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The 16th day of ffebruary 1655 English sty … The 16th day of ffebruary 1655 English style
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''Rp. 4.'''
'''[[David Bayly]]''' of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermond=<br />
sey in Southwarke Mariner aged forty yeares or thereabouts<br />
a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth<br />
videlicet./
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that for that hee was one of the<br />
Company of the shipp the ''ffreindshipp'' the voyage in question hee saith<br />
hee well knoweth (being aboard) that the sayd shipp in or about the moneth of<br />
October last 1655 came to anchor in Mallega Roade arlate out<br />
of Command of the artillery of the Castles there, about three myles<br />
distant at the least from the Port of Mallega, and saith that in the moneth aforesayd (the<br />
tyme hee doth not nowe certainely remember) the arlate Barnaby holding did<br />
send the boates of the sayd shipp a shoare and this deponent and the boate=<br />
swaines mate of the sayd shipp, and John hartford and others of the company of the sayd<br />
shipp therein, about sixe a clock in the morning by order of the arlate Robert Whitby<br />
which boate according to the sayd Whitbies order or command attended upon him<br />
expecting to receave a rafte of wine to be carried a board the sayd shipp<br />
the sea and weather being then calme and cleare and fitt to have transported<br />
the same a board the sayd shipp all the forenoone, And hee saith the sayd Whitbie<br />
did of this deponents sight and knowledge send wines a board other shipps in<br />
the sayd roade in the forenoone of the same day, the boate aforesayd soe<br />
attended, this hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge being present as<br />
aforesayd And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 6th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee well knoweth<br />
being one of the boates Company as aforesayd that the sayd Robert<br />
Whitby (though the weather were fayre and seasonable in the forenoone<br />
when the boate came to rafte the sayd wines) did neglect the<br />
causeing the same to bee rafted till the afternoone of the same day,<br />
and would not suffer this deponent and the rest of the sayd boates company to<br />
goe in hand with rafting the same till about three of the clock in the<br />
afternoone of the same day, and then caused them to fall to worke about<br />
rafting the same, And hee saith that the Levant breese then comming in<br />
and the Sea running high the sayd holding sent his skiffe with sixe<br />
oares and a steerer to command this deponent and the rest of the sayd<br />
shipps company in the sayd boate to come aboard and not meddle with<br />
rafting any wines in regard the Sea ranne soe high and was soe<br />
tempestious as then it was and the evening then drawing on, And saith<br />
the sayd Whitby notwithstanding they were soe sent for to come aboard<br />
would/sent for to come aboard<br />
would/ +
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