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P1110652

Case: Libell on the behalfe of Jeremie Crewe: Personal answer: John Moore: Date: XXXX

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//sail to Marselles, and then to
Barbary and backe to Marselles
againe where this rendent by order
and w:th the consent of all or the
Maior part of her Owners left
her in the possession of another master
the ffreight of allw:ch voyages except
the ffreight of the yoyage wherein
the said ship was in the service of
the State; this rendent beleeveth
he receaved and hath
accounted for the same unto the
Owners of the said shipp And
otherwise for his part, he doth not
beleeve the said posicon to be true
in anie pt thereof,

To the ffowerth p:rted posicon he
answeareth and beleeveth that the
voyage from hence to Newfound
land and soe to Mallaga and hence
to London the said shipp cleered in
the whole shipp 105:li & not above
as he beleeveth, and in the next
voyage from hence to Mallaga, &
home againe 107:li & not above as
he beleeveth 14:li whereof more
than his share & Randall Crewe
receaved of under M:r Roydeon and
for the voyage in the service of//

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//of the State the said shipp iXXXX XXX
had beene XXX ?did cleere betwixt
eight and nine hundred poundes about 500:li
whereof is still unpaid and the remainder
beinge about 400:li and Daniel Bright
one of the Owners of the said shipp
receaved & paid to everie Owner
as he beleeveth theire XXXXX XX
shares thereof And for the last voyage
from hence to Barcellona and
then to Marselles and soe to Barbary
and Marcelles againe this rendent
beleeveth there was losse uppon the
said voyage about 440. or 450:li by
reason the said shipp was imbargoed.
att Marcelles by the space of sixe
monthes the Plague beinge
then aboard her And otherwise for
his part savinge his former annswers
he doth not beleeve the said posicon
to be true in anie part thereof

To the ffyfth prtended posicon he
answeareth and beleeveth that hee
this rendent beinge w:th the same
shipp the Jerimye att Marcelles
& haveinge extraordinary occasions
of his owne by reason of some estate
which fell unto him here in England//

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//ba the death of an Uncle to come home
for England this rendent did intimate
the said occasions and necessities
unto M:r Gilbert Morrewood M:r
Richard ?Shute and M:r Daniel
Bright being the principall Owners
of the said shipp, and desired of
them that they would be pleased
to signifie this rendents necessities
unto the rest of the Owners of the
said shipp or the Maior part of them
Leave for this rendent to come for
England, and allsoe to have libertie to
leave the said Tymothie Crave as
M:r in the said shipp in his steade
w:ch request this rendent beleeveth
they or some of them did signifie
& make knowne unto all or the next
of the Owners of the said Shipp the
Jeremie and thereuppon the said
Owners or the Mairor pte of them
as he beleeveth did give leave unto
this rendents comeinge for England
and leaveinge the said Craven (sic) as M:r
in his steede and there thereuppon this
rendent beleeveth that he haveinge
receaved the said order he did leave
the//

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//the said sshipp in the possession of the said
Cravens as Master of her, and came away
for England And this rendent beleeveth
the same was donne wthout the knowledge
of the said Jeremie Crow?ehothon &
Still being as this rendent beleeveth
in the East Indies And otherwise for
his pte he doth not beleeve the said
posicon to be true in anie pte thereof

To the sixth pretended posicon he
answeareth and beleeveth XX that
after such tyme as the arlate Craven
came into the said shipp the Jeremie
he did make onlie one voyage w:ch was
from Marcelles to Scanderoone and
soe to Marcelles againe, and that att
his returne thither before his fraight
was paid as this rendent beleeveth his
Merchant broke soe that he lost all his
freight as he beleeveth And
otherwise for his pte he doth not beleeve
the said posicon to be true in anie
pte thereof

To the seaventh ?the sd posicon he
answeareth that for his pte he doth
not beleeve the same posicon to be
true in anie pte thereof

