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áway upon that occasion; and saith that al … áway upon that occasion; and saith that all this charge was to make<br />
her navigable, and fit to goe sea, and that shee was not thereby made soe<br />
good as shee was before immediately before such her bilging.
To the sighth hee saith that upon the said disaster most of the said shipps company quitted<br />
the said shipp, and said they would bot proceede further with her, whereupon<br />
this deponent was constrained to come to a new composition with them<br />
and the rest and to give them a monethes wages extraordinary and more than first<br />
they were agreed with for.
To the last hee saith that the premisses soe happening, this deponent<br />
went to a Notary in [?Moirmonstier] to cause an attestation to be made<br />
thereof, and, the said Notary drew up the said attestation, purporting<br />
the storey or relation of the said premisses, and read it over<br />
to this deponent and severall of his men, and promised to deliver<br />
it in an authenticall forme to this deponent, but having bin in the<br />
interim threatened and terrified by the said monsieur du daisné and his confederates,<br />
the said Notary at length refused to deliver it to this deponent, and<br />
said hee durst not doe it for his life through feare of them, who<br />
hee said had the command of the Iland under the duke, and<br />
did there what they li[?XX]ed, and that hee had his imployment from them<br />
and that mr daisné had commanded him not to deliver it, for<br />
that it would be a discouragement to the place and discourage<br />
other shipps from coming thither.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Eleaz Le Marchant [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]<br />
Junior
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The 10th of March 1656 [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of henry Clarke}<br />
Merchant against So[?u]den and others in a}<br />
busines of Assurance touching a losse}<br />
to the ''ffortune'' of Leith.}
'''Rp. [?X X] cop. 1'''
'''Thomas Hicks''' of London ffishmonger aged 39<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of<br />
the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
and examined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred<br />
on the behalfe of the said henry Clarke saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth, videlicet.
To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knew the shipp the ''ffortune'' interrogated at her last being at the port of<br />
Leith in Scotland, where hee saith mr henry Clarke interrogated (whom hee<br />
well knoweth) was in or about the moneth of August last of this deponents<br />
sight and knowledge, and there laded and, caused to be laden aboard her five<br />
hundred deale boards upwards and above fourtie tonnes of casks, and alsoe severall brasse<br />
kettles and other goods and merchandizes, namely Coopers tooles, [?cann]s,<br />
platters, and other commodities, all which hee knoweth because hee sawe the<br />
same soe laden.
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith the said deale boards, caskes, kettles and other<br />
goods were and are laden for the account of the said henry Clarke, who<br />
was the true and sole owner and proprietor thereof, and to him alone they<br />
belonged, and were to be transported in the said shipp to the Barbada's, and there<br />
to be delivered to his brother Robert Clarke to whom they were consigned,<br />
and in case of his death before the shipps arivall, to be delivered to mr William<br />
Bates, for account of the said George Henry Clarke, and there they were to be<br />
disposed of for the use and proffit of the said Henry Clarke, all which hee<br />
knoweth being present with him in Scotland and helping him to buy some of<br />
the said goods, and acquainted with the buying and paying for them all, and this<br />
deponentor them all, and this<br />
deponent +
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