HCA 13/71 f.426v Annotate

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predeposed which they have refused to doe And further
referring him selfe to the Registry of this Court hee cannot
depose./

To the tenth hee saith hee rest hee is not examined by
direction of the producents proctor./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

John Prynn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day

Examined vpon the sayd allegation

Smyth dt.

3

Hezekiah Lee of London Merchantaylor aged
forty five yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the 7th article of the sayd allegation (upon which alone hee
is examined by direction of the producents proctor) hee saith
That at the tyme when the lighters came to receave the severall
particulers of goods hereafter mentioned, videlicet hee this deponent
was a Tidesman or officer of the Custome house and on board
the shipp the Marie arlate in behalfe of this Commonwealth
to take Accompte for the same of all the
ladeing delivered from on board the sayd shipp for the better
receaving of such duties as were due to this Commonwealth
for themselves and thereby observed that there were unladen
from aboard the sayd shipp into Lighters or other vessells
that came to receave the sayd fourteene Bales of silke and
alsoe fower Bales of silke and alsoe thirty seaven sacks of
Anniseedes, and also fower and forty sacks of gawles and
two and twenty sacks of Cotton and three butts of Cute
and one bale of grogerame and one bayle of silke And
alsoe eighty three sacks of Anniseedes and three faugotts
of grogernine yarne five faugotts of silke two barrells of
fruite and three boxes of Turpentine, but for to whome the
sayd goods belonged hee knoweth not it not belonging to his office
or place to enquire to whome the same belonged but only
to take the markes and numbers of them which hee did
as they were delivered out of the sayd shipp cleere from the
tackle thereof into the sayd lighters or other vessells sent
to receave them, And saith that at the tyme of such their
delivery from aboard the sayd shipp into the sayd lighters
or other vessells the sayd goods (soe farr as hee this deponent
could finde or observe by the outsides of them when
all of them very drye and well conditioned and put in
or laden into the sayd lighters or other vessells And further
to this article hee cannot depose./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Eze: Lee [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]