To the eight (sic) pretended posicon he
answeareth & beleeveth that after the//

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//the foresaid breakeinge of the said
Merchants freighters, the said
Cravens not haveing monies to paye
the marriners theire wages for the
said voyage the said Marriners
arrested the said shipp for the same &
by course of Lawe att Marcelles the
said Shipp was condemned and sould
for the payment of the said
Marriners wages & other debts then
due, uppon her the said Owners not takeing
order to pay the said wages, and other
debts then due uppon her
in tyme And otherwise
for his pte he doth not beleeve the
same posicon to be true in anie pte
thereof

To the nineth pretended posicon he
answeareth and beleeveth that the
shipp the Jeremie when Shee went
to Sea uppon her last voyage under the
said Craven was worth the summe of
600:li and not alone as he beleeveth And
otherwise for his pte he doth not
beleeve the said posicon to be
true in anie pte thereof

To the tenth the sad posicion he//

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//he answeareth and beleevth that att such
tyme as this rendent first came to be
M:r of the shipp the Jeremie arlate he
had and receaved from the Owners of her
whereof the said Jeremie Crow was
none the summe of 400:li and not above
as he beleeveth for the stocke of the
same shipp for w:ch this rendent hath long
since accounted unto the Owners thereof
And otherwise for his parte he doth
not beleeve the said posicon soe
farr as the same concerns the ?said
Jeremie Crowe to be true anie
pte thereof.

To the Eleaventh prted posicon he
answeareth that for his pte he doth
beleeve that he this rendent never
payd unto the said Crowe anie pte
of the proffitts of anie of the XXXX
voyages or ever made him anie Accompte
of the same in regard he was noe
partowner as he beleeveth And otherwise
for his pte he doth not beleeve this
posicon to be true in anie part thereof

To the Twelveth the said posicon he
answeareth and beleeveth that ?for
this rendent haveing notice and
intelligence that the said shipp was
bound from Marcelles to Scanderoone
& soe to Marcelles againe did att
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//the imptantie and desire of M:r Gilbert
Moorewood, and some other of her
Owners and the said Cravens
mother cause an Assurance for the
said voyage onlie and noe longer to
be made uppon the said shipp to the
value of ?700:li and not above as he
beleeveth the Premio whereof this
rendent beleeveth the said Cravens
mother paid w:ch voyage being
ended and the said shipp comeinge
safe to Marcelles againe the same
was discharged, and voyded And
otherwise for his pte he doth not
beleeve the said posicon to be
true in anie pte thereif

To the 13:th and 14:th the said posicons
he answeareth and referreth himselfe
to the Registrie of this Court

To the last he answeareth and
beleeveth what he hath formerly
beleeved: And otherwise negatively

JN:° MOORE His signature//

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Case: Libell against them on behalfe of John Harris and John Powicke: Personal answers: Edward Bellamye and Thomas Day: Date: XXXX

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//Repeated before
D:r Exton one of
the Judges x:r
1:° Junij 1652

THE PERSONALL ANSWERS of
Edward Bellamye and Thomas
Day made to the posicons of a
libell given in against them on y:e
parte and behalfe of John
Harris & John Powicke doe
followe.

To the first pretended posicon they and
either of them answere and referr themselves
to the Contracte or Charterpartie made
betwixte these repsondents and the said
Harris and Powicke for y:e said Shippe and
voyage and remayneinge in the hands of the said
Harris and Powicke as they beleeve which
said contracts these respondents beleebe to
bee true and to bee signed sealed &, delivered
by them and otherwise for their partes they
now either of them doe not beleeve the said
posicon to bee true in any parte thereof

To the second pretended posicon they and
either of them answere, and beleeve
that the said shippw was to enter into pay
upon y,e eighteenth day of march 1647
And otherwise for their parts they now either
of them doe not beleeve the said posicon
to bee true in any parte thereof.

To the third pretended posicon they
answere that for their parts they doe
not beleeve the said posicon to bee true
in any parte thereof.//

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//or parte thereof, and on purpose to
deceave these respondents of their
shippe and freight as they beleeve
they tould these responedents the said
shipp was leakye and that they had lost
her at Cales And otherwise fir their pts
they nor either of them doe not beleeve
the said posicon to bee true in any
parte thereof.

