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the sayd Jeggles and alsoe one who was Gunner of the Mary the voyage
in question make a relation to the effect of the rest of the article and seriously
averre such their relation to be true./

To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that as hee hath
bin credibly given to understand by severall Merchants who have
used to send horses to the Barbados, and by others who have lived
in the Barbados and bought horses there the usuall price of horses there
is three thousand five hundred pounds weight at the least of sugar
for a horse, and often tymes more, which sugar
hee saith will (as hee beleeveth) yeild in England or holland forty
shillings sterling a hundred at the least and sometymes more
And hee further saith that (as by letters of advice sent by the sayd
davidson hee is given to understand) the sayd Shipp the Mary
formerly called the Lambe is a shipp of the burthen of
fower hundred tonnes and upwards and had when shee proceeded
upon the sayd voyage to the Barbados, eighteene gunns whereof two
were brasse wherefore hee beleeveth that in case shee had not
bin seized shee would have yeilded heere in England or in holland
after shee had performed he sayd voyage a very considerable
summe of money but what to estimate the same at in regard hee
is not experienced in the value of such things hee knoweth not
And further to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 5th hee saith, hee knoweth that the sayd Ninian Williamson
is a Merchant and Inhabitant of the Citty of London and soe hath bin
for these eight or tenn yeares last past hee haveing knowne him
for a longer tyme by reason hee often frequented this deponents fathers
howse in London And saith hee is Commonly reputed to bee a Native
of Edenburrough in Scotland and a subiect of this Commonwealth
And further hee cannot depose./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith the party who bought the sayd shipp and alsoe tooke possession of her next after her sale
and gave possession of her to the foresayd Jeggles was
(as by his letters of Correspondence hee is given to understand) the
foresayd William davison, who is as hee hath credibly heard and beleeveth
a Scotchman by Nation and a subiect of this Commonwealth And
further to this Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot
answere otherwise than negatively./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot
answere otherwise than negatively./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith as hee hath hear the Mary sett sayle on her
voyage for Barbados in the moneth of december 1657, and saith shee never
came after that to this port of Lonon And further saving his
foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./

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Ninian Williamson

William Maxwell Morison, The decisions of the Court of Session: from its first institution to the present time : digested under proper heads, in the form of a dictionary, vol.12 12 (XXXX, 1803), pp.9432-9434

• Ninian Williamson was the brother of Thomas Fairholm, merchant in Edinburgh. Williamson was based in London in 1665. Williamson had great trade in wine with Peter Pallat, factor in Bourdeaux.