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Roade one after an other with in a smale t … Roade one after an other with in a smale tyme one of an other arriveing as winds<br />
and weather permitted and saith they all returned thither with outlandish Colours videlicet<br />
the ''Richard'' with danish Colours the ''Prosperous'' with hamburrow Colours, the<br />
''Katherine'' with holland colours and the ''Exchange'' with holland colours, and saith the other<br />
English shipps who returnrd then into the sayd Roade did weare alsoe outlandish Colours, but<br />
what particular colours hee remembereth not And further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 5th and 6th articles and the letter in the 5th article specified hee saith hee heard his Master of the shipp ''Richard'' and divers others<br />
Masters of shipps (who returned from the Maderas to Teneriff about the same<br />
tyme the ''Prosperous'' did) saye, that the ffactors who were to lade their shipps<br />
had for a summe of money gotten lisenses or liberty of the Govenor of the Isle of Teneriffe or some<br />
other having authority there, to lade their shipps with wines and knoweth<br />
that all the shipps that returned from the Maderas to the Teneriff about the<br />
same tyme the ''Prosperous'' did and stayd there for longe as shee did which<br />
was about forty six days, were laden there with wines, and soe might<br />
alsoe the ''Prosperous'' have bin (as hee this deponent verily beleeveth) if the factors<br />
or those who were to lade her would have paid for a lisense to lade her<br />
as others did and would have had lading for her in a readines, and procured<br />
dutch or other outlandish certificates the better to make her seeme an outlandish<br />
shipp and not belonging to or bound for England And saith hee well knoweth<br />
that the sayd Smith did attende and doe his true endeavour to have receaved<br />
ladeing and that it was not default or neglect of him the sayd Smith<br />
that his shipp the ''Prosporous'' was not laden thense as well as other<br />
shipps And further to these articles hee cannot depose not being acquainted with<br />
Mr Ingrams hand and therefore not knowing whether the letter in the 5th article mentioned be his hand/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh so to testifie in this cause at<br />
the request of the producent Smith and saith hee was at the Canaries the voyage<br />
in question and was Masters Mate of the shipp the ''Richard'' of London whereof<br />
the forenamed Mr Sheeves was Master and saith the sayd shipp came to England<br />
full laden all save about tenn or twelve pipes which could not be gotten<br />
aboard from off the the island of Teneriff and by that meanes were left behinde<br />
And saith hee knoweth nothing of any such letter as is Interrogate And<br />
further to this Interrogatorie he cannot answere. knowing nothing touching the<br />
payment of freight./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the ''Richard'' of which this deponent was Masters mate,<br />
and alsoe the ''Prosperous'' whereof the sayd Smith was Master arrived at the Roade<br />
of Oratava aforesayd in one and the same day videlicet the thirteenth of October 1655<br />
old style./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee saw the original letter Interrogate but did<br />
not see Ingram or stevens or any of the rest whose names are thereto<br />
subscribe the same, but well knoweth their names are thereto and soe were when<br />
this deponent coppyed out the same for the sayd Smith, and saith hee coppied the same<br />
by the sayd originall and compared it with the originall, videlicet hee this deponent read the originall and John yonge<br />
whose name is to the sayd Coppie looke[?X] upon the sayd Coppy, the rest who have alsoeon the sayd Coppy, the rest who have alsoe +
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