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1. To the second Interrogatorie he saith hee knoweth the shipp knew the shipp
2. Alexander and sawe her in Virginia in the yeare 1654 before she tooke
3. in her ladeing there the voyage in question her being in Virginia when
4. shee came first thither that voyages and saith hee knew her alsoe at her
5. returne from the sayde voyage and was aboard her neere Blackwall at her
6. returne from the sayde voyage and tooke view of her in manner predeposed
7. and saith that hee came from Virginia about five or sixe dayes next after
8. the arrivall of the sayde shipp Alexander in Virginia the voyage in question
9. And further cannot answer for the reasons aforesayd./
10. Repeated in Court before both judges
11. John Miller SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
12.
13. The same day
14. Examined on the sayde allegation
15. <margin value="">Rp. 3.</margin>
16. GXXXX George Swanleyof Bromley neere Bowe in the
17. County of Middlesex Mariner aged thirty nyne yeares or
18. therebouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth
19. To the 9th article of the sayde allegation hee saith that hee this deponent
20. was in the Virginia at the same tyme when the shipp Alexander
21. arrived in Virginia the voyage in question hee this deponent being then
22. Master of a shipp Called the Providence of London and then lying there
23. with her to lade tobaccoe from thense and saith that hee this deponent did then
24. observe that in Virginia fower ˹Virginia˺ hogsheads of tobacco XXXXXX and
25. noe more are usually ˹and commonly˺ accounted to bee a tonne of tobacco and this
26. deponent did at his coming from here with his sayde shipp bringe divers
27. tonnes of tobacco from thense in his sayde shipp the Providenceand the
28. same was all laden aboard his shipp by the laders at the rate of fower
29. Virginia hogsheads of tobacco to every tonne, and and amongst Merchants
30. there 4 Virginia hogsheads of tobacco is commonly accounted a tonne of
31. tobacco, and the same rate for hee this deponent observed and knoweth that
32. the freight for bringing fower ˹Virginia˺ hogsheads of tobacco from Virginia and
33. for bringing a tonne of Tobacco thense is one and the same and this deponent
34. ˹hath receaved and is to receave˺ did receive freight for all the tobaccoes by him brought thense in his
35. sayd shipp the Providence (the whole ladeing being tobaccoe) ˹after˺ after the rate
36. the same rate for the freight of fower Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoe as
37. for a tonne of tobaccoe, ˹a tonne of 4 Virginia hogsheads of tobaccoes˺ being commonly accounted one and the same thing
38. ˹in Virginia˺ and further to this article hee cannot depose./
39. To the 10th article of the sayde libell allegation hee saith that hee was onse
40. aboard the shipp Alexander while shee stayed at Virginia the voyage
41. in question ˹in the moneth ofAugust 1654˺ did observe that she was then well neere fully laden with
42. tobacco and knoweth that before the end of the sayde moneth of August 1654
43. the Alexander departed from Virginia bound for England And further to this
44. article hee cannot depose for that hee this deponent stayed with his sayde shipp
45. the Providence in Virginia divers moneths after the departure of the Alexander
46. from thense.
47. To the 11th and 12th articles of the sayde allegation hee sayth hee well knows
48. that ˹at the tyme and alsoe˺ after the Alexander soe departed from Virginia there was three or
49. fower hundred hogsheads of Tobacco in Virginia ready to have bin shipped
50. thense for London two hundred whereof or thereabouts this deponent brought
51. home to England in his shipp the Providence, and knoweth that other ˹English˺ shipps
52. as the shipp ˹named˺ ˹Anne˺ Claere of London, and the Beare of Bristoll did loade tobaccoewhich was

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