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Transcription

five monethes since, and otherwise hee refereth himselfe to his foregoing
deposition.

To the second hee referreth himselfe to the Charterpartie, and otherwise
answereth not, nor knoweth what further to answer.

To the third hee saith that at ffiall a shipp whereof Capteine husbands
was Commannder was by storme forced to cut her mast to the boords
but the said shipp Edward having good anchors and cables rode it out
jocundly without any hurt or danger, and otherwise hee cannot answer.

To the fourth hee saith that the Edwardes owne Carpenter with the help of
one man for a day or two in her longe boote going about her side,
calked her betweene winde and water at New England, and that that
was all the worke and repaire that was donne at her the said
voyage, saveing some chares [?] and then donne at [?her] by her
owne Carpenter alone, as is usuall in voyages to be donne by a shipps
owne Carpenter. and otherwise hee cannot answer.

To the fifth hee saith that the said caskes were mainy of them old
and defective and the heades and sides full of old hogges, by which the
leakage (if any happened) was occasioned. and otherwise cannot
answer.

The marke [MARKE] of John Cliff. [MARKE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

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The 24th of January 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

The claime of the said Benson and others}
for the hope of Coningsberg and goods}

Examined upon the foresaid allegation

3.

Gabriel Smell of Lubeck Mariner aged 30
yeares or thereaboutes sworne and examined

To the first article of the said allegacion hee saith and deposeth that hee
well knoweth the producentes Thomas Bensen John Cotton and ffrederic
Kallowe and hath soe donne for a yeere and halfe last past or thereaboutes
and hath knowne the shipp the hope arlate for theise foure yeeres last or
thereaboutes, and that they and company have but for all the time arlate and
are commonly accompted the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of the
shipp the hope arlate and of her tackle and furniture which hee
knoweth haveing for a yeere and a halfe before her seizure hereafter mentioned
bein stiersman of her, and saith hee alsoe well knoweth the arlate Thomas
and Andrew Tailor and that they and the said Colten and Benson were and are
commonly accompted English men and subjectes of this [? ?], and that
the said ffrederick [?Hallow] is an Inhabitant of Quinsborough and a subject
of the duke of Brandenburgh and forsuch commonly reputed. And otherwise
hee cannot depose.