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Transcription

ginger in Controversie and saith hee is none of the warehousekeepers Interrogate but
saith hee sawe the ginger in question in the warehouse at Ralphs Key where it lay
and hath bin severall tymes in the sayd warehouse during the tyme Interrogate
being a porter imployed by the sayd Commissioners, but how often hee was there hee
remembreth not./

To the 2 hee saith hee beleeveth there was in all about three hundred baggs and better of
ginger in the sayd warehouse and knoweth not of any kottes made touching the same
nor who was to have the first lott thereof if it were lotted, and saith they who did
fetch a way their parts tooke the same out of the whole as it arose and as
it was delivered them out by this deponent and his contests before named porters
imployed for the delivery thereof and saith hee was present at the delivery of all
the ginger which was taken away thence And further (saving his foregoeing deposition
hee cannot answere./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answere neither doth it concerne
him to answere thereto hee having not deposed ought touching the contents
of the third article of the allegation in this Interrogatorie mentioned

To the 4th hee saith hee this deponent and his contests before named helped
to laye by the hundred baggs of ginger Interrogate and saith they who
bought the other ginger Interrogate did not meddle with laying by any of the
sayd hundred baggs And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee
cannot answere,/

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

the marke of the sayd
John [MARKE] Betton [MAARKE, RH SIDE]

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The same day. [CENTRE HEADIMG]

Examined upon the sayd allegation

4

Edward Sherwin of the parish of Little Allhallowes Cittizen and
Leatherseller of London aged 56 yeares or thereabouts a witnes
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee was not present at the
arlate Samuell Swinnock his buying of the Gingers arlate and therefore cannot
depose to those articles./

To the 3 hee cannot depose saving hee saith the sayd Swinnock hath not as yet fetched
away the ginger controverted and further hee cannot depose

To the 4th hee cannot depose saving hee saith the other ginger which laye in the
warehouse where the hundred baggs of ginger in question was was taken out of the whole three hundred baggs and carried away by the
buyers thereof or by their order and other part thereof removed into an other warehouse
this hee deposeth being a porter imployed by the Commissioners for prize goods in delivery of the same And further hee cannot to this article depose for that hee knoweth not when the
sayd Swinock bought the ginger controverted./

To the 5th hee saith that they who bought the rest of the ginger which laye in the
waarehouse where the sayd Swinnocks hundred baggs laye, had noe greater benefit
by takeing their parts of the ginger in the sayd warehouse away first, then they
would and should have had if the sayd Swinnock had first taken away his
hundred baggs of ginger, This hee knoweth for that hee was a porter imployed
togeather with his contests John Betton George Greenewood and Edward ffrancis
and others in the delivery out of all the ginger that was delivered out of the sayd
Warehouse, and well sawe and knoweth that the same ginger soe delivered out was
by this deponent and his contests aforesayd and others imployed as aforesayd thereabouts
iustly and impartially divided and sett apart from the sayd Swinnocks 100 baggs
of ginger without picking or chooseing out any baggs, but takeing them fayrely only as they
did arise