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<document-start>
1. unto the said shipp and five or six monthes when this deponent soe
2. became master of her and this deponent left the same aboard
3. when hee soe left the said command, and the said same as hee
4. beleeveth were aboard at the time of the said shipps comming for
5. Bristol, whether hee saith shee was sent about Easter last by the
6. said owners laden with Rice this deponent seeing her soe laden
7. and dispatched away from Port Lewis, under conduct of the said
8. da Ponte, and company of ffrench mariners, And saith that
9. about tenn dayes since hee this deponent was aboard the said
10. vessell, riding in this port over against Saint Catherine's, and
11. by severall signes knew her to be the same vessell
12. by him predeposed, and as hee hath bin informed shee is now
13. called the Willing Minde, by the English master and company
14. that are aboard her. And otherwise hee cannot depose saving
15. that the said owners were at charXes in ffrance in fitting and
16. repairing the said said vessell of his sight and knowledge.
17. To the 8 hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
18. SmaXXy SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
19.
20. To the Interrogatories. CENTRE HEADING
21. To the first hee saith hee is sent over expressely by the said
22. producents to testifie what hee knew concerning such their
23. proprietie, and otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid
24. To the second hee saith hee was not present att the signing or sealing
25. of ˹XXXXX˺ of the writings annexed to the allegation, and otherwise saving as aforesaid
26. hee cannot answer.
27. To the third hee saith that the said proprietors understanding of the
28. said shipps arrest here in England, sent over this deponent to looke
29. after her, and seake for her restitution, this deponent knowing such
30. their proprietie, and saith they are to pay him his charges and
31. losse of his time in looking after this busines, And otherwise hee
32. referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition.
33. S mattey. SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
34. Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
35.
36. The 13th of 9ber 1657/
37. <margin value="Left">Page and Ely against Canham Paige and
38. Thompson Cheeke Smith/</margin>
39. <margin value="Left">XXXXX</margin>
40. Examined upon a libell on the behalfe of the sayd John Page
41. and Richard Ely./
42. <margin value="Left">jus</margin>
43. John Edwards of Milbrooke in the County of Cornwall
44. Mariner aged thirty nyne yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
45. sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
46. To the first second third 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles of the sayd libell
47. hee saith that hee this deponent being then a factor at Bantam ˹arlate˺ for the English
48. Company there, did see the arlate shipp the Golden Cock there arrive in or
49. about the moneth of August 1655 (one Richard Chappell comming Master
50. of her thither,) and saith the sayd shipp brought thither a parcell of ˹Canary˺ wyne
51. , which ˹was˺ there unladed this hee deposeth being then
52. at Bantam and seeing her there unlade ˹some of the sayd wynes˺ And further to those articles hee can
53. not depose knowing nothing touching the hyreing freighting or setting out of the
54. sayd shipp from London nor touching the Charterparty arlate hee being then in the [XXX GUTTER]
55. and not privie to any of them./
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