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To the third article hee saith that on a d … To the third article hee saith that on a day happening about two yeeres since<br />
the said Leonard Guy came to this deponent to his house in Redrith (neere<br />
the dwelling of him the said Leonard and of the said Mary) and told him that hee<br />
was going with the said Mary to one Captaine Mole lodging on Saint Mary Hill<br />
London, to see if hee could get the said Captaine to pay him the said Guy the<br />
summe of tenn pounds, which (as hee said) the said Captaine ought unto him,<br />
telling him withall that the husband of the said Mary was in his life time<br />
bound for him the said Guy in the summe of an hundred pounds, and that shee the<br />
said Mary had (as administratrix to her said husband) paid part of it; and further hee<br />
the said Guy then confessed and told this deponent that towards her<br />
the said Maries satisfaction for the said moneyes hee the said Guy had made<br />
over and sold unto her the said hulke the ''Elizabeth'' by bill of sale, and<br />
that if hee could receive the said tenn pounds, hee would presently deliver the<br />
same to the said Mary towards her further satisfaction, and saith that the<br />
hulke ''Elizabeth'' nowe in controversie, and the said hulke ''Elizabeth'' which the<br />
said Guy acknowledged that hee had sold to the said Mary (aboard which<br />
hulke this deponent hath severall times bin with the said Guy) were and<br />
are one and the same vessell; And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that after the said 28th of June 1653, hee<br />
this deponent heard the said Guy say that hee had imployed the said hulke<br />
under and as belonging unto the said Mary, and that the first moneys<br />
hee had earned with the said vessell after the said day, hee had paid unto her<br />
as owner thereof. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth hee saith hee hath of late time seene the said hulke in the<br />
possession of the arlate Elizabeth Guy, and beleeveth the said<br />
Mary Taylor (besides the hulke her selfe) to have lost twenty pounds<br />
sterling and upwards, which the same might have earned her from the said Leonard Guyes<br />
death, and which shee hath soe lost by the said Elizabeth her and her the said Elizabeths<br />
sonnes keeping the same from her. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Rich: Dyricke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Exámined upon the soresaid libell.
'''Rp. .3.'''
'''Martha Ayliff''' wife of william Ayliff of the parish<br />
of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsea Carpenter, aged<br />
36 yeares or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the first and second articles shee saith and deposeth that shee<br />
well knew the arlate Leonard Guy in his lifetime and well knoweth<br />
the producent Mary Tasker, and the ''Elizabeth'' hulke arlate, of which<br />
hulke shee saith the said Mary was and is commonly reputed the<br />
lawfull owner, and to have bought the same of the said Guy, And<br />
otherwise shee cannot depose saving what followeth.
To the third árticle shee saith and deposeth that shee this deponent<br />
hath severall times heard him the said Guy in his life time say and<br />
acknowledge that the said Mary Taskers husband was bound with him<br />
for an hundred pounds being the debt of the said Guy, and of this<br />
deponents knowledge the said Mary hath bin severall times arrested and<br />
troubled about the same since her husbands death, and saith that about<br />
five yeeres since this deponent was with her at the temple and saw<br />
her enter bond to [?one] mr summers for twenty pounds in part of<br />
payment of the said hundred, and since the premisses this examinate<br />
hath premisses this examinate<br />
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