To the 15:th pretendsed (sic) they and
either of them answer that for their
parts they doe not beleeve the said posicon
to bee true in any parte thereof

EDWARD BELLAMY [His signature]
THOMAS DAY [His signature]

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Case: Libell on the behalfe of Thomas Pearse, John Maddox, & others: Personal answer: William Thomas: Date: XXXX

Repeated before
D:r Exton one of the
Judges x:r)

The psonall answer of William Thomas
made to the posicons of an Allegacon
given in against him on the behalfe of
Thomas Pearse; John Maddox and others
doe follow.

To the first pretended posicon hee answereth that
for his parte hee doth not beleeve the said posicon to
bee true in any pte thereof

To the second pretensed posicon hee answereth that
for his parte hee doth not beleeve the said poscon
to be true in any pte thereof, Saveing that hee
beleeveth that the Citty of Bristoll was in the
moneth of Aprill and May 1643. and untill
July next following under the Power and
commande of the Parliament./
To y:e. 3:d//

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//To the .3:d. pretended posicon hee answereth and
beleeveth that in or about July .1643: the citty
of Bristoll, and the porte thereof were taken &
surprized, by the late Kings foreces and were
contynewed (sic) in his possession untill September. 1645
and noe longer as hee beleeveth And otherwise
for his parte. hee doth not beleeve the said posicon
to be true in any parte./

To the .4.:th pretensed posicon hee answereth and
beleiveth that in or about August .1643. the said
shipp the Charles and her ladeing were surprized
and taken as a prize by some shipps under
the command of the late Kinge and brought into
Bristoll and there adiudged and condemned as
Lawfull prize as this rendent beleeveth, And
otherwise for his parte, hee doth not beleeve the
said posicon to bee true in any pte thereof./

To the .5:th pretended posicon hee answereth &
belevieth, that the Boatswayne of the said
shipp the Charles, did live and inhabit in
Bristoll, at such tyme as this rendent first
bought nyne sixteenth parts of the said shipp
the Charles and before, And otherwise for his
pte hee doth not beleeve the said posicon to bee
true in any pte thereof./

To the sixt pretensed posicon hee answeareth that
for his pte hee doth not beleeve the said posicon
to bee true in any pte thereof./

To the seaventh pretensed posicon hee answereth
that for his parte; hee doth not beleeve the said
posicon to bee true in any pte thereof Saveinge
this//

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//this rendent beleevth that for all the tyme
of the warr?s betwixt the Parliament and the
late Kinge, Gloucester was in the. Power and
under the Commande of the Parliament./

To the eight (sic) pretensed posicon hee answereth
that for his parte hee doeth not beleeve the
said posicon to bee true in any pte thereof./

To the ninth pretensed posicon hee answereth
that for his parte hee doth not beleeve the said
posicon to bee true in any pte thereof./

To the tenth pretensed posicon hee answereth
and beleeveth that the owners of seaven
sixteenth partes of the shippe the Charles
vizt: Doctor ?Bavey, one ?Angell, and one
?Driver a widdowe, and some others owners of the
said seaven sixteene pte of the said shippe did
live sometime in Bristoll, and sometyme in or
neere Gloucester, and were never putt out of
the possession, of the said seaven sixteene ptes
of the said shipp, but did receave theire pte
of the pfitts thereof, notwithsatndinge the said
seizure, as this rendent beleiveth, And other-
wise for his parte, hee doeth not beleeve the
said posicon to bee true in any pte thereof./

To the .11:th pretensed posicon hee answereth
and beleeveth that the said shipp the Charles
being and remaineinge in the porte of
Bristoll extreamely decayed, and out of
repaore, this rendent in or about the moneth
of//

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//of August .1644. did for the summe of
two hundred and sixtye pounds, (w:ch this
rendent reallye paid) buy nine sixteene
partes of the said shippe of them whoe had
power to sell the same, as hee beleeveth, and
after hee had soe bought her, this rendent
Laid out, nore upon her in fittinge and
repaireinge the said shippe, the summe of
sixe hundred pounds or there abouts, And
this rendent beleeveth that before this
rendent had made any benifitt or proffit w:th
the said shippe, or the said shippe made any
voyage, the said Citty of Bristoll was
upon Articles surrendred to the Lord
ffairefaxe. in September .1645. and at
that tyme the said shippe the Charles was
and remayned in the Porte of Bristoll, and
after the surrender of the said Towne. was
and contynewed in the possession of this rendent
untill y:e 5:th of November 1645 (OR, 1648) w:ch day the said Pearse
Maddoxe & Ellis or some by their order,
w:thout any warrant or authoritye, did seize
upon, and take the said shippe the Charles
soe fitted and repayred as aforesaid, out of this
rendents possession, and deprived him thereof
to his great preiudice and dammage, And other-
wise for his pte hee doth not beleeve the said
posicon to bee true in any pte thereof./

