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neither of them got any to goe thither, whereupon the sayd keene was forced
to take freight for London, and the mariners which came hime in her for
London were promised by this deponent and the sayd Keene, but of this deponents
knowledge, they refused to goe to the Canaries from Saint Lucar, and would not
goe aboard unlesse they might come directly for England, they being ˹the most of them˺ men
who had lost their shipp on the Point of Chipiona and would not proceede
further./

To the last Interrogatory and the schedule therein mentioned hee saith hee him selfe is a
Merchant XXXXXX and the same Edward Walth in the Interrogatory mentioned, and
that hee knoweth all the rest of the persons Interrogate and saith they are all Merchants
of good Account in Saint Lucar saving that ffrancis Bedingfeild who is noe Merchant
but was Consull for the English ther, and saith the schedule Interrogate was ˹and is˺ XXXX
bXXX subscribed with the proper hand writing of this deponent and the sayd Consull
and the Interrogate George Bland William Bland and Peter Probye, And hee
beleeveth the contents of the sayd schedule to be true and knoweth these words Edward
Watts at the foote thereof to be this deponents owne hand writing and sawe the
rest of the persons Interrogate subscribe their names to the sayd schedule,
and beleeveth that the shipp and Keene in this cause named and the shipp
or Ketch the John and Elizabeth, in the sayd schedule expressed are one and the
same shipp and person and not divers./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Edward Watts [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 27th of Aprill 1657

Bludworth Spencer and Company}
against John Greene and others.}
Suckley. ffrancklin.}

Exámined upon an allegation on the
behalfe of the said Bludworth
and others given 13th instand.

Rp. .j.

William Hammon of Redriff wall in the County
of Surry Mariner, aged 70 yeeres or thereabouts
sworne and exámined.

To the first article of the said allegation hee saith an deposeth
that in the moneth of April 1656 or thereabouts the arlate John
Goulding was put master of the shipp the Prosperous arlate
by Captaine John Greene and Arthur Odrury , and tooke upon
him the master shipp of her, having the disposall of her
committed to him (as master) by the said Greene and Odrury
and the said Goulding accepted and tooke upon him the said office
and imployment of master of the said shipp, which hee knoweth
because hee this deponent was the next precedent master of
the said vessell; and was compounded with by the said Greene
and Odrury to relinquish the command of the said shipp and
yeld up the same to the said Goulding, who was put in by them
But whether the said Goulding were any part owner of
her is mot hee saith hee knoweth not, And otherwise cannot
depose. saving the said Goulding from the said time was commonly
accounted master of her.

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