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Transcription

and saith the sayd Contract on or about the second day of the
sayd moneth of Aprill was signed sealed and delivered by this deponent
and the forementioned parties respective;y to each others use./

To the 3 article hee saith that the tyme arlate the arlate
Edmund halley was Owner of three eighth parts of the sayd
Shipps the John of Barkeshire and the Sarah of London this
deponent of one quarter part of them the arlate William Thomas
of one eighth part of them the arlate John Torloten of one sixteenth
part of them the arlate Symon Messinger of one two and thirtith
part of them and the arlate Robert Browning of one eighth and
one two and thirtith part of the sayd shipps, and soe commonly
reputed. And hee saith that according to the sayd Contract
soe sealed the arlate William Thomas did
(as by his accompt appeareth which Accompt this
deponent beleeveth to be true) at his owne cost and charges pay
and discharge his eighth part of all charges of victualing
manning and setting forth of the sayd shipps with provisions
Caske and other necessaries for the sayd voyage and of carrying and
conducting and returning the sayd shipps home saving
his part of the Coopers tonnage money and for boyleing of
certayne blubber brought home that voyage, which by the Accompt
doth not appeare to have bin paid by him And further hee cannot
depose./

To the sixth article hee saith that after the premisses namely about Aprill
aforesaid 1656 the shipps the John of Barkshire and the Sara of London arlate
proceeded from this port for Greeneland, and that the John of Barkeshire (as
hee was informed by her master) arived there, and her company killed
severall whales there on the high seas, and thereof made and had fiftie tonnes
and upwards of oile and brought the same to this port,
and that the Sara, not having made the harbour, had met only with one wha;e
that was dead, and brought the same home in blubber
as
this deponent understood upon the said shipps retourne, and saith the said oile
soe brought home and that that was to be made here of the blubber that
was brought home, was and ought to have bin devided amongst the owners of
the said shipps according to the agreement made amongst them, And otherwise hee
cannot depose.

To the seaventh article hee saith that the said oile soe brought home in the John
and afterwards that that was made of the blubber that was brought home in the Sara,
amounting in all to fiftie seaven tonnes of oile or thereabouts, were landed at
the Still yard key, where this deponent (who was one of the proprietors thereof)
saw the same in caskes, and saith that shortly after the ladning thereof and before
any devision made and before this deponent had any notion or warning given
him to meete or come about the devision the arlate Edmund halley sold a tonne
of the said oile as hee confessed or acknowledged to this deponent and
saith that afterwards the whole parcell being devided, it was dispersed of,
the said halley receiving this deponents share, with this deponents consent,
only hee was informed that there were seaven tonnes left and undisposed of
which (as was said) the Cooper tooke into his custody, and saith the oiles
soe brought home and dispersed or devided were worth eighteene pound per tonne
one tonne with another, and for soe much some of them were sold as this
deponent was informed. And further hee cannot depose.

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