To the .12:th, and .13.:th prdsed posicons hee
answereth and beleeveth, that at such tyme
as//

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//as this rendent did buy the said nyne .16.:th
parts of the said shippe the Charles the same
was not worth above .200:li, and the other
parts after the same rate, but as for the
vallue of the said shipp and ladeinge, what
they were worth when they were taken, this
rendent knoweth not what to answere in
regard ?shee did not see the same, but this
rendent denieth that ever any parte of the said
shippes Ladeinge, came to this rendents
handes or possession, And otherwise for his
parte, hee doeth not beleeve the said posicon
to bee true in any pte thereof./

To the .14:th pretensed posicon hee answereth
and beleeveth that this rendent in the yeare
1637. being in Irelande was by Commission
from the late Kinge made victualler of his
shipps appointed for the Coast of Ireland
where this Rendent contynued untill the
yeare .1641./ and then the Kingdome of
Ireland being most parte of it over runn by
the rebells there this rendent by order
from the Committee of the Navye in the
yeare: 1641. was called over from thence
to Bristoll, where hee was by them
appoynted victualler for their shippes
there, in w:ch imployment hee contynued
untill the takeinge of Bristoll, by the late
Kings forces, and this rendent beleeveth
(that//

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//that at the takeing of the said Cuttye by
the late Kinges forces, this rendent
haveing a quantitye of victualls which
hee had pvided ?w:th his owne money dureinge
the tyme that the said Cittye of Bristoll
was under the power of the Parliament, the
officers of the said late Kinge, did ?require and
take from this rendent the victualls afore-
said, to furnish out the same; to such shipps
as then were there under the said late Kings
Command, And otherwise for his parte hee
doth not beleeve the said posicon to bee true
in any pte thereof.

To the fifteenth p:rtensed posicon he answereth
that for his parte he doth not beleeve the said
posicon to bee true in any parte thereof.

To y:e 16:th pretensed posicon he answereth that
for his parte he doth not beleeve the said
posicon to bee true in any pte thereof

To y;e 17:th pused posicon he answereth and
referreth himselfe to his former answers
otherwise for his parte he doth not beleeve
the said posicon to bee true in any
parte thereof.

To the 18:th pused posicon he answereth that
he doth not beleeve y:e said posicon to bee
true in any parte therof.

W:M THOMAS. [His signature]//

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Case: Libell on the behalfe of Robert Woodliffe the pretended Curator of John Stapilton: William Thomas: Date: XXXX

//Repeated before
D:r Clark one of
the Judges x:r

Rs ?EM

The Personall answers of William
Thomas made to the posicons of a
libell given in aganst him and others
on the behalfe of Robert Woodliffe
the p:rtended Curator of John
Stapilton doe followe

To the first second third fowerth fifth
sixth seaventh eighth ninth tenth eleaventh
twelfth thirteenth fowerteenth & fifteenth
p:rtesed posicons he referreth himselfe
to y:e answers of John Dennis made to
y:e posicons of the said libell remaineinge
in the Registry of this Courte
which he beleeveth to bee true And
otherwise for his parte hee doth not beleeve
the said posicons or any of them to bee
true in any parte thereof./

WM THOMAS [His signature]

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Case: Allegation on behalfe of Hance ?Dirrickson John Johnson and company: Personal answeres: Peter Scrother: Date: XXXX

Repeated before
D:r. Clerk one of the
Judges x:r

The personal answeres of Peter
Scrother made to the posicons of a
certaine pretended allegation in fact
given and admitted against him on
the parte and behalfe of Hance
?Dirrickson John Johnson and company
followe. vizt.

To the first posicon hee answereth & beleeveth
the same to bee true.

