayres betwixt this rendent and the sayd Warner and a suite depending<br />
thereupon, wherein hee beleeveth the sayd Warner will appeare to bee<br />
indebted to this rendent but in how much this deponent at present knoweth<br />
not, and saith it will bee neither profit nor prejudice to this deponent<br />
whether Warner presaile or be overthrowne in this case hee [?this ?rendent] being<br />
noe way concerned therein and saith hee is noe way of kinn or allyance<br />
to the sayd Warner And further cannot answere otherwise than<br />
negatively./
To the 2 hee saith hee never sawe the shipp ''Alexander'' Interrogate<br />
that hee knoweth of, and was not at Virginia when shee was last<br />
there, And further saving his foregoing deposition to which hee<br />
referreth hee cannot depose saving hee saith the goods predeposed of<br />
tendered by his correspondents to be laden aboard the ''Alexander'' were<br />
consigned to this rendent but were properly the goods<br />
of one ffrancis Jones then a widdowe in Virgina, and were marked<br />
with the marke in the margent./
'''FX''' [MARKE, LH MARGIN]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
John Jeffreys [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]olphin
John Jeffreys [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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