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thence to Leghorne, and from thence to Gal … thence to Leghorne, and from thence to Gallipoli and laded oiles and<br />
returned therewith for London where she came to an anchor in lower<br />
Shadwell neere Bell wharf about ffive or six weeks since. And saith<br />
that from Plymouth she carried a lading of pilchards (six hundred<br />
hogsheads) to and delivered them at Leghorne according to consignation to one<br />
Mr James Gold the arlate Golds factor there. And saith that when she<br />
soe went from Plymouth she was an old shipp, some part of her<br />
upper worke untrimmed, and he pumpes not fitted as they should bee<br />
And by reason of the defects of the said shipp and stresse of weather<br />
then happening neere the Northern Cape the goods and lading of the<br />
said shipp received dammage by the waters running into the hold<br />
amongst them. And saith that had the upper workes of the shipp bin trimmed<br />
and she fitted as she ought to have bin hee beleeveth that the<br />
dammage might not have bin soe great as it was, And saith<br />
the Company did not in the least neglect their duties their lives as<br />
well as goods being hazarded by reason of that storme and the violence<br />
thereof. And saith that hee assisted in the unlading the goods in<br />
question and beleeveth and knoweth that some of the goods were<br />
damnified, but how many or what quantity of them not seeing the same opned or what<br />
the Merchants have suffered he knoweth nor cannot estimate, Et alr<br />
nescit.
signed [?dir] '''HB''' Thoma [?lobese] [MARKE, RH SIDE]
Repit coram dre [?Road] eum<br />
precontstibus [?XXXX] Ed [?Brownlow]
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19th Novembris 1666. [CENTRE HEADING]
Quoad the ''Swedish Lyon'' produit
'''Elias Beake''' de London mercator aetatis 50 aut<br />
circiter testis produit et juratus.
Ad primum et 2 arles deponit et dicit that hee well knoweth the<br />
producent Samuel Beake who is his kinsman namelie his brothers sonne<br />
who he saith is an Englishman borne in the parish of Saint Buttolph<br />
Billingsgate and here educated by his father Arnold Beake his<br />
precontest and resident in Bordeauz as a merchant stranger and a<br />
ffactor, and a boarder being a Batchelor, and one that drives a<br />
very considerable trade in merchandizeing affaires as well in<br />
shipps as goods and to that purpose and for the carrying on or his<br />
said trade hee keeps his factors at Rochell and other places in ffrance<br />
as also in Corke and Dublin and other places in Ireland. And hee soe trades<br />
for his owne account and adventure which hee knoweth y the frequent<br />
receipt and advise by his letters and thereby being made privy to<br />
such his negotiations being his ffactor with his the said Samuells father<br />
and brother here in London And is a subject of the [?XXXX]<br />
the King and for and as a great trader in salt wines and other<br />
Comodities of ffrance for his owne account and a Merchant of good [?XX]<br />
a native and subject of England hee was and is Commonly accounted<br />
Et alr nescit salvis subscriptis.br />
Et alr nescit salvis subscriptis. +
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