To the second pused posicon and to the pused
Schedule therein menconned he answereth
that he doth not beleeve the same pretensed
posicon on pdsed Schedule therein menconned to
bee true in any parte.///

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//To the third pretensed posicon he answereth that
he doth not beleeve that he did hire any of the
persons articulate as is articulate, for any
voyage arlate or that any of the persons
articulate did enter into for any the pused
dayes articulate as is in fact but virtuely as he
beleiveth charged in this pdsed posicon, but hee
beleiveth that he this rendent in the moneth
of May 1651. did at ?Havre de Grace in
ffrance hire all the persons articulate
severally and respectively mentioned in the
schedule annexed to the allegacon whereupon
he is now examined except the articulate
Clement Rootes and William ?Reagne beinge
a boy for to serve in the shippe articulate
for severall sommes of money then agreed upon
betweene this respondent and the said severall
persons Schedulated except the said Clement
Nootes and William ?Wayne for a voyage to be
made with her from ?Naure de grace and
that after such agreement made this rendent
and the said severall persons except the said
Clement ?Nootes did and the said M:r ?Readn did
saile in the shippe the Abrahams Sacrifice
arlate ?form Havor de Grace to Cales
where they arrived with the said shippe in
August 1651. and from thence to ffaro in
Portugall where they arrived with the said
shipp in September 1651. where the said
shippe haveinge taken in a quantity of figgs
beinge but little above halfe her ladeinge did
set saile withh the same for London where
the said shippe arrived in the end of November,
1651. and beinge arrived the said shippe was
in the moneth of december next followinge
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//fully unladed and beinge soe unladed the
said voyage was fully ended whereupon
this respondent did in the said moneth of
December and as he beleeveth the 22:th or 23:th
of December 1651 beinge the next day after
the shipp was unladed, fully pay and
satiffye unto Clause Oruse Hance
Dirrickson, John Johnson John Jarvis and
Stephen Johnson all the severall wages
severally due unto them and that they did
accept of the same. and this rendent did
then at y:e tyme of y:e payment of them the said
voyage beinge fully ended discharge them
from any further service in the said shippe
which discharge they all tooke notice , but hee
beleeveth that the tyme beinge then winter
the said Claus Oruse and Hance
Dirrickson did intreate this respondent
that they two might still come on board the
said shippe and that he this respondent
would be soe friendly , unto them as to give
tnem meate and drinke on board the said
shippe and that they would for the same attend
and looke unto the said shippe and doe such
worke as was to bee done therein or thereabout
whereupon he this rendent did tell them y :t
if they would come on board and looke to y:e
said shippe in regard they had beene with
him in the said voyage before mentioned
he would give them meate and drinke:,
onely which they willingly accepted but this
respondent would not nor did take upom
him to give them any wages at all or agree
with them for any wages at all concerning
and//

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//and be XXXXXinge that y:e victualls and drinke
of the said two person was an a bundant
recompense and satisfaction for any service
that the said two parties could doe in the said
shippe after such her discharge and XXXing
her lyeinge in harbor and he beleeveth
that the arlate Hance Dirrickson Claus ?Gruse
John Johnson, and John ?Jens and Stephen
Johnson did after this rendent had soe paid
them off and discharged them in y:e moneth
of December 1651. aforesaid, afterwards
some times come on board the said shippe
and did take their victualls and frinke there
for y:e most pte of the tyme articulate and
paid nothinge for y:e same which this rendent
in regard they had been with him in the said
voyage and in favour of them suffered them
to have, and take at y:e charge of this rendent
and his owners but hee denieth that ever
he did contract agree or bargayne wth
and yof the oersons arkate to pay unto them
any wages as is arlate and he beleeveth
that in Januaray on 1651 last past the arlate
Clement Noats wantinge imployment did
repaire unto this rendent and requeated
this rendent to entertaine him, into ?theri
service in the said shippe but this rendent
told him that he had not any voyage and
that hee did not at the present need his services
but to doe him a pleasure and to suplly his
present want if he would goe on board this
rendents shippe he this respondent would give//

