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20th September 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]

Super allon arlate ex parte [?dei] [?Bouythead]
[XXXXX] [[XXX] [?date], examinatus.

[GUTTER ?Simon] [?Bouython] con [?navem] voratam}
[GUTTER ?the] Elizabeth of Glocester [XX] pmn[X]s alias et cetera}

Rp. 1

Johnnnes Williams civitatis Bristol Nauta, aetatis
36 anno[XX] aut de [?circiter] testis in [XXX] [XX] productus et
juratus.

To the first article hee deposeth and saith that hee well knoweth the
producents John Woodward, George Bret, John Cooke and Christofer
Woodward, whoe with their company were the time arlate and are commonly esteemed and
reputed owners or freighters of the shipp the Elizabeth arlate
and soe hee verily beleeveth them to be because as hee saith they (of this deponents
knowledge) constituted and put the producent Simon Bouython master
, of the said shipp, whereof this deponent was the said time
masters mate. And further deposeth not.

The second third, 4 and 5th articles and schedule therein mentioned now showed unto him and by
him perused, hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent was present in
or about the moneth of September 1659 in the citie of Bristol at the Starr
taverne on the key, when and where hee saith the said Mr Bret, Mr
John Woodward, Mr Christofer Woodward and Mr Cooke were
as hee saith alsoe present and treated with the said Bouython (then and there alsoe
present) about goeing master of the said shippp to the Barbadas and other
places, on a voyage on which they had designed the said vessell, and after some
discourse thereabouts they or some of them agreed with and hired the said Bouython to goe the
said voyage master of the said shipp, and agreed to pay him five pounds by the
moneth fir soe Long time as hee should be in their service in the said vessell
the said voyage wherein shee was to retourne to the port of Bristol, and
that in and by the said agreement they gave him the said Bouython power
and order to hire and shipp his company for the said voyage, which hee
knoweth for that this deponent was present at the said treatie and hiring
of the said master, and at the giving of such order to him, and tooke notice
of the passages thereof. And saith that in persuance of the said agreement
the said Bouython hired this deponent to goe masters mate of the said shipp
the said voyage, the said Christofer Wood being present when this deponent was
soe hired which was at the said Christofers house in Bristol, and
alsoe the said master shipped the arlate Thomas Woodward to goe Chyrugeon
and Merlin hescock to goe Carpenter of the said shipp the said voyage
and alsoe the rest of the mariners and sailers particularly mentioned and
named in the said schedule now read unto him, in there respective qualities
and for the rates and times therein mentioned namely each person for
six monethes and three and twenty dayes, and for the respective
monethly wages schedulated (the said schedule being againe read over to him) And
this deponent the rather came to take notice of the monethly wages due to the
said mariners, because as hee saith the master paid them part of their
wages in Ireland after those rates, and afterwards retourning to Bristol
hee was by the martiners arrested for the residue, and there hee
was compelled to pay them the said residue according to the said monethly
rates, as being the rates contracted for and at which the men were shipped.
And lastly that on or about the nineth of december 1659 the said shipp
set saile and departed on the said voyage from Bristol with the said master and marriners
aboard in her service, and thence sailed to the Barbadas, thence to
London derry in Ireland, and that in each of the said ports of
Barbadas and London derry shee dischardged goods and merchandizes and
tooke in others for the use and accompt of the said owners or freighters
setters forth of the said vessell, and brought divers goods, wares and
merchandizes to the port of Bristoll for their account where the same were
dischardged in safetie, during all which voyage the said Bouython as master
and the said mariners well and truely performed their parts and
duties, which hee knoweth being one of them and foing the said voyage
in the said shipp. And further deposeth not, saving this deponent received [?eighteene]
pounds twelve shillings abd two pence for his wages after 55 s per moneth, and
alsoe the rest of the mariners received the summes schedulate #

[LH MARGIN] [#]
[GUTTER XXXX] that the mariners
[GUTTER XXXXX] the 9th
[GUTTER XXXXX] and every of
[GUTTER XXXXX] in the vessell the
[GUTTER XXXXX] schedulated, and
John Williams [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]

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