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Transcription

The 22th August 1656/

Examined upon the sayd allegation

Rp. 3us

Cornelius Symonson of Wapping Mariner borne in
dromond in Norway aged twenty three yeares or there
abouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee was a foremast
man of the shipp the Edward and John the voyage in question And that
the sayd shipps Company all entered into whole pay for their service
therein on the second day of June 1655 and continued their service
on board her untill the two and twentith day of July 1656 during
which tyme hee saith they did performe their duties as Mariners
on board her according to the Commands of the arlate Totty the
Master or Commander of her and further saving his following deposition
hee cannot depose./

To the 2 hee saith hee being one of the shipps Company as aforesayd
knoweth that the arlate Totty did take aboard twenty five horses and
gueldings and two mares to be transported in the sayd shipp to the Bar=
badoes for severall mens Accompts whereof the arlate Chamberlaine
was one, And saith two of those horses or gueldings dyed by the way
at Sea and the rest were all safely transported to the Barbadoes and
saith that they being arrived there, their severall Owners came to make
demand of them, and thereupon as they were demanded they were put
on shoare and as hee beleeveth delivered on shoare to their Owners
and saith that after all the horses guldings and mares aforesayd save
fower horses or gueldings and one mare were soe disposed of on shoare,
the arlate Chamberlaine came on board the sayd shipp and demanded
such horses or gueldings as hee sayd belonged to him (but how many
belonged to him hee remembreth not) and desyred they might be brought
on shoare that night, whereupon this deponent and his contest Thomas Lindsey and Edward Cooke by Command of the
Master Captaine Totty and of henry Turpin and William huggey his
Mates, did take the sayd fower horses or gueldings and one mare one of them being the horse in question and carried them
on shoare in the boate and were ordered by the sayd Master and Mates to
deliver them or carry them to the same place where the rest of the
horses had bin carried and there leave them and returne on board
againe, and this deponent and the sayd Lindsey and the sayd Cooke the Carpenters mate
being come on shoare with the sayd horses and mare John hunt the
boatswaines Mate and John [?honie] the gunners mate being on shoare and
having bin imployed formerly to carrie other horses to the place where
they were to bee delivered) told this deponent and the sayd Lindsey and Cooke
that they would shew them where the rest of the horses were delivered and
soe gott up upon two of the horses and went with them and the sayd hunt, [?honie]
Cooke Lindsey and this deponent brought the sayd fower horses or gueldings and
one mare unto a hovell or boarded house neere the Indian bridge in
the Barbados (having a rack and manger in it) and there tyed them
and put hay before them, and having the sayd hunt and [?honie] told
this deponent that they were informed on shoare that one of the sayd
Chamberlaines men was appointed to come to looke to the sayd horses
that night, where upon this deponent and the sayd hunt, [?honie], Cooke and Lindsey