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//give him victualls and when he had gott
a voyage, and the shippe should XXXX XXX belowe
the Bayes at Quiborow, then and not
before he would give unto him y:e said
Clement ?Noots soe much wages as he
had formerly given his former  ?limberman
to comence and begine from the tyme
that the said shippe should fall belowe the
said Bayes and not before, and hee the
said Noots did accept thereof and went
on board the said shippe in January 1651
and was sometymes on board the said
shippe and sometymes a shoare but for y:e
most parte of the tye arlate he tooke his
victualls and drincke a board at this
rendents charge and his owners and he
beleeveth that y:e persons arlate or some
of them did duringe the tyme arlate ?scarpe
the shippe on the outside, but refused to
scrape her in y:e Inside and that they or some
of them did sett y:e mast arlate and that
other worke saveinge the keepinge of the
shippe cleane, there was none to doe in y:e
said shippe as he beleeveth all w:ch worke as
he beleeveth was not worth a quarter parte
of the victualls and drinke which the parties
arlate did ate and drincke in the said shippe
duringe the tyme arlate and he beleeveth
that duringe the tyme arlate the pesons arlate
vizt Oland Oruse Hance Dirrickson John
Johnson , John Jons Clement Noots & Stephen
Johnson did apply themselves
to other services, not any way concerninge
the said shippe and did helpe to deliver and lade
other//

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//other shipps and thereby did gett severall sommes
of money and he beleeveth that the persons
severally before named did duringe the
tyme articulate absent themselves from
the shippe articulate to follow the said ?workes
and to follow their pleasure for severall
daies and nights, and he beleeveth that the
said Clement Noots duringe the tyme arlate
did severall tymes come on board the shipp
arlate drunck, in a very, beastly ad disorderly
manner and did draw his sworde aboard
the shippe the Abrahams Sacrifice and attempted
to wound and mischeife the men there in the
same shippe therewith, And he beleeveth that
duringe the tyme arlate, and about March
last by reason of the negligence of the psons
severally before named the shippe arlate in
the night tyme did runne a shoare at
Shadwell and her sterne broke downe a
parte of a house therem which cost this rendent
three pounds stereling to amend And hee
beleeveth that soe much as is by him
confessed hath beene observed and taken
notice of And otherwise he doth not beleeve
this prsed posicon to bee true in any parte
saveinge he beleeveth that he hath sometymes
within the tyme arlate seene the articuate
XXXXX beinge a boy on board the said Shippe
which ReagXX was brought on board the said
shippe by y:e arlate Claus Oruse as a ?Ghost as
he conceaveth the said Cruse some tymes lying
and drinkeinge ast y:e said Reagues XXX
XXXX house on shoare and hee beleeveth
that after the said XXX were soe diXXXX
XXX as afore said this rendent neither had
nor could get any voyage for the said
shipp//

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//To the fourth pised posicon he answereth
that he doth not beleeve the same to bee
true in any parte.

To the fifth he answereth that it was and
is in fact complayned to the Court of the
premisses arlate but uniustly as hee
beleeveth and otherwise hee doth not beleebe
this odsed posicon to bee true in any parte

To the sixte prused psoicon he answereth
that hee doth not beleeve the said pdused
posicon to bee true in any parte saveinge
he beleeveth that William Reaque arlate
was as he hath heard and beleeveth pressed
into the States service, and XX since released

To the last he answereth and beleeveth what
is by him beleeved and denieth what is by
him denied./

PIETER SCHRODERxx [His signature]

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Case: Allegacion on behalfe of Peter Scrother: Personal answers: Clement Nootes, John Johnson John JXXXXs and William Reage: Date: XXXX

Repeated before
D:r Clarke one of
the Judges x:r

The personall answers of Clement
Nootes, John Johnson John JXXXXs
and William Reage made to the pdused
posicons of an allegacon given against
them on the behalfe of Peter Scrother
as followeth

To the first they and every of them answereth
that they have heard and doe beleive that the
said Peter Scrother is a Hamburger, but he
did hire these rendents John ?Johnson, John
?Joris and Stephen Johnson about fourteene
monethes since in ffraunce to goe to Genoa, but
he did goe to Cales and from thence to ?ffarroe
in Portugall and soe from thence to this port of
London and the rest of these respondents were hired
here//

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//here in England and they nor either of them was
even with him at Hamburrough neither hath the
said Scrother (as they and every of them beleiveth)
beene more than once att Hambrough these 7
yeares but doth trade and coast upp and downe
from place to place (as he conceiveth) most
advantagious for his benefiitt, but whether the
said shippe doth more perticulelly belonge to
one place than another these respondents
nor either of them can sweare nor doe
otherwise they or either of them
beleive the said prsed psisocon to bee true in
any part.

