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The 3d day of ffebruary 1658./

Browning against Bulkeley aforesayd}
Smith Suckley}

Examined upon the said Allegation on the behalfe of the
said Browning.

Rp. 4us

James Boord of Deale in the County of Kent
Mariner, aged 35 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
and Examined:/.

To the first and second articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth
that for all the moneths of January ffebruary, and March 1654, and alsoe
for the monethes of March, Aprill May and June 16555: English stile
the arlate Wm Browning Mr Pratt, and Company were the
true and Lawfull owners and Proprietors of the arlate shipp the Plaine
Dealing, and the said Browning was for all the time aforesayd
Master and Commander of the said ship. and for such Comonly
accompted, Amd saith that on or about the 28th day of
the said moneth of Aprill 1655 the arlate John Pratt and
Anthony Wills did hire and take to ffreight the said ship the
Plaine Dealing of and from the said Wm Browning for a
Certaine Voyage or Voyages to be made with the said ship
from this Port of London, to New England, and other places beyond the
Seas, and to returne againe to this Port and having nowe
perused the first Charter party arlate, hee verily beleeveth that the saud
name (John Pratt/subscribed to the same, to be the Propper hand
writing of the [?factor] John Pratt, and the said name Anthony Wills
also subscribed to the said Charterparty to be the Proper hand writing
of the arlate Anthony Wills: and to be Respectively sealed
and delivered by them the said Pratt, and Wills, and saith hee
verily beleeveth the said Charterparty to be true, And the foresaid
Premises hee deposeth Goeing all the voyage in Question
Mate, and boatswaine of the said shipp Plaine Dealing, and further
hee cannot depose./:

To the 3d hee saith that not long after the making the foresaid first
Charterparty, and at such time as the said ship was ready to set
saile on the foresaid voyage, there happened and was a
difference betweene Mr William Bulkely, and the said Anthony
Wills, by reason whereof the said ship was hindred to proceed to
sea, untill such time as the said difference was reconciled and ended
and saith that some dayes (after the said difference betweene the said
Bulkeley, and Wills, was reconciled, there was another Charterparty
made betweene the said Wm. Bulkely, Anthony Wills and John
Pratt and the said Browning, And further hee cannot depose, to
this article.

To the 5th hee saith that after the signing sealing and delivereing
of the said second Charterparty, namely on or about the 28th
day of May 1655: the said ship Plaine dealing set saile from
Gravesend on her foresaid bound voyage, with a quantity of [?Mault]
Consisting of about 300 Quarters, sixteene pipes of wine a hogshead
of Malassa's, hooks bales of Serges, tenn Baggs of hopps, three fatts of
Cheese