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To the 13th article hee saith and deposeth that there were and remained
aboard the said shipp the Lyon and Providence at the time of her said
surprizall diverse of the said Alderman Thompson and Morrice
Thompson their exported goods that were undisposed of a Quantitie
to the valew of thirtie six pounds, which could have produced the
summe of seventie pounds upon the ships retourne in case they had
not bin taken away.

To the fourteenth hee saith that the said gold and goods of the said
Lionell Skinner seized in the said shipp, having bin invested into
East India commodities, could in all probabilitie upon the shipps
retourne to this port have produced and yeelded two thousand pounds
sterling.

To the 15th hee cannot depose, not knowing the quantitie thereof.

To the 16th hee saith that the said gold and goods belonging to private
adventurers soe seized in the said shipp, would in all
probabilitie (being invested into East India commoditie) have
yeelded upon the shipps retourne five thousand and fower hundred
pounds sterling and upwards.

To the 17th hee saith that the freight with the shipp would have
earned the said voyage, payable to the said owners James Bridgeman
Thomas Paston and company upon the said upon the said shipps retourne to
this port would here amounted to the summe of two thousand
sixehundred and fiftie pounds sterling.

To the last hee cannot depose.

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/.

Richard Maxwell junior [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 9th of March 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]

Edwards and Whitfeild against Bushell.
Clements. Smith.}

Exámined upon an allegation on the behalfe
of the said Bushell and others.

Smith dt.

.1.

George Byrne of dublin in Ireland Chyrugeon
aged nineteene yeares or thereabouts sworne and
exámined.

To the first article hee saith and deposeth that the arlate Samuel
Edwards and Roger Whitfeild the voyage in question were many times
drunken and distempered and over taken with drinke and the said
Edwards being in drinke did misbehave himselfe stubbornely and
disobediently towards the Captaine of the said shipp, disobeying his
orders, And otherwise cannot depose, saving hee knoweth the
premisses because hee was Chyrugeons mate of the said shipp the said
voyage.

To the second hee saith that while the shipp the Negro arlate was the said voyage
at Saint Christofers, and was freighted for England, and had about 60
tonnes of her lading aboard her, the said Edwards said and affirmyed
in the presence and hearing of this deponent said that upon the deck
that Captaine Lockier her commander was a knave and a
rogue and a banquetting or bankrupt fellow, and
hee and the said Whitfeild then said then the shipp was insufficient
to goe to sea, and that they would not adventure their lives in her, and