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after the landing, and before it was house … after the landing, and before it was housed, and sent away<br />
the rest (of what hee soe sent away as aforesaid) in the space of sixe<br />
or seaven weeke after, and sent it all away (saving the said<br />
seaven tonnes) in a matter of eight weekes after such landing<br />
thereof. But the name of the shipp the said oiles came home<br />
in hee knoweth not,<br />
And saith the said sixteene or seaventeene tonnes were soe<br />
sent away before any of the oiles were put into a warehouse,<br />
and the rest were put into warehouse, whence the rest (of<br />
what was aforesaid sent) were sent away. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot anwer saving as aforesaid.
To the fifth hee saith hee knoweth not what difference there<br />
was in the said oiles, saving that some were whiter than other.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose for hee doth not know Captaine<br />
Thomas interrogate.
To the 6th hee saith the said Barfoote was Cooper of the said<br />
oiles, and as Cooper looked to them, after their landing, and<br />
was the man that put the said seaven tonnes in a warehouse and after they<br />
had laine about fourteene monethe at the Stillyard and that noe body would move them they<br />
were disposed of by the said Barfoot. And otherwise saving<br />
as aforeaid hee cannot anwer.
The marke of<br />
'''O''' Barth. Cuff. [MARKE, RH IE]
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The same day.
Examined upon the foresaid libell.
'''Rp. 4.'''
'''Thomas Roots''' of the parish of Greate Allhallowes<br />
London Porter, aged 29 yeares or thereabouts sworne<br />
and examined.
To the seaventh, 8 and 9th articles (upon which alone hee is by<br />
direction of the partie producent examined) hee saith and<br />
deposeth that betwixt Bartholomew tide and Michaelmas last<br />
was twelve moneth (as hee remembreth the time) there was<br />
a parcell of oiles brought in lighters and landed at the<br />
Stillyard key, amounting (as the common report and estimate of<br />
the quantities then and there was) to fiftie seaven tonnes, and<br />
saith that in a matter of six weekes space or thereabouts<br />
after the said landing all the said oiles saving seaven tonnes or<br />
thereabout, were sent away by the arlate Edmund halley and<br />
his order some to one place and some to others, which hee knoweth<br />
because hee this deponent wrought as a porter in the said landing<br />
and helping to loade the said oiles away, and the said mr<br />
halley who imployed him paid him and other for their paines<br />
And for the said seaven tonnes that were<br />
left, the said mr halley declared and said that they were left<br />
for Captaine Thomas, and saith the said seaven tonnes were put afterward by mr<br />
Barfoote into a warehouse, noe body else looking after them. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
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otherwise hee cannot depose.
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