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The 30th day of September 1656/

Robert Russell against the Shipp called the}
John and her tackle furniture and apparrell and}
against humfrey hooke Richard Bridgeman}
and Company coming in for their interest}
in the sayd shipp and against whomsoever etcetera}
Smith Cheeke}

Examined upon a libell given in and admitted
on the behalfe of the sayd Robert Russell./

Rp EA. 1

John Bly of the parish of Saint dunstans in the
East London shipp chandler aged twenty five
yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.

To the first article of the sayd libell hee saith that in the yeares 1654 and
1655 and moneths therein ˹respectively˺ concurring or some of them and especially in
the moneth of March 1654 English style and in the moneth of March 1655
the arlate John Wilkinson was commonly accompted and reputed to bee the Master and Commander
of the arlate shipp the John, and this deponent knoweth that hee then had the
Care and charge of her as Master and Commander of her and did as
Master of her come togeather with one Mr John Southwood who was
husband of the sayd shipp and as her appointed by the and bespoke GUTTER
of this deponents then Master divers things necessaries for the sayd shipps use
such as powder, shott, and pease, and butter, and other materialls and provisions for the XXXX GUTTER
in question, this hee deposeth being servant to the producent Robert Russell
at such tyme as the sayd necessaries and materialls and provisions were soe
bespoken, and when they were by order of the sayd Southwood and the as husband
of the sayd Wilkinson as Master of the sayd shipp delivered to the delivered
some of them to the sayd Wilkinson, (whome the sayd Southwood ˹then˺ acknowledgedto bee the Master of the sayd shipp) and the rest of them by order of the sayd
Wilkinson as Master delivered to his Gunner, And further saving his former GUTTER
deposition hee cannot depose/

To the 2 third and 4th articles of the sayd libell and schedule in them mentioned hee saith that by reason hee
was then servant and apprentice to the sayd Russell hee well knoweth that XX GUTTER
the moneths of March 1654 English Style, and March 1655 the arlate XXXX GUTTER
Russell was the lawfull Owner and Proprietor of all the materialls and GUTTER
provisions mentioned in the schedule arlate, And well knoweth that GUTTER
the sayd moneths videlicet on the twelveth ˹and fifteenth˺ of March 1654 English style, and the
nyneth of March 1655, all and singular the materialls and provisions
mentioned in the said schedule were delivered, to the some to the sayd
Wilkinson him selfe, and the rest by his order unto his Gunner for the use
of the sayd shipp the John, and were (as hee since heard the sayd
Wilkinson and his Gunner acknowledge) all receaved on board the sayd shipp for her use
and imployment, And saith the said Wilkinson and alsoe the sayd
Southwood did on behalfe of the sayd humfrey hooke and other the
Owners of the sayd shipp promise to pay and satisfie the sayd Russell GUTTER
for the materialls and provisions schedulate and soe reward the XXXX GUTTER
rates and summes of money expressed in the sayd schedule, which are GUTTER
the usuall rates such materialls and provisions as are therein specified XX GUTTER
there

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