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The 18th of ffebruary 1657.
Examined upon … The 18th of ffebruary 1657.
Examined upon the foresaid libell.
'''Rp. 3'''
'''Ephraim Paine''' of the parish of Saint George Buttolph<br />
Lane London Cloth worker. aged 55 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the first, second, third, fourth 5th. 6. 7. 8. 9. and 10th articles<br />
hee saith and deposeth that in or about the end of the moneth of July<br />
1656 the arlate shipp the ''Abrahams Offering'' whereof ffrancis<br />
Rois was master ariving in this port was then entered in the<br />
Custome house as comming from fflushing, and upon such her<br />
arivall the producent William Vanbrough entred a fatt
'''XB 25''' [MERCHANT MARKE, LH MARGIN]
of thredd marked with the first marke in the margent, as<br />
containing 170 dozen of black and browne thredd or thereabouts<br />
for his owne account brought hether in the said shipp, and mr<br />
John Nicholas arlate entred a fatt of thredd<br />
as containing an hundred and eleaven dozen of black and
'''RB.N.4.''' [MERCHANT MARKE, LH MARGIN]
browne and about 640 pounds of white and brown thredd<br />
for his account of the second marke in the margent, which hee<br />
knoweth because hee this deponent was then Custome house<br />
waiter upon the said shipp, and tooke an account thereof and<br />
hath nowe his booke with him wherein the same is menioned<br />
And saith the said Vanbrough and Nicholas paid the duties and<br />
owned and tooke the said goods as their owne, and were commonly<br />
and respectively esteemed owners thereof. And saith that as<br />
hee perceived by the said Vanbrough his fatt, it had stood<br />
about a quarter part deep in the water, and was soe farr stained<br />
with the water, and afterwards this deponent at<br />
the said Vanbroughs house shew<br />
a parcell of thredd (which was said and hee beleeveth<br />
to be the same that came out of his said fatt) a greate part of<br />
it soe rotten that it was not fitt for any use, and that the<br />
same was soe spoiled as hee conceived by sea wett which it<br />
had taken the said voyage. And for Mr Nicholas his fatt<br />
the said Mr Nicholas perceiving dammage therein before hee had it<br />
from the Custome house, desired that one might goe home with<br />
him and see it opened, to the end hee might have<br />
abatement of custome for what was spoiled, whereupon<br />
this deponent by the Co[?manders] order went with him, and saw<br />
it opened, and saw that a greate part of the thredd therein was wet and<br />
rotten and most part of it dammaged, and that the said<br />
dammage came by wet which it had taken in the said voyage as<br />
this deponent conceived, and was a greate part of it quite spoiled<br />
thereby [?and] useles. And saith hee cannot depose of the<br />
amount of the producents dammage and losse in that thredd<br />
but beleeveth that they lost halfe in halfe or more of their market<br />
forfe or more of their market<br />
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