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Simonds, hamond and others}&l … '''A:12:'''
Simonds, hamond and others}<br />
against the ''Peter'' of Bristoll}<br />
and against Yeomans, Bowen}<br />
and Company Owners of the sayd}<br />
shipp intervening for their interest}<br />
ffrancklin Suckly}
Upon an arlate allegation<br />
given in and ádmitted on<br />
the behalfe of the sayd<br />
William Simonds./
On the 30th of October 1657
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Thomas Constant''' of the parish<br />
of Saint Nicholas in the Citty of Bristoll<br />
Mariner, aged about 25 yeares, a wittnes<br />
produced, sworne and examined, he deposeth<br />
as followeth videlicet
To the first article of the allegation and the schedule<br />
therein mentioned he deposeth and saith that he was a<br />
ffore Mast man in the arlate shipp the ''Peter'' of<br />
Bristoll in his voyage from Bristoll to Rochell<br />
and from there to the Barbados and unto Mevys and<br />
thence to the Bermudoes, thence to kingsale in Ireland<br />
and soe home againe to Bristoll, in which voyage the<br />
said shipp and all her mariners (and especially the<br />
Marriners nominated in the said schedule) were employed<br />
seaventeene monthes, and that by many passages and<br />
circumstances which occured in the sayd time of voyage<br />
he the deponent did come to very well know that the arlate<br />
Yeomans and Bowen were Owners (in the greatest part)<br />
of both shipp and goods, for that the goods as well outward<br />
as in ward bound were marked with their marks, being<br />
a kind of knotted marke, having the cypher or characters<br />
of '''N. Y. B.''', And he further deposeth that the<br />
arlate Symonds did as Master of the sayd shipp for the<br />
voyage arlate hire him this deponent at the rate of<br />
26 ''s'': per month to goe in her as a common Seaman<br />
and that he the deponent did get aboard her in king roade<br />
nigh Bristoll and went in her from the first to the last<br />
day of the voyage in question, wherby he well knoweth<br />
all the persons mentioned in the schedule arlate, and he saith<br />
that they were all in the sayd voyage, but he knoweth<br />
not at what rates, And further he cannot depose.
To the second article he deposeth that the arlate Symonds<br />
Master of the shipp ''Peter'' was out in the shipp ''Peter''<br />
(in the voyage in question) 17 months, and that therein he<br />
behaved himselfe an honest and able Master<br />
And further he cannot depose.
To the third article he deposeth that he was out upon the<br />
voyage in question seventeene months, and that the arlate<br />
Williams, and that the arlate<br />
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