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Transcription

The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Rp. 5.us/

John Booth of the parish of Saint Buttolph Billings
=gate London Servant to Thomas hopkins of the
same parish Merchant aged 23 yeares or thereabouts
a Wittnesse produced and sworne before the said
Charle George Cock Esquire one of the Judges
aforesaid and examined upon the said Interrogatories
saith as followeth, to witt

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee very well knoweth
That the shipp the hope of London interrate (whereof Robert
Whitting interrate was Master) did in or about the moneth of
May last past belong unto this Port of London, for that he this deponent
about that time by the order and appointment of his said Master
Thomas hopkins and in the name of him and Companie did
cause certaine goods and Merchandises to be Laden and putt on
board the said shipp then under the Command of the said Whitting
who declared and affirmed to this deponent that one Mr William
Ustick an English Merchant was the Owner of the said shipp
which William Ustick was and is generally reputed a Native of
this Nation and a Subject of this Commonwealth. And further to
this Interrogatorie hee saith not./

To the second Interrogatorie hee saith, That in or about the moneth of
May last past the said shipp the hope was fraighted by the said
Thomas hopkins and Companie to witt Richard hopkins John
Izard, Richard Barber and Thomas Smith all English Merchants
usually residing in this Citie, and Subjects of this Commonwealth,
and for and as such well knowne to this deponent and that the said
shipp was by the said ffraighters designed and bound for
the Biscay, having on board her for her outwards Cargaison a
quantity of bees wax, and stockins and fustians and some Chests
or deale boards wherewith to make Chests to putt in fruite and that all
the outwards lading did belong to the said Thomas hopkins and
Companie before mentioned, but the particular quantities of the same
hee doeth not at present remember, And this examinate rendring a [?reason]
of his knowledge of the premisses saieth, That he did at the time
aforesaid, as at present hee doeth, serve the said Thomas hopkins in
his house and merchandizing affaires, and was by him the said Thomas
hopkins in the name of himselfe and Companie aforesaid entrusted
to dispatch and cause the said Outwards Lading to be Laden and put[?t]
on board the said shipp in the River of London to be thence in the
same transported to Biscay aforesaid for the accompt of the said
Thomas hopkins and Companie. And further saieth not to this Interrogatorie

(To the third