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Transcription

the nyneteenth day of October anno domini 1635 last past the arlate John

Digbye did buy of him this deponent two cases of strounge waters

which (as the sayd Digbye then affirmed) he intended to send to Virginia

in the arlate shipp the Constant (Wherof Clement Campion was

captain for which two cases of strounge waters the said Digbye hath since really payd unto

him forty two shillings seaven pence, And her[e]alsoe

sayeth that tent wyne the time aforesaid (if it were good could not be lesse

worth then foure shillings per gallon; and suche at that tyme (if it were

found) could not be lesse worth then three shillings per gallon, which he know that

to be true beinge a wyne coop[er] who doth often buy and sell wynes

Et alr profit dep ee. Richarde Younge

Primo February 1636,

Robtus Burges de Culliton in County Devon mercato etats

42 amorn cirtir testis in hac parte productus in ratus

Et examinatus dicit quod Johens Digbye partem productus per

12 annes elaps aut circir benenovit sed partem con quam

Producitus non novit et dicit

Ad prima secundum et reliques arlos affines in hac parte dat et oblat

Et schedulam in eadem merconat dicit et depoint That

A little before Easter last past he

this deponent beinge heere in London [to] mett with the arlate John

Digbye who acquainted this deponent that he had traded divers goods abord

the arlate shipp the Constant (wherof the arlate Clement Campion

was captain) to be delivered at Virginia, and that he had understood that

the sayd shipp proved insufficient for the performance of her voyage

and that she was putt into the west countrey neere at Alford combe

neere Barnestaple, and the sayd Digbye delivered this deponent on

divers notes of the particulers of the sayd goods with a fré of attorney [vuder] his hands to receive them and desired him to

ride to Alfordcombe to demande the sayd goods, and that in or

about the moneth of May last past this deponent at the request of the

sayd digbye this rode to Barnestaple and there inquired for the

sayd Campion the captain of the said ship, where he was tould that the

sayd Campion was at a gentlemans house about five miles from that

place, and that a great part of the goods laden in the said ship were

sould, and then this deponent rode to that gent house to inquire for the

sayd Campion, where coming he was tould by one of the company of the said ship that doth lay at that gentlemans house that the said Campion had

bene there, but was gone from there the day before and that some of the sayd Digbyes

goods vizt contayne wynes and other goods lay in that gent house, but this

deponentt could not have them unlesse he would pay six pounds for them,

and that all the goods were unladen out of the said shippe, and some of the

sayd goods were in a sellor in Alfordcombe but were much dampuifyed

little worth, and that a great part of the goods laden into the sayd

shipp were sould to mainetayne the company (they having nothing else to

live on) and to pay their debts in that countrey wheruppon this deponent

replyed that he had authoritye to receive the sayd Digbyes goods, but not to

pay any money for them, and then that man of the company agayne tould him that he

could not have those wynes & other goods unlesse he would paye six pounds for them

and theruppon this deponent returned home & did not goe to Alfordcombe to demand

the rest of the said Digbyes goods because he was tould that they were spoiled, dampuifyed & little

worth as aforesaid Et alr profit dep . [signed] Robert Burges