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passage from Ciprus one other shipp called … passage from Ciprus one other shipp called the ''William and Thomas''<br />
Captaine William knight Commannder came from Smyrna and joyned<br />
with the said Convoy and Merchants shipps. The premisses hee deposeth upon<br />
the grounds aforesaid. And further cannot depose./
To the 14th hee saith, That about the moneths of January or ffebruary <u>165[?3</u>]<br />
English stile the said shipp the ''Thomas Bonadventure'' was at Porto [?Longone]<br />
taken up to serve this Commonwealth, and at the same time there were 6.<br />
other Merchant shipps belonging to London the lyeing at Porto Longone and Legorne, videlicet<br />
the ''Sampson'', the ''Mary'', the ''Peregrine'', the ''Levant Marchant'', the<br />
''William and Thomas'' and the ''Mary Rose'' all which were at the same time<br />
by authority of this Commonwealth taken upp for and into the said employment<br />
And saith That upon such the takeing up of the said shipps, the ''Thomas<br />
Bonadventure'', and the ''Mary Rose'', and the ''William and Thomas''<br />
they departed in Companie from Porta Longone to Porta fferrara, where<br />
they all discharged their respective ladeings, And saith That after such their<br />
discharge, the Masters or Pursers of the said shipps the ''Mary Rose'' and<br />
''William and Thomas'' had and received their whole fraights due for the<br />
Voyages by them respectively made, as if they had come to and discharged<br />
in England, And so much the Pursers of the said shipps certified to and<br />
acquainted this deponent withall, and so much this deponent observed by and in<br />
their bookes of accompts, which by reason of his familiaritie with the<br />
said Pursers by name William Porter and William Poole, this deponent had<br />
free accesse to peruse and observe at Legorne aforesaid, and so much<br />
this deponent not long after observed and saw in the bookes of accompts of the<br />
English ffactors resident at Ligorne, And further saith That<br />
(upon the adjusting of accompts with George Norleigh and Robert Constable<br />
factors at Ligorne to and for the said Alderman ffredericke, Chewne and<br />
Companie) hee this deponent received from the said Norleigh Constable and<br />
other English ffactrs there the full freight due for such goods as were<br />
delivered to them or their order at Porta fferrara out of the said shipp<br />
being goods belonging to severall Merchants and not to the said shipps freighters<br />
which freight this deponent received as fully as if the said goods had been<br />
delivered at this Port of London. The premisses hee deposeth knowingly<br />
upon the grounds and reasons predeposed. And further cannot depose./:
To the 15th article hee saith and deposeth, That during the time the said<br />
shipp ''Bonadventure'' was and remained at Cyprus aforesaid the arlate<br />
Roger ffowke and Richard Chewne factors and agents of and for the<br />
said ffrederick and Companie, not having goods and Merchandizes of the said<br />
ffrederick and Companie sufficient for the full freighting of the said<br />
shipp, did cause Cotton woolls and other goods belonging to severall other<br />
Merchants to be then and there laden aboard the same, amounting to about 20<br />
or 30. Tonns, as this deponent remembreth, the said Richard Chewne having alsoe formerly<br />
at Scanderoone caused a certaine quantitie of Merchandizes to be laden<br />
(in therchandizes to be laden<br />
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