To the second and third they and every of them
answereth that they beleive and every of them
beleiveth that the said shippe the Abrahams
Sacrifice did about the tyme arlate arrive at this
port of London from ffaroe as is arlate and
did unlade and end her voyage as is arlate
the said Scrother did about the tyme arlate
pay the said persons arlate their severall wages
then respectively due unto them for their service
in y:e said vessell which they had and carryed
away and disposed andthen they were free
from any further service upon the said shippe
and might have disposed themselves as they
pleased but within two dayes after such their
releaseinge from the said vessell the said Peter
Scrother sente to these respondents John Johnson
John JoXXs XXXXX Dirrickson and Stephen
Johnson to desire them to come on board
againe to serve in the said vessell, and they
should have y:e same monethly wages as they had
formerly upon w:ch termes and noe other they
and every of them did goe on board and did doe
their worke and service upon the said shippe
scrape and gra?ne the same and tooke out the ould
foremast & sett a new foremast therein and did
performe and undergoe as much labour in
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//the said shippe as they should have undergone
if they had beene at sea as they and every of
them beleiveth, for which they did very well
deserve not onely by their victualls which they
had, but allsoe their respective monethes wages
which the said Scrother doth endeavour most
uniustly as they conceive to debarre them of but
they and every of them doth utterly denie that
they were suitors to him the said Scrother
to bee on board for victualls or did soe
agree or bargayne or would have soe
continued & remayned, if they had not really
and truly expected their monethly wages as
aforesaid and otherwise they nor either of them
doth beleive the said pretensed posicons or
either of them to bee true in any parte.

To the fowerth they and every of them
answereth that they and every of them
referreth himselfe to his
procedinge answeares which they and every
of them beleiveth to bee true and otherwise
they nor either if them beleiveth the same
to bee true in any parte and the said
Clement Nootes for his part doth declare
and sett forth by vertue of hisoath that after
hee had served upon the said shippe here
in the river of Thames about the s'pace of
two moneths he did aske the said Peter
Scrother whether hee would free him from
the said vessell and give him leave to goe out
to sea in some other shippe that was ready
to goe forth and the said Scrother did refuse
to free him and then at y:e same time a woman
to whom the said Clement Noates was indebted
for washinge, did demand of the said Scrother
if he would on y:e behalfe of the said Noates
pay her a little money out of his the said Nootes
his//

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//his wages which was due unto her to ?which XX
hee replyed in these or the like words I shall
pay the wages to him that hath earned it &
soe let him pay you if hee will, and soe wished
the said Noates to goe on board the said vessell
soe that hee had not the least in imagination but
that hee would have duely payd him his said
monethly wages, and the said John Johnson
and John Joris doe by vertue of their oathes
respectively say and declare that they heard
Olyns Oruse the boatswayne desire leave
of him the said Scrother that hee might bee
cleared to goe home for Hamborough to
whome the said Scrother did make answer
in these or the like words, what are you weary
with gettinge of money if you were at home
you would soone after goe to sea agayne
therefore pray stay with mee or to that effecte
and would not free him soe that they did not
doubt that hee would duely have payd him and
alsoe these respondents their said monethly
wages iustly due unto them as they and
each of them belevieth.

To the fifth they and every of them answereth
and beleiveth that duringe the tyme that these
respondents did belonge to the said shippe
and about the moneth of March articulate
about sixe or seaven of the Clocke in the
morninge as the said Shippw was hauleinge
on shoare to be graXed & was ?turneinge
shee did by casualtye with a suddaine turne
doe some small dammadge to a house att
Shadwell with her Stearne which they could
not prevent notwithstandinge their uttmost
endeavours as they and every of them beleiveth

for//